December 23rd, 1993. Michael Jackson was standing on the edge of Santa Monica Pier at 2:00 a.m. about to make the worst decision of his entire life. The allegations, the...
Jean Krooa, the greatest drummer in jazz history, walked into Elvis Presley’s recording session and laughed. Let’s have some fun, he said to the band. Let’s put the singer behind...
The door flew open. Jaafar screamed. Michael Jackson, the most recognizable face on the planet, was crouched inside a closet, knees pulled to his chest, grinning like he just won...
October 10th, 1988. Richfield Coliseum, Cleveland, Ohio. Mike Tyson walked into that arena the way he walked into every room that year. Like the air owed him something. 4 months...
July 1940, the Waterloo Iron Works, Andover, in the county of Hampshire. A flat steel monster rolls out of the workshop doors, 50 ft from coupling to tail, 8 ft...
1969, a scrapyard in the English Midlands. Men in coveralls drag a rust-streaked snouted truck onto a low loader and chain it down. The bonnet is a steel wedge. The...
July 1941. The Alexandria dockyard, Egypt. A crane arm swings out over the side of a cargo ship and hoists a small tank from the hold below. The machine rises...
1943, the White Motor Company factory, Cleveland, Ohio. A halftrack rolls off the production line with something bolted to its rear bed that does not belong on any troop carrier...
June 1940, a factory floor in Issy-les-Moulineaux, just outside Paris. German engineers in gray overalls move along a production line that was 6 weeks ago still French. They are inspecting...
In the Tank Museum at Bovington, there is a vehicle that I find myself standing in front of for longer than any other machine in the collection. Not the Tiger,...