Buku ini menunjukkan bagaimana rasanya menjadi prajurit elite pasukan terjun payung Amerika Serikat pada masa Perang Dunia II, berdasarkan kisah pengalaman mereka dalam pelatihan maupun pertempuran.
U-Boot Waffe, pasukan kapal selam Jerman, merupakan cabang angkatan perang Hitler yang paling ditakuti. karena melumpuhkan perkapalan Sekutu pada Perang Dunia II.
In September 1939, Hitler's Nazi Germany invided Poland. Thus began the greatest armed struggle in history. Within days of the invasion, Germany was at war with France Great Britain and much of the Commonwealth, but by the end of 1941 - by which time Japan and the United States had been plunged into war - the conflict had engulfed virtually the entire planet.