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

The Road to Yuhuatai Part One On the morning of April 26, 1947, Hisao Tani sat alone in a cold prison cell in Nanjing and…

The Hill Outside Danzig Part I By the summer of 1946, the ground around Danzig had learned to hold too many kinds of memory. It…

The Man in the Barn Part I By the time the Reich died, Europe had forgotten how to sleep. In May of 1945 the continent…

The Last Winter of Hellmuth Becker Part One On the morning the war began, Hellmuth Becker was not yet a ghost. He was a man…

The Province of Missing Names Part I The report was only eight pages long. That was what first offended Nathaniel Ward, because eight pages was…

The Syringe Part One In 1954, a doctor walked into a cancer ward carrying a syringe filled with something he did not intend to explain….