By 1953, the Legion had been fighting continuously in Indochina for 7 years. Its regiments had been bled, rebuilt, and bled again. New recruits, fewer…
The Vietnamese who fought and died for independence between 1946 and 1954 deserve a history that accurately represents what they were fighting, not a history…
She had sat beside a man who knew her face, who had seen her countless times, and he had looked directly at her without a…
She nodded gratefully at the silver-haired man who waved away the thanks. Get yourself upstairs and rest, young man. You look like death warmed over.…
” Ellen closed her eyes trying to imagine it. a world where she wasn’t performing, wasn’t hiding, wasn’t constantly one mistake away from destruction. It…
A moment when freedom was finally within reach and they would have to decide whether to take the last impossible step or retreat into the…
Here was proof, undeniable and dramatic, that enslaved people possessed the very qualities their oppressors claimed they lacked. Intelligence, courage, strategic thinking, the capacity for…

The Ghost of Thunder: How America’s 1991 Lightning War Unleashed a Modern Blitzkrieg In the blistering sands of Kuwait, where the sun scorched the earth…
Not just any white man, a wealthy, sickly southern gentleman traveling north for medical treatment, accompanied by his faithful manservant. The ultimate disguise, hiding in…
The story of Ellen and William Craft did not end with their deaths. In many ways, it had only just begun. Their escape, that impossible…
