The history of war is the history of humankind, and it is a lengthy timeline of the most brutal savagery people can visit upon each other. It is a terrible storybook of blood and fire and pain. Armies ...
During World War 2, the German submarine U-852 sank the Greek merchant ship Peleus, after which the U-boat commander ordered the killing of the helpless survivors. At the war’s end the U-boat ...
Werner Hartenstein pulled drowning British troops from the Atlantic Ocean in September 1942. The German U-boat commander was flying Red Cross flags and even radioed for help in English. American ...