Hong Kong, October 1972. The kind of afternoon where the humidity makes everything feel slightly more serious than it would elsewhere. The air thick and warm, the city outside going...
December 9th, 1971. Johnny Carson was sitting across from Bruce Lee on the Tonight Show stage when Bruce did something so fast, so impossible that it made Johnny Carson freeze...
On the 30th of March, 2002, a Saturday afternoon, the Queen Mother died peacefully in her sleep at Royal Lodge in Windsor Great Park. She was 101 years old. The...
In 2001, Channel 5 broadcast a documentary about Queen Elizabeth, the Queen Mother. She was 100 years old. She had outlived her husband by nearly half a century, outlived the...
1942, the Libyan desert. A British reconnaissance patrol spots German armor moving across the sand. In any other armored car, the crew’s only option would be to report the contact...
August 1940. As invasion panic gripped Britain, a demonstration was arranged for Winston Churchill. The weapon on display looked like a medieval siege engine crossed with a drain pipe. It...
August 19th, 1942. DEP, France. Canadian engineers sprinted across open beach toward German seaw walls and anti-tank obstacles. They carried demolition charges. They had no armored protection. German machine guns...
August 1942, a requisitioned mansion called the Fry, hidden in the Hertfordshire countryside about an hour north of London. Before the war, wealthy Londoners came here for weekend retreats. Now,...
The 24th of May, 1941. Somewhere in the freezing gray waters of the Denmark Strait, a brand new British battleship turned her bows towards the most powerful warship Germany had...
2012, a dry creek bed in the Dayrah wood district, Uruzgan province, southern Afghanistan. A 15-ton steel box rolls down a shallow embankment on four oversized wheels. It carries 10...