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The Man With No Name: Clint Eastwood, Sergio Leone, and the Dirty Poncho Prologue: A Star in the Dust The Spanish sun was merciless in…

The Impossible Landing: How One Japanese Pilot Changed the Pacific War Prologue: Four Minutes to Legend April 18th, 1945. The Philippine Sea, 240 miles east…

Ice Cream and Empire: How American Abundance Broke the Spirit of War Prologue: A Taste of the Impossible June 20, 1944. Somewhere in the Philippine…

Hedgehog and the Hunter: The USS England Story Prologue: Midnight Math At 0150 on May 19th, 1944, Lieutenant Commander Walton Pendleton stood in the cramped…

Papy Gun: The Man Who Turned Bombers Into Gunships Prologue: Brisbane, 1942 At 7:42 a.m. on August 17th, 1942, Captain Paul “Papy” Gun crouched beneath…

Chasing the Future: The Untold Story of the P-51 Mustang’s Greatest Gamble Prologue: The Edge of the Stratosphere The altimeter read 25,000 feet. The year…

Seventy Seconds on Sunset: The Day Dean Martin Stopped Prologue: Sunset Boulevard, October 1966 It was a Tuesday afternoon in Los Angeles, the kind of…

The Hand on the Lens: Dean Martin, John Wayne, and the Day Hollywood Changed Prologue: Durango, Mexico, 1965 January 18th, 1965. The sun was already…

Starlight Silence: The Night Dean Martin Changed Vegas Prologue: The Starlight Room March 1963. The Starlight Room at the Golden Sands Hotel wasn’t the biggest…