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Communist China, Japan, Nazi Germany, the United States: they started out World War II as mortal foes. But abruptly their only hope for survival---never brain victory---was to unite to stop a mighty foe: one whose terrifying technology came out invincible. Much worse beings than the Nazis were loose. From Warsaw to Moscow to China's enemy-occupied Forbidden City, the nations of the world have been pressured into an uneasy alliance since humanity began its struggle against overwhelming chances. In Britain and Germany, where the banshee wail of hostile jets screamed over the land, caches of once-forbidden weaponry were unearthed, and unthinkable methods were employed up against the enemy. Brilliantly innovative military strategists confronted problems unprecedented in the annals of warfare. Even as lack of fuel pressured people back again to horses and carriage, physicists performed feverishly to generate the first atomic bombs - with horrifying results. City after city became a member of the radioactive pyre as the earth erupted in fiery ruins. Yet the crisis sustained - on land, sea, and in mid-air - as humanity writhed in global battle. The methods of daredevil guerrillas all over became increasingly clever against a superior foe whose desperate retaliation would grow a lot more fearsome. No one had ever put the United States, or the world, in such fatal danger. But if the carnage and annihilation ever stopped, would there be any portions to get?