The president’s philandering aside, unquestionably the biggest change between the Kennedy
The Wehrmacht soldiers have the advantage of surprise and know this terrain far better than their enemies do. They slaughter the men of the Third Army where they lie hiding, killing them one by one. T...
Remember the Alamo was the battle cry that led Sam Houston’s troops to victory at the Battle of San Jacinto six weeks later—and Americans have never forgotten the sacrifices made there.
Reagan’s victory notwithstanding, the landslide loss by Barry Goldwater in the 1964 presidential election makes it abundantly clear that conservative Republican values are falling out of fashion.
Outside Milan, the couple visits the gas station where Italian dictator Benito Mussolini and his mistress were hanged by an angry mob.
No drunken, saddened, addled, enraged citizens of Richmond so much as attacks Lincoln with their fists.
It has been widely pointed out that the two men had much in common. In fact, the parallels are amazing: Lincoln was first elected in 1860, Kennedy in 1960. Both were assassinated on a Friday, in the p...
Incredibly, Klaus Barbie, the Butcher of Lyon, finds sanctuary with the OSS.
If you want to be a happy man, he will counsel a friend years from now, just don’t ever cheat on your wife. Ronald Reagan and
I believe the highest aspiration of man should be individual freedom and the development of the individual. That there is a sacredness to individual rights!
I am rejoiced at my fate. I would rather be in my present situation than be elected to a seat in Congress for life. Do not be uneasy about me, I am with my friends … Farewell, David Crockett. His
Hitler spends more time at the Wolf’s Lair than in Berlin—some eight hundred days in the last three years alone. The Führer is fond of saying that his military planners chose the most marshy, mosquito...
Here’s something that really surprises me: The more stuff I have, the more stuff I want. And so I looked around and saw that everyone else was the same way. It was not until I had a few things that I...
George Shultz, who will one day serve as Reagan’s secretary of state, will call this the most important foreign policy decision Reagan has ever made.
George Patton and Winston Churchill are simpatico.
Gen. George S. Patton Jr. fears no one. But now he sleeps flat on his back in a hospital bed. His upper body is encased in plaster, the result of a car accident twelve days ago. Room 110 is a former u...
Estimates of the number of people killed by Stalin range from as low as twenty million to as high as sixty-two million unnatural deaths during Stalin’s time as Soviet leader. The man who is credited w...
Eisenhower’s greatest strength and his greatest weakness: compromise. He wants to make everyone happy, and believes that public opinion wins wars. Very often it seems Eisenhower would rather make the...
Civilians! they read in Japanese. Evacuate at once! These leaflets are being dropped to notify you that your city has been listed for destruction by our powerful air force. This advance notice will gi...
By the time Doc Holliday rode into Tombstone in 1880, the town already had an estimated 110 saloons, 14 gambling halls, a plentiful number of brothels, and 1 bowling alley.