Jim Stempel

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  • May 24, 2023
    It sounded at first like a thunderstorm, distant, rumbling. Then the ground began to shake as grinding columns of tanks and tracked transports finally emerged from the dense...
  • Apr 20, 2023
    It is dawn, August 2, 216 BC and lightning is about to strike the Roman Republic. On a ridge overlooking the expansive plain, Hannibal Barca watches as a massive Roman force. Eight...
  • Mar 21, 2023
    A light rain had begun to fall out of a pewter grey sky, spattering dirt as the troops slowly made their way toward the river. Each man had been ordered to pack sixty rounds of...