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Lapse of Memory
"In 1913, Raymond Gram Swing got himself appointed Berlin correspondent of the ...
Slit Trench
General George S. Patton never allowed himself to flinch under fire and strongly...
Pacifism
The French ambassador to Washington, Jean Jusserand, once found himself discussi...
Barbarians
"I once talked to an old cannibal," the famed anthropologist Bronislaw Malinowsk...
Third Fleet
In October 1944, the Japanese circulated bulletins claiming that most of the shi...
Bitter Harvest
Barbara Bush once accompanied her husband, President George Bush, on a state vis...
General Patton: Celebration
Following the Normandy landings, General George Patton led the Allied sweep acro...
Deep Thought
In a meeting during World War I, Germany's Wilhelm II and the Netherlands' Queen...
P-Day?
"Shortly after D-Day when we landed at Carentan it was so great - I was elated a...
Delano
American observers in World War II monitoring Benito Mussolini's radio addresses...
Treaty of Versailles
"When the German delegation came to Marshal Foch at the end of the war to ask fo...
British Marine
While serving in the British merchant marine during World War I, Herbert Marshal...
Peter Ustinov: Tanks
"In January 1942, I received my call-up papers," Peter Ustinov once recalled. "A...
Whiner
The indignation of the Italians over the denial of their claims to the Adriatic ...
Civilized
Lytton Strachey, like the other philosophers, writers, and artists in the Blooms...
Triers
As the Allies advanced into Germany at the end of World War II, General Patton r...
Warner & Lockheed
After the historic attack on Pearl Harbor in December 1941, many Californians fe...
Wise Guy (long)
The Nobel Prize-winning physicist Richard Feynman was also an accomplished safec...
Phil Graham: Manic Maniac
Until his tragic suicide in 1963, Washington Post publisher Phil Graham s...
Psychosomatic Order?
In the Winter War of 1939-40, nine divisions of the Finnish army, answering an u...
Robert Oppenheimer: Bhagged
On July 16, 1945, the world's first atomic bomb exploded at a test site in Alamo...
Sheer Brilliance
The famed magician Jasper Maskelyne was commissioned during World War II to set ...
Wide Screen
During World War II, the famed magician Jasper Maskelyne was enlisted by the All...
XXXL?
During World War II, British soldiers discovered that placing a condom over a gu...
Allied Comrade?
During World War II Dashiell Hammett served on Adak in the Aleutian Islands, whe...
You Say.. Tomatoes!?
David Frost once interviewed Baldur von Schirach, the former head of the Hitler ...
By George
One morning late in the second World War, Walter Cronkite rang for his breakfast...
New Abode
One day during World War I, Winston Churchill visited France as a volunteer to o...
Happy Ending?
During the production of his classic Oscar-winning 1930 film ...
Little Italy
During the negotiations at Versailles following World War I, Woodrow Wilson adam...
Tall Order
During World War II, actor-to-be James Arness served as an infantryman in the Am...
Frank Knox: Caught Napping?
"No matter what happens, the U.S. Navy is not going to be caught napping," U.S. ...
Top Secret Leaflet
"John Gunther, the American writer and war correspondent, told me that he had as...
Loony Tesla?
Shortly before his death in 1943, the eccentric but brilliant inventor Nikola Te...
Young Walt Disney: Southern...
"Walt Disney made his first little nest egg as an 18-year-old ambulance driver i...
Search Partyer?
During World War II, Mel Brooks served as a corporal in the U.S. army. While on ...
Fifth Column Warning
US Ambassador to Germany James Gerard, having previously described Arthur Zimmer...
Last Request
While working as a correspondent during World War I, Irvin Cobb was sent to Belg...
Little Moustache
"During the war [World War II] my father was a meter reader," Eileen Atkins once...
Star of David
Shortly after occupying Denmark, Hitler decreed that all Danish Jews would have ...
Von Trauma?
Shortly after his victory at El Alamein, General Montgomery dined with the captu...
After the Blitz
"I boast of being the only man in London," New Statesman editor Kingsley ...
No Surrender
After suffering heavy casualties at the Argonne in World War I, General Summeral...
Holy Cow
Shortly after the United States entered World War II, Madame Chiang Kai-shek vis...
