
Part 1 At 11:14 a.m. on January 11, 1944, Major James Howard circled his P-51B Mustang 4 miles above Oschersleben, Germany, and watched 30 German…

Part 1 At 11:42 on the morning of January 27, 1945, Staff Sergeant Robert Chen crouched behind the central fire-control station of B-29 Superfortress Aquare…

Part 1 On June 12, 1945, the war in Europe had been over for more than a month. For 23 German women stepping down from…

Part 1 They had told Helga Weiss exactly what would happen if the Americans saw her hand. They had told her this in the truck,…

Part 1 In the Missouri Ozarks, people learned early that distance could become a kind of law. A man might live ten miles from his…

Part 1 By the time Lucinda May Garrett reached Galena, Missouri, she no longer looked like a woman who belonged among other people. She looked…

Part 1 In the summer of 1965, the men in Number Twelve drift mine were told not to touch the wall. Nobody explained why. That…

Part 1 The first thing the child learned about the poorhouse was that it had no use for mothers. Not hatred. Hatred would have implied…

The Village That Refused Part 1 By the winter of 1940, children had begun disappearing from Europe in a way that made adults stop trusting…

Part 1 In the spring of 1943, when the trees outside Budapest were only just beginning to show leaves and the war still had enough…





