Nazi chief Hermann Goering, seeking retaliation for US strikes in Dresden, devised a bizarre plot to attack New York using a manned space rocket equipped with a dirty bomb. In an effort to gain Hitler’s favor, Goering established a lab and assembled a team of scientists to explore the possibility of a radioactive attack on American soil. Inspired by the ideas of Austrian engineer Eugen Saenger,... 

Soldiers of the British Expeditionary Force leave the UK for France aboard a troopship to help the French Resistance during WWII Sarah Robinson was just a teenager when World War II broke out. She endured the Blitz, watching for fires during Luftwaffe air raids armed with a bucket of sand. Often she would walk ten miles home from work in the blackout, with bombs falling around her. As soon as she turned...