Obscure history, untold heroism, and the forgotten chapters of the Second World War — curated with care.
No one suspected her. She was 61 when the war started, widowed, a grandmother of eight, and she walked with a cane. She was also the most effective railway saboteur in the Haute-Vienne region of France.
They called themselves the 'Go for Broke' regiment. More than 800 of them died fighting for America in WWII. Their parents, siblings, and children were locked behind barbed wire in US internment camps -- on American soil -- at the very moment these soldiers were defending that soil.
Sophie Scholl was not a resistance fighter in the conventional sense. She and her friends distributed pamphlets calling for the overthrow of Hitler -- by hand, one copy at a time, in broad daylight, at the University of Munich. They were students. Their weapons were paper and ink.
No one suspected her. She was 61 when the war started, widowed, a grandmother of eight, and she walked with a cane. She was also the most effective railway saboteur in the Haute-Vienne region of France.
They called themselves the 'Go for Broke' regiment. More than 800 of them died fighting for America in WWII. Their parents, siblings, and children were locked behind barbed wire in US internment camps -- on American soil -- at the very moment these soldiers were defending that soil.
In May 1945, just days after Germany's surrender, Winston Churchill ordered his generals to plan a war against the Soviet Union. The plan was codenamed 'Operation Unthinkable.' It was exactly what it sounded like.
Sophie Scholl was not a resistance fighter in the conventional sense. She and her friends distributed pamphlets calling for the overthrow of Hitler -- by hand, one copy at a time, in broad daylight, at the University of Munich. They were students. Their weapons were paper and ink.
She flew the de Havilland Mosquito -- one of the fastest, most dangerous aircraft in WWII -- for 850 combat missions as a reconnaissance pilot, and she did it without any official authorization from the Romanian Air Force, which didn't want women in combat roles.
He was the voice that rallied Britain. But Winston Churchill suffered from severe clinical depression throughout the war, which he called 'the Black Dog.' He never let it stop him -- but it was a battle he fought every day, privately, while projecting an image of unbreakable confidence to the world.