Colonel David Hargrove was not a man who impressed easily, and he was not a man who laughed without reason. He was 48 years old. He had run operations in...
One line. That was all Tariq al-Rashid wrote on the morning of October 14th, 2005. One line, signed by hand, placed on the desk of the Iraqi security force command...
The room smelled like cigarettes and old maps. Major General Richard Harwick had walked into a lot of briefing rooms in his career. 43 years old, 23 years in uniform....
Naval Air Station My Miramar, California, March 1970. The Messaul holds 240 men at full capacity and at 1200 hours on a Thursday in March, it is operating at full...
New York Presbyterian Hospital, June 28th, 1949. Tuesday morning, 9:00 a.m. Joe DiMaggio lies on the examination table. Dr. Sidney Gaynor studies the x-rays. Long silence. Then he turns to...
18 hours. That is the window between the moment British intelligence confirmed the pattern and the moment four SAS operators sat down across from a man who believed he had...
The envelope arrives. American League office logo on the front. Ty Cobb opens it. Inside is an official letter. Mr. Cobb, you have been fined $100 for the fighting incident...
The St. Louis manager is speaking at a press conference, proud, confident. “I want to introduce our new pitcher. His name is Allan Sotheron, and he is special, very special.”...
Press conference, New York, 1925. Babe Ruth is speaking to reporters, confident, cocky. Ty Cobb, good player, but he cannot hit home runs. He is a singles hitter. I am...
PART 2 The Society of Jesus was founded in 1540 as a military religious order serving the Pope. They became the most educated, most politically connected, most scientifically advanced religious...