Guadalcanal 1943 A Japanese soldier hears that distinctive metallic ping from an American position 30 yards away. He knows that sound. It means the Marine’s rifle is empty. The end...
Four operators crossed 800 m of open ground in broad daylight. They carried no suppression assets, requested no air cover, and moved directly toward a compound housing 19 confirmed insurgents...
In March, 2002, on a frozen mountain top in eastern Afghanistan, seven American servicemen were killed in the deadliest special operations engagement of the entire war so far. >> [music]...
In the spring of 2002, inside a mudwalled compound in the Shahikot Valley of eastern Afghanistan, an American officer stopped at a doorway, lowered his rifle, and waved the men...
A general in the United States Army went to sleep one night inside the most heavily defended field headquarters his country had ever assembled on an exercise ground. Seismic sensors...
Imagine being the supreme commander of the entire German military. Your country is burning to the ground. Your dictator is dead. Your armies have been completely obliterated. What do you...
December 13th, 1945. The morning was frozen. A heavy gray sky pressed down over Hameln prison in northern Germany. Inside the stone walls, five gallows had been prepared in a...
The camp doctor stands in the medical barracks doorway and stares at something he does not understand. 34 German prisoners of war are sitting upright, eating breakfast, talking quietly among...
September 3rd, 1944. Somewhere outside Nancy, France. General Major Frederick von Mellenthin pressed his intelligence officer for a second reading of the report. Not because he doubted the man’s competence,...
November 1943, somewhere outside Palermo, Sicily. General Lieutenant Fritz Bayerlein sat in a commandeered farmhouse pouring over intelligence reports his analysts had compiled on the American Third Army. Bayerlein was...