U.S. Army

<p><span class="deck"><span class="typestyle">Chief Washakie earned his battle scars in the service of the Great White Father, who—for once at least—kept faith with an Indian</span> </span></p>

<p><span class="deck"> As the debate about rescuing them droned on and on, Lieutenant Greely’s men were dying one by one</span> </p>

<p><span class="deck">An eyewitness recreates a wonderful, wacky day in August, 1944, when Hemingway, a handful of other Americans, and a s</span>eñorita <span class="deck">named Elena helped rekindle the City of Light. Champagne ran in rivers, and the squeals inside the tanks were not from grit in the bogie wheels.</span></p>

<p><span class="deck"> A Negro cavalry regiment was John J. Pershing’s “home” in the service. From it came his nickname, and he never lost his affection for—or failed to champion—the valorous colored troopers he led.</span> </p>

<p><span class="deck"><span class="typestyle">Eisenhower dreamed of serving under Patton, but history reversed their roles. Their stormy association dramatically shaped the Allied assault on the Third Reich.</span></span></p>

<p><span class="deck"><span class="typestyle">Army newspapers in World Wars I and II were unofficial, informal, and more than the top brass could handle</span> </span></p>

<p>Caught between two cultures, a young Sioux sought to make himself a hero—by killing an army officer</p>

<p><span class="deck"> <span class="typestyle"> How the Generals Viewed the Indians</span> </span></p>

<p><span class="deck"><span class="typestyle">A Volunteer’s Eyewitness Account of the War With Spain</span> </span></p>

<p>The doughboys numbered only 550 men -- the remnants of four battalions -- and were surrounded by Germans. Then they were given the order to attack.</p>

<p><span class="deck"><span class="typestyle">“For This Challenge, I Had Come Three Thousand Miles and Thirty-six Years of My Life”</span> </span></p>

<p><span class="deck"> What’s Happened to the Long Gray Line</span> </p>

<p><span class="deck"> <span class="typestyle"> A trooper’s firsthand account of an adventure with the<br />
Indian-fighting army in the American Southwest</span> </span></p>

<p>After a varied career as a soldier, statesman, diplomat, and presidential adviser, Taylor wants to known as someone who “always did his damndest.”</p>

<p><span class="deck"> An insider’s account of a startling— and still controversial—investigation of the Allied bombing of Germany</span> </p>

<p><span class="deck"><span class="typestyle">In the Meuse-Argonne, this backwoods pacifist did what Marshal Foch saw as “the greatest thing accomplished by any private’ soldier of all the armies of Europe.”</span> </span></p>

<p><span class="deck"> <span class="typestyle"> A veteran news correspondent recalls his days as a spotter plane pilot</span> </span></p>

<p><span class="deck">A soldier remembers the freezing, fearful retreat down the Korean Peninsula after the Chinese armies smashed across the border</span></p>

<p><span class="deck"> A British schoolboy sees the quiet English countryside come alive with excitement toward the end of 1943 when …</span> </p>

<p><span class="deck"> <span class="typestyle"> “I don’t want this thing often,” one soldier said of his .45 automatic pistol, “but when I do, I want it damned bad.”</span> </span></p>

<p><span class="deck"><span class="typestyle">The first major engagement of the U. S. Army in Vietnam was a decisive American victory. Perhaps it would have been better for all of us if it had been a defeat.</span> </span></p>

<p><span class="deck">On the eve of the Normandy invasion, a training mission in the English Channel came apart in fire and horror. For years, the grim story was suppressed.</span></p>

<p><span class="deck">A veteran reporter looks back to a time when the stakes were <span class="typestyle"> really</span> high, and, yet, military men actually trusted newsmen. </span></p>

<p>The United States had promised black soldiers that they would be paid as much as whites. Sergeant Walker believed that promise.</p>

<p><span class="deck">The old school is alive with the memory of men like Lee, Grant, Pershing, and Eisenhower.</span></p>

<p>An American soldier would never forget encountering the German with an icy smile. He would later discover that the blood of innocent millions dripped from Eichmann's manicured hands.</p>

<p><span class="deck">He didn’t want the job, but felt he should do it. For the first time, the soldier who tracked down the My Lai story for the office of the inspector general in 1969 tells what it was like to do some of this era’s grimmest detective work.</span></p>

<p><span class="deck">A civilian adventurer gave us the best artist’s record of America in Vietnam.</span></p>

<p><span class="deck">The old Regular Army, part fairy tale and part dirty joke, was generally either ignored or disdained. But its people went about their work with a dogged humdrum gallantry, and when the storm broke, they helped save the world.</span></p>

<p>The general responsible for remaking the American Army in the aftermath of the Cold War knows a great deal of history, and it sustains him in a very tough job.</p>

<p><span class="deck">After every war in the nation’s history, the military has faced not only calls for demobilization, but new challenges and new opportunities. It is happening again.</span></p>

<p><span class="deck">A soldier who landed in the second wave on Omaha Beach assesses the broadest implications of what he and his comrades achieved there.</span></p>

<p><span class="deck">A D-DAY VETERAN’S GRANDSON ATTEMPTS TO FIND THE ANSWER TO THAT MOST IMPENETRABLE QUESTION: WHAT WAS IT LIKE?</span></p>

<p><span class="deck">A scholar searches across two centuries to discover the main engine of our government’s growth, and reaches a controversial conclusion.</span></p>

<p><span class="deck">Most of them were American soldiers who fought with skill, discipline, and high courage against a U.S. Army that numbered Ulysses Grant in its ranks. The year was 1847.</span></p>

<p>Reminiscences of World War II’s European Theater add up to considerably more than a bunch of good war stories.</p>

<p><span class="deck">A soldier’s timeless meditation on the frustrations of military life</span></p>

<p><span class="deck">The newspaper baron Robert McCormick was a passionate isolationist, though his brief service in France in 1918 shone for him all his life and gave birth to an extraordinary museum.</span></p>

<p><span class="deck">Fifty years ago in the frozen mountains of Korea, the Marines endured a campaign as grueling and heroic as any in history.</span></p>

<p><span class="deck">How the discovery of a long-forgotten trunk inspired an artist to spend years recording the quiet remnants of a wrenching military career</span></p>

<p><span class="deck">A historian argues that, in Vietnam, America’s cause was just, its arms effective, and its efforts undermined by critics back home, and that this is how things must work in a free society.</span></p>

<p><span class="deck">The United States Military Academy turns 200 this year. West Point has grown with the nation—and, more than once, saved it.</span></p>

<p><span class="deck">The least-understood branch of our military was born 60 years ago but today is coming into prominence as never before.</span></p>

<p><span class="deck">The soldier-historian-novelist Ralph Peters looks at how the world has changed in the past decade, and finds that America is both a hostage to history and likely to be saved by it.</span></p>

<p><span class="deck">A search begun in a Washington, D.C. boardinghouse 140 years ago continues today as a $100-million-a-year effort to reunite the U.S. military and American families with their missing soldiers.</span></p>