1880-1964

Two runaways, Erika and Oz, wind up at the Bily Clocks Museum in Spillville, Iowa, and fall into a bizarre adventure--they travel back in time and learn why the Bilys spent their lives carving and building these mysterious clocks.

On December 7, 1941, the Japanese air force launched a surprise attack on the U.S. Pacific Fleet moored in Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, that changed the course of World War II. Period photographs and 4-color maps of battles provide readers with an incredible learning experience, along with spellbinding eyewitness reports as sidebars.

Presents a biography of Douglas MacArthur, a general in the U.S. Army during World War II, and provides information on his childhood, his long military career, and his rise to Army chief of staff.

A look at the life and military accomplishments of General Douglas MacArthur, whose career included serving as commander of the United States Army in the Far East during World War II.

Photographs of eighty-three famous figures illustrate African American achievement in the twentieth century.

Biography of one of the most controversial American generals.

Examines the childhood, training, and career of the man known for his military leadership during World War II, the administration of occupied Japan after the war, and the Korean War.