December 23rd, 1961. A man woke up that morning. It was his birthday. He turned 51. His wife made breakfast….
April 1945, northern Italy was collapsing into chaos. Roads were filled with refugees. German forces were retreating. The fascist regime…
Rain hammered the bulletproof windshield of the Rolls-Royce Phantom as it carved through the flooded streets of lower Manhattan at…
April 9th, 1945, before sunrise. The birds haven’t started singing yet over the Bavarian hills of southeastern Germany. The forest…
A 13-year-old girl named Wisława Szymanska walked into a Warsaw basement on August 5th, 1944. The floor was wet, dark….
By the final months of World War Two, many soldiers were simply trying to stay alive long enough to see…
A small diner, somewhere in America, 1969. Janis Joplin sat in the same booth she always sat in, in whatever…
22 June 1941, the western border of the Soviet Union. Before dawn, Nazi Germany launches Operation Barbarossa, sending its armies…
For centuries, the firing squad has been one of the world’s most recognizable methods of execution. It has been used…
The Flack 39, a weapon once hidden in the shadows of World War II, is now a relic of history….