Nuclear Question
"I was at the first New Mexico test [of the atomic bomb] on 16 July," Edward Tel...
Neils Bohr: Secret Cargo
While being smuggled out of Denmark in a British Mosquito fighter-bomber at the ...
Stanley Baldwin: Bald Gener...
As financial secretary to the treasury, Stanley Baldwin was alarmed by the size ...
Oh Chute!
During World War II, Josephine Baker joined the French Resistance. Her subsequen...
Moronic Acid?
One day during World War I, a group of American chemists called upon Secretary o...
Christian Solution
During the German occupation of Denmark, Christian, disturbed by the sight of a ...
Coventry Cathedral
During the early 1960s, a comedian posing as Sir Basil Spence, the architect beh...
Blitz Report
"During the Nazi blitz of London in 1941, one of the Luftwaffe's raids destroyed...
Last Goodbye?
"The call demanding John Huston's service during World War II came by phone when...
Audrey Hepburn, 007
"In 1935 [six-year-old Audrey Hepburn] moved to Arnhem, in the Netherlands, with...
Biggest Fool?
Shortly after assuming office in 1945, president Harry Truman attended a series ...
Typewriter
While inspecting an office full of administrative volunteers one day during Worl...
Russian Judge
"England beat West Germany in 1966 for its only World Cup title thanks to an ove...
Marshal Petain
In June 1940, Charles de Gaulle brought Marshal Petain an offer from Winston Chu...
Hazy Prince
"Prince Louis Esterhazy's castle was near a big ammunition factory which explode...
Element 94
"How element 94 [plutonium] eventually got the name plutonium is an interesting ...
Fare Deal?
One afternoon in September 1926, French prime minister Aristide Briand met with ...
Historical Blokes
"The Battle of Britain was in full swing," James Lees-Milne recalled. "I was pos...
Stage Fright
One night in 1944, a V-2 rocket exploded outside the London theater where Alfred...
George V?
During World War II, in an effort to cut down on the use of fuel, England's King...
Sour Kraut?
One day during World War II, Pablo Picasso was visited by the German Gestapo in ...
Fanfair
In 1944, King Haakon - leader of the exiled Norwegian government in London durin...
Motivation
One day during the early stages of World War I, British prime minister Herbert A...
Big Eater?
"During the Munich crisis in 1939," famed opera impresario Rudolf Bing once reca...
Bombshell Bimbo
"Diana Cooper's capacity for abstract thought seems to have been roughly that of...
War Effort
When America entered World War I in 1917, Columbia University president Nicholas...
Date with Destiny?
On April 11, 1917, Soviet leader Vladimir Ilyich Lenin called the U.S. consul in...
Jungle Hideaway
On January 24, 1972, sergeant Shoichi Yokoi, a soldier in the Imperial Japanese ...
Peekaboo Bangs
In 1942, Veronica Lake's famous 'peek-a-boo' hairstyle (characterized by long, w...
Krenek
"The newly exiled composer Ernst Krenek was applauded politely when he played th...
Ammunition (long)
"On August 4, 1914, I went to Edinburgh where accommodation had been taken for a...
Shoichi Yokoi
In 1974, Hiroo Onoda, a lieutenant in the Imperial Japanese Army, was discovered...
Victory Celebration
Following the end of World War II, Winston Churchill toured the battlefields bet...
Ritzy Accomodation
During World War I, Alexander Woollcott (a sergeant in the Medical Corps) and hi...
Foch!
During World War I, Marshal Foch's driver Pierre was frequently pestered by repo...
Fascius XII?
Nancy Astor got her biggest laugh in the House of Commons (unintentionally) when...
'Killer' Joke
One day during World War II, Oscar Levant was called in to appear before the dra...
Chunky Chesterton
During World War I, a young woman handing out white feathers in Fleet Street reb...
World Peace
In the early stages of World War I, Henry Ford - aiming to appeal to heads of st...
France & the Brits
While visiting New York one day during World War II, Jean Gabin was asked by a r...
Casablanca
"The Nazis were understandably anxious to kill Winston Churchill, Franklin Roose...
Indiscretion
"No secret of the war [World War I] was better kept than the departure of the Br...
