The North Atlantic, 4th of May, 1943. Somewhere between Iceland and Newfoundland, 43 merchant ships are moving in tight formation through seas the…
The date is 24th of October, 1941. Somewhere west of Sidi Barrani, in the Egyptian portion of the Western Desert, the sun is…
It is a Tuesday evening and the saloon bar of the Shoulder of Mutton smells of damp wool, pipe smoke, and the faint…
Settlers Laughed When She Hung Quilts Two Inches From Every Wall — Her Cabin Stayed Warm All Winter The first nail bent the…
Settlers Laughed When She Hung Quilts Two Inches From Every Wall — Her Cabin Stayed Warm All Winter The first nail bent the…
It is the 1st of February, 1942, and somewhere in the gray heaving waters of the North Atlantic, HMS Westcot is hunting. The…
She Had 1 Day Before the Freeze — She Filled Her Walls With Cattail Fluff and Stayed Warm In Winter The frost came…
She Had 1 Day Before the Freeze — She Filled Her Walls With Cattail Fluff and Stayed Warm In Winter The frost came…
December 1944, 3:47 in the morning. The Hertkan Forest, Western Germany. The cold that morning was not merely cold. It was the kind…
She Flipped an Old Wagon Over Her Dugout — The Snow Stayed Above and the Heat Stayed Below The wagon had been sitting…