
Part 1 The front door of Hawthorne Manor did not merely close. It struck shut with the kind of violent finality that made the old…

Part 1 The letter arrived on a Tuesday afternoon, folded inside a stiff white envelope with my name typed across the front in a font…

Part 1 The soldier was dying. Private James Mitchell, 22 years old, from Ohio, lay in bed No. 7 of the Fort Bragg burn ward…

Part 1 April 22, 1947, dawn came over California’s Central Valley with the kind of clear spring light that should have promised security. Thomas Anderson…

Part 1 They were not beaten by the Japanese. They were left behind by their own. On the night of August 9, 1942, 11,000 Marines…

Part 1 June 1945. The war in Europe was over. After 6 long years of destruction, the guns had finally fallen silent. Nazi Germany had…

Part 1 At 07:30 on September 18, 1944, Private First Class Arthur Jackson pressed his body against a coral outcrop on Peleliu Island and watched…

Part 1 During the fighting in Sicily in the summer of 1943, German forces captured American radio equipment that forced them to confront an uncomfortable…

Part 1 On May 12, 1946, in Webster County, Iowa, John Patterson stood in his potato field at dawn and looked across rows of plants…

Part 1 In Nazi Germany, women were stripped of their rights so gradually that the beginning did not always look like terror. At first it…





