An account of the German campaigns and battles in the first year of World War II which resulted in the conquest of most of Europe.

Captioned photographs and text describe the invasion of Russia by the Germans.

Discusses the strategy, battles, and major personalities involved in the recapture of the Philippine Islands during World War II.

Profusely illustrated text traces the development of military aviation and surveys the equipment, personnel, and events of the air war between Germany and the Allies during World War II.

"Brown ... sits down with [Jerry] Yellin, now ninety-three years old, to tell the ... story of the final combat mission of World War II. Nine days after Hiroshima, on the morning of August 14th, Yellin and his wingman 1st Lieutenant Phillip Schlamberg took off from Iwo Jima to bomb Tokyo. By the time Yellin returned to Iwo Jima, the war was officially over--but his young friend Schlamberg would never get to hear the news. [This book] is a ... first-person...

Firmly straddling the ground between war novel and military history, the conclusion to Shaara's WWII European theater series contains the usual mix of real life military leaders and fictional soldiers in combat, recapitulating the last five months of the war, from the Battle of the Bulge to the liberation of concentration camps. Shaara's real-life figures (generals Dwight D. Eisenhower and George S. Patton, Field Marshal Gerd von Rundstedt) mostly...

As Hitler conquers Poland, Norway, France, and most of Western Europe, England struggles to hold the line. When Germanys ally Japan launches a stunning attack on Pearl Harbor, America is drawn into the war, fighting to hold back the Japanese conquest of the Pacific, while standing side-by-side with their British ally, the last hope for turning the tide of the war. Through unforgettable battle scenes in the unforgiving deserts of North Africa and...

An account of the struggle between the Allied navies and the German submarine fleet in the Atlantic Ocean during World War II.

Examines the military leaders, campaigns, battles, tactics and strategy of the African theater of war during World War II.

The men of Charlie Company discover the thin red line that separates the sane from the mad, and the living from the dead, when they land on a Pacific atoll called Guadalcanal.