¶Gestapoboss Heinrich Himmler’s Schwarze Korps exhorted able-bodied German boys, who usually go to the front at 18, to marry first and beget children. Reason: “Even if the present war is lost, ...

AP Bia Mountain anchors the northwest corner of South Viet Nam’s A Shau Valley, since 1966 a major infiltration route for Communist forces from the Ho Chi Minh Trail in Laos to the coastal cities of ...

There was nothing very special about the message that made Laurence Canter and Martha Siegel the most hated couple in cyberspace. It was a relatively straightforward advertisement offering the ...

The Air Force calls the situation “Launch Facilities Down.” On Oct. 23, a Wyoming-based squadron of 50 nuclear-tipped intercontinental ballistic missiles (ICBMs) — enough firepower to kill some 20 ...

At 9:20 a.m. on July 7, 2010, undercover officers from the Los Angeles Police Department stepped out of an unmarked car and arrested 57-year-old Lonnie Franklin Jr. as he came out of his house on 81st ...

Last week the wry-crossed flag of Germany floated blood-red over counting houses and office buildings where Continental Europe’s No. 1 commercial nation. The Netherlands, had transacted the rich ...

“No warrior shall be withdrawn until the battle is won,” proclaimed the Peking People’s Daily. “All must join battle ardently and courageously; we must persevere with the doggedness of revolutionaries ...

In a courtroom in the pleasant Swiss city of Berne last week a world-wide idea went on trial. The idea; Jewry has long been plotting to overthrow all governments and replace them with a vast and ...

British clergymen and newspapers commented last week on certain possibly metaphysical aspects of World War II: Since the beginning of the war, Great Britain has observed two national Days of Prayer.

On a bleak Idaho desert, a wayfaring man, if wayfarers were permitted, might stumble on what looks like a scene of mis placed industrialism. A great cloud of steam rises from a pond of hot water, and ...

Napoleon Bonaparte started for Moscow on June 24, 1812. Adolf Hitler started on June 22, 1941. Napoleon, whose fastest unit was the horse, reached Moscow on Sept. 14. This week, on Sept. 14, Hitler, ...

Starting with superb confidence, the 20th Century plunged vigorously forward from ambush to ambush. Other ages may have suffered greater agonies; none suf fered greater surprises. Much that seemed for ...