The time is 1943, and Nazi Germany is reeling from nightly battering of her cities by the RAF. Catastrophe looms at Stalingrad. Siegfried von Rall, Hermann Goring's technical advisor, hatches strategic missions to buy time for his country to refine cutting-edge technology into "Victory" weapons. Two targets galvanize Siegfried's attention: Soviet hydro plants in the Urals and killing FDR. He chooses aircraft and a team of experts for the missions. Goring fast-tracks detailed planning and training. In Britain, codebreaker Evan Thompson reads Siegfried's radio messages but can't detect his...

High adventure fills the lives of American and Dutch fighting men in the opening months of the Pacific War. Brave women share their dangers and their love while empires crumble. Exhilarated by savaging the American Pacific Fleet at Pearl Harbor, The Japanese Navy moves quickly to seize the rich mineral resources of Malaya and the Dutch East Indies. Two U.S. Asiatic Fleet lieutenants join the unequal struggle on the sea and in the air. Frank Rhea flies a floatplane off the old cruiser, U.S.S. Marblehead: scouting, spotting fall of gunshot, and attacking submarines. Jack Sewell commands the...

Flash back to the violent 1970s. Domestic terrorist bombs explode in the Pentagon, on Capitol Hill, at New York police stations, and on military bases. Prominent moderate leaders are being assassinated. And now a New Left terrorist group more radical than the Weather Underground or the Symbionese Liberation Army has a highly placed mole in the Pentagon The mole electrifies the terrorist high command with details of weaknesses in the storage of Navy nuclear weapons. Elated, the group prepares for a commando raid to steal some of the warheads and force the government to transform the United...