Wild men … doing wild things.  —State Department official on mercenaries in Nicaragua  Frank Camper instructs trainees in use of machine guns at a camp for prospective mercenary soldiers, Alabama, 1985. (© Eli Reed, Magnum Photos)  TOM POSEY WAS so…Read more

Majdanek  HE CAUGHT HIS first glimpse of it as they approached from a small hill, spotting the watchtowers, barracks and barbed-wire fence. But it was only once the gates of Majdanek opened before them that Walter and his fellow deportees…Read more

THE NEWS HAD reached Washington, five thousand miles to the east, shortly after 1:30 p.m.—five and a half hours ahead of Pearl Harbor time—on the 7th. Secretary of the Navy Frank Knox had been talking with Admiral Harold Stark, the…Read more