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Leo Tolstoy's masterpiece, it was shot entirely in the Soviet Union. It took more than five years and $100 million to create. Winner of Best Foreign Film at the 1969 Academy Awards.

Recounts one of the strangest legends of the First World War - the disappearance of the Sandringham Company in action in Gallipoli in 1915.

Describes the successful Allied conquest of northwest France from June 7 to late August 1944, based upon eyewitness and official British accounts.

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. Why are eight men risking their lives to save just one? Surrounded by the brutal realities of war, each man searches for his own answer and the strength to triumph over uncertain future with honor, decency and courage.

Recounts U.S. amphibious operations in the central Pacific, on islands like Eniwetok, Kwajalein, and Saipan, and the friction between leaders of the Pacific fleet that further complicated the Allied attack on the Japanese defense perimeter.

"It's 1942, at the Eastern Front. Soldiers crouch in horrible holes in the ground, mingling with corpses. Tunneled beneath a radio mast, German soldiers await the order to blow themselves up. Russian tanks, struggling to break through enemy lines, bog down in a swamp, while a German runner, bearing messages from headquarters to the front, scrambles desperately from shelter to shelter as he tries to avoid getting caught in the action. Through it all,...

An account of the massive Allied invasion of the Normandy beaches on the greatest single day of World War II.

Hitler's armies smash Poland--Denmark and Norway fall--they take Holland and Belgium--and France collapses.

This is history made real and exciting in a concise, fast-moving and always fascinating approach of particular value to newcomers to the subject. THE SECOND WORLD WAR shaped the second half of the twentieth century; our grasp of the world we now live in is incomplete without an understanding of how and why that war was conducted. This book explains the SECOND WORLD WAR.