DescriptionWhen the Italian dictator Mussolini saw that Hitler was conquering Europe, he decided that he too would have a share of the plunder. He declared war on the Allies, vowed to control the Mediterranean, and with his 300, 000 troops stationed in Libya, take Eg…
DescriptionFollowing the success of Forgotten Voices of the Great War, the series now chronicles one of human histories darkest hours. The author comes to the project following her significant work in recording the experiences of Holocaust survivors for the I…
DescriptionThe time is 1943, the place is Sicily, and the event is the start of the most remarkable career of any American infantryman in the war. Audie Murphy was a desperately poor eighteen-year-old orphan when he joined the Army, nineteen when he first saw a budd…
DescriptionThis is a heartrending new book, the story of a marriage and the story of two lives, from the author of the international best-selling novel A Suitable Boy . Shanti Behari Seth was born on the eighth day of the eighth month in the eighth year of t…
DescriptionStewart Dubinsky knew his father had served in World War II. And he'd been told how David Dubin (as his father had Americanized the name that Stewart later reclaimed) had rescued Stewart's mother from the horror of the Balingen concentration camp. But whe…
