Jones's classic novel of the battle of Guadalcanal: a portrait of American soldiers facing the horror of war in intense jungle combat   In August of 1942 the first American marines charged Guadalcanal, igniting a six-month battle for two thousand square miles of jungle and sand. In that gruesome stretch sixty thousand Americans made the jump from boat to beach, and one in nine did not return. James Jones fought in that battle, and The Thin Red Line...

Photographs, documents, and narrative text record and examine the events and developments leading to and during the Second World War.

The Guadalcanal campaign and the slow conquest of islands in the Pacific by U.S. forces during the last months of World War II. Part of the Time-Life series on World War II.

Text and photographs survey the planning and execution of Operation Overlord, the Allied invasion of Germanoccupied Europe on June 6, 1944.

Profusely illustrated text discusses the underground resistance organizations that operated in Nazi-occupied European countries during World War II.

Profusely illustrated text discusses the campaigns and battles between American and Japanese forces in the Pacific that led to the defeat of the Japanese in World War II.

Profusely illustrated text describes the history of World War II in Sweden and Finland.

How 15 million prisoners of war depended less on the Geneva convention than on their captors'attitudes and customs.