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“Captain William Thomas Turner, hero; villain, Schwieger. As I started doing research into him and into the submarine and so forth, I found that I was growing increasingly sympathetic to him. He's a young guy, 30, handsome, well-liked by his crew, humane.”

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That's what I love about history - nuance. I don't believe in unalloyed heroes. Everyone's got warts, and everyone's got a surprise side.

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“Holmes was charming and gracious, but something about him made Belknap uneasy. He could not have defined it. Indeed, for the next several decades…

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. . . why some men choose to fill their brief allotment of time engaging the impossible, others in the manufacture of sorrow.

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“At present," he said, "I am responsible for conveying my associates to a place called Chicago. I understand it is somewhere in the hinterland.”

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I knew from an online search that the Wisconsin State Historical Society, on the vast University of Wisconsin campus, held the papers of Sigrid…

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Dodd continued to hope that the murders would so outrage the German public that the regime would fall, but as the days passed he…

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I envy other writers who claim to have a backlog of books they'd like to write.

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Trying to find ideas is the hardest part of my job. You'd think it would be the most fun. Just sitting around reading whatever…

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“Her blind endorsement of Hitler’s regime first faded to a kind of sympathetic skepticism, but as summer approached,”

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