WHEN A 7-YEAR-OLD GIRL BEGGED A MAFIA DON TO PROTECT HER, HE DECLARED WAR IN BROAD DAYLIGHT

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…

  The rain started sometime after six. Not dramatically. Not with thunder or wind or the kind of sky that announces itself. It just arrived…

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…

  The front door slammed with such force that the sound seemed to split the rain. Lydia Lawson stood on the gravel driveway in a…

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…