Winston wets his whistle: Churchill's indulgences

In December 1941, just days after the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor, U.S. president Franklin Delano Roosevelt informed wife Eleanor company was coming to stay at the White House. “He told me I could not know who was coming, nor how many, but I must be prepared to have them stay over Christmas,” Eleanor Roosevelt wrote later. “He added as an afterthought that I must see to it that we had good champagne and brandy in the house and plenty of whiskey.” Make that Pol Roger champagne, vintage Hine brandy and Johnny Walker Red—for the guest, of course, was Winston Churchill, the British bulldog prime minister whose eccentricities and fondness for libation are the stuff of legend.

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Dam warfare

How a terror group rooted in ancient text and prophesies used the apocalyptic properties of water in its global war.

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Reinhard Hardegen: Last of the U-boat aces

He ranked No. 24 on the list of Germany’s WWII U-boat aces but, in sheer chutzpah, few could compare with Reinhard Hardegen. Hardegen died in Germany on June 9 at age 105, the last of a breed both reviled and respected for preying on all manner of Allied ships from beneath the waves—a cloak of invisibility that offered them large measures of both risk and reward.

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