An exceptional figure in the history of the German Navy, Wolfgang Luth was one of only seven men in the Wehrmacht to win Germany's highest combat decoration, the Knight's Cross with Oak Leaves, Swords
Cultivated by the Allied press during the war and fostered by movies and novels ever since, the image of a U-boat skipper held by most Americans is the personification of evil: the wolf who stalks inn
When Innocent III became pope in 1198 he announced that he had been elevated to a position "between God and man." This audacious claim has often been quoted to characterize the papal monarchy over whi
