I Was Hitler's Pilot

by Hans Baur

As pilot to Adolf Hitler, Hans Baur was present during some of the Third Reich’s most salient moments. This memoir paints an intimate portrait of the Führer as it charts the twentieth century’s most dramatic events.

If Chaos Reigns

by Flint Whitlock

Filled with vivid first-person accounts, here is the first history of the D-Day invasion that concentrates exclusively on the formation, recruitment, training, and deployment of the Allies’ parachute and glider troops.

In the Footsteps of the Band of Brothers

by Larry Alexander

Part travelogue, part memoir, this moving account follows the Band of Brothers’ path to victory, exploring the living history of the places where they fought, and revealing what makes their story so meaningful.

In the Garden of Beasts

by Erik Larson

Erik Larson, bestselling author of The Devil in the White City, tells the true story of an American father and daughter living in Berlin in 1933—the year Hitler ascended from German chancellor to absolute dictator.

Into Dust and Fire

by Rachel S. Cox

The untold story of five young American friends—sons of New England privilege—who left their Ivy League schools and promising futures to join the beleaguered British Army in its desperate fight against the Nazis.

Intrepid Aviators

by Gregory G. Fletcher

The sinking of the Japanese super-battleship Musashi inflicted a crucial blow in the Battle of Leyte Gulf. Here is the story of the attack on Musashi—and of one surviving American pilot’s ordeal in the Philippine jungle.

Iron Curtain

by Anne Applebaum

The follow-up to Anne Applebaum’s Pulitzer Prize-winning Gulag chronicles how Communism engulfed Eastern Europe after World War II, transforming politics and daily life in a dozen radically different countries.

Iron Man

by Peter Kilduff

One of the most successful German fighter pilots of World War I, Hauptmann Rudolf Berthold was victorious in 44 aerial combats. Here is the remarkable story of this fearless airmen and his legendary exploits.

Isaac's Army

by Matthew Brzezinski

During World War II, the Jewish underground waged a war of resistance against the Nazi occupation of Poland that culminated in the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising. Here is a dramatic and moving account of that heroic struggle.

Islands of Destiny

by John Prados

Historians typically consider the Allied victory at Midway to be the turning point in the Pacific war. Prados argues that it was the Solomon Islands campaign, not Midway, that consolidated Allied power in the Pacific.