The big difference between North Africa and the Soviet Union is that for the German Reich, North Africa was a secondary theater. No ideological objectives were involved, as was the...
May 1945. Hollywood director George Stevens and a few of his camera team are making fun of the Nazis. Adolf Hitler is dead and the Wehrmacht has finally been defeated....
The morning of 1 September 1939. Nazi Germany attacks Poland and begins the Second World War. The invasion is followed not only by military defeat but by a carefully planned...
August 7, 1942. The Solomon Islands. A few minutes after 1:00 in the afternoon, somewhere between Rabal and the chaos of an amphibious landing nobody on the Japanese side had...
For the first time in years, I’m not carrying anyone else’s burdens. At 62, I’d learned that loving someone didn’t mean destroying yourself. That being a good mother didn’t mean...
Ashley filed for divorce. I’m okay. Seeing my therapist tomorrow. Thank you for setting boundaries. I needed to learn this lesson, I replied. I’m sorry you’re hurting, but I’m proud...
My son’s wife said, ‘Stop living with us in the same house. Find yourself a room to rent.’ My son nodded. I smiled and left. But they didn’t know that...
“And then three months later, you transferred $320,000 from my trust into Sutton’s brokerage account so that he could put a down payment on a condo in Marina del Rey.”...
“Show me how you have used your $3 million trust fund after 25 years,” my grandpa said at my birthday table. I only whispered, “I never got one.” Then his...
My granddaughter’s hair smelled faintly like shampoo and rain. Her shoulder fit under my hand as if grief had been rehearsing for that placement for thirteen years. I held her...