Discusses the events leading up to and during the Allied invasion of Normandy in 1944.

Re-enacts the military operation of D-Day from four points of view--the workings of the high commands of the American, English, French, and German forces in their battle scheme for Normandy. Largely filmed on actual invasion sites in France.

"Compiled from interviews, diaries, letters, and contemporaneous first-person accounts ... [of] the United States' Office of Strategic Services and Britain's Special Operations Executive."--Dust jacket.

The story of D-Day, compiled from letters home, diaries, memoranda, official reports, and interviews with veterans.

Presents a comprehensive study of the extensive Allied campaign to retake the Pacific islands from the Japanese and includes eyewitness accounts of the battles from the attack on Pearl Harbor to the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki along with a number of photographs and maps.

Examines the life of the World War II general who became the thirty-fourth president of the United States.

Favorite inspirational speakers relate stories on Love, Faith, Trust, Prayer, Grief, Perseverance and more.

Reveals the story behind an unlikely World War II anthem, describing a German poem about a young woman waiting for the return of her soldier lover and how the piece was set to music by one of Hitler's favored composers in the cabaret scene of the 1930s.

"The industry provocateur behind such companies as Twitter and a nascent Facebook presents an irreverent exposé of life inside the tech bubble that traces his hedonist lifestyle against a backdrop of early social media and online marketing, sharing critical insights into how they are shaping today's world."--NoveList.

In 1962, Larry Kroger and Kent Dorfman are freshman in college. They want to join a fraternity. After visiting several, including the snobby Omega house, they come to a Delta house pledge party. Here they meet the handsome, but compulsive womanizer Otter, his best friend Boone, Boone's girlfriend Katy, the daring thrill-seeker D-Day, the ever responsible Hoover, and slacker Bluto. They are accepted into the fraternity and join in on the wild toga parties, road trips, and practical jokes. But Dean Wormer is determined to have Delta kicked off campus and its members expelled. He enlists the help of Omega house and its leaders Doug Neidermyer and Greg Marmalard and new pledge Chip Diller. Delta is not willing to go away quietly.