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In this valuable work of history, the author?s special achievement is weaving together the reports of famous and soon-to-be-famous individuals who experienced the war up close. We follow a young Walter Cronkite as he parachutes into Holland with a Canadian troop; photographer Lee Miller capturing the evidence of Nazi atrocities; the future Pope Benedict returning home and hoping not to get caught and shot after deserting his infantry unit; Audrey Hepburn no longer having to fear conscription into a Wehrmacht brothel; and even an SS doctor?s descriptions of a decadent sex orgy in Hitler?s bunker.

Profiles thirty-five white men who have challenged society's beliefs about race, segregation, and tolerance.

A collection of true stories about the scandalous actions of America's founding fathers and other heroes.

The author presents humorous narratives about his mother's dating experiences in the 1950s and his own experiences--the truth of which the author is ambiguous about--as a young, single, straight-but-assumed-to-be-gay Oklahoma man in New York City in the 1990s.

A collection of nine essays that explore instances of true crime in the American Southwest.

Presents the history of the northeastern coastal fishing town of Gloucester, Massachusetts, on Cape Anne, one of England's last fishing towns.