During World War II, a light-skinned African American girl "passes" for white in order to join the Women Airforce Service Pilots.

"Gabriel Greene is too young to join the military. But after the bombing of Pearl Harbor, he's too spitting angry not to. So Gabe and his sickly older brother, Dallas, hatch a plan. "Gabe" will stay behind in their isolated Pennsylvania home while "Dallas" fights abroad?each brother taking the other's name. It isn't long before Gabe's talent for fighting?and his anger issues?land him in trouble. But in this new kind of war, the army has special use...

Forced into an internment camp at the start of World War II, eighteen-year-old Yuki enlists in the Army to fight for the Allies as a member of the "Four-Four-Two," a segregated Japanese American regiment.

"On December 7, 1941--'a date which will live in infamy'--the Japanese navy launched an attack on the American military bases at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii. The next day, President Franklin Roosevelt declared war on Japan, and the US Army officially entered the Second World War. Three years later, on December 18, 1944, President Roosevelt signed Executive Order 9066, which enabled the Secretary of War to enforce a mass deportation of more than 100,000 Americans...

Witnesses to the murder of their families and the destruction of their communities, a cadre of Jewish women in Poland became the nerves of a wide-ranging resistance network that fought the Nazis. The Light of Days reveials the real history of these women whose little-known feats have been eclipsed by time. Presents the untold story of the young Jewish women who became resistance fighters against the Nazis during World War II.