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The dry, late-summer air of the Arikaree River valley was split by the crack of Spencer rifles and the war cries of hundreds of Cheyenne Dog Soldiers, marking the beginning of a nine-day siege that would etch the name “Beecher Island” into the annals of frontier warfare. For Major George A. Forsyth and his 50 … Read more

The silence in the underground war room at Verdun was thick enough to choke on. Outside, the December air was a frozen knife, but inside, the tension was a suffocating blanket. General Dwight D. Eisenhower, Supreme Commander of the Allied Expeditionary Force, stared at the map spread before him, his eyes tracing the ominous red … Read more

DEAUVILLE, France — The empty space beside Michael Douglas on the red carpet here was not the story. It was only the visible edge of one. On August 28, 2013, the 68-year-old actor walked the film festival line alone, promoting Behind the Candelabra, the role that had carried him back from a stretch of life … Read more

The man who commanded the mass murder of hundreds of thousands of civilians across the occupied Soviet Union, who crushed the Warsaw Uprising with a savagery that stunned even hardened SS commanders, and who then climbed into the witness box at Nuremberg to condemn the very men he had served beside, has died in a … Read more