In the theater of “Judge Judy,” where common sense is the law and excuses are the enemy, Ms. Mounts entered the courtroom with…
In the winter of 1944, the snowy silence of the Ardennes Forest was about to be shattered by a collision of two worldviews.…
By the autumn of 1944, a grim reality had settled over the American tankers in Europe. The M4 Sherman, the reliable workhorse of…
On November 19, 1944, a 32-year-old German mechanical engineer named Dieter Hoffman pressed his face against the slats of a cattle car, expecting…
In the city of Providence, Rhode Island, the name “Cole” usually commanded respect. As the son of Police Chief Thomas Cole, 32-year-old Derek…
The afternoon began with a sense of tranquility as Mr. Ahmadpour and his wife strolled along the dirt paths of a canyon near…
They had been told to expect brutality, starvation, and the cold hand of vengeance. As the train rattled through the alien, untouched greenery…
“How Is This Even Possible?”—German POW Nurses Were Shocked to See How Advanced American Medicine Is
November 1944. Camp Clinton, Mississippi. When the transport truck rolled through the gates, Greta Hoffman expected a desolate cage. Six months ago, she…
In the sterile, high-stakes environment of a television courtroom, eighteen years of friendship was about to be liquidated over a pile of laundry.…
It was a blistering Thursday morning in Providence, the kind of day where the humidity clings to the pavement. Inside the courtroom, the…