Rock history is full of nights that cameras never captured but witnesses never forgot. 1981 London a CDC had just wrapped one of the loudest, most electrifying arena shows of...
1974, whispers were spreading backstage. Led Zeppelin’s members were there, the Undisputed Kings of Rock in the 70s, and they were talking about Queen. This band will never make it....
Stalenrad. September 23rd, 1942. 3:3047 p.m. Vasilei Zaitzv lies motionless on the third floor of a bombout department store. Through his scope, he can see 11 German soldiers. They can’t...
March 8th, 1944. Hill 700 Bugenville. The American perimeter was cracking under the weight of the Japanese 23rd Infantry’s relentless night assaults. Major General John Hester watched his 37th Infantry...
October 1944. The boardrooms of the Allied High Command in France were thick with smoke and heavy with tension. General George S. Patton, the man they called Old Blood and...
May 12th, 1943. 11:40 in the morning. St. Marie Duzette, Tunisia. The dust settles over a landscape stripped of everything it once was. Broken equipment lines the road. Burned vehicles,...
May the 10th, 1942, 11:23 in the morning. A black staff car turns off the Cockfosters’s road in Middle Sex and passes through a pair of iron gates framed by...
August the 8th, 1944. Just after the first light, a sunken lane somewhere in the Normandy Boage. Hedros rising 10 ft on either side, thick as castle walls and twice...
In 1982, a young British paratrooper was dug into a freezing observation post on the hills above Goose Green in the Faulland Islands. He had been watching Argentine positions for...
The Queen Mother owned over 450 raceh horses across her lifetime. She attended every major race meeting. She bet heavily, and when she lost, which was often, the bills went...