A man got frustrated with life. Despite all the hard work and effort, failure was all that he learned. Feeling defeated with life, he left everything and exiled himself in the woods. There he met a Hermit. The disappointed man shared is failure with the hermit. “Give me one good reason not to quit?” he […] Read more

In the spring of 1945, the last major battle of the European war was fought between the Soviet Union and Hitler’s Third Reich. The battle of Berlin, one of the most bitterly contested offenses of the second World War, saw a gigantic Russian army of two and a half million men unleashed in a massive […] Read more

As winter approached, the German High Command planned huge quantities of tanks, men and material for a titanic spring offensive. The Red Army correctly predicted that the blow would come at a large bulge in the front near Kursk. Knowing the attack would be powerful, they frantically prepared their defenses. So week-by-week through the winter […] Read more

As winter approached, the German High Command planned huge quantities of tanks, men and material for a titanic spring offensive. The Red Army correctly predicted that the blow would come at a large bulge in the front near Kursk. Knowing the attack would be powerful, they frantically prepared their defenses. So week-by-week through the winter […] Read more

July 1943. The Eastern Front. Hitler launches an unprecedented Panzer blitzkrieg against Stalin’s formidable Red Army. Two armored giants go turret to turret in the biggest tank battle in history. Defeat is not an option. At stake is nothing less than the fate of the second world war. This is tank warfare at its bloodiest. […] Read more

ANIMALS AT PLAY The end seemed very near for Hudson, a Canadian Eskimo dog tethered near the shore of Hudson Bay east of Churchill, Manitoba. A thousand-pound polar bear was lumbering toward the dog and about 40 others, the prized possessions of Brian Ladoon, a hunter and trapper. It was mid-November; ice had not yet […] Read more

Once upon a time in a far away land a young prince lived in a shining castle. Although he had everything his heart desired, the prince was spoiled, selfish and unkind. But then one winter’s night an old beggar woman came to the castle and offered him a single rose in return for shelter from […] Read more

Sophie couldn’t Sleep. A brilliant moonbeam was slanting through the gap in the curtains. It was shinning right onto her pillow. The other children in her dormitory had been asleep for hours. Sophie closed her eyes and lay quite still. She tried very hard to doze off. It was no good. The moonbeam was like […] Read more

In the early years of the nineteenth century, refugees from war-torn Europe began arriving in New York. Many were remnants of the crumbling French aristocracy, forced to seek refuge abroad from the dreaded guillotine. Among these was a Madamoiselle Evelyn Claudine de Saint-Evremond, who arrived in 1803. Daughter of a noted courtier, wit, and litterateur, […] Read more