Doughboy’s Smuggled Letter Home Recounts Dangerous Ocean Crossing
In late 1917, an American soldier risked government censors’ wrath to smuggle home a letter about dodging German submarines while aboard a troopship headed for war
This Famous Bathtub Has Met its Waterloo
Imagine the poor PFC tasked with lugging around Napoleon’s personal bathtub
Oliver Otis Howard: Westward, Christian Soldier
General O.O. Howard found grace and lost an arm during the Civil War before heading west to confront Apache leader Cochise and Nez Perce Chief Joseph
On-Screen Review: News of the World
In this Paul Greengrass film Tom Hanks plays a town crier who escorts a lost waif through wild and woolly Reconstruction-era Texas
The Soviet Union’s Top-Secret Operation to Repatriate Downed U.S. Airmen
Hundreds of American fliers ended up stranded in Siberia—creating a conundrum for the Soviets, who were not at war with nearby Japan.
Marketing Abraham Lincoln to the Masses
The President’s faithful secretaries led a crusade to preserve his place in history
Last Words of A Marine’s Friend and Hero: ‘I’m Going to Get that Gun’
Marine 1st Lt. Lee Roy Herron saved the lives of numerous Marines before being killed during a Feb. 22, 1969 battle in the A Shau Valley
Vendetta: Athens vs. Sicily
When Athens sent a massive invasion fleet against Syracuse, a merciless Sicilian vendetta followed
Jenna Coleman Set to Play Joan Bright, the Real-Life Inspiration Behind Miss Moneypenny, in Upcoming WWII Series ‘The War Rooms’
Working as an administrative officer, Bright helped to organize several wartime and postwar conferences including Tehran and Yalta
