Ruby Sisson Library

Diamond Head, Hawaii, 1941. Pvt. Robert E. Lee Prewitt is a champion welterweight and a fine bugler. But when he refuses to join the company's boxing team, he gets "the treatment" that may break him or kill him. First Sgt. Milton Anthony Warden knows how to soldier better than almost anyone, yet he's risking his career to have an affair with the commanding officer's wife. Both Warden and Prewitt are bound by a common bond: the Army is their heart...

By mid-1942 the Japanese forces were threatening to take the colonial capital of Port Moresby and therefore gain a base to launch their proposed invasion of Australia. The allied forces needed to blunt the Japanese thrust toward Australia and thus protect the transpacific line of communications, as well as to secure a favorable position to take the offensive to the Japanese. Yet this was easier planned than executed; the Australians had been battered...

An illustrated account of the Spitfire fighters during World War II.

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

An account of the struggle between the Allied navies and the German submarine fleet in the Atlantic Ocean during World War II.

Captioned photographs and text describe the invasion of Russia by the Germans.

Chronicles the invasion of the Balkan Peninsula by the Nazis.

Profusely illustrated text traces the development of military aviation and surveys the equipment, personnel, and events of the air war between Germany and the Allies during World War II.