Not Forgotten

• Native Words, Native Warriors: Navajo Code Talkers
• Hedy Lamarr’s Forgotten, Frustrated Career as a Wartime Inventor
• The Forgotten Doughnut Heroines of Wartime
• The Forgotten Story of the ‘Idle Women’ – Who Fought the Second World War on Britain’s Canals
• The Secret World War II…

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Aging in Japan

• A Generation in Japan Faces a Lonely Death
• A Lonely Death
• Osaka Mayor to End Sister City Status with San Francisco over ‘Comfort Women’ Statue
• Japan’s Osaka to Snap Sister City Link with San Francisco over ‘Comfort Women’ Statue
• One of Japan’s Few Female Shinto Priests Was Killed in a Samurai-Sword Attack. Was…

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Refugee Rescuers

• Man Who Spent Retirement Repairing Norfolk Milestones Hidden from Nazis Wins Prize
• A Cycling Legend’s Secret War Mission: Saving Italy’s Jews
• 10 Things You Didn’t Know about Schindler’s List
• His Brother’s Keeper: ‘Chinese Schindler’ Defied His Government to Rescue More Than 3,000 Austrian Jews
• Latin America’s Schindl…

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Spies & Secrets

• Spy Mystery of British Sisters Who Helped Jewish Refugees Flee the Nazis
• Can You Solve It? Secrets of Russian Intelligence
• How a Master Grifter Taught the FBI to Crack Open the Art of the Deal
• The Homemaker Who Helped Solve One of Geometry’s Oldest Puzzles
• The Hidden Meaning of Kid…

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Another War That Wasn’t

• Soviet Submarine Officer Who Averted Nuclear War Honoured with Prize
• When the World Lucked Out of a Nuclear War
• 10 of the World’s Weirdest Wars (and Where to Remember Them)
• During WWII, Mathematician Arne Beurling Made One of the Greatest…
• How the Tech Workers of WWII Thwarted the Nazis with H…

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Bolshoe Spasibo, Colonel Petrov

• The “Man Who Saved the World” from Nuclear Annihilation Has Died
• Stanislav Petrov, Who Averted Nuclear War, Dies at 77
• Stanislav Petrov, Soviet Officer Who Helped Avert Nuclear War, Is Dead at 77
• Stanislav Petrov, the ‘Man Who Saved the World’ Dies at 77
• Soviet Officer Who Averte…

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