In the epic struggle of the century, World War II, it's America and her allies at war against tyrants who'd subjugate all, and every American must risk all to help himself, his family and his country survive. The Holts, an Illinois family, are caught up in the trials of World War II, their sons Martin and Charles as soldiers and their daughter Dottie the wife of a soldier...some may live, some may not, but all, even those at home, will serve.

In the epic struggle of the century, World War II, it's America and her allies at war against tyrants who'd subjugate all, and every American must risk all to help himself, his family and his country survive. The Holts, an Illinois family, are caught up in the trials of World War II, their sons Martin and Charles as soldiers and their daughter Dottie the wife of a soldier...some may live, some may not, but all, even those at home, will serve.

Martin Holt and his comrades fly into the hell that's Germany at the ebb of the war, where a people are struggling for their very existence. After the gripping fear of experiencing their own homes, churches and schools—and wives and children—suffering the rain of rockets, their B-17's are flying with a purpose, and a vengeance. And the conflict is not only fought by those in the air, but that those at home who wait to see if loved ones will return.

Imperial Japan was a contradiction...steeped in tradition, at odds with the burgeoning modern world, yet in desperate need of all China, America and the South Pacific had in the way of natural resources...it was physically a very small country, but in its collective mentality, it was the center of all that was right, good, and powerful. In a half dozen years, all that Japan believed would be shaken to the very core of every man, woman and child who lived under the rising sun. No one looks at the Century's Epic Struggle with more insight and humanity than Robert Vaughan.

The Rodls a close knit German family torn between love of their homeland and a growing distrust of a creed of blood and hatred—heroes and victims of Hitler's Third Reich. As the bloody drama of World War II begins, Adolf Hitler comes to Schweinfurt, vital industrial cog in the Third Reich's giant war machine. There, he meets Heinrich, head of the Rodl family, a decent man who turns away from the excesses of the Nazis—a man whose ball bearing factory is crucial to Hitler's impending Blitzkrieg. There the Fuhrer also meets the bewitchingly beautiful Lisl Rodl, engaged to brilliant Symphony conductor, Paul Maass, whose deepest secret can destroy all those he loves. Meantime on the eastern front, fighting a life-or-death tank battle is Heinrichs son Rudi Rodl. And on the other side of the world, two young Americans prepare for a fateful rendezvous with the Rodls—and history. The