42 words. That is how long it took Irvin Raml, the desert fox, the most feared panzer commander in the Vermacht, the man…
The air inside the kill house smells of concrete dust and the chemical afterburn of blank rounds. Somewhere behind the ballistic glass of…
Four men, 8 days, no support. High in eastern Afghanistan, deep in the Safe Co Mountains, where peaks rise above 4,600 m and…
6 km of flat open desert stretched between them and the Turkish guns. A killing ground so utterly bare that even a skinny…
The number that stops you, if you look at it long enough, is 8,031. That is how many Australians died in Japanese captivity…
Four operators crossed 800 meters of open ground in broad daylight. They carried no suppression assets, requested no air cover, and moved directly…
In late 2001, a small group of Australian soldiers landed at a dusty airfield outside Kandahar, Afghanistan. They were members of one squadron,…
It was April 14th, 1976, and Thomas Harlland was 32 years old when he drove his father’s tractor off the farm for the…
It was October 14th, 1966, and Earl Hutchkins was 41 years old when he made a deal that would define the rest of…
It was March 14th, 1987, and Robert Henley was 42 years old when he signed the papers at Crawford Massie Ferguson in Elden,…