By 1943 the world is in the thick of war and the home-front continues to play a vital role. The Mulligans of San Francisco do their part in the war effort, but hardships and deprivations are taking a toll and each the four Mulligan sisters are tested in their own way. The war years urge young Molly to grow up quickly. Besides playing family 'war correspondent,' Molly manages the victory garden, finishes high school, and takes an internship at the...

Pays tribute to the generation of Americans who fought in World War II, telling the stories of individual men and women who, united by common purpose and values, served their country overseas and returned to create modern America.

"An epic love story and family drama set at the dawn of World War II"--Provided by publisher. "Viann and Isabelle have always been close despite their differences. Younger, bolder sister Isabelle lives in Paris while Viann lives a quiet and content life in the French countryside with her husband Antoine and their daughter. When World War II strikes and Antoine is sent off to fight, Viann and Isabelle's father sends Isabelle to help her older sister...

On the fateful day of August 24, 1939, in a Paris restaurant, six friends heard the radio broadcast that would plunge the world into war. Vowing to reunite every year on that day, the close-knit friends parted ways and prepared to join the conflict. Follow each of their lives through the explosive World War II action of the London Blitz, the Normandy invasion and aerial dogfights in their desperate fight against the Nazis. Each of them faces the hell...

Provides an in-depth look at life and historical events in America during World War Two.

Balkoski is in top form in this groundbreaking analysis of the other half of America's D-Day.-Dennis Showalter, author of Patton and Rommel

Dangerous missions relives the epic battle that followed through recollections from the front, commentary from military historians and extensive combat footage. Operation Detachment was supposed to last three or four days. It turned into an epic, 36-day struggle that saw nearly 28,000 soldiers killed--6,821 Americans and some 21,000 Japanese. It remains the bloodiest battle in the history of the US Marine Corps.

Hedy Kiesler is lucky. Her beauty leads to a starring role in a controversial film and marriage to a powerful Austrian arms dealer, allowing her to evade Nazi persecution despite her Jewish heritage. But Hedy is also intelligent. At lavish Vienna dinner parties, she overhears the Third Reich's plans. One night in 1937, desperate to escape her controlling husband and the rise of the Nazis, she disguises herself and flees her husband's castle. She lands...

"It is the spring of 1939, and three generations of the Kurc family are doing their best to live normal lives, even as the shadow of war grows ever closer. The talk around the family Seder table is of new babies and budding romance, not of the increasing hardships facing Jews in their hometown of Radom, Poland. But soon the horrors overtaking Europe will become inescapable and the Kurc family will be flung to the far corners of the earth, each desperately...

In 1942 San Francisco, war has touched every part of the Mulligans lives. With their brother killed at Pearl Harbor, their father recovering from tuberculosis, and their eldest sister a nurse in the Army, those at home are left to keep on, wondering if it's possible to thrive...or only to survive. Pragmatic Margaret struggles with the gap between the dreams she d always fostered of married life and the reality of having a husband an ocean away combined...