After flying 12 hours through three delays to surprise my husband at his guy’s cabin weekend, I walked in with his favorite bourbon…
It was 6:28 a.m. at Big and Hill when the first engine fire of the day tore open the dawn. A Spitfire…
Reckland, Germany. Winter 1943. The hanger smelled of oil, tobacco, and victory. Around a long drafting table covered in blueprints, four Luftvafa…
Ray Cooper had learned to sleep light during 22 years in Delta Force. Even now, 3 years into retirement, the slightest anomaly pulled…
September 15th, 1945. Camp Marles, southern France. The Mediterranean sun cast long shadows across the hastily constructed compound where 347 German women…
January 20th, 1953, Independence, Missouri. The cold bit through Harry Truman’s coat as he stood on the front porch of 219 North Delaware…
The ballroom of Washington’s National Guard Armory blazed with light on the evening of March 29th, 1952. 2,000 Democrats in tuxedos and evening…
The fog rolled in from the Bristol Channel on a November morning in 1942, thick and cold, wrapping itself around the docks like…
October 6th, 1973. 1,400 hours deep beneath the surface. The Syrian general staff was orchestrating an apocalypse. To the Soviet advisers standing quietly…
On the afternoon of April 13th, 1945, one day after Franklin Roosevelt’s sudden death, a small group of Army officers gathered nervously in…