The Central Highlands did not feel like a place built for human beings. In November of 1967, the air around Đắk Tô…
At 2:47 in the afternoon on March 17th, 1969, the motorpool outside Chu Lai smelled like diesel, red dust, and men who…
December 31st, 1944—outside Bastogne, the world felt like it had been carved out of ice and old fear. The Ardennes was a…
August 12th, 1966. Phuoc Tuy Province, South Vietnam. The jungle didn’t just surround you out there—it pressed on you. It wrapped the air…
August 1943, Quebec City. The Château Frontenac rose above the St. Lawrence like a fortress from another century—stone walls, steep roofs, the…
It had been five months in-country when I saw it happen, and by then I thought I’d seen most of what Vietnam…
January, 1945. London is wrapped in winter darkness, the kind that feels permanent—smoke-stained and heavy, as if the city itself has learned…
France, August 1944. Third Army headquarters lived inside a constant hum—radios crackling, telephones ringing, staff officers bent over maps that already felt…
August 1944 in France was the kind of month that makes generals lose sleep and historians reach for superlatives. The air smelled…
December 21st, 1945 arrived at Chartwell in the quiet way winter news often arrives—on paper. The estate was cold in that particular…