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 Bedford Boys
Nineteen boys from Bedford, Virginia - population just 3,000 in 1944 - died in the first bloody minutes of D-Day.
Pegasus Bridge
A gripping account of the daring mission so crucial that, had it been unsuccessful, the entire Normandy invasion might have failed.
Anne Frank House
The Anne Frank House museum contains the diary Anne Frank kept during her long days in hiding. It is haunting yet beautiful at the same…
The Nanjing Massacre
The subject is the notorious Japanese occupation of Nanjing, China, in 1937. Wing Tek Lum's poems capture all perspectives of the tragedy—from the weary, casually…
A Bridge Too Far
In this compelling work of history, Ryan narrates the Allied effort to end the war in Europe in 1944 by dropping the combined airborne forces…