If she backed down and left the dock, the escape would end here, barely begun. She needed something that would satisfy the officer’s sense of…
Other passengers dozed or stared out windows, but he couldn’t look away from the landscape rolling past. Each mile was a small eternity. Each minute…
Ellen teaching children to read and write was completing a circle that had begun decades earlier when she was threatened with violence for seeking that…
They did not walk to the station together. That would have been the first mistake. William left first, blending into the stream of workers and…
“I understand,” she said, her voice dropping even lower, forcing the officer to lean in slightly to hear. “I am traveling under my physician’s strict…
There was something in the way she said it, a slight emphasis on the word servant that made Ellen’s pulse quicken. She nodded without speaking.…
Baltimore was getting closer. The final checkpoint, the last barrier. In the first class car, a conductor moved through checking tickets. When he reached Ellen,…

144 American transport planes flew straight into the guns of their own fleet. It was the night of July 11th, 1943. The pilots of the…
Heavy bombers would never again be used in direct support of ground troops. The problem had been studied. The lessons had been learned. The solution…
Give them 24 hours to locate the proper papers and bring them to the station office. If they can’t produce documentation by tomorrow morning, then…
