April 16th, 1945, northwest Germany. The sun came up at 6:47 in the morning, but Margaret Hoffman did not feel any warmth. She stood in the field hospital near...
February 1942, Ottawa, Canada. Snow covers the capital city in thick white blankets, and the air bites at the skin like tiny needles. Inside the government buildings along the...
The Sherman was faster, easier to fix. You could ship it across an ocean and have it fighting the same afternoon it rolled off the transport. But the Churchill...
You’ve heard the number, 400 yd. That’s supposedly how close a Sherman had to get before its 76 mm HVAP round could punch through the front of a Tiger...
October 9, 1944. The Brockman Inlet, Shelt Estie, the Netherlands. As darkness fell, a convoy of enormous machines rolled toward the water’s edge. They were 23 ft long, nearly...
NBC Studios, Burbank, California. November 23rd, 1972. 11:47 p.m. The silence in Dean Martin’s dressing room shattered like glass. Mort Vicker burst through the door, clutching a crumpled sheet...
When Frank Sinatra walked onto the Tonight Show stage that night, Johnny Carson had no idea he was about to witness the unraveling of an American legend. What happened...
The door to dressing room 7 at the Sands Hotel opened at 11:17 p.m. on September 23rd, 1971. Frank Sinatra was sitting in front of his makeup mirror, bow...
Frank Sinatra walked onto the Tonight Show stage on March 11th, 1976, and the crowd jumped to its feet. People were cheering and screaming for the 60-year-old star who...
Johnny Carson learned his biggest sponsor had made racist comments three hours before airtime. NBC told him to do the show anyway. $4 million was on the line. What...