Sublime

Simons’s The Company They Keep: Life Inside the U.S. Army Special Forces (Simons 1998), and Dick Couch’s Chosen Soldier: The Making of a Special Forces Warrior (Couch 2007).

Samuel Whittemore, age seventy-eight, was working in his fields on April 19, 1775, when he spotted a brigade of British soldiers sent to assist the retreat of forces from Lexington and Concord. Whittemore loaded his musket and ambushed the soldiers from behind a nearby stone wall, killing one. He then drew his dueling pistols, killed a second soldi

Lewis’s was a vision of nonviolent social change that has more in common with the martyrs of old than with the politics of a given hour. “At the moment when I was hit on the bridge and began to fall,” Lewis recalled, “I really thought it was my last protest, my last march. I thought I saw death, and I thought, ‘It’s okay, it’s all right—I am doing

John K. Singlaub’s Hazardous Duty (Singlaub 1991).

father of two toddlers, his wife pregnant—he had gone back into the battle even after losing part of his left arm;

His Horse Soldiers: The Extraordinary Story of a Band of U.S. Soldiers Who Rode to Victory in Afghanistan (Stanton 2009),