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On the morning of 8 December 2021, India's Chief of Defence Staff General Bipin Rawat and his wife, Madhulika, said goodbye to their daughter, Tarini, and dogs, and left their Delhi home to board a flight for Sulur in Tamil Nadu. Around 11.48 a.m., they boarded an Mi-17 V5 helicopter that took off from Sulur to Wellington, where Gen. Rawat was to deliver a lecture at the Defence Services Staff College. Just a few minutes away from its destination, the chopper crashed, and all fourteen passengers onboard eventually perished.

Weihnachten an der Westfront 1914: Inmitten eines erbarmungslosen Stellungskrieges schließen deutsche, französische und britische Soldaten spontan Waffenstillstand auf Ehrenwort. Im Niemandsland feiern sie zusammen Weihnachten.

Seit Anfang der achtziger Jahre hat Professor Guido Knopp, Leiter der ZDF-Redaktion Zeitgeschichte, mit unzähligen Menschen aus dem Umfeld der Paladine Hitlers gesprochen. Er hat Familienangehörige, Freunde, Mitarbeiter und andere Zeitzeugen befragt, und er hat persönliche Dokumente eingesehen. Die daraus entstandenen Bücher, Hitlers Helfer und "Hitlers Helfer - Täter und Vollstrecker" waren sowohl bei der Kritik als auch beim Lesepublikum ein außerordentlicher Erfolg. Erstmals und mit großem Feingefühl beantwortete Guido Knopp die Frage, was die Paladine Hitlers zu Massenmord und Kriegshetze, in Rassenwahn und bedingungslose Gefolgschaft trieb.

In 1993, Jacqueline Tobin visited the Old Market Building in the historic district of Charleston, South Carolina, where craftspeople sell their wares. Amid piles of beautiful handmade quilts, Tobin met African American quilter Ozella Williams and the two struck up a conversation. With the admonition to "write this down," Williams began to tell a fascinating story that had been handed down from her mother and grandmother before her. As Tobin sat in rapt attention, Williams began to describe how slaves made coded quilts and then used them to navigate their escape on the Underground Railroad.

Did you know that the 1965 Indo-Pak War was initiated by Field Marshal Ayub Khan of Pakistan in an effort to wrest Jammu and Kashmir (J & K) from India? His failure to achieve his aim led eventually to his overthrow. This account highlights the human dimension of war through the dramatic personal experiences of army and air force officers that astonish and overwhelm one’s imagination. It will convince the listener that real life is often stranger than fiction. The book also brings to light little-known facts that occurred across land, sea and air.

How did slavery figure in God’s plan? Was it the providential role of government to abolish this sin and build a righteous nation? Or did such a mission amount to “religious tyranny” and “pulpit politics,” in an effort to strip the southern states of their God-given rights? In 1861, in an already fracturing nation, the tensions surrounding this moral quandary cracked the United States in half, and even formed rifts within the North itself, where antislavery religious nationalists butted heads with conservative religious nationalists over their visions for America’s future.

We set out on the James River, March 25, 1865, aboard the paddle steamboat River Queen. President Lincoln is on his way to General Grant’s headquarters at City Point, Virginia, and he’s decided he won’t return to Washington until he’s witnessed, or perhaps even orchestrated, the end of the Civil War. Now, it turns out, more than a century and a half later, historians are still searching for that end.