A fascinating history of the war through the words of the men who took it direct to the heart of both Germany and Italy, men who risked their lives daily in the search for freedom for occupied Europe.
Over 5 million German males as young as 14 assisted the war effort in every capacity called upon; eventually into full war fighting.
Monty tells his side of the story of the momentous battles against the enemy - and, sadly, the Allies - as he strove for victory in WWII.
The US campaign on the beaches of Western Italy reigns as perhaps the deadliest battle of WWII’s western theater.
In a grand villa on the shore of Berlin’s Lake Wannsee, fifteen well-educated young men met to talk mass murder.
The conference that led to limitations in the era when it was still believed that battleships were the epitome of naval power and a sign of a country's strength.
One of the bloodiest Allied struggles against the Axis, the horrific conflict saw over 350,000 casualties, while the worst winter in Italian memory and official incompetence and backbiting only worsened the carnage and turmoil.
1976 film of the passionate, tumultuous, scandalous, hilarious and utterly unlikely romance between beloved screen stars Clark Gable and Carole Lombard.
Like virtually every other aspect of American life, baseball was affected by WWII. Many of its players left the playing field for the battlefield, but the game continued, played by those who stayed behind, entertaining a nation in desperate need of a diversion and a morale boost in a time of crisis.
At 16, she faced an indefinite sentence behind barbed wire along with her family and 110,000 others of Japanese ancestry and had to struggle for survival and dignity.
Neither the internment of ethnic Japanese - not to mention ethnic Germans and Italians - nor the relocation and evacuation of Japanese Americans from the West Coast were the result of war hysteria or race prejudice as historians have taught us.
Twenty-nine German women from a wide spectrum of circumstances recall memories of life under the Third Reich.
Details of the significant yet often overlooked contribution of the Dutch to the Allied effort in the Pacific.
An historical novel about women pilots who fly during WWII, the central character being the son of one of the British woman ferry pilots.
The swiftness of the Case Yellow blitzkrieg conquest of the Low Countries and France has never been surpassed in the history of warfare.
In 1939, Nazi Germany declares war on freedom and demands conformity from its youth. But a group calling themselves Swing Kids rebel with their swing music from America.
Eleven tracks of classical and operetta music denounced as degenerate by the Nazi regime.
The battle for Moscow was not only the biggest battle of WWII, it was the biggest battle of all time. Yet it is far less known than Stalingrad, which involved about half the number of troops.
Three competing jet programs took place in Britain, Germany, and the US during the war, each with its own challenges of wartime limitations, government interest and strategic need.