
Part 1 They dressed Eliza Harrow in a wedding gown that smelled faintly of mothballs and punishment. The lace at the collar scratched her skin…

Part 1 The owl called three times before dawn, and Paula Bennett stopped shelling corn with her hands buried in the pale yellow silk of…

Part 1 The owl called three times before dawn, and Paula Bennett stopped shelling corn with her hands buried in the pale yellow silk of…

Part 1 The chapel smelled like white roses and money, and for one irrational second I hated flowers. It was not the flowers’ fault. They…

Part 1 In the winter of 1943, in a part of occupied Poland so small it barely troubled the maps men used to plan armies,…

The Woman at the Desk Part One Paris in 1943 smelled of polish, smoke, and occupation. In the lobby of the Hotel Lutetia, the marble…

Part 1 In December 1944, while much of Allied high command was breathing the dangerous air of near-victory, George S. Patton stood over a map…

When the Demons Came and Carried Them Out Part One At 14:27 on May 3, 1945, in Shuri village on Okinawa, Sachiko Miyagi stopped believing…

Part 1 On January 13, 1945, somewhere near the splintered Belgian approaches to Malmedy, Generalmajor Fritz Bayerlein sat in a command post lit by two…

The Pilot with the Frankenstein Pistol Part One At 11:02 on the morning of April 9, 1944, Lieutenant Colonel David Carl Schilling rolled his P-47…





