
At 6:47 a.m. on February 17th, 1940, Corporal Simo Hiha lay motionless in a snowdrift 150 meters from a Soviet supply route near Cola, Finland,…

July 1945, Camp Swift, Texas. The exam room is hot and still, smelling of disinfectant and dust, while a tired ceiling fan clicks above a…

November 1944. A cold morning in Tennessee. A young German woman walked into an American military examination room. She was thin, silent, afraid. The medic…

February 3rd, 1945. Eiffel Hills, Western Germany. A lonely road cuts through deep snow, past burned farms and dead trees. American trucks growl in low…

The 22nd of October, 1944. Cold wind over Fort Douglas, Utah. A group of German women stepped off the trucks, their boots still heavy with…

August 1944. Heavy heat sits on a Texas prison camp called Camp Hearn, where barbed wire cuts the bright sky into sharp lines. 12 German…

December 17th, 1944. 0645 hours near Malmadi, Belgium. Oberloitant Friedrich Hartman studied the frozen corpse through his binoculars. The dead American soldier lay in the…

December 17th, 1944. 0600 hours. Meldy Crossroads, Belgium. The temperature had dropped to 18° Fahrenheit when Ober Lieutenant Verner Poetski heard a sound that made…

July 14th, 1944. Camp Beal, California. The transport trucks rumbled through the scorching central valley heat, carrying their cargo of German prisoners westward on Highway…

December 3rd, 1944. Herken Forest, Germany. The German machine gunner from the 326th Vulks Grenadier Division lined up his MG42 on the advancing American infantry.…
