October 1975, Greenwich Village. A 12-year-old kid sat on the sidewalk outside a record store playing a guitar that was barely holding together. Two strings were missing. The sound...
The man behind the spotlight. The spotlight always loved Dean Martin. It followed him the way the moon follows the tide. Quietly, faithfully, never asking permission. On stage, he...
an original motivational story inspired by John Wayne and Dean Martin. They called him a giant, not just because of his height or the way he filled a room,...
November 12th, 1944, 8:50 a.m. The Toms fjord, northern Norway. Capitan Ser Robert Vber stood on the bridge of the battleship Tits, watching the horizon. The morning was cold and...
March 1945, London. The war room smelled like cigar smoke, an old paper. Winston Churchill sat in his leather chair, a half-finish cigar burning in the ashtray beside him....
August 1944, Supreme Headquarters Allied Expeditionary Force, Granville, France. General Dwight D. Eisenhower sat at his desk reading a field report that made his jaw tighten. The paper came...
September 1943, German prisoners of war were about to be shocked by their first sight of Canadian civilians. But first, they had to survive the fear of what they...
April 1945, the Third Reich was dying. In the chaos of Germany’s final collapse, thousands of women wearing Vermached auxiliary uniforms found themselves trapped between advancing enemy armies. Among...
April 1945. The metal chains cut into Greta Hoffman’s wrist as the truck bounced over another hole in the road. She sat between two other German women in the...
The secure conference room deep within the Fura bunker beneath the Reich Chancellery in Berlin was silent except for the sound of artillery fire rumbling overhead on the afternoon of...