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FILE - This May 15, 2000, file photo, shows Pulitzer Prize-winning author Herman Wouk in Palm Springs, Calif. Wouk died in his sleep early Friday, May 17, 2019, according to his literary agent Amy Rennert. He was 103. (AP Photo/Douglas L. Benc Jr., File)

WWII Vet Herman Wouk, Author of 'Caine Mutiny' and 'Winds of War,' Dies at 103

After the bombing of Pearl Harbor Wouk enlisted in the Navy and served as an officer in the Pacific.

Retired Navy Adm. William H. McRaven. (Flickr/Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff/Sean K. Harp)

McRaven: Anyone Calling Millennials 'Soft' Has Never Seen Them in a Firefight

Retired Navy Adm. William H. McRaven is here to tell you that millennial haters have no idea what they're talking about.

Former SEAL Remi Adeleke Wants the Military to Take More Chances on Inner City Kids

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Author Mark Bowden Revisits the True Story of ‘Black Hawk Down’

Mark Bowden wrote the newspaper articles and book that inspired Ridley Scott's masterpiece war movie. He talked with us about...

William Holden stars in the 1969 classic "The Wild Bunch." (Warner Bros.-Seven Arts)

Epitaph for All: How 'The Wild Bunch' Takes Men to the End

Few movies had told a story like this one by 1969 -- and told it in such a visceral, bloody, and confrontational way.

In this May 13, 2011 file photo, historian and author David McCullough poses at the National Portrait Gallery, in Washington. The Pulitzer Prize-winning historian's latest work, “The Pioneers: The Heroic Story of the Settlers Who Brought the American Ideal West,” focuses on some of those who embarked to the Northwest Territory in the late 18th century and formed communities in what became the state of Ohio. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin, File)

David McCullough's Uncanny Journey to Ohio's Historical Past

"The Pioneers: The Heroic Story of the Settlers Who Brought the American Ideal West" is the historian's latest book.

Colin Firth is set to star in the movie adaptation of "Operation Mincemeat."

Movie Will Show How WWII's 'Operation Mincemeat' Helped Ensure an Allied Victory

The British WWII counterintelligence operation used a dead body to mislead Germany about Allied plans to invade Sicily in 194...

Panel from the upcoming graphic novel "Battle Born: Lapis Lazuli," a full-color, feature-length story that follows Sgt. King as he leads his Marines in a fight against the Taliban. (Image courtesy of Max Uriarte)

'Terminal Lance' Creator Takes Marines into a Cold-Weather Fight in New Book

The full-color, feature-length story takes an all-new cast of Marine characters to the mountains of Afghanistan.

Quadruple Amputee Marine Opens Up About the Moment That Helped Him Overcome Depression

Retired Marine Sgt. John Peck has a new book called “Rebuilding Sergeant Peck: How I Put Body and Soul Back Together After Af...

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