Washington, D.C.— When 96-year-old Clarence Smoyer came to Washington on Wednesday, he thought he was heading to the Pentagon to sign copies of "Spearhead," a recent book detailing his exploits as a ...

In his new book, "Spearhead: The World War II Odyssey of an American Tank Gunner" (published by Ballantine Books), Adam Makos (the New York Times bestselling author of "A Higher Call") chronicles the ...

The last time Clarence Smoyer rode in a Sherman tank, he was a 21-year-old corporal in the U.S. Army. That was in 1945. But in Boston this week, the now-95-year-old Pennsylvania native got a huge ...

If 60 years of B-grade war movies have taught us anything, it’s that tanks are unstoppable lumbering behemoths with frightening firepower that terrorize a battlefield. But what’s it really like to ...

It was Adam Makos’ grandfathers’ service in World War II that inspired a career for their grandson, leading to Makos' deep interest in the military and the American heroes whose stories he feels is ...