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Fly Fishing for Trophy Striped Bass
A modern, comprehensive guide on striped bass—where they live, foods they eat, how to catch them.
The Unlikely War Hero
In April 1967, twenty-year-old Doug Hegdahl was knocked overboard from a U.S. Navy cruiser in the Gulf of Tonkin. Initially believed to be a special ops commando, he was turned …
Super Slick
Helicopters loom large in how we picture the Vietnam War. Kilgore’s birds coming in hot (and Wagnerian) out of the rising sun in Apocalypse Now. The infantry/helicopter assault at …
Wake Island Wildcat
When the Japanese attacked Wake Island in December 1941—the same day as Pearl Harbor—Marine pilot Henry Elrod took to the skies in his F4F Wildcat fighter to defend the American …
'Tis Not Our War
James McPherson’s classic book For Cause & Comrades explained “why men fought in the Civil War”—and spurred countless other historians to ask and attempt to answer the same …
Besieged Beachhead
On New Year’s Day 1959, Fidel Castro’s revolutionary movement overthrew the ruling regime in Cuba, bringing the Cold War to the United States’ doorstep and setting the island …
Six Air Forces Over the Atlantic
The Battle of the Atlantic was the longest campaign of World War II, lasting the entirety of the war in Europe from September 1939 to May 1945. It was also one of the war’s most …
Project Eagle
After the Battle of the Bulge—which had begun with a German attack that American intelligence failed to anticipate—the Office of Strategic Service (OSS), forerunner of the CIA, …