In December 1997, poacher Vladimir Markov wounded a Siberian (Amur) tiger, stole its kill—and then vanished into the Russian taiga. The tiger tracked him back to his cabin, waited, and delivered ...

In the summer of 1944, the entire German Eastern Front was disintegrating under the Soviet onslaught of Operation Bagration.

Despite early conservation successes, by the 1990s the world's tiger population was under dire threat. In this beautifully ...