The first audiobook in a new Jeff Shaara trilogy that tells the story of the most devastating conflict of all time: WWII. After completing the Civil War trilogy his father Michael Shaara began, then writing bestselling novels about the American Revolution and World War I, Jeff is now turning to his biggest subject yet.The first Volume is THE RISING TIDE. As the curtain rises, the Nazi's have conquered Europe; only a beleagured England is holding the Nazis back. America is reluctant to become involved…until Pearl Harbor. The Greatest Generation awakens. Roosevelt must act against the axis powers. A soldier named Dwight Eisenhower is put in charge of American forces. Eisenhower and the Brits decide not to confront the Nazis in Europe in the heart of their strength but in their soft underbelly: North Africa. Finally the Germans are beaten back…Now the Nazi hold on Europe has been cracked, and a massive invasion—a fight that will turn the tide?can begin. It will take place, in book two of this trilogy, on the beaches of Normandy.