By the spring of 1945, the boys of the American Third Army had seen every kind of death a war…
April 1945, Germany. A routine inspection report from a forward command post included. Near the bottom of its third page,…
April 1945, Germany. American forces processing prisoners at a holding facility outside Darmstadt had been moving through standard intake when…
0300 hours, December 3rd, 1944. Somewhere in the Rhineland, on a 500-ft escarpment called Lucaberg, the German garrison slept in…
May 1945, Camp 21 POW facility, Neys, Ontario, Canada. The Second World War was ending. Germany was collapsing. Cities burned,…
November 1944, Versace, France. Field Marshal Bernard Law Montgomery, commander of all British and Canadian forces in Northwest Europe, walked…
April 1945. The metal chains cut into Greta Hoffmann’s wrists as the truck bounced over another hole in the road….
The room had about 30 people in it, and none of them wanted to be the one who said what…
10 men are carrying a boat by hand across a muddy field and none of them are breathing loud enough…
November 1944, France. An entire American battalion had nothing to eat. 300 men, no supply convoy, no rations. The trucks…