April 1945. As the final gunfire in Europe gradually fell silent, the steel gates of Daau concentration camp were thrown open. But what awaited American soldiers behind the barbed wire...
There is a sentence I came across years ago in an afteraction reflection from an Australian patrol commander and it has stayed with me ever since. He said, “In Vietnam,...
At 0530 on December 16th, 1944, First Lieutenant Lyall Bu crouched in a frozen foxhole on Lanzeroth Ridge, watching a column of 500 German paratroopers emerge from the forest...
June 6th, 1944. 0630 hours, Omaha Beach, Normandy. Sergeant John Robert Slaughter of the 29th Infantry Division’s 116th Regiment waited through chestde water toward the beach. Machine gun fire...
The Vietnam War is often remembered through images of helicopter armadas lifting off from red dust landing zones, battalions pushing through elephant grass in extended lines, artillery walking its way...
The ballroom at the Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel was glowing with chandeliers and shining glasses of champagne on a cool night in March of 1973. About 200 of the most...
Clint Eastwood was in the middle of the most important scene of the film when the producer walked onto the set. The year was 1976. The movie was The...
Richard Xanic was the most powerful man in Hollywood. He had greenlighted more hits than anyone in history. So when Clint Eastwood walked into his office with a script...
A 24-year-old contract player named Clint Eastwood sat in the office of Universal Studios casting director Robert Palmer expecting to discuss his next role. Instead, Palmer handed him a...
Clint Eastwood stared at the phone bill on his kitchen table, $63. He had $42 in his checking account. His wife Maggie was pregnant with their first child. The...