C. L. Sulzberger

WARFARE & DEFENCE. Inside AIR FORCE: Air forces of World War II - Fighter planes - Bombing runs - Escort duty - Key missions - Battle of Britain - Combat units - D-Day, plus much more! Get tough with some of World War II's fighting men and units. From battlefield frontlines to Naval convoys, from secret missions to aerial dogfights, Action Force brings together the people, weapons, vehicles, the stats and the facts in one all-action World War II series. You want action packed? Read Action Force! Ages 9+.

219 p. 24 cm

Describes the personal experiences of James Brady while serving on the front lines in Korea during the Korean War.

Europe, 1848: three imperial dynasties rule over territories stretching from Germany south to the Adriatic Sea and east to the Bering Strait on the Pacific Coast. The Houses of Habsburg, Hohenzollern, and Romanov rule over lands more vast than the British Empire at its greatest extent. In their struggle for continental domination and for eternal guarantees for their rule by divine right, they nurture the weeds of reaction that are destined to choke European democracy and become part of the conflagration of 1914. World-renowned diplomatic correspondent and historian C.L. Sulzberger traces the rise and fall of the three dynasties from their emergence as fuedal princelings to their coronation as absolute imperial lords, wielding vain, often foolish, often cruel, reactionary sovereignty over a degraded peasant population. - Jacket flap.

"C.L. Sulzburger, distinguished foreign correspondent and Pulitzer prizewinner, who know Churchill and Roosevelt as well as many other participants in the Yalta conference, reviews the events which led up to that meeting, what really happened there, and the very major consequences that flowed from it. With special attention to the problems of Poland, the return of Russian prisoners to the U.S.S.R., the absense of China, Yugoslavia, and France, the author sheds the light of history and his own personal experiences in Europe during and after the war upon questions that remain problems today ..."--Dust jacket.

A detailed pictorial view of life during the 2nd big one and how America almost single handedly stopped the axis from winning the war and showed the world that America is the toughest and meanest kid in town.