Bed-Ridden Soldiers?
During World War II, Joyce Grenfell and her accompanist Viola Tunnard toured hos...
By Jeeves!
"The Germans, in their literal way, took P. G. Wodehouse's works as a guide to E...
Alarming Assumption
"[One day During World War II] George VI and his queen decided to test the Bucki...
MacArthur
"As the sun came up [Douglas MacArthur] might have been seen by his fellow offic...
Battle of Britain
"There is no denying that the Supermarine Spitfire, the most famous plane in the...
Stalin & the Pope
At the end of World War II, FDR suggested that Pius XII should be among those co...
Laurens van der Post U
South African author Sir Laurens van der Post led commando units during World Wa...
Bette Midler: German Marriage
"I married a German," Bette Midler remarked one day after her wedding to Martin ...
Thor Heyerdahl: Workaholic
"In 1939, [Norwegian anthropologist and adventurer] Thor Heyerdahl and his famil...
Dwight Eisenhower: Verbal B...
Dwight Eisenhower was not immune to verbal bloopers. While serving during the Se...
John Ford: 1941 Academy Awards
Director Frank Capra hosted the 1941 Academy Awards. Some time after introducing...
Will Rogers: Patriotic Heckler
"Will Rogers was delivering one of his famous topical monologues in the great Zi...
Royal Treatment
In 1931, Douglas Bader lost his legs in a flying accident. Fitted with artificia...
Weseruebungle?
On February 21st, 1940, Adolf Hitler ordered General Mikolaus von Falkenhorst to...
World War?
On July 2nd 1921, the historic World Heavyweight Championship bout between Jack ...
Worldly Wisdom
In 2002 London's Paul Linch, on his way to Scotland to attempt a world-record br...
Hasty Order
One day following the end of World War I, General Louis Lyautey asked his garden...
POW!
Major-General Sverre Bratland was involved in the capture of large numbers of Ge...
Seaman's Best Friend
On New Year's Day, in 1915, the British battleship Formidable was hit by a U-boa...
Yakov
Though many Red Army soldiers were captured by the Nazis during World War II, Jo...
War Crime?
"On April 10, 1940, the day after Hitler's troops entered Denmark and Norway, [t...
Great War
James Joyce's entire formal education came at the hands of the Jesuits. By the t...
Soulful Soil
During World War I, the poet Philip Thomas was asked what he thought he was figh...
Schnabel
In 1940, Artur Schnabel's son Stefan, an aspiring actor, met with a publicity ag...
The Art of War?
Just after the advent of World War I, Pablo Picasso was standing on a street in ...
John Christie: Serious News
On July 15, 1939, after the final curtain fell at the Glyndebourne Opera house o...
Royal Rations
"The King and Queen paid a visit to Lancashire during the war, when
I was Chief...
Hornblower
Among C. S. Forester's fans was the wily Winston Churchill: "For the frst time f...
Nazi Paratroopers
"Most of the Nazis I found struggling out of their parachutes on
English soil [...
War Effort
During World War II, Marlene Dietrich did her part for the war effort by persuad...
Levi's Liberation
During World War II, Primo Levi was liberated from the notorious concentration c...
Montgomery
In 1944, Alan Brooke, chief of the imperial general staff, remarked to King Geor...
Dense Notion?
"A lot of [James Bond creator] Ian Fleming's ideas, when he was personal assista...
Niemoller
In the 1930s, Martin Niemoller was a Protestant pastor and head of the anti-Nazi...
Noteworthy?
In 1918, near the end of World War I, Ernest Hemingway was wounded at Fossalta d...
Dandy Timing
The director Michael Curtiz was famed for his hard-driving no-nonsense nature. H...
Recording Blitz
"There were holes in the road the morning I had to get to the Decca studios in W...
Hollywood Moment
At the Academy Awards dinner in 1942, the legendary director Cecil B. De Mille a...
Over the Top
"I went to America in 1914 and got myself a job with a small picture agency," Ke...
AEF
On July 4th, 1917, the American Expeditionary Forces (AEF), having arrived in Eu...
Tattoosh
"The only time the upper classes have taken to tattooing in a big way," British ...
