Diamond Head, Hawaii, 1941. Pvt. Robert E. Lee Prewitt is a champion welterweight and a fine bugler. But when he refuses to join the company's boxing team, he gets "the treatment" that may break him or kill him. First Sgt. Milton Anthony Warden knows how to soldier better than almost anyone, yet he's risking his career to have an affair with the commanding officer's wife. Both Warden and Prewitt are bound by a common bond: the Army is their heart...

By mid-1942 the Japanese forces were threatening to take the colonial capital of Port Moresby and therefore gain a base to launch their proposed invasion of Australia. The allied forces needed to blunt the Japanese thrust toward Australia and thus protect the transpacific line of communications, as well as to secure a favorable position to take the offensive to the Japanese. Yet this was easier planned than executed; the Australians had been battered...

An illustrated account of the Spitfire fighters during World War II.

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.

Seven chapters and picture essays describe conditions and situations contributing to the beginning of World War II.

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

An account of the campaigns and battles between Japan and the Allied nations in the Pacific and Asia during World War II.

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