In the spring of 1,944, Hungary fell into the hands of Nazi Germany in just one day. Power changed hands swiftly, and a…
Late in the afternoon of August 26th, 1944, the town of Rousulshime is no longer a town. It is a vast slaughterhouse…
The stretcher comes off the transport truck at a United States prisoner of war camp in March 1945. The medics lift it carefully,…
On September 2nd, 2008, in a valley in Uruguan Province, Afghanistan, an Australian SAS trooper named Mark Donaldelsson was running beside a convoy…
In World War I, death usually came from far away. Machine guns firing across no man’s land, but the American M1897 trench gun…
A German soldier who had been fighting British or French infantry knew what incoming rifle fire sounded like. It came in bursts, three…
The radio operator heard the shot before anyone else understood what had happened. A single crack, distant and clean, rolling across the canopy…
The monarchy provides with the constitution a degree of long-term uh stability that is actually quite hard to come by any other way.…
It is the late evening of November 4th, 1928. A cold autumn wind sweeps down 7th Avenue in Manhattan, pushing against the coats…
the end is near and so I face the final [Music] C oh hello Elvis pressley’s final concert wasn’t meant to be his…