
January 6, 1978. River Forest, Illinois. The door went in with a single kick—a brief, vulgar act against a house…

– Prologue: The Ambush at Marjah The heat curled off the canal like a living thing. Dust hung in the…

The engine exploded at 32,000 feet. A woman was being sucked out the window. Passengers typed final goodbyes to their…

The wind in Montana did not merely blow—it attacked. It drove wild white waves across the frozen land, screaming as…

The 19-year-old peasant girl who had turned the tide of the Hundred Years’ War now sat chained to a wooden…

November 1949. A man in Marine dress blues walks into the Sands of Iwo Jima premiere and buys his…

June 1954. A young Navy sailor marries his high school sweetheart in a tiny chapel. Fifteen people attend; the reception…

The Invasion of Panama: Prelude to War December 1989. The invasion of Panama begins. Four U.S. military officers take a…

Luxembourg City, January 7, 1945, 1800 hours. The Battle of the Bulge is collapsing in the frozen forests, but inside…

October 15, 1950. A lonely airstrip on Wake Island—a coral speck in the Pacific, blistering heat warping the air above…

The Texas sun baked the crowded livestock market when Jonathan Hail saw something that stopped him cold. He had come…

July 2, 1944. An underground hospital cave near Cherbourg, France. Dr. Schwester stepped from the subterranean dark into blinding daylight,…

The year is 1945. The war in Europe has ended, but for 147 captured German army nurses, the journey is…

September 27, 1944. Aachen, Germany. Oberleutnant Hinrich Weber scanned the list of Americans captured in the night’s raid and stopped…

March 23, 1945, 10:47 a.m. Winston Churchill sat aboard his command aircraft, minutes from landing to witness British glory. Field…

December 21, 1945. At Chartwell, Winston Churchill receives a telegram: General George S. Patton Jr. is dead. He reads it…

January 1945. A bitter Belgian winter presses down on a lonely command trailer near Zonhoven. The ground outside is frozen…

At 7:42 a.m. on December 19, 1944, Technical Sergeant Frank Russo crouched behind his M1919 Browning in a frozen foxhole…

August 14, 1944. 19,000 feet above the Ruhr. The Lancaster shudders as if something alive is clawing at its wings….

On New Year’s Day, 1953, the world lost a legend in the back seat of a Cadillac. Hank Williams was…