In my reading, I often come across an epigraph from the Roman poet, essayist, satirist, and critic Horace – always wise, appropriate, and slightly skeptical because Horace looked at life realistically ...

In the spring of 1944 British special forces and local guerrillas kidnapped Maj. Gen. Heinrich Kreipe, the commander of the German forces occupying the Greek island of Crete. The kidnappers marched ...