He became the most famous person in the world. But before any of that, before the fame and the music and the everything, he was just a boy in Gary,...
The dust of the step is still in our teeth when the ground begins to rise and the road turns up into the hills. For weeks we cross that flat...
They called them devil dogs, not as a compliment, not as the kind of nickname soldiers give to a respected adversary in the abstract warmth of peacetime memory. They called...
From a man who held off 3,000 Japanese soldiers alone through an entire night to a Marine who shot down 28 enemy aircraft and kept fighting from inside a prison...
February 1942, Washington D.C. Philip Johnston spread his maps on the desk in front of the Marine Corps recruiting offices and made an argument that he knew was going to...
A staff car leaves La Hougue Gillon in the early hours of June 4th, 1944, heading east toward Germany. In the backseat sits Field Marshal Erwin Rommel, the most famous...
It is just before dawn on December 19th, 1944, and an American tank destroyer sergeant crouches in the open turret of his M10, parked in the shadow of a stone...
and France in North Africa. English and find the first kind. The orchard is from find phone. In the spring of 1942, one German reconnaissance commander filed a report that...
App BAC, South Vietnam, January 2nd, 1963. 400 Vietkong dug into the tree lines around a rice patty nobody outside Duang Province had ever heard of. Across from them, a...
1972, a small factory on the edge of Kreuzlingen, Switzerland, a border town so quiet it barely appears on most maps. Inside, a team of engineers has been working for...