With the voice of forty-five years in the Intelligence Community, Bayard & Holmes explore the lives of key people and the events of key wars.
- The first black man to graduate West Point--in 1877
- The American who would be King of Mexico
- The founder of modern special operations
- The man who taught the FBI to shoot
- The Bravest of the Battle of Britain
- The rise and fall of Japanese militarism
- The Ottomans vs. Vienna--twice
- The Mexican/American War
- The Scream Heard Round the World and the Battle of Manila
- The Opium Wars and British drug pushers in China
- The Boer Wars
- The Battle of Verdun
- An intelligence perspective on Benghazi
- The Battle of Fallujah
People who excite the imagination and battles that shaped the modern world.