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...
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...
Franklin Roosevelt’s biggest love is reserved for the American people, whom he has led through twelve daunting years of deprivation and warfare.
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...
Despite recent German setbacks on the battlefield, the Wolf still has hope that his plans for global domination will yet be realized. His greatest goal is the eradication of the Jewish people, with wh...
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.
But the question remains: How accurate—if at all—was Edwards’s portrayal? Was there, in reality, any political motivation behind James’s life of crime, or was he simply a bad guy who served a symbolic...
Audacity, audacity, always audacity—a motto that works well on the field of battle, but not so well in diplomatic situations.
And what’s happened to you? Patton asks the young man. His name is Pvt. Paul Bennett. He has been in the army four years, serving with C Battery of the Seventeenth Field Artillery Regiment. He is just...
The aging diplomat sits down at the desk of French foreign minister Charles Gravier, the
He needed to have sex at least once a day or he would suffer awful headaches.
Baboon’s behind and filling his legs with wooden splinters as it ripped his
And building his own home into the slope of a Nazarene hill. But the young Jesus is not long for this small town. The holiness and magnificence of Jerusalem call to him. He comes to know the smells an...
Winston was in a self-described political wilderness for much of his career, and was considered out of touch with political reality, thanks to his criticism of Nazi Germany in the 1930s, a time when f...
Thousands of snapshots are taken of JFK that day. Many of them remain hanging in the pubs and homes of Galway.
The president’s philandering aside, unquestionably the biggest change between the Kennedy
The mere thought that the fighting will soon end fills Patton with dread. Peace is going to be hell on me, he writes to his wife, Beatrice.
The face of Capt. Daniel-Hyacinthe-Marie Liénard de Beaujeu is striped in war paint. Primeval forest conceals his French Marines, Canadian militia, and Indian allies as they maneuver into position. Hi...