This exciting graphic novel recounts three historic land and air battles in Russia and Germany during World War II: • A lucky escape - The Battle of Stalingrad between German and Russian troops, November 22, 1942 • Pilot down! The Wermacht retreat through Ukraine, March 20, 1944 • Courage under Fire - The Red Army advance to Romania, July 14, 1944

This exciting graphic novel recounts three fascinating stories of covert, or secret, operations during World War II: • Jan Kubis and Josef Gabcik, Operation Anthropoid, May 1942 - The plan to eliminate German SS leader Reinhard Heydrich, the chief planner of the Jewish genocide by the Nazis and also known as the Butcher of Prague • Benjamin Cowburn, S.O.E. (U.K. Special Operations Executive) - Operation Tinker, April 1943 - How a British operative...

This exciting graphic novel recounts three historic land and air battles in Europe during World War II: • Duel in the skies - The Battle of Britain, September 24, 1940 - The desperate air battle told from the perspective of a young British fighter pilot. • Surviving Omaha Beach - D-Day, June 6, 1944 - The Normandy Landings as experienced by a U.S. infantryman. • Crossing the bridge at Remagen - The invasion of Germany, March 7, 1945

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...

Germany attempts to strangle Britain--U-boats--Bismarck--convoys--Allied counterattack.