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Between 1958 and 1968, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn secretly compiled one of the most devastating testimonies of the twentieth century. Working from hidden notebooks across the Soviet...
In the autumn of 1943, a Polish social worker named Irena Sendler climbed into the back of an ambulance on Złota Street in Warsaw, carrying...
On March 16, 1968, Warrant Officer Hugh Thompson Jr. flew his OH-23 Raven helicopter low over the Vietnamese hamlet of My Lai. What he saw...
In the winter of 1942, Vichy police arrived in Le Chambon-sur-Lignon, a small village in the mountains of southern France, and demanded that Pastor André...
For decades, a quiet church canon named Nicolaus Copernicus climbed the tower adjoining Frombork Cathedral in northern Poland, studying the night sky with nothing more...
In October 1943, the Gestapo came for Irena Sendler. For months, the thirty-three-year-old Polish social worker had used her permit to inspect the Warsaw Ghetto...
In the winter of 1942, Pastor André Trocmé stood before his congregation in the small Protestant church of Le Chambon-sur-Lignon, a village perched on a...
At the Battle of Arbela, Persian forces mustered between five hundred thousand and one million soldiers—a staggering host arrayed in terrible might.
In the winter of 1942, when the Vichy government began deporting Jews from France to Nazi death camps, Pastor André Trocmé stood before his Huguenot...
In December 1937, when Japanese forces captured Nanjing, China, American missionary Minnie Vautrin faced an impossible choice. As acting head of Ginling Women's Arts and...
At 9:28 on the morning of September 11, 2001, United Flight 93 was thirty-five thousand feet above eastern Ohio when four hijackers seized control of...
In June 1984, Barry Marshall stood in his laboratory at Royal Perth Hospital in Western Australia and raised a petri dish to his lips. The...
In April 1994, as machete-wielding Interahamwe militias swept through Kigali, Rwanda, Paul Rusesabagina stood behind the front desk of the Hôtel des Mille Collines —...
On August 4, 1936, inside Berlin's Olympic Stadium, 110,000 spectators watched Jesse Owens line up for the long jump final. The Nazi regime had designed...
In 1999, Dr. Denis Mukwege opened Panzi Hospital in Bukavu, a city in eastern Congo scarred by decades of armed conflict. He expected to practice...
In July 1944, a thirty-one-year-old Swedish diplomat named Raoul Wallenberg stepped off a train in Budapest carrying little more than a knapsack and a list...
In the summer of 1943, every British wireless operator in occupied Paris had been captured or killed. Every operator but one. Noor Inayat Khan —...
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....
On September 26, 1983, Lieutenant Colonel Stanislav Petrov sat alone at his post inside Serpukhov-15, a secret Soviet command bunker south of Moscow. Just after...
In November 1944, Adolf Eichmann ordered thousands of Budapest's Jews marched to the Austrian border in freezing columns. Swedish diplomat Raoul Wallenberg drove along the...
By the autumn of 1914, Marie Curie had already won two Nobel Prizes. She could have remained safely in her Paris laboratory, celebrated and comfortable....
In April 1994, machetes and madness swept through the streets of Kigali. Rwanda's genocide had begun, and within hours, rivers of desperate Tutsi families began...
In April 1994, as machete-wielding Interahamwe militia swept through Kigali, Rwanda, Paul Rusesabagina faced an impossible situation with nothing but a hotel at his disposal....
In the summer of 1973, Soviet secret police hauled in Elizaveta Voronyanskaya, a sixty-seven-year-old typist in Leningrad, and interrogated her for days. They wanted one...