World War II | World War II
Sep.14.2009
When an unidentified plane crashes on the remote Hawaiian island of Niihau, the islanders have no idea that it is a Japanese Zero, and that the pilot, who survives the landing, has just bombed Pearl Harbor. Niihau has no phones, electricity, or modern conveniences -- an idyllic isolation made...
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Aug.31.2009
An unprecedented historical novel, Purple Mountain presents a riveting, profoundly intimate portrait of Nanjing and its people during the first six days after its fall to the Japanese army in 1937. Three editions of the novel, one English and two Chinese, were published in 2005. A screenplay Qi...
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Jul.23.2009
Some Bones Won't Stay Buried
World War II hero Jack Chambers still has nightmares about Hürtgen Forest in Germany—and the unholy horrors he battled there. Now, he is determined to tell his tale. His grandson, Sean, is given the task of carrying his message. "This is the untold story. The real...
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Jul.16.2009
In the summer of 1995, young American writer Martin Paige agrees to chaperone a group of high school seniors on their graduation trip to Paris as a favor to his best friend, teacher Diane Jacobs. Diane hopes Europe will act as a catalyst to lift Martin from his grief following the suicide of his...
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Apr.13.2009
San Diego, 1942Following Pearl Harbor, Tom Hickey and a partner open a supper club, Rudy's Hacienda, in downtown San Diego, a few blocks from the harbor. The club begins to make Tom wealthy. He's glad to be making money. His wife Madeline, part gold-digger, has wearied of living in decent but...
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Apr.12.2009
The Loud Adios, San Diego, 1943
Private Investigator Tom Hickey, now an army corporal military assigned to the U.S./Mexico border, accompanies Private Clifford Rose to a Tijuana nightclub where Clifford claims they will find his sister Wendy.
The nightclub is aptly named Hell. Wendy, dancing naked...
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Mar.12.2009
To the millions of Americans on the home front during World War II, Ernie Pyle’s column in newspapers across the country offered a foxhole view of the struggle as he reported on the life and death of the average soldier. When he died, Pyle’s popularity and readership was worldwide, with his column...
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Mar.12.2009
American GIs who participated in the invasions of such far-flung Pacific Ocean locations as New Georgia, Makin, Tarawa, Kwajalein, and Eniwetok during World War II could always count on a blistering reception from the Japanese forces defending those isles. They could also depend on their efforts...
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Jan.21.2009
Andrew Bienkowski was five years old in 1939 when his family was banished to Siberia from their Polish homeland. With virtually nothing to see them through the long, cold winter, his grandfather chose to starve to death in order to give his family a change of survival. The years that followed were...
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Jan.06.2009
Set in past and present Alaska, The Cloud Atlas is narrated by a missionary who spent World War II chasing down one of Japan’s strangest weapons – firebombs that silently crossed the Pacific, tethered to balloons. But it’s the people he found who haunt him longer: a Yup’...
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