Dark December
A step by step account of the German planning of the Bulge, encirclement of the Allies, and the Allied counter-offensive.
A Time for Trumpets
The firsthand experiences and insights of a distinguished historian places this profound human drama unforgettably on the landscape of history.
Shifty’s War
From D-Day to the Battle of the Bulge and more, here is the authorized biography of one of the most celebrated paratroopers of Easy Company, Sergeant Shifty Powers.
Eisenhower: A Soldier’s Life
Chronicles the Allied commander and future president's unlikely rise to power, tracing his impoverished youth as the son of pacifists, his West Point education, toil under MacArthur in the Philippines, and involvement in D-Day.
The Wild Blue
Ambrose describes how the Army Air Forces recruited, trained, and selected the elite few who would undertake the most demanding and dangerous jobs in the war.
D DAY Through German Eyes
This book sheds fascinating light on what it was like for the German soldier during the D-Day invasion of Normandy by Allied forces.
Road to Huertgen: Forest in Hell
Road to Huertgen-Forest in Hell, originally published in 1962, chronicles the 1944 combat experiences of U.S. Army Lieutenant Paul Boesch. The setting is the Huertgen Forest, a 1,300 square mile, densely wooded, hilly region along the German-Belgian border south and southeast of Aachen.
Citizen Soldiers
The inspiring story of the ordinary men of the U.S. army in northwest Europe from the day after D-Day until the end of the bitterest days of World War II.
The Rape of Nanking
The story of Nanking from three perspectives: the Japanese soldiers, the Chinese civilians, and of a group of Europeans and Americans who refused to abandon the city.
The Bedford Boys
Nineteen boys from Bedford, Virginia - population just 3,000 in 1944 - died in the first bloody minutes of D-Day.