Their own army called them chocolate soldiers. Chacos because chocolate melts. And these were 19-year-old clerks and apprentices from Melbourne…
The very first day, walk into the communications building that they were having the training at. And as I’m walking…
She counted their steps. That’s how she knew when to turn. Not the street corners, the steps. 53 steps from…
Somewhere in the Solomon Islands, late 1942, the tropical heat presses down like a weight and the air is thick…
The aid didn’t know what to do with it. That’s the first thing to understand. Captain Thomas Alderton, 30 years…
At 11:30 hours on December 22nd, 1944, four German officers approached the American lines outside Bastoni, Belgium, carrying a white…
May 1945, Bavaria. The war in Europe had 4 days left when SS Gruppenführer Anton Vogler was brought to a…
In the summer of 1944, a whisper slithered through the German sniper corps men who had frozen the blood of…
July 10th, 1943. The Mediterranean Sea. Operation Husky. The largest amphibious invasion in human history is about to hit the…
Deep in the jungles of South Vietnam, a five-man Australian SAS patrol walks into an ambush and loses the one…