The crystal pitcher caught the light of the chandelier as it rose. For a single second, it was almost beautiful. The way the ice water arced through the air above...
October 21st, 1964. The red carpet outside the Odeon Leicester Square was the most glamorous stretch of pavement in the world that night. Floodlights turned the London evening into a...
London, 1965. The flash bulbs were relentless. Outside the Warner Theatre in Leicester Square, the crowd had been waiting since the afternoon. They pressed against the metal barriers, necks craned,...
The cameras had stopped rolling. The scene was finished. The crew began moving to reset for the next setup. But in the center of the sound stage, Audrey Hepburn sat...
November 2nd, 1961, the marble steps of Radio City Music Hall gleamed under a thousand flash bulbs as Hollywood’s most elegant star emerged from the premiere of Breakfast at Tiffany’s....
March 1945, the Rhine River, Germany. The river was 40 m wide in March in Germany. The water temperature was approximately 4° C, just above freezing. The current was strong...
In the winter of 1943, a British commando named William Sykes sat across a table from a group of American OSS recruits in a converted Scottish manor house and told...
August 1914, the German war machine is rolling across the Belgian frontier. They have the staggering numbers, they have the heavy artillery, and they have an absolute unshakable belief in...
January 1943, the Lulworth Armoured Fighting Vehicle Gunnery School, Dorset, England. A new tank rolls onto the firing range. It moves like a Cromwell. It sounds like a Cromwell, but...
three extra bullets. That was the difference between living and dying in the Second World War. The 11th of June 1944, a flooded field south of Cararan in Normandy, a...