Key People & Wars

With the voice of forty-five years in the Intelligence Community, Bayard & Holmes explore crucial conflicts and the lives of astonishing individuals.

•The former slave who graduated from West Point
•The American who would be King of Mexico and Nicaragua
•The wild and crazy founder of modern special operations
•The man who taught the FBI to shoot
•The brave pilots 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
•British drug pushers in China -- The Opium Wars
•The Boer Wars and the British Concentration Camps
•The battle of Verdun
•An intelligence perspective on Benghazi
•The Battle of Fallujah and the lessons we have yet to learn

People who excite the imagination and battles that shaped the modern world.