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Includes bibliographical references (page 160). 160 pages : illustrations, maps, portraits ; 22 cm

Reel 1: (1) INT bomber headquarters where attempt was made on Adolf Hitler's life on July 20. (2) Hitler meets Benito Mussolini's train in Germany, converses with him and Heinrich Himmler outside headquarters, and with Hermann Goring bids Mussolini farewell at train station. (3) Albert Speer decorates German engineers and escorts Hitler and German officers through steel plant. Comparing the performance ...

A national frenzy, fanned by lobbyists and the media, thwarted the Smithsonian Air and Space Museum's attempt to mount an exhibition featuring the Enola Gay, the B-29 bomber that had dropped the atomic bomb on Hiroshima. Martin Harwit, the director of the museum at the time, recounts the decade-long effort to restore the Enola Gay, the largest restoration project ever undertaken by the museum; recalls ...

Includes index. 192 pages : illustrations ; 30 cm

Plucked from every background, and led by an N.K.V.D. Major, the new recruits who boarded a train in Moscow on 16th October 1941 to go to war had much in common with millions of others across the world. What made the 586th Fighter Regiment, the 587th Heavy-bomber Regiment and the 588th Regiment of light night-bombers unique was their gender: the Soviet Union was creating the first all-female active ...

Hard cover copy of the book, One World, by Wendell L. Willkie published 1943. In August 1942, former Republican presidential nominee Wendell Willkie began a 31,000-mile journey in a Liberator bomber to see what he could of the world at war, its battlefronts, its leaders and its people. One World, an accounting of the journey, made a case for a strong United Nations