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

Part 1 On the morning of April 16, 1945, the sun rose over northwest Germany with the kind of pale, exhausted light that made everything…

MAIL-ORDER BRIDE ARRIVED TO FIND 7 CHILDREN AND NO HUSBAND — THEN SHE BECAME THE MOTHER THEY NEVER STOPPED WAITING FOR   The letter had…

  Part 1 By July 1944, England had become a waiting room for war. The invasion of Normandy had already torn open the coast of…

  Part 1 By October 1944, the war in Europe had begun to look less like a triumph and more like a grind. The maps…

Sterling Vance fired five housekeepers in less time than it took the grandfather clock in his foyer to chime once. He did not shout. He…

Part 1 At one in the morning in Tokyo, the embassy was quiet enough to feel staged. The city outside lay under that strange postwar…