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

Viper One Part 1 The sound that turned the whole bar was not the insult. It was the wet slap of beer hitting cloth, the…

Part 1 On May 17, 1945, rain drummed on the corrugated roof of the intake shed hard enough to make conversation sound temporary. Greta Müller…

The River Between Victories Part 1 At one-thirty in the afternoon on April 25, 1945, First Lieutenant Albert Katsubu stood on the west bank of…

Part 1 By the spring of 1945, Germany had begun to look like a nation already dead but not yet finished falling. Roads buckled under…

No Quarter in the Green Dark Part 1 The first thing that disappeared was the idea that surrender meant anything. Before the jungle taught them…

Part 1 The day Freddy Olsen vanished began with the kind of heat that makes granite look permanent and merciless. By ten in the morning,…