80 years later, Churchill’s ‘Iron Curtain’ speech in Missouri still offers lessons

The lecture that became one of the most consequential speeches in world history took place on March 5, 1946. Churchill came ...
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Hitler strikes in the West, how the Benelux invasions opened the road to France, May 1940

On May 10 and 11, 1940, Germany invades the Netherlands, Belgium, and Luxembourg as Fall Gelb begins, using airborne assaults like Eben Emael to break open the front while Allied forces rush into ...

From 2011: Nancy Wake, Proud Spy and Nazi Foe, Dies at 98

Nancy Grace Augusta Wake was born Aug. 30, 1912, in Wellington, New Zealand, the youngest of six children. Her father, a journalist, left the family shortly after moving them to Sydney, Australia.

From 2001: Beate Uhse, 81, Entrepreneur in the Business of Erotic Goods

Beate Uhse, who as a destitute war widow sold birth control pamphlets from a bicycle before going on to develop Europe’s biggest emporium of erotic goods, died on Monday in a hospital in Switzerland.