Wartime commander, tactical innovator, military educator, iconoclastic troublemaker, Pulitzer Prize winner—those categories have only come together in a single military leader in American history. They all accurately describe Admiral William S. Sims (1858–1936), Commander of U.S. Naval Forces in European Waters during World War I. Sims spent nearly an entire career rocking ...
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The Victory at Sea
Winner of the 1921 Pulitzer Prize in History.
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Holocaust Heroes
Resistance to Hitler's Final Solution
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Holocaust Heroes is an inspiring book that examines the incredible—yet tragic—examples of Jewish resistance in ghettos and concentration camps during the days of the Nazis’ “Final Solution.” The Warsaw Uprising during the spring of 1944 is the most infamous rebellion, but there were other occasions of ...
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Wings of Valor
Honoring America's Fighter Aces
A hero’s action is always extraordinary because it is so contrary to the basic human instincts of self-preservation and survival. For the fighter Ace, it is often kill or be killed. The men whose images and stories are told in Wings of Valor reflect the courage and determination it takes to get no less than five “kills” in aerial combat ...
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