In April of 1945, Germany stands at the brink of defeat with the Russian Army closing in from the east and the Allied Expeditionary Force attacking from the west. In Berlin, capital of the Third Reich, Adolf Hitler proclaims that Germany will still achieve victory and orders his generals and advisers to fight to the last man. When the end finally does come, and Hitler lies dead by his own hand, what is left of his military must find a way to end the killing that is the Battle of Berlin, and lay down their arms in surrender.

The classic story of English POWs in Burma forced to build a bridge to aid the war effort of their Japanese captors. British and American intelligence officers conspire to blow up the structure, but Col. Nicholson, the commander who supervised the bridge's construction, has acquired a sense of pride in his creation and tries to foil their plans.

The story of Operation Market Garden—a failed attempt by the allies in the latter stages of WWII to end the war quickly by securing three bridges in Holland allowing access over the Rhine into Germany. A combination of poor allied intelligence and the presence of two crack German panzer divisions meant that the final part of this operation (the bridge in Arnhem over the Rhine) was doomed to failure.

A German submarine hunts allied ships during the Second World War, but it soon becomes the hunted. The crew tries to survive below the surface, while stretching both the boat and themselves to their limits.

As U.S. troops storm the beaches of Normandy, three brothers lie dead on the battlefield, with a fourth trapped behind enemy lines. Ranger captain John Miller and seven men are tasked with penetrating German-held territory and bringing the boy home.

Drawn from interviews with survivors of Easy Company, as well as their journals and letters, Band of Brothers chronicles the experiences of these men from paratrooper training in Georgia through the end of the war. As an elite rifle company parachuting into Normandy early on D-Day morning, participants in the Battle of the Bulge, and witness to the horrors of war, the men of Easy knew extraordinary bravery and extraordinary fear - and became the stuff of legend. Based on Stephen E. Ambrose's acclaimed book of the same name.

英国作家杰克·希金斯（真名哈里·帕特森）生于1935年，他成为专业作家前，任教于里兹大学。
希金斯年轻时在英军服役期间，曾经耳闻二战中，德军突击队企图在英国诺福克绑架丘吉尔未逞的事。事隔几年，希金斯到诺福克度假，他诧异的发现，诺福克依然是乡村气息浓重的地方，居民们对旅游者出现在他们身边感到惊恐，甚至怀疑。希金斯还了解到，诺福克部分地区在战争中曾被列为“禁区”，专攻反法西斯阵营的波兰人、捷克人或其他外国军人作为作战训练的场地。离海岸一英里，是所谓“鱼雷艇航道”。那里时有德国海军的鱼雷艇出没，袭击英国的沿岸船只。大战中，北诺福克还用作英国皇家空军和美国空军轰炸机中队的中间停留基地。
《鹰从天降》即是根据这些背景写成的。据作者自己说，这部小说一半是史实，一半则是虚构的。于1975年出版。

A touching story of an Italian book seller of Jewish ancestry who lives in his own little fairy tale. His creative and happy life would come to an abrupt halt when his entire family is deported to a concentration camp during World War II. While locked up he tries to convince his son that the whole thing is just a game.