Annie Jacobsen is the author of the Pulitzer Prize–finalist in history The Pentagon’s Brain, the New York Times bestsellers Area 51 and Operation Paperclip,and other books. She was a contributing editor at the Los Angeles Times Magazine. A graduate of Princeton University, she lives in Los Angeles with her husband and two sons.
A powerful story of war in our time, of love of country, the experience of tragedy, and a Platoon at the center of it all This is a story that starts off close and goes very big. The initial part of the story might sound familiar at first: It ...