The untold story of Ray Trautman, the Greatest Generation’s librarian, who made reading central to the Allied fight in World War II and transformed the role of books in American life. Though unknown to most readers, no one made a greater contribution to reading habits in America than Ray Trautman. ... more >
The Last Full Measure tells the forgotten story of the sacred mission to return America’s fallen from foreign battlefields. In the fall of 1944, German flak shredded an American bomber in the skies over Austria. Four crew parachuted from the burning aircraft, but six spiraled five miles to their deaths. ... more >
The heart-racing true story of the heroic rescue of Allied airmen from a Nazi prison train after a devastating betrayal. In the final hours before the liberation of Brussels in 1944, the Germans loaded more than 1,400 members of the Resistance, SOE agents, and Allied airmen onto a train bound ... more >
Escape From Holland: The dash for the last British boat out of Holland in May 1940 by Chris Hunt Just before dawn on May 10, 1940, German parachute troops rain down on Holland. Watching from his home on the Dutch coast is former international footballer Billy Marsden. It is ten ... more >
… a coming-of-age story about a young woman discovering love, loss, and the power of her own creativity in World War II San Francisco. San Francisco in 1944 is a bustling place, a revolving door of soldiers and sailors passing through on their way to the war in the Pacific. ... more >
The War Correspondents unveils the extraordinary bravery and unmatched literary legacy of the journalists who risked their lives to cover WWII’s European Theater Ernie Pyle, John Steinbeck, Walter Cronkite, Edward R. Murrow, Ernest Hemingway, Bill Mauldin, Robert Capa, Margaret Bourke-White, Andy Rooney, Martha Gellhorn, Richard Tregaskis—the list of American correspondents ... more >