August 18th, 1966. Deep inside a Vietnamese rubber plantation, 108 Australian soldiers found themselves surrounded by over 2,000 Viet Cong…
The blade comes off the grinding wheel with an edge on both sides of it, tapering the whole length to…
Nungshigum Ridge, Manipur, the 13th of April, 1944. Last light. There are tanks on the summit. That sentence should not…
One, that is the number, not a production total, not a casualty figure, not a range in yards. One, 8:30…
July 11th, 1943. The Gela Plain, Southern Sicily. German tanks from the Hermann Göring division are rolling toward the beach….
In April 1947, a 64-year-old Japanese general was dragged to an execution ground in Nanjing, China. His legs had given…
On the morning of May 9th, 1945, a Norwegian Army officer named Captain Leif Øvergård walked into a Wehrmacht supply…
Picture this. Prague, 1929. A little girl is born into a warm, educated family. Her father is a respected lawyer….
The rain over Anzio does not fall so much as insist, cold and relentless, filling every dugout with mud the…
In 1899, the United States Army tested 100 Winchester Model 1895 rifles and sent them back with a rejection. 16…