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From acclaimed world historian Antony Beevor, this is the first major account in more than twenty years to cover the whole invasion from June 6, 1944, right up to the liberation of Paris.

The stories of a small Cape Cod postmistress and an American radio reporter stationed in London collide on the eve of the United States’ entrance into World War II, a meeting that is shaped by a broken promise to deliver a letter.

In a novel that moves back and forth between the Soviet Union during World War II and modern-day America, Marina, an elderly Russian woman, recalls vivid images of her youth during the height of the siege of Leningrad.

Their military careers forever transformed by the attack on Pearl Harbor, Navy nurse Glory grieves for the loss of her husband while ship officer Marsh battles his way toward Leyte Gulf and fighter pilot Mick struggles with the drinking problem for which he was grounded.

When artifacts from Japanese families sent to internment camps during World War II are uncovered during renovations at a Seattle hotel, Henry Lee embarks on a quest that leads to memories of growing up Chinese in a city rife with anti-Japanese sentiment.

From one of our finest military historians, a monumental work that shows us the truly global reach of World War II and its deeply personal consequences.

The story of a U.S. airman who survived when his bomber crashed into the sea during World War II, spent forty-seven days adrift in the ocean before being rescued by the Japanese Navy, and was held as a prisoner until the end of the war.

Divorcee Lavender Stone flees World War II London and organizes an amateur orchestra that includes a talented Polish refugee who rekindles long-buried feelings.

A long-lost letter arriving at its destination fifty years after it was sent lures Edie Burchill to crumbling Milderhurst Castle, home of the elderly Blythe sisters, where Edie’s mother was sent to stay as a teenager during World War II.

On the 60th anniversary of the 1942 roundup of Jews by the French police in the Vel d’Hiv section of Paris, American journalist Julia Jarmond embarks on an investigation of this dark World War II episode that leads her to long-hidden family secrets and to the ordeal of Sarah, a young girl caught up in the raid.

When the United States military targets the island of Okinawa as part of a plan to halt conflicts that are inflicting massive casualties on both sides, B-29 pilot Paul Tibbets accepts a mission with world-changing implications.

Here is the story of the dramatic battle for the Atlantic during World War II, recreating merciless attacks by German U-boats, as well as the cunning cat-and-mouse game between quickly built American destroyers and the lethal U-boats.

Award-winning former Boston Globe reporter Mitchell Zuckoff unleashes the exhilarating, untold story of an extraordinary World War II rescue mission, where a plane crash in the South Pacific plunged a trio of U.S. military personnel into the jungle-clad land of New Guinea.

The life stories of the five Marines and one naval officer that were forever immortalized as a symbol of WWII by raising the American flag at the battle of Iwo Jima.

Drama about life in the Army in the days prior to World War II. An individualistic former boxing champion defies the attempts of officers and men to break him when he refuses to fight on the company’s boxing team. Includes actual scenes of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor.

A World War II drama about the escape of British and American flyers from a maximum-security German prison camp.

Captain John Miller must take his men behind enemy lines to find Private Ryan, whose three brothers have been killed in combat. Faced with impossible odds, the men question their orders. Surrounded by the brutal realities of war, each man searches for his own answer and the strength to triumph over an uncertain future with honor, decency and courage.

The story of a Catholic World War II profiteer, Oskar Schindler, who risked his life and went bankrupt in order to save more than 1,000 Jews from certain death in concentration camps.