“Wilm and then onward. ” “Ah, I’m stopping in Wilmington myself, visiting family. ” The woman paused, studying Ellen with open curiosity. You’re traveling for…
Confirmation, encouragement, a sign that escape was possible. William looked away, unable to give him what he wanted. Any gesture of solidarity could expose them…

Picture this. It’s a Tuesday night in August 1941. A 5-year-old girl named Milica is asleep on a straw mattress in southern Yugoslavia. Her mother…
He convinced himself that Market Garden’s failure was beyond his control, that he had done everything right, and that others had let him down. This…
Wealthy southerners often traveled north for medical treatment, seeking specialists or cooler air for lung ailments. The story was designed to explain everything, the weakness,…
We’ve had problems with abolitionists trying to smuggle people out through the port. Ellen forced herself not to react to the words, not to show…
The height, the build, even the way you carry yourself. Are you sure we haven’t met? Where is your master? I’d like to speak with…
It was a threat wrapped in professional concern, the suggestion that making a sick white gentleman suffer publicly would reflect poorly on the officer and…
They carried nothing but the clothes on their backs and the story of their escape, a story that would follow them across the ocean and…

September 25th, 1944. 8:30 a.m. Montgomery’s headquarters, Brussels. [music] Field Marshall Bernard Montgomery sat at his desk reading the latest casualty reports from Operation Market…
