
November 11th, 1943. 0530 hours. Bougainville Island, Solomon Islands. The mist hung low and heavy over the forward perimeter of…

April 18th, 1945. Philippine Sea, two hundred and forty miles east of Okinawa. A lone Zero limped through the low…

My little brother vanished 10 years ago. He just called me from an unknown number and told me who took…

On the morning of December 19th, 1944, a gray winter light leaked through the shattered windows of an old French…

On the morning of April 7th, 1945, the war arrived in Alen-Grabow with the sound of engines, not bombs. Dawn…

In January 1942, a German reconnaissance patrol vanished near Leningrad. Seventeen men went out. No one heard gunfire. No one…

Our weird family tradition rescued my neighbors kids. The backwards birthday song started as a joke between my sister Kelsey…

The desert around Camp Florence looked like the end of the world. In April 1945, the sun beat down so…

I paid a DNA lab to test my son’s paternity and they called the FBI instead of giving me results….

The wind coming off New York Harbor that afternoon was sharp enough to sting the eyes. Gray waves slapped against…

I. Before the Gunshot Ever since I arrived to work in Mr. and Mrs. Villarreal’s house, my life had become…

The Yamato had the largest guns ever mounted on a warship. 18.1 in barrels that could fire 3,200 lb shells…

November 29th, 1944. The waters south of Japan. A massive shadow glides through the darkness. 70,000 tons of armored steel….

One gun, two rolls, thousands dead. The German 88 mm cannon was more than a weapon. It was a nightmare….

When Japan launched the Yamato, she was meant to terrify the world. At 45,000 tons of iron and ambition, she…

Excluded from my sister’s wedding, I went on vacation. When the wedding fell apart, my whole family frantically tried to…

brother made my life hell then got my wife pregnant now he wants my help after our parents disowned him…

The gravel on the driveway crunched under the tires of a speeding car, a sound that used to signal joy…

at Thanksgiving my sister discovered I had $12 million and my family demanded I give it to her claiming she…

I only said two words. “It’s mine.” And the crack echoed under the chandelier. 280 guests held their breath. One…