Henry Carter Hull

In 1941, on a remote Greek island, an Italian artillery garrison is established to maintain order. One Italian officer, Captain Corelli, adopts an attitude of mutual co-existence with the Greeks and engages in such activities as music festivals and courting the daughter of a local doctor.

Lt. Col. Hal Moore is the commander of the First Battalion, Seventh Cavalry. As part of the Pleiku Campaign of late 1965, Moore is assigned to action at Landing Zone X-Ray in the Ia Drang Valley, an area known to be overrun by North Vietnamese troops and nicknamed "The Valley of Death." Moore soon finds himself and his men contained to an area about the size of a football field, surrounded by more than 2,000 enemy troops and engaged in the first major...

Combines photographs, maps, illustrations, and text in a chronicle of the significant people, places, and events in the history of World War II.

Recounts the momentous events that occurred in Europe between D-Day in 1944 and V-E Day in 1945.

Profusely illustrated text describes the attempt made by the Allies in World War II to defend and support strategic outposts around the world.

Proposes a new explanation of why Germany lost World War II, and argues that the blitzkrieg strategy, presented during the Great War as a sure method of victory, and subscribed to by Hitler, Rommel, von Manstein, Montomery, and Patton, does not accurately account for the defeat of the Axis powers.

Presents an examination of the important battles of the American Revolutionary War, from 1776-1778, covering the victories and defeats of the Continental Army through these years of struggle for independence.

Discusses the U.S. Civil War in the Eastern Theater from the engagement at Fort Sumter in April, 1861 through Bull Run in July, 1861.