Sonoita Valley, Arizona, 1956. He said it on a Wednesday morning in August, standing at the fence line between the Hollister property and the road, watching her hang shirts in...
October 1957. A small mission orphanage on the dry south edge of Tucson, Arizona. This morning, 40 children are going to be given away. Sister Agnes Doyle has run St....
The gavel was 3 seconds from falling. October 1956 Marshall County, Iowa 45 miles northeast of Des Moines on the limestone steps of a courthouse that had stood since 1872....
October of 1958, a cattle ranch on the Musselshell River, 30 miles east of Harlowton, Montana. The cars had been coming since before first light, and by 10:00 they stood...
March 1957. The Davis Mountains country of far west Texas. It is past midnight and a cold rain is coming down hard and an old man of 72 is out...
5:00 in the morning, 7th of August, 1944. A sunken lane north of Mortaine, Normandy, hemmed in on both sides by earthen hedro banks 4t high and thick with hawthorne....
Late autumn, 1943. Somewhere in the United States, inside a plain government workshop with hard fluorescent light overhead, a small tan vehicle sat on concrete blocks. It had crossed an...
1952, Coventry, England. Engineers at the Alvis factory are rushing to complete a vehicle that was never supposed to come first. The British Army has an armored car program underway,...
Late 1939, Britain approves a new standard rifle, the number four Lee Enfield, but it is still a bolt-action design with an action lineage tracing back to the 1890s. Most...
June 1942, a farmhouse in occupied France. German soldiers tear through hay bales searching for contraband. They find a single brass cartridge 9 mm stamped with British markings. Under German...