A look at the exploits of the men of E Company during World War II describes how they parachuted into France early D-Day morning, parachuted into Holland during the Arnhem campaign, and captured Hitler's Bavarian outpost.

Recounts a true tale of espionage, retracing the successful Allied effort to break the German "Enigma" code.

Examines the 1942 capture and trial of eight German terrorists who infiltrated the U.S. in order to destroy key installations across the country and the subsequent execution of six of them, and draws a parallel between that and the post-September 11, 2001 detention of enemy combatants at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.

The United States of 1940, an isolationist country divided along class lines, still suffering the ravages of a decade-long depression, and woefully unprepared for war, was unified by a common threat and by the extraordinary leadership of Franklin Roosevelt to become, only five years later, the preeminent economic and military power in the world. At the center of the country's transformation was the complex partnership of Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt....