Las Vegas, Nevada, March 1974. Caesars Palace had seen everything. Sinatra throwing room service trays, Davis Jr. performing until 4:00 a.m. because he simply didn’t want to stop. By 1974,...
1957, the Molotov GAZ plant, Gorky, Soviet Union. A low, boat-shaped hull rolls off the final assembly line on four oversized tires. Its welded steel body still bare and unpainted....
In the autumn of 1941, a German intelligence officer sat down to write a field report about an enemy unit that had just torn through a fortified position in North...
Somewhere in the east of Ukraine before first light in the early summer of 2025, the man at the wheel goes by Bobber. It is not the name his mother...
The morning of June 13th, 1944, at Villers-Bocage, a single German Tiger tank commanded by Michael Wittmann tore through a column of British armor in under 15 minutes, destroying roughly...
On the morning of July the 25th, 1944, somewhere in the bocage country south of Saint Lo, a Sherman M4A1 from the 2nd Armored Division rolled forward with 11 extra...
Ever wondered how much your ancestors were paid to fight in World War II? In this program, we will look at five Allied and Axis nations and determine the pay...
Desert warfare in North Africa was a very different kind of conflict. Out in the empty spaces of the Libyan Egyptian borders, speed, range, observation, and surprise mattered just as...
2005, Talafar, northern Iraq. A British Army patrol moves through narrow streets baked white by summer heat. Four soldiers, one vehicle, a Land Rover. Soft-skinned, light, fast. Designed for the...
1979, a design office inside the Steyr-Daimler-Puch factory on the outskirts of Vienna, Austria. No government contract sits on the table. No military specification has been issued. No general has...