Journalist Eric Sevareid narrates this engrossing continuation of the series BETWEEN THE WARS. Shocked into action by the bombing of Pearl Harbor, Americans respond with an exhilarating sense of...

Americans roll up their sleeves, turning to the business of war in the aftermath of Pearl Harbor. They witness the fall of the Philippines and the terrible Bataan Death March. This program...

Despite a greatly reduced fleet, the U.S. Navy fights back in the Pacific in the tremendous battles of Coral Sea and Midway. At the same time, Russia holds Stalingrad against Hitler's fierce...

U.S. Marines land on Guadalcanal in a bloody siege that goes down in the annals of military history. American troops also land in North Africa to battle Hitler's Afrika Korps. Future ships and...

American troops begin a round-the-clock bombing attack on Germany and fight for ground in New Guinea and Sicily. With the constant threat of war on the horizon, war marriages and a rising pregnancy...

Hitler and his Axis cohorts are made into silly, comic figures as Madison Avenue grinds out hard and soft propaganda aimed at keeping the war effort alive. In hindsight, much of the material is...

The Red Ball Express, a black unit under General George S. Patton, fights a valiant effort in the Normandy invasion and the drive toward defeating Nazi Germany. But black fighting men remain...

Enormous events startle the American public. General MacArthur returns to the Philippines, honoring his famous promise years before. Hitler launches a terrible new weapon, the V-2 bomb, on Britain...

The Battle of the Bulge marks an end to Hitler's domination of Europe. The Russians advance toward Berlin and in the Pacific. America bombs Japan. The four-year effort of America's fighting men...

America's leader for nearly three decades, President Franklin Delano Roosevelt, dies, leaving Harry Truman in command. Victory in Europe is celebrated in glorious fashion, but war rages on in...