Howard woke up around midnight in a hospital in Cherbourg, France. He was among the lucky ones. On that Christmas Eve in 1944, a German U-boat torpedo killed 763 American soldiers just five miles from ...

The film "Atropia" is a dark comedy set at a U.S. military facility in California designed to simulate battle conditions in Iraq. NPR's Leila Fadel speaks with actor Alia Shawkat.