History

Discover Noah Adair, WWII naval heroics from Atlantic U-boats to Pacific kamikaze battles, and the family’s legacy of service.

Adolf Hitler. Amidst humanity’s literally countless certifiable homicidal maniacs, Hitler consistently ranks number 1 on the psycho hit parade.

The tragic 1866 murder of Elizabeth Ragland and frontier justice in Mississippi reveal a dark chapter of Civil War–era history.

Uday and Qusay were both crazy, but they were two different flavors of crazy. Qusay was the more cerebral of the two. He married Maher Abd al-Rashid and fathered four children. Qusay killed methodically, institutionally, and, most typically, in the shadows.

Young people perish in war. That’s what makes the practice so abjectly horrible. Kids are cut down in the prime of their lives. In the case of 1LT Mains, he was 28 years old the day he rode his B-24 Liberator in over Ludwigslust, Germany.

Vladimir Putin’s legions rolled into neighboring Ukraine on 24 February 2022. The Russian Special Military Operation was the largest attack against a European country since World War 2. What Putin clearly thought would be a brief but violent incursion wherein the locals welcomed his occupying forces with open arms has turned out to be something altogether different. Now pushing two years on, Ukraine has been a bloodbath for all involved.

The 1980 Norco shootout turned a bank robbery into a deadly gunfight that reshaped California law enforcement.

The common denominator for the vast majority of us is that it is essentially make-believe. We practice in the sincere hope that we may someday expire of old age, never having had to unlimber a firearm for real. And then there was FBI Special Agent Walter Walsh.

Jason Everman is the archetypal Renaissance Man. Dissatisfied with the ordinary and mundane, he has tasted fame, enjoyed the fellowship of warriors, dispensed death, and ardently studied life. Along the way, he has discovered what it means truly to live.