The drama, the humor, the horror, and sometimes the tenderness of men and women confronting their greatest ordeal speak through this absorbing narrative of World War II, told in eyewitness accounts by soldiers, housewives and journalists is the many countries involved.
"Volume III: The Tide Turns" is the story of the first Allied victories of the war, victories which followed endless defeats. In Russia, the Wehrmancht suffered its first major setback, when the German 6th Army, commanded by von Paulus, was first held, then smashed, at Stalingrad. In North Africa, Montgomery and the British 8th Army defeated the hitherto invincible Afrika Korps at El Alamein. At sea, the victorious Japanese Navy was stopped at Midway. The Allied Air Forces were carrying the bombing war to Germany. For the time, it seemed that the Allies had a real chance of victory ...
The drama, the humor, the horror, and sometimes the tenderness of men and women confronting their greatest ordeal speak through this absorbing narrative of World War II, told in eyewitness accounts by soldiers, housewives and journalists is the many countries involved.
"Volume III: The Tide Turns" is the story of the first Allied victories of the war, victories which followed endless defeats. In Russia, the Wehrmancht suffered its first major setback, when the German 6th Army, commanded by von Paulus, was first held, then smashed, at Stalingrad. In North Africa, Montgomery and the British 8th Army defeated the hitherto invincible Afrika Korps at El Alamein. At sea, the victorious Japanese Navy was stopped at Midway. The Allied Air Forces were carrying the bombing war to Germany. For the time, it seemed that the Allies had a real chance of victory ...