In Moscow, Soviet premier Nikita Khrushchev, fearing that Kennedy’s popularity would lead to an erosion of support in East Berlin, quickly flew to that divided city to reassert his nation’s claims. He...
Incredibly, Klaus Barbie, the Butcher of Lyon, finds sanctuary with the OSS.
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...
Algorithm, the
It’s so dark, Patton says. So late. He closes his eyes and falls back to sleep.
I’m gonna make race the basis of politics in this state, and I’m gonna make it the basis of politics in this country. Later, at his inaugural, he proclaimed, I have stood where once Jefferson Davis st...
Made to the American people. He
Helicopter to
Lincoln has become so addicted to the telegraph’s instant news from the front that he still can’t let go of the need for just one more bit of information, even though the prospect of another great bat...
Most people live their lives as if the end were always years away. They measure their days in love, laughter, accomplishment, and loss. There are moments of sunshine and storm. There are schedules, ph...
Most people live their lives as if the end were always years away. They measure their days in love, laughter, accomplishment, and loss. There are moments of sunshine and storm. Yet life can end in les...
Is completely
Changers
President Franklin Roosevelt issues a special exhortation. He encourages citizens not just to give thanks but to read their own version of Scripture every day between now and Christmas to ensure a ren...
Shakespeare, Dickens,
The German penchant for detailed record keeping proved to be their undoing: the date and cause of death for each inmate was dutifully recorded.
The Russian general is used to such supplicant behavior. During the war, he ordered his troops to shoot any of their comrades who ran from the Germans, and any Russian village that was thought to have...
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...
The autumn air is chill and damp. As he does each morning at just about this time, Adolf Hitler emerges from the artificial light of his concrete bunker into the morning sun. He holds his two-year-old...
And has created an atmosphere of suspicion
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