June 1940. Britain stands alone. The army has just escaped Dunkirk, but they left everything behind. Tanks, artillery, machine guns, and critically anti-tank…
1944 The Oval Office. According to Stanley Levelvel’s memoir, OSS director William Donovan stood behind President Roosevelt as he dictated a letter to…
Late 1943, somewhere in Britain, engineers gathered around what looked like a farming accident welded to a tank. Two massive steel arms jutted…
Late 1939, Britain approves a new standard rifle, the number four Lee Enfield, but it is still a bolt-action design with an action…
A windowless room at 84 Avenue Fch, Paris, SD headquarters. A British agent sits handcuffed to a chair. He has been searched three…
Normandy, 1944. A German Panther commander scans the horizon through his cupella. Open ground ahead, maybe 3,000 meters to the next treeine. No…
Nobody believed Robert Redford could direct. 1979, America’s golden boy wanted to step behind the camera. Hollywood’s reaction, laughter. Stick to acting, pretty…
They were never supposed to meet again. 1955 Van NY High School. A blonde boy and a brunette girl. Lockers side by side.…
Eddie Torres had been a camera operator for 12 years. He’d seen everything. Tantrums, affairs, breakdowns, fist fights. But he’d never seen this.…
Nobody on the set of Inside Daisy Clover knew why Natalie Wood kept her distance from Robert Redford. She’d arrive early, leave as…