Summer 1944. A hedgerow in Normandy. A German infantry squad dug in behind an earth bank doing the thing that…
November 8th, 1942. As American troops stormed the beaches of North Africa, many German officers weren’t particularly worried. They had…
The first thing Autumn noticed was the silence. Heavy, thick, like the room held its breath. General…
The M1 Carbine looked like a rifle reduced to the essentials. It weighed a little over 5 lb, used an…
You have been told that America won the Second World War with tanks and bombs and factories that never stopped….
108 men a rubber plantation a few kilometers east of a base called Nui Dat and somewhere in the trees…
The businessman’s laugh echoed through the first class cabin like a slap. Did the hospital lose one…
The tracks came off first. That’s what the reconnaissance photographs show along a stretch of forest road east of Malmidy….
On the morning of December 7th, 1941, a Japanese admiral named Chuichi Nagumo launched 414 aircraft against the American fleet…
“Pretend you are father for 45 minutes.” That’s the first thing four six-year-old girls whispered to a stranger…