
When historians describe Iowa in 1856, they usually focus on what was happening above ground. Westward expansion, new settlements springing up along the frontier, and…

I wasn’t looking for giants when I started this investigation. I was researching architectural anomalies. Doorways too tall, staircases too grand, furniture scaled beyond human…

The moon hangs full over the Bay of Bisque on the night of July 5th, 1942. Squadron leader Jefferson Herbert Greswell peers through the windscreen…

Tunis, North Africa, February 1, 1943. 26,000 ft. The sky over the Mediterranean is a blinding deceptive blue. It is cold, 40° below zero. But…

20,000 ft over the English Channel. August 1940. The Supermarine Spitfire MKI is not just a machine. It is a piece of poetry written in…

May 1944. The Pacific Ocean is a sprawling indifferent blue void. On the flight deck of the USS Essex, the heat softens the asphalt seams…

The sky over the Rhineland in November 1944 is a cold, indifferent blue. It is a vacuum that does not care about the blood inside…

28,000 ft over Hamburg, Germany. August 6, 1944. The P-51D Mustang crees a mighty third hangs in the thin, frozen air like a suspended razor…

STEADY, BOYS. KEEP FIRING. We’re taking evasive action now. >> Deep in the frozen skies of 1944, a massacre was about to begin. 30 American…

Seven German fighters appear above him in tight formation. His fuel gauge reads critical. His radio is dead. He does not turn. He does not…



