Madison Square Garden on the night of March 8th, 1971. Held 20,000 people for Muhammad Ali versus Joe Frasier. The fight of the…
[music] [music] When we came back from Normandy, Brigadier Hill gave orders to his battalion commanders. There’s got to be greater discipline. There’s…
It is the summer of 1945. The guns across Europe have finally gone quiet. Church bells are ringing in London. Strangers are embracing…
June 1944, a captured airfield somewhere in Germany. Lit Walter Wolfrram was 21 years old. He held the Knight’s Cross of the Iron…
What would you do if you were sent into the sky with just one wingman to face 60 enemy fighters knowing your fuel…
May 22nd, 1944. Southwest Pacific, north of the Admiral T Islands, 150 ft below the surface. The commander of Japanese submarine AO 106…
In the summer of 1943, the Mediterranean sun was an unforgiving hammer beating down on the shores of Sicily. Among the massive wave…
September 25th, 1944. London, 10 Downing Street. The war rooms buried beneath Westminster streets are experiencing an unusual quietness, calmer than they’ve been…
The war could have been lost not on any battlefield but but inside a single command tent through a slow and deliberate transfer…
January 4th, 1945. Supreme Headquarters Allied Expeditionary Force, Versailles. Dwight Eisenhower’s Chief of Staff, General Walter Bedell Smith, walked into Eisenhower’s office carrying…