To fight the sinking of ships carrying supplies to England, an audacious plan was created to counter the German submarines using long-range B-24 bombers.
Vilified in the West as the Japanese equivalent of Hitler, Hideki Tojo was cut from very different cloth.
The rise and fall of the forever tainted swastika, and its mysteries and misunderstandings, are fully explained and explored.
The murder of six million Jews depended upon the cooperation of local authorities and police departments, as well as the passivity of the local populations and the victims' willingness to submit.
The prominent Protestant pastor and outspoken Hitler foe who spent the last 7 years of Nazi rule in concentration camps is best remembered for his "First they came for..." poem.
Anti-Nazi German troops join forces with American soldiers to fight off a Waffen-SS Panzer division trying to recapture a castle fortress in the Austrian Alps where 14 VIP French prisoners had been held. It is the only time that American and German troops join forces in combat in World War II.
The design, creation and use of British air raid shelters, the different types, their strength and weakness and people's experiences of staying in them.
A fascinating look at how aggressive, no holds barred British propaganda brought America to the brink of war, and left it to the Japanese and Hitler to finish the job.
The title comes from the cover of a private photo album kept by concentration camp commandant Kurt Franz of Treblinka. This gruesomely disturbing collection of photographs, diaries, letters home and such were created by the executioners and sympathetic observers of the Holocaust themselves.
On Friday, September 1, 1939 the World became aware of the awesome power of Hitler's Third Reich and the limitless and ruthless nature of his ambition.
A child, arms high in the air. A moment captured on film, arguably the most recognizable photograph of the Holocaust. This book unpacks this split second that was immortalized on film and unravels the stories of the individuals associated with it.
Recognizing the contribution of Navajo "code talkers," whose use of an unbreakable Navajo-language radio code was instrumental in defeating the Japanese, this film serves as an admirable tribute to those Native American heroes.
From the difficult abandonment of the Philippines that left General Wainwright to surrender to the invading Japanese forces there, the struggle to return years later, and the eventual signing of Japan's surrender, this historical sketch brilliantly delivers MacArthur's passion for duty, honor and country.
A young American survivor of the Bataan Death March and brutal captivity, seeks revenge for the worst atrocity ever committed against the American fighting man. Historical fiction at its absolute best.
How do you convince men to charge across heavily mined beaches into deadly machine-gun fire? If you’re the US Army in 1944, you dangle the lure of beautiful French women, waiting just on the other side of the wire, ready to reward their liberators in oh so many ways.
Black Sheep One is the first biography of legendary warrior and WWII hero Gregory "Pappy" Boyington. When the shooting stopped, the stubbornly independent Boyington lived a life that went beyond what even the most imaginative might have expected.
As the Allies struggled inland from Normandy in August of 1944, the fate of Paris hung in the balance. But Paris endured, thanks to a fractious cast of characters, from Resistance cells to Free French operatives.
One of the great remaining controversies of WWII is whether the bombing offensive against civilians in Germany and Japan was a crime against humanity or if it was justified by the necessities of war.
Without the system of Base Air Depots established in 1942-1943, the 8th Air Force would not have enjoyed the success it did. Base Air Depots, such as this one at Warton, processed incoming aircraft from the States, turning them into combat-ready aircraft.
In Nazi Germany, telling jokes about Hitler could get you killed. Humor was widespread during the Third Reich, but only in whispers while looking over their shoulder for someone that might turn them in to the Gestapo.