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1942.

War rages in Europe, China, Southeast Asia, and Northern Africa. Millions have died. Much of London has been bombed to rubble. In the Atlantic, German submarines sink more than a thousand ships. The western Soviet Union has been conquered by the German Army, the Wehrmacht, and in their wake come the SS death squads. Throughout conquered Europe the Nazis have begun the systematic extermination that will come to be known as the Holocaust. And in Amsterdam, on her thirteenth birthday, a girl named Anne Frank receives a diary.

Never in human history has a more terrible evil arisen to test the courage of good people. The fate of the world rests on a knife’s edge.

Among the great nations only the United States has stayed out of the fight. But in the dying days of 1941, Germany’s ally, Japan, attacks Pearl Harbor and brings America into the war.

Adolf Hitler is said to be dismissive of the Americans as a self-indulgent, mongrelized people unwilling and unable to fight.

He is mistaken.