Ancient Rome loved to brag about its unstoppable legions, but Hannibal Barca shattered that illusion again and again—and the Romans hated him for it.
Dieter Dengler’s escape from a Laotian POW camp is one of the most amazing survival stories of the Vietnam War.
Wild Bill Hickok always sat in the corner, so no one could sneak up on him—except for the day he drew the dead man’s hand.
Caught between two hostile adversaries, the people of Tlaxcala formed an alliance with conquistador Hernan Cortez to topple the Aztec Empire, forever shaping the future of Mesoamerica.
When Genghis Khan was just a boy, his father died and the tribe abandoned his family, driving them to total poverty.
José Salvador Alvarenga set out from the coast of Mexico on a fishing trip and vanished into the Pacific for more than 14 months in an incredible story of survival.
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