Kershaw, Alex

Chronicles the experiences of the eighteen men serving in lieutenant Lyle Bouck's intelligence platoon in the Ardennes forest of Belgium during the Battle of the Bulge in 1944.

Details the history of the U.S. Navy submarine Tang in the Pacific theater of World War II, the explosion that led to its sinking, the ordeal of its surviving crew members and their capture by the Japanese, followed by months of brutal captivity.

Biography of the colorful American writer who had been an oyster pirate, a seal hunter, a mill worker, a hobo, and a political activist before becoming a popular author at the age of twenty-nine.

In July, 1944, thirty-two-year-old Swedish diplomat Raoul Wallenberg arrived in Budapest on a mission to rescue the last Jews of Europe. Over the next six months he rescued thousands of Jews by issuing diplomatic safe passage passes and establishing numerous safe houses. When Budapest was finally liberated by the Soviet army, Wallenberg disappeared into the Soviet gulag and to this day his exact fate is unknown.

Chronicles the experiences of the eighteen men serving in lieutenant Lyle Bouck's intelligence platoon in the Ardennes forest of Belgium during the Battle of the Bulge in 1944.

Chronicles the life of photojournalist Robert Capa, discussing his childhood in Budapest, his escape to Berlin, his gambling problem, his career, and other related topics.