Did you know that Memorial Day was originally called Decoration Day?  During the Civil War, people began to decorate the graves of fallen ...

It's 1945, Germany is losing the war it had began in 1939, and now, as the Red Army approaches the East Prussian countryside, thousand...

I am familiar with Anne Frank and also with Simon Wiesenthal, but I had no idea that Wiesenthal had spent years tracking down the Gestapo ...

Waiting on Wednesday is a meme hosted by Jill at  Breaking the Spine  that highlights upcoming releases we can't wait to read. My...

It's 1943, and Hanneke Bakker, 18, has been working as a black market runner in Nazi-occupied Amsterdam for quite a while now and she ...