June 15th, 1957. The music stopped for exactly 3 seconds when Audrey Hepburn walked straight toward Elvis Presley. 3 seconds. Long enough for half of Hollywood to wonder what could...
um it was a happy marriage uh they worked together and lived together so as I often say you know when you spend that much time she was Hollywood’s golden...
A winter morning in late 1993. A woman in her early 30s walks out of an LA Fitness gym in Earl’s Court, West London, carrying a sports bag. Her hair...
On 9 April 2002, the tenor bell of Westminster Abbey rang 101 times, once for each year of a life. 200,000 people had filed past her coffin during the four...
The set went silent before anyone understood why. One moment cameras were rolling, the next William Wyler’s voice cut through the entire studio like a blade. Cut. Not the usual...
It was the first week of September 1944 on a narrow paved road outside the town of Mons in southern Belgium and a Wehrmacht major named Heinrich von Dietz stood...
1939, the Leyland Motors Works, Hovel Lane, Lancashire, England. A six-wheeled truck rolls off the production line and onto the factory yard. It is 22 ft long, 7 and 1/2...
1927, a factory in Watford, Hertfordshire. A small firm of wheelwrights and coachbuilders rolls out a heavy truck designed for hauling logs in colonial oil fields. It has no armor,...
June 19th, 1944 11:22 hours, Philippine Sea, 140 miles north of Yap Island. The pencil shook in Lieutenant Junior Grade Jack Kiefer’s hand as he recorded the bearing in the...
December 17th, 1944. The Ardennes Forest, Belgium. Obergefreiter Hans Müller crouched in his frozen foxhole, writing words in his diary that would haunt him for the rest of his life....