The epic story of the vastly outnumbered platoon that stopped Germany's leading assault in the Ardennes forest and prevented Hitler's most fearsome tanks from overtaking American positions.
A definitive account of the 1944 mission of the 101st Airborne Division paratroopers, who dropped deep behind enemy German lines in the Netherlands with the assignment to seize control and secure the road leading to Arnheim and the Rhine.
As Allied forces prepare to launch an all-out offensive on the beaches of Normandy, the daring paratroopers and glider pilots of the 101st Airborne Division make a perilous landing over occupied France.
Patton is an intimate look at the colorful, charismatic, and a sometimes controversial man who became the one general the Germans respected and feared the most during World War II.
George S. Patton Jr. is remembered as much for his tough, profane image as for his military skill. Few sense that this image represented an ideal and a command tool to Patton and that developing and projecting it was one of many struggles for a man forever in doubt about…
The Second World War, when it came in 1939, was unquestionably the outcome of the First, and in large measure its continuation. Its circumstances – the dissatisfaction of the German-speaking peoples with their standing among other nations – were the same, and so were its immediate causes, a dispute between…
National Geographic author Michael Farquhar uncovers an instance of bad luck, epic misfortune, and unadulterated mayhem tied to every day of the year. From Caligula's blood-soaked end to hotelier Steve Wynn's unfortunate run-in with a priceless Picasso.
Field Marshal Montgomery's battle plan for Normandy, following the D-day landings on June 6, 1944, resulted in one of the most controversial campaigns of the Second World War.
Alamo in the Ardennes tells the powerful yet little-known story of the bloody delaying action fought by the 28th Infantry Division, elements of the 9th and 10th Armored Divisions, and other, smaller units.