The Boys Who Wouldn’t Go Home: How Two German Child Soldiers Found an Oklahoma Family and Challenged America’s Promise After Victory. NU
The Boys Who Wouldn’t Go Home: How Two German Child Soldiers Found an Oklahoma Family and Challenged America’s Promise After Victory The first thing Klaus Adler noticed about Oklahoma was the sky. It wasn’t the pale, cautious ceiling of clouds…
They Called Us “Wolves” and Caged Us in Winter: The Captured Soviet Women Snipers Who Survived the Germans and Broke the Silence. NU
They Called Us “Wolves” and Caged Us in Winter: The Captured Soviet Women Snipers Who Survived the Germans and Broke the Silence Katya Morozova learned to hold her breath long before she learned to hold a rifle. In her village,…
“It’s Like Magic!” German Women POWs Whispered In Shock After American Medics Handed Them A Single Aspirin. NU
“It’s Like Magic!” German Women POWs Whispered In Shock After American Medics Handed Them A Single Aspirin The Exclamation That Stunned the Infirmary “It’s like magic!” The words slipped out before the young German woman could stop herself. She covered…
“This Is Paradise!” Japanese POW Women Wept After Tasting Food From American Medics. NU
“This Is Paradise!” Japanese POW Women Wept After Tasting Food From American Medics The Words That No One Expected to Hear “This is paradise.” The sentence did not come from a place of exaggeration or irony. It was spoken softly,…
Patton’s Germans Expected Loud Tanks and Easy Patterns—They Never Suspected Apache Scouts Were Reading the Dark, Cutting the Wire, and Turning Silence Into Victory. NU
Patton’s Germans Expected Loud Tanks and Easy Patterns—They Never Suspected Apache Scouts Were Reading the Dark, Cutting the Wire, and Turning Silence Into Victory. In the winter of 1944, the snow in eastern France didn’t fall like something gentle. It…
The leatherbound intelligence dossier that landed on the desk of General Adolf Galland, Inspector General of Fighters for the Luftvafer, on a gray morning in late 1943. NU
The leatherbound intelligence dossier that landed on the desk of General Adolf Galland, Inspector General of Fighters for the Luftvafer, on a gray morning in late 1943 When German Generals Learned America Could Produce a Plane Every 5 Minutes The…
Olivia Casta: Die Schönheit, die die Welt bejubelte – und das Mädchen, das sie beinahe zerbrach_DEt
Olivia Casta: Die Schönheit, die die Welt bejubelte – und das Mädchen, das sie beinahe zerbrach Als die Welt Olivia Casta zum ersten Mal sah, sah sie keinen Menschen. Es sah die Vollkommenheit. Ein Gesicht wie eine klassische Statue, Augen…
“We Are Unclean” — German POW Girls Refused New Clothes Until American Nurses Washed Their Hair. VD
“We Are Unclean” — German POW Girls Refused New Clothes Until American Nurses Washed Their Hair Chapter 1: Arrival on the Lakeshore Fort Ontario, New York, August 1944. The old stone fortress sat on the edge of Lake Ontario, its…
They Mocked This “Suicidal” Fighter — Until One Pilot Stopped 30 German Attackers Alone. VD
They Mocked This “Suicidal” Fighter — Until One Pilot Stopped 30 German Attackers Alone The sky over Germany that morning was the color of cold steel. At 11:14 a.m., four miles above a frozen enemy landscape, Major James Howard eased…
Engineers Called His B-25 Gunship “Impossible” — Until It Sank 12 Japanese Ships in 3 Days. VD
Engineers Called His B-25 Gunship “Impossible” — Until It Sank 12 Japanese Ships in 3 Days At 7:42 a.m. on August 17, 1942, Captain Paul I. Gunn crouched beneath the wing of a battered Douglas A-20 Havoc at Eagle Farm Airfield near Brisbane….