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92 illustrations — Lessons from history, biography, and world events
On May 5, 1945, Japanese machine gun fire swept across the Maeda Escarpment on Okinawa — a jagged thirty-five-foot cliff face the Americans had nicknamed...
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On August 5, 1942, German soldiers arrived at the orphanage on Sienna Street in the Warsaw Ghetto with orders to empty it. Inside were roughly...
On the night of January 7, 1610, Galileo Galilei aimed his improved telescope toward Jupiter from his study in Padua, Italy. What he saw startled...
On a sweltering July day in 1941, ten men stood trembling in the yard of Auschwitz. A prisoner had escaped, and deputy commandant Karl Fritzsch...
On August 4, 1936, in Berlin's Olympic Stadium, eighty thousand spectators watched as Jesse Owens struggled. The American sprinter had fouled on his first two...
In late July 1941, after a prisoner escaped from Auschwitz, deputy commandant Karl Fritzsch lined up the men of Block 14 and selected ten to...
On February 18, 1943, twenty-one-year-old Sophie Scholl climbed the marble staircase of the University of Munich carrying a suitcase full of contraband. Not weapons. Not...
On May 10, 1873, a thirty-three-year-old Belgian priest named Jozef De Veuster — known as Father Damien — stepped off a boat onto the Kalaupapa...
In August 1936, the Olympic Stadium in Berlin was packed as Adolf Hitler watched from his private box. On the field below, two long jumpers...
On January 31, 1865, the United States House of Representatives voted on the Thirteenth Amendment for the second time. The measure had failed the previous...
Christ Himself warned, "I came not to send peace on the earth"—and this miracle proves it.
First came the gossip-loving neighbours, motivated solely by curiosity—desiring to see or hear novelty rather than truth.
During the Nazi occupation of the Netherlands, a Dutch pastor visited the ten Boom watchmaker's shop in Haarlem. Seeing a Jewish infant the family had...
In the autumn of 1914, as German shells tore through northern France, wounded soldiers filled field hospitals where surgeons operated blind — unable to locate...
On the morning of September 19, 1940, Polish cavalry officer Witold Pilecki stood on a Warsaw street and waited for the Germans to take him....
In 1525, William Tyndale hunched over a printing press in Cologne, Germany, racing to finish what no one in England would let him attempt —...
On May 5, 1945, Private First Class Desmond Doss crouched alone atop the Maeda Escarpment on Okinawa — a sheer rock face his fellow soldiers...
On February 3, 1943, the USAT Dorchester plowed through the icy black waters of the North Atlantic, carrying 902 soldiers and merchant mariners toward Greenland....
On August 5, 1942, German soldiers surrounded the Dom Sierot orphanage in the Warsaw Ghetto and ordered its nearly two hundred children deported. Their director,...
In November 1900, at a small experimental station outside Havana, Cuba, Private John Kissinger stood before Major Walter Reed and spoke words that stunned the...