The deadliest war in history brought to life through bold, easy-to-grasp maps. Follow the key developments of World War II in unprecedented visual detail, with more than 100 specially created and historical maps covering all major theaters of war. Layers of information show how the conflict raged around the globe on land, air, and sea, while timelines provide an in-depth chronology of events. Stunning archival photographs, contemporary artifacts,...

In 1916, two Cree Indians enlist in the Canadian Expeditionary Forces and are sent to the western front as sharpshooters.Set in Canada and the battlefields of France and Belgium, Three-Day Road is told through the eyes of Niska, a Canadian Oji-Cree woman living off the land who is the last of a line of healers and diviners, and her nephew Xavier. At the urging of his friend Elijah, Xavier joins the war effort. Shipped off to Europe when they are nineteen,...

On November 14, 1944, the 2nd Ranger Battalion is tasked with sieging the German town of Bergstein, and Hill 400, a highly strategic position that provides the Third Reich with high ground for artillery.

"August, 1943. Fourteen-year-old Massimo is all alone. Newly orphaned and fleeing from Rome after surviving the American bombing raid that killed his parents, Massimo is attacked by thugs and finds himself bloodied at the base of the Montecassino. It is there in the Benedictine abbey's shadow that a charismatic and cryptic man calling himself Pietro Houdini, the self-proclaimed 'Master Artist and confidante of the Vatican,' rescues Massimo and brings...

A child tells how her family and other people in Budapest help save the famous hippopotamuses in their city's zoo from starving one difficult winter during World War II. Based on a true story.

From 1941 to 1945, millions of Americans did whatever they could to support the troops and defeat the Nazis, and four curious kids take readers into the factories, farms and even kitchens to show what the fight on the homefront looked like up close.

As Germany strangles under the tight grip of the Nazi Party, the frozen winter of 1940 brings even more reasons to fear the dark in the crackling new WWII crime novel from #1 Sunday Times bestselling author Simon Scarrow - perfect for fans of Philip Kerr's Berlin Trilogy, Robert Ludlum, Andrew Gross, and William Christie One freezing night in 1940 Berlin, an SS doctor and his wife return from an evening mingling with their fellow Nazis at the concert...

At the beginning of World War II a hostile chance encounter in the skies above the harsh Norwegian wilderness leaves two aircraft, one British, one German, shot down in a remote and isolated region. By strange coincidence the crews seek shelter in the same cabin. They must battle to survive the brutal winter in order to get back to the war and to fighting one another. Although war has made them enemies, as the days go by animosity proves hard to maintain....

An interactive World War II adventure where the reader determines their fate during a daring escape from a prisoner-of-war camp.

By the time he was six, Stephen had been bombarded by the Luftwaffe and deported from occupied Guernsey, along with his family, to a prison camp in the heart of Adolf Hitler's Third Reich. He had seen men die in front of him, walked with Jews straight off the cattle-trucks from Bergen-Belsen, and had his hand broken by a German guard for attempting to feed Russian prisoners. The family kept going through three and a half years of imprisonment, and...