The Greatest War Stories Never ToldRick Beyer, the author of the acclaimed History Channel series The Greatest Stories Never Told, returns with new historic tales, this time focusing on amazing war stories Search the annals of military history and you will discover no end of quirky characters and surprising true stories: The topless dancer who saved the Byzantine Empire; the World War I battle that was halted so a soccer game could be played; the scientist who invented a pigeon guided

and new meaning to an American classic

You go to prison or your grave and kill your own father

To add to his already strained moral compass

The Tap-Dancing Knife Thrower is a funny and candid account of the astonishing life of this 'lucky bastard'

Claire has always been happy with her life just as it is

Going step by step through his interviews

In Shiva to Shankara

Chiara was reading a novel

Janet Maslin of the New York Times has called Haigh's Bakerton stories "utterly

each contains breathtaking revelations critically important to the other story

A Strong Female Protagonist: Sarcastic

When a sudden earthquake strands Celia’s parents out of town