
Dorothy Williams was 81 years old and couldn’t remember her daughter’s name. She didn’t recognize her granddaughter’s face. She’d forgotten…

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January 17th, 1940. The weapons testing range, Fort Benning, Georgia. The morning air smelled of gun oil and wet pine….

June 22nd, 1940. The Forest of Compton. Yet the setting is deliberately theatrical. Adolf Hitler has ordered French officials to…

On the morning of June 4th, 1942, Lieutenant Commander Wade McCcluskey stared down at an empty ocean and faced a…

The morning of November 13th, 1942, the light cruiser USS Atlanta sat dead in the water three miles west of…

November the 3rd, 1944. The pre-dawn darkness over Lady Gulf hung thick with the smell of cordite and burning oil….

May 8th, 1945. Kemp Park Racecourse, Suriri, England. The dawn came gray and cold over the improvised prison compound where…

The morning air above Reclan carried the sharp metallic taste of aviation fuel mixed with pine, a combination that had…

April 28th, 1945. Somewhere near the Danube River, southern Bavaria, Germany. The air smells of diesel and wet earth and…

By late November of 1942, Stalingrad was no longer a city. It was a graveyard of pulverized concrete, twisted tram…

At 5:42 a.m. on August 18th, 1940, the sky above RAF North vibrated with the rising scream of German dive…

You ever give someone one warning and they laugh like you’re joking? I told my wife, “If you invite your…

Bridger Mountains, Montana territory, November 1876. When Jacob Reinhardt began stacking riverstone between double log walls that autumn, his neighbors…

She slammed the front door so hard the walls shook and screamed, “Caleb, what the hell is that sign doing…

San Diego, California. March 1941, 2230 hours. The dining room table of a modest Coronado home glowed under a single…

Robert Carson stood in his study looking at the invitation one more time. The annual charity gala, black tie, plus…