Military Tales: Loosely Based on Factual History

History has a bad habit of being way more ridiculous than the textbooks let on. Military Tales: Loosely Based on Factual History digs into some of the wildest true stories ever produced by warfare-the people, animals, weapons, desperate plans, and occasionally spectacularly stupid decisions that somehow became part of military history. Meet Sergeant Reckless, the little Korean War horse who hauled ammunition through enemy fire like she had somewhere important to be. Follow the bizarre story of the "Devil Duck," and the kind of military thinking that begins with an insane idea and somehow ends with somebody saying, "Yeah, let's try it." See what happens when overwhelming firepower becomes a lesson in Proportional Response. And meet the soldiers, guerrillas, commanders, misfits, and absolute maniacs behind stories like Fury and The Undignified Guerrilla-people whose real exploits sound suspiciously like somebody made them up after several beers. These aren't dry textbook summaries. They're military stories told the way good stories should be told: with the important history intact, the boring parts stripped away, and enough humor to remind you that the people making history were still very much people. Some were brilliant. Some were terrifying. Some were ridiculous. And some managed to be all three. Welcome to Military Tales. The history is real. The storytelling is considerably less disciplined.