Taking Midway
From Martin Dugard, #1 New York Times bestselling author — with more than twelve million copies sold — comes a fast-paced, dramatic account of the famous yet little understood battle that turned the tide of World War II.
1942. The Allies are losing globally, especially in the Pacific where Japan claims victory after victory. Amidst this, in Honolulu, Lt. Commander Joseph Rochefort works to crack Japanese codes. He discovers plans for a massive Japanese invasion, larger than Pearl Harbor, led by Admiral Yamamoto.
Rochefort's methods are questioned, and many doubt his findings. To prove himself, Rochefort must not only find the precise location but predict the date.
What ensues is the cat-and-mouse adventure that will become the epic fight known as the Battle of Midway. Japan’s Yamamoto will go toe-to-toe with American admirals Chester Nimitz, Jack Fletcher, and Raymond Spruance. The dramatic battle will involve strategy, luck, heartbreak — and will also change the course of World War II.
Taking London
From Martin Dugard, #1 New York Times bestselling coauthor of the Killing series — with more than 12 million copies sold — comes a soaring account of England's desperate fight to fend off German invasion.
Great Britain, summer 1940. The Battle of France is over. The Battle of Britain is about to begin. Adolf Hitler's powerful armies control Europe. England stands alone against this juggernaut, the whole world knowing it is only a matter of time before Nazi Germany unleashes its military might on the island nation. In London, a new prime minister named Winston Churchill is determined to defeat the Nazi menace, no matter the costs.
Luckily for Churchill, one quirky Englishman has seen the future. Air Vice-Marshall Hugh Dowding is head of the Royal Air Force Fighter Command. He has spent years preparing his nation's aerial defenses, utilizing the new technology of radar, training hundreds of hand-picked young pilots, and overseeing the design and purchase of the world's most up-to-date fighter aircraft. . . .
Taking London puts the reader inside the action, telling the complex personal sagas of Churchill, Dowding, and legendary fighter pilots like Peter Townsend, Geoffrey Wellum, Richard Hillary, and American Billy Fiske, all set against the defiant backdrop of wartime London. Told in fast-paced, you-are-there fashion, this third book in the epic Taking series will have readers turning the pages late into the night.
Taking Berlin
From Martin Dugard, author of Taking Paris and the #1 New York Times bestselling coauthor of the Killing series, comes a nonfiction thriller about the race between the Allies and Soviets to conquer the heart of Nazi Germany.
Fall, 1944. Paris has been liberated, saved from destruction, but this diversion on the road to Berlin has given the Germans time to regroup. Meanwhile, the Soviets begin to squeeze Hitler’s crumbling Reich from the east. . . .
With a sweeping cast of historical figures, Taking Berlin is a pulse-pounding race into the final, desperate months of the Second World War and toward the fiery destruction of the Thousand-Year-Reich, chronicling a moment in history when allies become adversaries.
Taking Paris
From Martin Dugard, the #1 New York Times bestselling coauthor of the Killing series, comes the spellbinding story of the Allied liberation of Paris from the grip of the Nazis during World War II.
May 1940: The world is stunned as Hitler’s forces invade France with a devastating blitzkrieg aimed at Paris. Within weeks, the French government has collapsed, and the City of Lights, revered for its carefree lifestyle, intellectual freedom, and love of liberty, has fallen under Nazi control—perhaps forever.
As the Germans ruthlessly crush all opposition, a patriotic band of Parisians known as the Resistance secretly rise up to fight back. . . .
From the fall of Paris in 1940 to the race for Paris in 1944, this riveting, page-turning drama unfolds through their decisions—for better and worse.