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

In the years after, towns rebuilt. Bakeries reopened. Taverns were repaired or replaced. Churches raised new steeples above places where old ones had been blasted…

White Flags in the Square Part 1 By April 1945, surrender had become a kind of weather in Germany. It hung from windows, draped from…

“What have you seen?” Steiner asked. “Recon reports Soviet armor probing but not pressing here in force yet. We think their main movement is south.”…

The Order That Never Moved Part 1 By April of 1945, Berlin was no longer a capital so much as a wound. The city burned…

Patton took the summons with the grim composure of a man informed he must now sit through a sermon delivered by bureaucrats who had not…

The Reception in Bavaria Part 1 By the summer of 1945, victory had already begun to rot at the edges. The photographs showed smiles, handshakes,…