The public image of André Rieu is one of unadulterated jubilation. With his trademark windswept silver curls, a smile that…
November 8th, 1942. As American troops stormed the beaches of North Africa, many German officers weren’t particularly worried. They had…
There is an unspoken rule in the world of European football: the minutes leading up to a crucial match are…
A German fighter pilot climbs into the cockpit of a captured American P-51 Mustang. He has 137 aerial victories. For…
They had a word for the American soldier before they ever fired a shot at one. Weichling, the soft one,…
He is 19 years old and 11 days ago he was sitting in his mother’s living room. Now he is…
I do not resign from our marriage, all Alaric. I resign from the considerable labor I have performed on behalf…
May 23rd, 1945. A dirt road winding through the Bavarian mountains, 2 weeks after Germany’s surrender. The war in Europe…
Tapa, Estonia, 2024. A British Army Royal Logistic Corps convoy pulls into a refueling point shared with a German Bundeswehr…
Society always prefers a tragedy to a scandal, and a weeping husband explaining his poor wife’s decline into melancholy is…