"In my own mind, Winds was, and has remained, the pedestal, Remembrance the memorial.”

The Royal Flush skidded to a halt with wounded crewmen aboard. Pilot Robert “Rosie” Rosenthal jumped out of his aircraft and headed for a debriefing, asking another officer who didn’t fly that day, “Are they all this rough?”

A visit to Rommel's Normandy headquarters, which was empty of its master on D-Day.  

After a bloody first day of fighting, Japanese and American battleships slugged out one of World War II's most brutal battles. 

Does World War II have a War and Peace? Novels by Herman Wouk and Vasily Grossman plunge deep into the darkest history of the 20th century.