In war-torn Asia and stricken Europe, men and women, still young but veterans of harsh experience, must reinvent their lives and expectations, and learn, from their past, to dream again. Some will fulfill their destinies, others will falter. At the center of the story, a brave and brilliant soldier find that survival and worldly achievement are not enough. His counterpart, a young girl living in occupied Japan and tending her dying brother, falls...

The author of this book believes that certain Americans and Englishmen favor a peace formula for Japan which will provide only for a temporary truce. Just as German militarists and their industrial supporters were left in power after the First World War, in the same manner these men would leave the Japanese Emperor and his imperialist partners off control of Japan after this war. Believing that most Americans want permanent peace in spite of the cost,...

On April 4, 1948, the sovereign state of Judenstaat was created in the territory of Saxony bordering Germany, Poland, and Czechoslovakia. Forty years later, Jewish historian Judit Klemmer is making a documentary film outlining the direction that Judenstaat has taken as a country on the world stage, from the Nazi atrocities of World War II to their liberation by Soviet troops. She is haunted by memories of her dead husband, who was shot by a sniper...

From one of America's most respected historians, The Conquerors reveals one of the mostimportant stories of World War II. As Allied soldiers fought the Nazis,Franklin Roosevelt and, later, Harry Truman fought in private with Churchilland Stalin over how to ensure that Germany could never threaten the worldagain. Eleven years in the writing,drawing on newly opened American, Soviet and British documents as well asprivate diaries, letters and secret...

"Describes the aftermath of World War II in nations across the world. Includes "A Closer Look" features"--