Describes the final skirmishes west of Richmond which ended the Confederate Army's hopes of victory and depicts the surrender at Appomattox and its aftermath.
"A new edition with a final chapter written forty years after the explosion." The story of six people who lived through the explosion of the atomic bomb in 1945 in Hiroshima.
Recounts life in the Jewish quarter in Warsaw from 1939 to 1945 when the years of hunger and privation culminated in the complete destruction of that ghetto.
A history of the United States in 1942, in the first battles of World War II, when it was unprepared for war and suffered many defeats but also won a few victories.
Discusses the conditions that cause hurricanes to form and the precautions that should be taken against them. Also decribes some famous hurricane disasters, including Camille, which hit the Gulf States in August, 1969.
Recounts the history of General MacArthur's obsession with retaking the Philippines from the Japanese, from the Clark Field bombings of 1941 until the destruction of Manila in 1945.
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.
