World at War
8 total works
Describes the various treatment, from relatively civil to unbearable, given to both military and civilian prisoners of war during World War II.
Recounts life in the Jewish quarter in Warsaw from 1939 to 1945 when the years of hunger and privation culminated in the complete destruction of that ghetto.
Describes life on the "home front" during World War II, when children collected newspapers, movies were filled with propaganda, working women became commonplace, and necessities were rationed.
Describes the nearly 900-day siege of the Baltic port city of Leningrad, during which more than one million Russian civilians died from stravation, cold, and German shells.
Traces events leading up to the 1945 bombing of Hiroshima and describes the horrible effects produced by the atomic explosion.
A revelation of the atrocities committed against European Jews by Hitler and the Nazis during World War II.
Describes the bloody, three-month-long battle of U.S. Marines and Japanese troops for control of Guadalcanal, part of the Solomon Islands located between Hawaii and Australia.