Drawing on previously unpublished eyewitness accounts, prizewinning
historian Donald L. Miller has written what critics are calling one of
the most powerful accounts of warfare ever published.
Here are the horror and heroism of World War II in the words of the men
who fought it, the journalists who covered it, and the civilians who
were caught in its fury. Miller gives us an up-close, deeply personal
view of a war that was more savagely fought--and whose outcome was in
greater doubt--than readers might imagine. This is the war that
Americans at the home front would have read about had they had access to
the previously censored testimony of the soldiers on which Miller builds
his gripping narrative.
Miller covers the entire war--on land, at sea, and in the air--and
provides new coverage of the brutal island fighting in the Pacific, the
bomber war over Europe, the liberation of the death camps, and the
contributions of African Americans and other minorities. He concludes
with a suspenseful, never-before-told story of the atomic bombing of
Nagasaki, based on interviews with the men who flew the mission that
ended the war.