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…
March 1945, London. The war room smelled like cigar smoke, an old paper. Winston Churchill sat in his leather chair, a half-finish…
August 1944, Supreme Headquarters Allied Expeditionary Force, Granville, France. General Dwight D. Eisenhower sat at his desk reading a field report that…
September 1943, German prisoners of war were about to be shocked by their first sight of Canadian civilians. But first, they had…
April 1945, the Third Reich was dying. In the chaos of Germany’s final collapse, thousands of women wearing Vermached auxiliary uniforms found…
April 1945. The metal chains cut into Greta Hoffman’s wrist as the truck bounced over another hole in the road. She sat…
The secure conference room deep within the Fura bunker beneath the Reich Chancellery in Berlin was silent except for the sound of artillery…
In wartime, food is never just food. By the winter of 1944, as the Second World War entered its final and most desperate…
The room smelled of damp stone and cigarette smoke. A bare bulb hung from the ceiling. It swayed slightly. She had been staring…
May 1945, northern Germany. Three German women stood inside a concrete bunker with their hands raised high above their heads. Their gray…