World at war

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Siege of Leningrad

1983
Describes the nearly 900-day siege of the Baltic port city of Leningrad, during which more than one million Russian civilians died from stravation, cold, and German shells.

Battle of Guadalcanal

1983
Describes the bloody, three-month-long battle of U.S. Marines and Japanese troops for control of Guadalcanal, part of the Solomon Islands located between Hawaii and Australia.

Submarines in the Pacific

1980
Describes the role of American submarines during World War II as they patrolled the Pacific Ocean in deadly wolf packs.

D-Day

1982
Describes the Allied attack of the beaches of Normandy, the largest invasion the world had ever seen, which marked the end of Adolf Hitler's Nazi Europe.

The battle of Leyte Gulf

1981
Details the October, 1944 battle between the Japanese and the Americans in which the Japanese fighting navy was virtually destroyed.

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