
They told her Americans were animals who showed no mercy to the defeated, that prisoners would be tortured, humiliated, and…

3.5 million. That’s how many enemy soldiers these five American generals killed between 1941 and 1945. Not wounded, not captured—killed….

At exactly 0847 hours, June 14, 1944, three miles west of Carentan, France, a Sherman tank sat motionless behind a…

September 12, 1943. A muddy airstrip carved from a jungle island in the Solomon chain. Major Gregory “Pappy” Boyington steps…

At 0730 on September 16, 1943, 27 Marine pilots stood in the tropical heat on a dirt airstrip called Munda,…

January 8, 1945. Luxembourg City, Luxembourg. General Omar Bradley sits in his headquarters reading newspaper reports from Belgium. His face…

Sometimes a photograph stops you in your tracks. This is one of those images: three women in 1880—a mother seated…

A German test pilot bailed out over enemy territory in 1945, certain the Americans would torture him to death. Instead,…

In the chaotic symphony of war, there is one sound that terrifies a tanker more than the whistle of an…

It didn’t start with a roar. It wasn’t the grinding screech of Tiger tank treads. And it wasn’t the terrifying…

August 21st, 1945. A dirt track carved through the dense jungle of Luzon, Philippines. The war is over. The emperor…

Picture this. It is 1944. You are deep in the steaming, suffocating jungles of Burma. The air is so thick…

Fort Sam Houston, Texas. August 1943. The hospital train arrived at dawn, brakes screaming against steel, steam rising from the…

April 14th, 1865. The story begins with an invitation from President Abraham Lincoln and his wife Mary to attend a…

Instead of hiding his daughter with Down syndrome, Charles de Gaulle raised her proudly, and she became the heart of…

April 4th, 1945. Merkers, Germany. A column of Third Army vehicles rolled through the shattered streets of another liberated German…

December 21, 1945. Tokyo, Japan. General Douglas MacArthur sits in his office in the Dai-ichi Seimei Building—the headquarters from which…

If Patton hadn’t moved in time, the 101st Airborne wouldn’t have been captured or forced to surrender. They would have…

December 16, 1944. If General George S. Patton hadn’t made one phone call—hadn’t spoken four impossible words—the United States might…

May 5, 1945. Austria. The war in Europe has less than three days left. Hitler is dead; the German army…