At 8:15 on the morning of December 19th, 1944, Sergeant William Buck Anderson lay prone in a snow-covered Belgian forest, watching 300 German soldiers tighten the encirclement around his isolated...
At 11:47 on the morning of September 17th, 1944, Corporal Daniel Caldwell crouched motionless in thick jungle undergrowth on Pelleu Island, watching three Japanese soldiers pass within 15 yardds of...
April 14th, 1945, near Vimar, Germany. Cold spring rain drifted across a muddy Allied prisoner collection point carved into the edge of a shattered German airfield. Burned out hangers leaned...
To the arrogance of the German high command, the men of the 45th division were nothing to fear. Nazi propaganda dismissed them as racially inferior. They called them savages from...
When 120 Australian soldiers arrived in Vietnam in 1966, American commanders did not know what to make of them. The United States had half a million troops in the [music]...
He was the king of rock and roll, adored, untouchable, unstoppable. But in 1958, Elvis Presley traded his crown for a helmet, and chose to serve. What happened next wasn’t...
The chandeliers of the Metropolitan Opera House cast golden light across the most elite gathering New York had seen all year. But in the corner stood a young man who...
Edmund Hartley had destroyed careers with his reviews. He was the most powerful music critic in America and he hated Elvis Presley. So when he got invited onto the Steve...
Elvis Presley didn’t have to be there. He was already the biggest star in America. But on a Sunday morning in 1957, he walked into a small black church in...
Sunday, March 17th, 1968. Elvis Presley walked into a small black church in rural Mississippi, searching for something he’d lost somewhere along the way to fame. What happened when an...