In the northern outskirts of Berlin near Bernau once lay one of the most secretive and exclusive places of the former East Germany. In the so-called Wandlitz Forest Settlement, the political ...

The opening line of L.P. Hartley's seminal coming-of-age novel The Go-Between reads, "The past is a foreign country, they do things differently there." That sentiment resonates throughout writer and ...

Three thousand miles from his New York City home, as the August dawn broke over the Austrian landscape, 24-year-old Army draftee Stephen Wechsler took off his shoes, waded into the Danube River, and ...