Disgraced and cast out from his own tribe, Shaka went on to build a vast Zulu empire based on sheer terror, butchery and military brilliance.
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Battle of Aboukir Bay
‘This little Europe is too small a field,’ Bonaparte supposedly said before setting out for Alexandria. ‘Great celebrity can be won only in the East.’
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Early Covert Action on the Ho Chi Minh Trail
In 1961 and 1962 the CIA-trained and -sponsored 1st Observation Group was formed to counter Communist operations along the trail.
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America’s Bitter End in Vietnam
It was the Vietnam War in microcosm….Good intentions marred by fatally flawed follow-through.
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Fenian Raids: Invasions of British-ruled Canada
A year after America’s Civil War ended, scores of Irish Americans who had once fought for the Union or the Confederacy joined forces against a new enemy–British-ruled Canada.
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The Space Shuttle
Shuttles are the highest, fastest airplanes, but they can’t break the image barrier back on the ground.
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Battle for Saigon
In the Tet Offensive of 1968, the Viet Cong prepared carefully for its objectives inside the Saigon Circle. The result would be a plethora of battles–and battles within battles.
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The Refugees of Duc Pho
Despite the best intentions of a young CORDS officer, a tragic friendly fire incident brought more suffering to the very people he was trying to help.
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Homer Lea: Author of The Valor of Ignorance
Homer Lea, a frail American hunchback, helped make China a republic and prophesied the apocalyptic convulsions of two world wars.
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Mexican Revolution: Battle of Celaya
General Alvaro Obregon and his Constitutionalist army proved more than a match for Pancho Villa’s undefeated Division del Norte in the April 1915 battles at Celaya.