With Germany upset about how WWI ended and Japan upset about a lack-of-access to much-needed natural resources, another war sent the world into chaos between 1939-1945. Stories in this collection are about some of those events.
The people of Japan do not know that 21,000 of their soldiers die on Iwo Jima, but Kuribayashi's defense cost the Allies many lives.
While the Japanese plan Pearl Harbor, their Washington DC diplomats keep in contact with US officials; rumors of war begin.
Hitler seeks to conceal the sinking of the Gustloff and a second German vessel.
After the war is over, Japan's leaders admit they never broke the Navajo code. Code Talkers may not tell anyone what their mission has been.
Official records contain many military photographs of the more-than-month-long siege and capture of Iwo Jima.
Hitler has plans to defeat Russia and control her oil fields, but he does not foresee the Russian resistance.
Hitler underestimates Stalin and the Russian people when he plans to conquer the Soviet Union.
The battle for Stalingrad is the deadliest battle in military history.
Stalingrad, now known as Volgograd, is the scene of the deadliest battle in military history.
A German sharpshooter, Major Konings, is sent to take out Zaitsev.
The Germans send their best sniper, reputedly Major Konig, to Stalingrad to hunt and kill Vasily.
With their increasing "legal" authority, Nazis began direct attacks against Jews on Kristallnacht, "the Night of Broken Glass." Engineered by Joseph G...
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