Filled with spies, double agents, rogues, fearless heroes, and one very important corpse, the story of Operation Mincemeat reads like an international thriller.
Operation Fortitude and the Double Cross system were the most sophisticated deception operations ever carried out, ensuring Allied success on D-Day.
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.
This monumental study of Hitler’s empire is widely acclaimed as the definitive record of the twentieth century's blackest hours.
Although it came too late, Nazi Germany's scientists did unlock the secrets to developing all the synthetic oil they needed to wage war. Yet their confiscated documents remained largely ignored in the US.
Rationing is not just a quaint practice restricted to World War II memoirs and 1970s gas station lines.
Three of the men that raised the flag on Mt Suribachi were killed during the continuing battle; the others proclaimed heroes and flown home to become reluctant symbols.
What happened that morning in the skies over Los Angeles is still an unexplained mystery that remains open to speculation and accusations of a cover-up.
Did FDR give too much to Stalin and thus pave the way to the Cold War? Since 1945, opinion has been bitterly divided on what FDR, Churchill and Stalin achieved at the Yalta Conference.
The men, the strategies, and the sacrifices that turned certain defeat of the Battle off Samar into a legendary naval victory.
Sharply critical new look at FDR's presidency reveals government policies that hindered economic recovery from the Great Depression - and are still hurting America today.
Ever since the emergence of Fascist Italy and Nazi Germany, both sides of the American political spectrum have campaigned vigorously to distance themselves from the likes of Mussolini and Hitler by likening their opposition to those despicable regimes.
The dynamics of a society rushing headlong to self-destruction and taking its citizens down with it, plunging all Germans into war at every level.
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.
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.
An unsuccessful young lawyer becomes the Mahatma, the "great soul" and leads 400 million Indians in their struggle for independence from the British Empire. Gandhi's life continues to inspire and baffle readers today.
From the Munich crisis and the dropping of the atom bombs to Hitler’s declaration of war on the US and the D-Day landings, historians suggest "what might have been" if key events in World War II had gone differently.
Pulitzer Prize winning chronicle of one of the most vibrant and revolutionary periods in the history of the United States and an intimate portrait of Eleanor and Franklin Roosevelt during a time in which a new, modern America was born.
The eastern Chinese city of Nanking served as a kind of laboratory in which Japanese soldiers were taught to slaughter unarmed, unresisting civilians, as they would later do throughout Asia, with a death toll exceeding that of the atomic blasts of Hiroshima and Nagasaki combined.