“You’re Still Nurses” — German Female POWs Shocked by How Canadians Treated Them
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…
Read moreMAIL-ORDER BRIDE ARRIVED TO FIND 7 CHILDREN AND NO HUSBAND — THEN SHE BECAME THE MOTHER THEY NEVER STOPPED WAITING FOR
MAIL-ORDER BRIDE ARRIVED TO FIND 7 CHILDREN AND NO HUSBAND — THEN SHE BECAME THE MOTHER THEY NEVER STOPPED WAITING FOR The letter had…
Read moreHow Canadians Stood Up for Black GIs After U.S. MPs Crossed the Line
Part 1 By July 1944, England had become a waiting room for war. The invasion of Normandy had already torn open the coast of…
Read moreThe Most Ruthless Black American Soldiers Patton Was Afraid to Send to War
Part 1 By October 1944, the war in Europe had begun to look less like a triumph and more like a grind. The maps…
Read moreHe Saw His Maid’s Cheap Copper Ring and Turned White – Twenty Years Earlier, He Had Promised to Marry Her
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…
Read moreWhat MacArthur Said When Truman Fired Him…
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…
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