War Stories III: The Heroes Who Defeated Hitler

by Oliver North

Colonel Oliver North's bestselling War Stories series has brought you riveting, eyewitness accounts of American heroism during the second war in Iraq and World War II in the Pacific. Now he does it again in War Stories III: The Heroes Who Defeated Hitler, a thrilling compendium of the chief events of World War II in Europe, filled with never-before-published reminiscences of the men and women who were there - including Bob Dole, George McGovern, and Chuck Yeager.

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In an account that contains many chilling parallels to today's world leaders who refuse to join the U.S. in combating the global Islamic jihad, North begins with a gripping explanation of why World War II in Europe was actually preventable -- if only the German people and the democracies of the world had been willing to confront Hitler before it was too late. Then he moves on briskly to bring you eyewitness insights (including some from German and Russian soldiers) into the war in Europe on land, in the sea, and in the air: the Battle of Britain & the London "Blitz"; Hitler's opening of the Eastern Front with Russia; America's entry into the war in Europe after Pearl Harbor; the American offensive in North Africa in 1942; the hellish action in Sicily in 1943 and the subsequent hard-fought and ultimately victorious campaign for Italy; the invasion of Normandy; the liberation of France; the Battle of the Bulge; and the collapse of the Third Reich and the last days of Hitler. He even includes indelible eyewitness accounts of the war on the Home Front and the entry by American troops into the slave labor and concentration camps.

Suffused throughout with North's earnest love for our nation and intense admiration for those who made the ultimate sacrifice to save her from her enemies, War Stories III is an unforgettable inside account of some of the greatest military victories in American history -- as told by those who won them.

• Prelude to the war: how Hitler was emboldened again and again by the impotence of his neighbors

• The sorrowful story of how America, along with most other countries, turned away Jews fleeing the Third Reich in the 1930s

• "'It's a dollar a drill. And we're gonna go to Minnesota for 21 days of maneuvers.' Well, that seemed like big money in the middle of the Depression" -- why young Americans joined the military when isolationism was in the ascendancy

• How the Luftwaffe never developed a coherent plan for striking against British bases, aircraft plants and anti-aircraft installations - handing the British a crucial advantage when they were on the ropes

• How fewer than 2,500 RAF fighter pilots -- among them Canadians, Australians, New Zealanders, Poles, Free French, Czechs, South Africans, and Americans -- handed Hitler his first defeat and saved Britain

• The little-remembered conflict that convinced Hitler he could defeat the Soviet Union while simultaneously waging war against the Western democracies

• Stalin's purges of the Soviet military: how they created chaos and seriously degraded Russian readiness to fight

• "You think you're pretty sick, until you see them carting somebody out who died in the bed next to you" -- Bob Dole's wry and gracious account of how he lost the use of his right hand

• Eisenhower's strangulation strategy: how it ended Axis adventurism in North Africa

• The sharp disagreement between Eisenhower and the British over how best to invade German-occupied Europe - and how it was ultimately resolved

• The slap heard around the world: how only Eisenhower's direct and personal intervention saved tank warfare expert George Patton from dismissal after he struck an ailing soldier

• "Because I didn't speak French, the Inspector dressed me up in old French farm clothing and told me to pretend I was goofy" -- an American Air Force Lieutenant recounts his daring escape from German-occupied France

• "There were so many unescorted ships that we used up all of our torpedoes in just a few weeks and we had to go back to France to get more": a German U-Boat officer recounts his successful exploits off the Georgia coast

• How the war caused a population shift in the United States

• Hitler's last desperate gamble -- and why it failed