Colonel Thomas Reed stood in the tactical operations center nursing a lukewarm coffee staring at a satellite map dotted with…
April 3rd, 1944. 0715 hours. The Norwegian fjords lie gray and still beneath a morning sky that promises nothing. 31…
It was the single most dangerous thing an Allied officer could do in the Vietnam War. Not charging a machine…
When people talk about the forces the Viet Cong feared in Vietnam, they usually talk about American firepower, B-52 Arc…
It seemed that I had been caught in the apocalypse. The terror was complete. One lost control of bodily functions…
You are looking down at a boot print. It’s fresh, pressed into a side trail, and the tread is wrong….
a trail junction in the highlands late morning and the column has stopped. 26 men strung along a 100 meters…
August 18th, 1966. Deep inside a Vietnamese rubber plantation, 108 Australians were surrounded by 2,500 Viet Cong who expected a…
1966 Forte Province, South Vietnam. Every foreign army that had ever come through here had made enemies faster than they…
After being fired, I started selling breakfast tacos. The president’s daughter came every day. A month later,…