Guadalcanal 1943 A Japanese soldier hears that distinctive metallic ping from an American position 30 yards away. He knows that sound. It means…
Four operators crossed 800 m of open ground in broad daylight. They carried no suppression assets, requested no air cover, and moved directly…
In March, 2002, on a frozen mountain top in eastern Afghanistan, seven American servicemen were killed in the deadliest special operations engagement of…
In the spring of 2002, inside a mudwalled compound in the Shahikot Valley of eastern Afghanistan, an American officer stopped at a doorway,…
A general in the United States Army went to sleep one night inside the most heavily defended field headquarters his country had ever…
Imagine being the supreme commander of the entire German military. Your country is burning to the ground. Your dictator is dead. Your armies…
December 13th, 1945. The morning was frozen. A heavy gray sky pressed down over Hameln prison in northern Germany. Inside the stone walls,…
The camp doctor stands in the medical barracks doorway and stares at something he does not understand. 34 German prisoners of war are…
September 3rd, 1944. Somewhere outside Nancy, France. General Major Frederick von Mellenthin pressed his intelligence officer for a second reading of the report.…
November 1943, somewhere outside Palermo, Sicily. General Lieutenant Fritz Bayerlein sat in a commandeered farmhouse pouring over intelligence reports his analysts had compiled…