When Marilyn Monroe Interrupted Her Honeymoon to Go to Korea
In 1954 Marilyn Monroe left her honeymoon with Yankees slugger Joe DiMaggio to entertain the troops in Korea. She later said it was the first time she “felt like a star.”
How a U-Boat Captain’s Criticism of the Nazi Regime Sealed His Fate at the Hands of a Firing Squad
The Navy was considered a place of political independence—but that didn't keep Nazi ideologues and spies from joining its ranks
The Failed Mission to Take Out Germany’s Desert Fox
Looking to score big, a young British commando set his sights on a famous target: General Erwin Rommel
How Navy Hero Dorie Miller’s Bravery Helped Fight Discrimination in the U.S. Military
Dorie Miller, the first American hero of World War II, helped clear the way for others by doing what he was not allowed to do
How Settler Abbie Gardner Survived a Massacre and Kidnapping
Taken hostage by an angry, starving Sioux tribe who slaughtered her family, Abbie Gardner stayed alive, and later made a career of telling her story of survival
The Sad Fate of a Remarkable B-24
B-24 Hot Stuff completed 31 missions, and its crew prepared for a hero’s trip home. Fate had other ideas.
Full Medal Jacket: General Marcel “Bruno” Bigeard
General Marcel Bigeard survived several wars and an assassination attempt en route to becoming one of France’s most decorated soldiers
A Journalist’s Hunt For Nazi Doctor Josef Mengele
An ABC News correspondent recalls his hunt for the most notorious Nazi to evade capture after the war.
‘My Parents Gave Me Life Twice’
Sex therapist Dr. Ruth Westheimer opens up about her Holocaust losses.
World War II’s Hunted Hero
Charles Sweeny aimed to recruit American pilots to fly for France in World War II. The FBI tried to stop him.
Vatican Intrigue: Priest Outwits Nazis
How an Irish monsignor used his Vatican office to defy fascist authorities in wartime Rome
China’s Lost Women in the Far West
Chinese women in the American West often worked as slaves or prostitutes and rarely got a square deal from either men or the law
The Real Killer of the Sheriff Who Shot Billy the Kid
Connecting the dots between established facts and a previously untapped interview, the author fingers ‘Killin’ Jim’ Miller for the notorious unsolved murder
The Stranger-Than-Fiction Career of the OSS’s Carl Eifler
The colonel headed a clandestine operations program that required brute force, innovation, and a strange-looking submarine.
How Hooch Lubricated American Life
Besides making crops portable, cocktails like slings, flips, punches, and bounce were healthier than water
‘Now is When You Pray’
Infantrymen ferried into Nazi Germany via glider fought to seize 10 key bridges during Operation Varsity.
