An elderly man whose grandmother had always refused to discuss where she came from except to say “a depot in Illinois.” A woman who had…

Part 1 I found the London Hydraulic Power Company by accident, which is how the worst things usually begin. At the time I was supposed…
Not fresh death. Nothing so simple. A long-sealed organic foulness, sweet and damp and old enough to have entered the walls. I gagged and pulled…

Part 1 The first mistake was not underestimating the airplane. The first mistake was believing that airplanes were still the central unit of air war.…

Part 1 In the spring of 1940, before America had fully admitted to itself that the war in Europe would one day become its own,…

Part 1 At 5:30 in the morning on December 17, 1944, in the Belgian cold east of Büllingen, Joachim Peiper learned again the most humiliating…

Part 1 In late August 1944, the war in France stopped behaving according to anyone’s planning tables. That was the first problem. The second was…
At roughly the same time that those judgments were taking shape, far to the west and much closer to the problem itself, another class of…

Part 1 Before they ever called him Panther Jim, before his name traveled through the hollows and ridges of eastern Kentucky with the force…

Part 1 When John Walker came back to the mountains after the war, he was not the sort of man who talked much about where…





