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This book is an attempt to describe the intensity of the mad minutes (in the bush language of grunts, describes the general discharge of all weapons along a defense perimeter at a pre-designated time to discourage a potential enemy attack) and the agonizing search for the release that those moments of blind violence provided. For those who, like myself, started the search with the light of glory in our eyes and ended it dimmed by a dark jungle and our darker deeds, mad minutes became part of a mad experience in a mad war that carried us beyond glory into a territory from which none of us...

On April 6, 1917, Congress declared war and the United States joined the great conflict that had engulfed Europe since the assassination of Austrian Archduke Ferdinand in 1914. The American Expeditionary Forces (AEF) took the better part of a year to train and mobilize and their first major battle did not take place until the following May. The real challenge for the American troops came in September 1918. It was then that the 47-day battle of the Meuse-Argonne began. Encompassing seven weeks, a 25-mile front and more than one million American troops, the Battle of the Argonne Forest averaged...

As the United States fought the Civil War in the early 1860s, the country's western frontier was simultaneously the site of significant military campaigns that took the lives of both American and Sioux. The Dakota campaign, led by Commander Henry Hastings Sibley and Brigadier General Alfred Sully against the Sioux between 1863 and 1864 was greater in scope, intensity and bloodshed than almost all other Indian battles fought in the West but is often overlooked. The Minnesota War of 1862 and the Dakota War of 1863-1865 were among the most significant U.S. victories in the Indian wars, but did...