Monks of Nashdom
"At the beginning of the war," Colin Stephenson once recalled, "the monks of Nas...
License to Cook?
One day during World War II, a woman joined the OSS (Office of Strategic Service...
Star-Crossed Astrologer
In the space of a few weeks shortly before the onset of World War II, the outsta...
Silly Bureaucracy
"Once [during World War II] when our units were operationally very busy," John B...
C in C
Throughout World War II, the New York Times printed lists of U.S. armed f...
Military Intelligence
In 1943, the British Royal Air Force (RAF) bombed a nondescript printing plant i...
Victorian Code
Queen Victoria, famed for her strong sense of duty and strict moral code, presid...
Atomic Blooper
The Manhattan Project (to build an atomic bomb during World War II) was not with...
One-Man Submarine
"During the advance through Southern Holland a German one-man submarine was foun...
Hemingway in Paris
Shortly after wedding his first wife, Hadley Richardson, in Chicago in September...
In the Nick
During World War II, future-president Richard Nixon served as a Navy supply offi...
It Happened One Night?
Adolf Hitler was among Clark Gable's most fervent admirers. Indeed, such was Hit...
One Soldier
"When the question was raised [during World War I] as to what was the smallest n...
War Effort
On May 11, 1944, Evelyn Waugh, seeking to assist with the war effort, spoke with...
Ocean Chess
During World War II, the U.S. Navy enlisted world champion chess
player Reuben ...
Jutland
At the battle of Jutland in 1916, Admiral David Beatty, commanding one arm of th...
East Enders
During the Blitz, Buckingham Palace received nine direct hits, including one fro...
Bishop & Goering
While visiting Berlin one day between the wars, legendary Canadian flying ace Bi...
Last War
"In mid-March 1938, when Freud was 81, the Nazis took over Austria, and after so...
Brotherly Love?
Like most of the other philosophers, writers, and artists in the Bloomsbury Grou...
Swallow Sidecar
In the 1920s, William Lyons founded the Swallow Sidecar Company Limited. When th...
Lucky Luciano
In 1936, legendary New York gangster Lucky Luciano, dubbed "the czar of organize...
Royal Air Farce?
When Great Britain declared war in 1939, Evelyn Waugh enlisted in the Royal Mari...
Allied Lines?
While inspecting a British section of the Allied lines one day after the success...
JFK: War Hero
During World War II, John F. Kennedy served in the US navy and fought in the Pac...
Churchill Tank
In 1942, with the war in North Africa at a critical stage, Winston Churchill - t...
Limp Story
Too short to be an American pilot during World War I, William Faulkner adopted a...
Room 40
During World War I, Sir Alfred Ewing's legendary naval intelligence office 'Room...
Adolf Hitler: Good Riddance
In April 1945, Adolf Hitler committed suicide inside his bunker. "The smaller fr...
Chicken-Feed
"During the Anglo-American occupation after World War II the German economic dir...
Nuisances
As munitions minister during World War I, David Lloyd George faced many difficul...
Finland
One day at a low point in Dorothy Parker's career, John Gilbert graciously lent ...
Lights Out
"In Whitehall that evening [August 3, 1914], shortly after Germany had declared ...
Freedom of Speech?
In 1919, Charles Schenck, general secretary of the Socialist Party, was convicte...
Peace For Our Time
On September 30th, 1938, British prime minister Neville Chamberlain returned fro...
War to End All War
At the outbreak of World War I, with popular patriotism at its peak, the slogan ...
Cooper's Goat
"During the Second World War, Diana Cooper ran a smallholding at her
cottage ne...
French Capitulation
"Within hours of the French capitulation [in 1940, in the early stages of World ...
Lord of Vengeance
Winston Churchill was First Lord of the Admiralty in the early stages of World W...
Delicieux
Although French prime minister Georges Clemenceau was in his seventies during Wo...
Fourteen Points
Woodrow Wilson's ambitious plans for peace after World War I (including the form...
Explosive Situation
"On the eve of World War I, the chemist Chaim Weizmann - a fiery Zionist [and fu...
Pearl Harbor
On December 7th, 1941, Joan Crawford was informed of the tragic fact that Pearl ...
