With the World-ending threat of the The Storm hanging over him, Hercules is pushed to the limits. The temptation to give up on his new, reformed way of life is huge. Can the advice and support of an old friend keep him on the level? It depends... when that friend is Amadeus Cho, aka the totally AWES[...]

An authority on chemical and biological warfare traces the military applications of toxic weaponry from World War I to the present day, discusses Germany's first use of such weapons during the First World War, the development of potent nerve agents during the Cold War, and the efforts of such terror[...]

From the award-winning author of "Imperial Life in the Emerald City, " a riveting, intimate account of America's troubled war in Afghanistan.
When President Barack Obama ordered the surge of troops and aid to Afghanistan, "Washington Post" correspondent Rajiv Chandrasekaran followed. He found t[...]

World War II has been the subject of hundreds, if not thousands, of films produced in the United States alone. From training camp scenes in See Here, Private Hargrove to images of brutal combat in Saving Private Ryan, filmmakers have been tasked with replicating pivotal moments in the war. But somet[...]

World War Two is a series of fact-packed books on key aspects of the Second World War. Each title offers an appealing, magazine-style design and contains readable narrative text plus panels focusing on personalities, events, weapons, documents and other background information. Also included are mini[...]

From an "illuminating and entertaining" ("The New York Times") historian comes the World War II story of two men whose remarkable lives improbably converged at the Tokyo war crimes trials of 1946.
In the wake of World War II, the Allied forces charged twenty-eight Japanese men with crimes agains[...]