During World War II, more than 425,000 German prisoners of war were held in some 700 camps across the United States. Some of them did their duty to try and escape, but most spent the remainder of their war in these camps, entertaining themselves how…
In the summer of 1935, most of the world had no idea that various conflicts in different regions would explode into an all-out World War. World War I was supposed…
Amidst the last months of World War II from February 13-15, 1945, Allied armies bombed the historic city of Dresden in eastern Germany. The Dresden Firebombing is viewed as a…
Everyone expects Switzerland to stay neutral during a war, even a global conflict like World War II. No one would have expected Afghanistan to pick a side. One country in…
When Italy entered World War II on the Axis side, things were looking pretty good from where fascist dictator Benito Mussolini sat. He had an army of some 200,000 men,…
Morris “Moe” Berg’s dying words — “How did the Mets do today?” — were on brand for the 70-year-old New York native who enjoyed a 15-year career in Major League Baseball before America entered World War II.
Sports columnist John Kieran…