Just a War?
Shortly after the release of Michael Bay's Pearl Harbor, many survivors o...
Stamp of Immaturity?
Charles I became Emperor of Austria (and, as Charles IV, king of Hungary) follow...
Loss of China
"[During World War II, Madame Chiang Kai-shek] addressed the American Congress, ...
Kim Il Dung
North Korean historians still claim that it was Kim Il Sung and his fighters - r...
Jay Mohr: Thanks for the Sa...
"When I do my shows," Jay Mohr once remarked, "I explain to the audience that I'...
William F. Buckley: Young Buck
William F. Buckley's reputation as a rabblerouser was firmly established at an e...
Penicillin Plot
"History gives most of the credit for this revolutionary drug [penicillin] to Al...
Little Scavenger
"I was twelve when war [World War II] broke out," Jimmy Savile later recalled. "...
Fumimaro Konoye: Hemorrhoids
Japanese Prime Minister Fumimaro Konoye suffered from a severe case of hemorrhoi...
Liberace: That's Tallllllll...
Liberace once made his way into Ripley's Believe It or Not... for hitting...
Sigmund Freud: Potatoes
"World War I was a turning point for Sigmund Freud [all three of whose sons were...
Crossword Overlord?
"In the months leading up to D-Day, the Daily Telegraph's crossword conta...
Mel Brooks: Wartime Enterta...
While serving overseas (as a combat engineer) during World War II, Mel Brooks or...
Aneurin Bevan: Wartime Cens...
During World War II, British politician Aneurin Bevan observed that censorship w...
Bush Family Sleaze
"Imagine if word leaked that FDR's dad was knocking back sakes with Hirohito's i...
Ernest Hemingway: To Picass...
"Ernest Hemingway covered both the Spanish Civil War and World War II as a war c...
Graham Greene: Lucky in Love
Graham Greene had casual liaisons with several women and serious affairs with at...
Queen Mary: War Effort
"Queen Mary, in her advancing years, took the wartime appeal for salvage and scr...
Egon Friedell's Famous Last...
Following the Nazi annexation of Austria, the famed Viennese author, critic, and...
V
During World War II, the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) played the openi...
Charlotte Grey
In 2001, Gillian Armstrong directed Charlotte Grey, which follows Charlot...
Field Latrine
"Life following the Allies into Germany as a Red Cross nurse [during World War I...
Amy Lowell: Stop the War
Amy Lowell was visiting London in 1914 when World War I broke out. Late for an a...
Naval Misdemeanour
During the Second World War, the famed geologist Douglas Shearman served as a ra...
Nuts?
Some time before the Manhattan Project was launched, Leo Szilard sent Isidor Rab...
Toil, Tears, and Sweat?
Following the British defeat at Dunkirk in June 1940, Winston Churchill's famous...
Heavy Shelling
"One night," Roland Pertwee recalled of World War I, "Aglionby, the adjutant, an...
Patton's Apology
One day in August 1943, General George Patton, then in command of America's forc...
Edward Thomas
"On the morning of Easter Monday, 1917, Edward Thomas volunteered to occupy a fo...
Royal Defiance
After Buckingham Palace received nine direct hits during the Blitz, the Queen Mo...
Nuclear Reaction?
On August 6, 1945, when the first nuclear bomb was dropped on Hiroshima, 282,000...
Pessimist?
Prior to leaving Palestine for England in August 1945, Arthur Koestler stopped o...
Wavell
"When General Wavell rightly decided to evacuate Somaliland, and
carried out a ...
Mad Scientist
While describing the simplicity of the chemical weapons produced during World Wa...
Heisenberg's Bomb?
Despite ample opportunity to leave, the famed physicist Werner Heisenberg chose ...
Indomitable Astor
"Nobody who saw Lady Astor, as I did," Noel Coward recalled, "when Plymouth was ...
War Effort
In 1941, a delegation led by Canadian prime minister William Lyon Mackenzie King...
Hans Augusto Rey: Wonderful...
"In 1940, [children's book author Hans Augusto Rey] and his wife were in Paris w...
John Kerry: Sense of Adventure
John Kerry: "I was in Berlin as a boy [where his father was a legal advisor to t...
