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  1. 2 days ago · After the successive disasters sustained by the Axis in Africa, many of the Italian leaders were desperately anxious to make peace with the Allies. The invasion of Sicily, representing an immediate threat to the Italian mainland, prompted them to action.

  2. 3 days ago · J. Robert Oppenheimer (born Julius Robert Oppenheimer; / ˈɒpənhaɪmər / OP-ən-hy-mər; April 22, 1904 – February 18, 1967) was an American theoretical physicist who served as the director of the Manhattan Project 's Los Alamos Laboratory during World War II.

  3. 1 day ago · As a new authoritarian movement rises in American politics, stoked by one of the country’s most outrageous demagogues, there is an all-out international manhunt for an American traitor. The U.S. Army’s Nazi war crimes trials in Germany have been infiltrated by a spy -- a mole for the other side.

  4. 2 days ago · Pétain's government acquiesced to Axis demands for large supplies of manufactured goods and foodstuffs, and also ordered French troops in the French colonial empire (in Dakar, Syria, Madagascar, Oran, and Morocco) to defend sovereign French territory against any aggressors, Allied or otherwise.

  5. 4 days ago · Also within the papers was the forgotten story of Frederick Rutland, a debonair British World War I aviation hero who turned double agent and helped Japan bomb Pearl Harbor, Was Rutland a...

  6. 2 days ago · Observers one hundred years after the trial are asking: How many times in U.S. legal history did the prime suspect, indicted for murder, make an inescapably incriminating statement on the witness stand at his or her own criminal capital murder trial?

  7. 3 days ago · He wanted to exchange Andre for Arnold but Gen. Clinton refused. After a brief military trial, Andre was convicted of spying. He asked to be executed by a firing squad as befitting a soldier.