world war ii, 1939-1945

Presents an introduction to the navies that fought during World War II.

Presents an introduction to the armies that fought during World War II.

Presents an introduction to the air forces that fought during World War II.

Presents an introduction to special operations forces that fought during World War II.

A modern account of the 1939-45 conflict with state-of-the-art graphics and hundreds of photographs. Dr. John Ray investigates the social, political and military background to the war and the strengths and weaknesses of the Axis and Allied armed forces. He examines the role of key military and political leaders and never loses sight of the sometimes enormous gulf between how battles were planned and what actually happened on the ground.

It is July 1945, and Devlin Judge is in post-World War II Germany as part of a international tribunal to try Nazi war criminals. Judge is seeking out the SS officer, Erich Siegfried Seyss, who killed his brother. In addition, both men are in love with the same woman.

Fourteen-year-old Stefan Waydenfeld and his parents were forced into a journey by cattle car from their home in Poland to a Stalinist labor camp deep in the Siberian forests during World War II. His survival and his long journey to freedom highlight a little-known aspect of World War II in which 1.5 million Polish civilians were arrested by Stalin as "enemies of the people" following the simultaneous invasion of Poland in September 1939 by the Nazis and Russia.