Earle Rice

Discusses the Korean War, a three-year multinational war that was sparked in 1950 when communist North Korea invaded democratic South Korea.

Discusses strategic battles in the Pacific during World War II, including Bataan and Corregidor, Guadalcanal, Tarawa, Leyte Gulf, Iwo Jima, and Okinawa.

Explores the lives of six Nazi war criminals and the roles they played in implementing the Final Solution to the Jewish Question.

Describes the events before, during, and after the Battle of Belleau Wood in World War I.

A biography of the sixteenth-century English explorer who became a national hero for sailing around the world, and confirmed that status through his service as a Vice Admiral battling the Spanish Armada.

Discusses the people and events involved in Japan's decision to attack on Pearl Harbor, which forced the United States to enter World War II.

Discusses the Persian Gulf War, 1990, that resulted from Saddam Hussein's Iraqi army invading Kuwait.

"In 1946, the Vietnamese people began fighting for independence from the French colonial rulers of their land, which at the time was known as Indochina. By the mid-1950s, the French had been defeated, and separate governments were set up in North Vietnam and South Vietnam pending elections to unify the country. Those elections never took place. The American government supported South Vietnam, wanting to prevent the spread of communism from North Vietnam....

Examines the events and personalities that were instrumental in Japan's adoption of kamikazi, or suicide, missions in the later stages of World War II.