Two anthropologists married to each other go to an island off of Papua New Guinea for field research in pre-World War II. Eventually the war breaks out and many lives are disrupted and complicated.

The account of keepers of the Warsaw Zoo, Jan and Antonina Zabinski, who helped save hundreds of peo...

A politically naive Viennese butcher manages to survive the Nazi occupation of Austria and the secon...

A young widow flees from Rome during WWII and takes her lonely twelve-year-old-daughter to her rural...

The story of two adolescents, Moni and Zhozho, who meet 17-year-old Zheni in 1943 and with whom both...

In 1943, U.S. marines are stationed near Wellington. One of them is murdered by the boss of the Hot...

General Candy, who's overseeing an English squad in 1943, is a veteran leader who doesn't have the r...

North Africa, World War II. British soldiers on the brink of collapse push beyond endurance to strug...

The exploits of Chief Police Inspector Chabrier, first before the invasion of France in May 1940 as ...

French woman Michele de la Becque, an opponent of the Nazis in German-occupied Paris, hides a downed...

Irma has been sent to the front immediately after her marriage to Erik Vuori. Irma and her new "Lott...

Proud Irishwoman Bridie Quilty journeys to Dublin while World War II rages across Europe. During her...

The story of the HMS Torrin, from its construction to its sinking in the Mediterranean during action...

Spain in the 1930s is the place to be for a man of action like Robert Jordan. There is a civil war g...

American boy Peter and blind minstrel Ivan are thrown together by fate amidst the turbulent mid-30s ...

Communist party commissar Ivica is sent to the lowland village to monitor the local partisan squad. ...

Spring, 1944. The Great Patriotic war. The German fascists are still in Sevastopol. A fierce combat ...

Set in Tokyo in 1940, the peaceful life of the Nogami Family suddenly changes when the father, Shige...

During the Japanese occupation of China, two prisoners are dumped in a peasant's home in a small tow...

Set in southern India in the late 1930s, this provocative tale traces the story of three people caug...

In a rural town in Louisiana, a black Master Sergeant is found shot to death just outside the local ...