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Profusely illustrated text traces the development of military aviation and surveys the equipment, personnel, and events of the air war between Germany and the Allies during World War II.

In December of 1938, almost by accident, German chemist Otto Hahn experimented with uranium and found that its atoms split when put next to radioactive material. When word got out, physicists and chemists across the United States, Great Britain, Germany and the Soviet Union raced to find a way to make a bomb by splitting the atom.

This book, supplemented by articles from the archives of The New York Times, tells the story of the toppling of the Berlin Wall, from the division of Germany after World War II to the massive protests that brought an end to the Eastern Bloc.

Recounts how, sixteen years after the end of World War II, a team of undercover Israeli agents captured the Nazi war criminal, Adolf Eichmann, in a remote area of Argentina and brought him to trial in Israel for crimes committed during the Holocaust.