Jackie wore a custom uniform, carried a paybook, and achieved the official rank of Corporal in the 3rd South African Infantry Regiment.

Allied planners realized they needed a way to blow a tank-sized hole straight through the concrete defences to allow invading troops to pass with minimum losses.

The history of the twentieth century contains a remarkably unusual occurrence involving a Jewish doctor and the leader of the Third Reich.

Two stranded men spent over two years alone in the frozen environments of northern Greenland.

In the remote mountains of Japan sits a hotel that first opened its doors more than thirteen centuries ago.

Deep within the freezing, mountainous taiga of northern Mongolia, a tiny group of semi-nomadic herders survives by riding and living entirely alongside domesticated reindeer.

In the 1930s, the German government launched the most aggressive anti-smoking campaign in the entire world.

The open injuries of several men began to emit a faint, blue-green light in the dark.

A group of Tibetan monks, secretly brought to Britain as a promotional stunt, sparked outrage in the Himalayas.

In 1851, a pioneer family traveling through the unforgiving landscapes of the American Southwest met a sudden, brutal fate, leaving a young girl captive in an unfamiliar world.