Pulitzer Prize winner Welsome's gripping, panoramic story reveals a vicious surprise attack on the United States and America's hunt for the perpetrator, Pancho Villa.
Following the Trinity explosion, the action shifted to Tinian in the Mariana Islands, some 1,300 miles southeast of Tokyo. Tinian, along with Guam and Saipan, had been captured in August of 1944 from the Japanese, and the three were being used as air bases for America’s newest long-range bomber, ...
His columns galloped on, fluid fingers moving parallel to each other, detouring frequently to search villages and ranches, hoping to catch the wily guerrilla leader before he disappeared forever. They passed looted haciendas, where the corpses of vaquero soldados filled the arroyos, and the few c...