"As the country entered WWII after the surprise attack on Pearl Harbor, millions of men enlisted to join the fight and fly on missions for their country. These are the true stories told by the men who were shot down behind enemy lines and taken prisoner, their attempts to escape, and their harrowing experiences at the POW camps during the deadliest conflict in human history"--

"Recalls the experiences of a young army half-track driver & technician during the largest land battle ever fought by U.S. forces. As part of the 11th Armored Division, 63rd Armored Infantry Battalion, 'hard' describes the intense combat along the Belgium/German border, as they endure heavy artillery and the worst weather conditions ever recorded. Follow Howard F. Tucker, Jr.'s personal journey from training in the swamps of Louisiana to the rebuilding...

Looks at Europe during World War Two, including several battles such as D-Day, Operation Torch, and the Battle of Kursk.

"In 1944, the Yiddish poet Abraham Sutzkever was airlifted to Moscow from the forest where he had spent the winter among partisan fighters. There he was encouraged by Ilya Ehrenburg, the most famous Soviet Jewish writer of his day, to write a memoir of his two years in the Vilna Ghetto. Now, seventy-five years after it appeared in Yiddish in 1946, Justin Cammy provides a full English translation of one of the earliest published memoirs of the destruction...

The story of how Harry Truman overcame the shadow of Franklin Roosevelt to lead America through the tumultuous post-war period of 1944-1948, which saw the revival of Western Europe, the reform of Japan and the birth of Israel.

"From bestselling and award-winning author-illustrator Marissa Moss, praised for her accessible blend of narrative nonfiction with graphic novel-style chapter openers in The Woman Who Split the Atom: The Life of Lise Meitner, comes another fascinating story of a groundbreaking woman in STEM. One of the founders of U.S. cryptology who would eventually become one of the world's greatest code breakers, Elizebeth Smith Friedman (1892-1980) was a brilliant...