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

Part 1 On the Tuesday morning Shirley Caldwell learned the truth, the house smelled faintly of something burning. It was not a dramatic smell. Not…

The maternity wing at Swedish First Hill was supposed to be a brief inconvenience in Charles Burden’s day. That was how he saw nearly everything…

Part 1 By the spring of 1945, the Third Reich no longer resembled a state so much as an immense collapsing stage set whose painted…

Part 1 By the spring of 1945, western Germany had become a country made of endings. Roads were choked with retreating columns, horse carts, bicycles,…

Part 1 By the final weeks of the war in Europe, the advance had changed its smell. For years men in Patton’s army had lived…

  Part 1 In mid-February 1943, the desert seemed to belong to the Germans again. At Kasserine Pass, the Americans had come apart in a…