3:10 a.m. August 21st, 1942. The narrow sand spit at Alligator Creek, Guadal Canal. About 200 Japanese soldiers charge across the moonlit beach…
Japanese Soldiers Were Terrified When U.S. Marines Used “Pocket Artillery” To Wipe Out Their Charges
At 9:47 in the morning on July 7th, 1944, Captain George Hunt crouched behind a coral ridge on Pleu, watching his mortarmen drop…
On the night of August 21st, 1942, at 11:57 p.m., Captain John High Totower crouched behind a muddy ridge on Guadal Canal, watching…
March 1946. A ruined street in the American zone of Berlin. Snow is falling in thick, silent flakes. Among the rubble walks a…
The guard shoves the prisoner through the medical clinic door at 2 in the morning and says he tried to run. The prisoner…
There’s a sentence that American officers heard more than once in Fuaktui province. Usually delivered without arrogance, without hostility, just as a matter…
The nurse reaches for the younger prisoner’s arm to start the introvenous line and he pulls it away. Not violently, deliberately. He looks…
The prisoner is shaking so hard the metal frame of the cot rattles against the wooden floor. His temperature is 104.6 degrees. His…
Glattis Presley died holding Elvis’s hand. Her last four words cost Elvis $200 million. Chapter 1. August 14th, 1958. 3:15 a.m. Methodist Hospital,…
It was June 15th, 1973 at the Mississippi Coliseum in Jackson, and Elvis was midway through Love Me Tender when he saw three…