In eight years of near-constant warfare, 150 Japanese Air Force and 21 Japanese Navy pilots achieved "ace" status.
Two rare autobiographical works in one volume by Benito Mussolini, founder of Fascism and dictator over Italy for twenty-one years.
Chronicle of how the land of Beethoven elevated sadism to a fine art, written by a victim of the Gestapo, from interviews with former Gestapo agents.
Reports and eyewitness accounts of what it was like to live through the Blackout in Britain during WWII.
A definitive history of US aerial armament in WWII from conventional bombs to some of the most bizarre bombs ever conceived.
Model was one of the most brutal of German Generals, and the higher he rose in rank, the more offensive his behavior became.
The history of Sikorsky Aviation and its founder, Igor Sikorsky, one of the most talented and versatile aeronautical pioneers in history.
Designed just before WWII after special requirements from the American tycoon Howard Hughes, the Lockheed Constellation passenger liner is celebrated today as one of the finest flying machine ever built; plus it had a respectable military career.
The story of the man behind Pearl Harbor and the courageous young American fliers who flew the million-to-one suicide mission that shot him down.
An unparalleled account of the most awesome and awful chapter in the moral history of humanity.
A definitive and comprehensive book on one of history's darkest chapters.
Way ahead of its time in 1942, and breaking the link between genetics and culture, this book still contributes essential and salient perspectives as we face the ongoing issue of race.
The men flying the B-24 Liberators in the 15th Air Force fought ceaselessly right through to V-E Day, with missions over the Ploesti oilfields being some of the deadliest undertaken by the "heavies."
Bishop Berggrav orchestrated a mass protest against Nazi tyranny in Occupied Norway, sending a powerful message to the people that tyrants would not be obeyed - no matter what the price.
From da Vinci to Picasso, the Third Reich's war on European culture and the Allies' desperate effort to preserve it.
Knowing that Stalin will show no compassion toward them, captured Georgian troops serving with the German army on the Dutch island of Texel revolt and Europe's final battlefield of WWII erupts.
One of only ten women flight instructors in the US, she flew nearly every airplane in the Army Air Forces inventory and taught flying to over 350 men in the Government's pre-WWII Civilian Pilot Training Program.
The bomber plant at Willow Run attracted tens of thousands of workers from across the US to help build the nation's "Arsenal of Democracy."
History's greatest mass murderer personally supervised the extermination of approximately two million people at the death camp at Auschwitz.