The American operation in the Kunar Province Valley had been planned and resourced at a scale that reflected the genuine difficulty of the problem. 900 coalition troops, a figure that...
Patrol elements from a single SAS squadron, organized into vehicles that crossed into Iraq ahead of any formal announcement of hostilities, entered the western desert 3 days before the coalition’s...
The dead ground starts where the ridge ends. Aruskin province, late August 2008. For kilometers past that long line of rock, there is nothing a coalition patrol has been able...
Sunday, March 17th, 1968. Elvis Presley walked into a small black church in rural Mississippi, searching for something he’d lost somewhere along the way to fame. What happened when an...
The organist stopped playing in the middle of a Sunday service and didn’t get up. The pastor looked at his congregation and asked if anyone could help. The man in...
The room had 22 people in it, and not one of them believed the numbers would hold. It was the summer of 1987, and the men running CBS Records had...
November 1956, West Village, New York, a Thursday night. The workshop was on the second floor of a brownstone building on Barrow Street. 40 seats, wooden floors, a single spotlight...
1991, the Alvis factory, Holyhead Road, Coventry. A low flat tracked vehicle rolls off the production line and onto the proving ground. It weighs 13 and 1/2 tons. Its aluminum...
February 14th, 1943. Casarine Pass, Tunisia. A graveyard of burning American steel stretches across the desert floor as far as the eye can see. 23 M3 halftracks are on fire....
February 24th, 1991. 0300 hours, 40 miles south of the Iraqi border. On a strip of Saudi desert the army called Tapline Road, a column is moving north in the...