You study history as part of the school curriculum. You watch movies on world wars 1 and 2. You watch shows on the History Channel. You read biographies and autobiographies of people who were world leaders at that time. You start thinking that you know all that is there to know about both the wars.

And then you come across a reference to someone who had played his or her part in the war and yet is unknown to you.

I had never heard of Missak Manouchian until today morning when an article that I was reading mentioned him. Curious, I searched on the net (how in the world people used to get any information before the internet?) and found this - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Missak_Manouchian