Devil in the Details
"'If you cannot learn to live with Communists,' he [Norman Thomas] told his audi...
Not So Cherwell
During World War II, the British government was advised by Lord Cherwell, Winsto...
Colditz Castle
Despite his many escape attempts, Britain's Brigadier Jock Hamilton-Baillie was ...
General Unleaded
During World War II, Yugoslavian guerilla leader General Mihailovitch made a dea...
Hubble's Bazooka
Edwin Hubble's exploration of the cosmos was interrupted by World War II. The fa...
Lucky Beryl
"I was in digs in Sheffield when I was bombed out far the first time," Beryl Rei...
Paddy Chayefsky?
Born in the Bronx in 1923, Sidney Chayefsky began calling himself Paddy during W...
Kelvedon Gates
"A tiresome letter has just come, saying that the Kelvedon gates are to be requi...
Shawcross Principle
At the Nuremberg trial in 1945, Hartley Shawcross presented the prosecution case...
Operation Guano
During World War II, President Franklin Delano Roosevelt approved a secret plan ...
G.I. Joe
"G.I. Joe" was once awarded the Dickins Medal for saving a thousand British sold...
Peace in our Time
Noel Coward and Ivor Novello were watching a newsreel together in the Tivoli cin...
Dilettanti
"Although the fate of Poland stares them in the face," Winston Churchill declare...
Air-Sick
"I ended the war as an air-gunner cameraman," Richard Attenborough once recalled...
Once Upon a Time
"Delius returned to England from France in 1918 with a new orchestral work for t...
Smoking Kills
On September 15th, 1945, the avant-garde composer Anton von Webern stepped out o...
Patton Blooper
In 1945, shortly after the Allied victory in World War II, General George Patton...
Rocket Scientist
"By the late 1930s [the pioneering rocket scientist Robert Goddard] grew trouble...
Colin Powell / Hershey Bar
"I've had a wealthy Japanese businessman come into my office," Colin Powell once...
Evelyn Waugh: Friendly Banter
"During the Second World War, Evelyn Waugh was talking to a friend who had manag...
Royal Rockets
"On January 21, 1915, Queen Alexandra wrote Fisher a letter which must have asto...
Jelly D'Aranyi
"At the Star and Garter hospital for paralysed soldiers at Richmond one day in 1...
Championship Cup
"Suzanne Lenglen, the French tennis champion began her meteoric career by winnin...
MacArthur in the Philippines
In early 1942, it became apparent to the Allies that Bataan, American's last foo...
Battle of the Bulge?
During the Battle of the Bulge in World War II, Anthony McAuliffe commanded the ...
Haber Process
The so-called Haber process, developed by the famed chemist Fritz Haber in 1909,...
Marksman
"During the East African campaign hostilities were not carried out as ruthlessly...
State of Emergency
Sir Thomas Beecham, who spent much of World War II in Australia and the Americas...
Prison Camp
"Nilgata, in Japan, was one of the worst prison camps," Douglas Ford recalled. "...
Grave Moment
"As I went towards company headquarters to wake the officers," Robert Graves rec...
Army Physical
Legendary B-movie producer Samuel Arkoff was a year shy of earning his bachelor'...
Eudora Welty / Michael Ravenna
During World War II, Eudora Welty wrote reviews on battlefield reports for ...
Praise Phrase
"Forgy was a chaplain aboard the cruiser New Orleans when the Japanese attacked ...
Legion of Honour
Lord Boothby dined with Winston Churchill for the last time at the Council of Eu...
Army Temperance Society
In October 1914, Lord Birkenhead, stationed on the Western Front, wrote an impor...
Too Much Proof
"Weeks ago [during World War II] we were all given green cards and white armlets...
Round the Corner Surprise
"Round the corner of an orange grove in Italy Eric Ambler came face to face with...
Black Boxers
During World War II (long before the civil rights movement), Joe Louis and Sugar...
Putin's Mother
Russian President Vladimir Putin was very nearly never born. His mother fainted ...
Battle for Iwo Jima
"The battle for Iwo Jima was a particularly bloody one, even by the wasteful sta...
Proper Austrians
During a state visit to Sarajevo on June 28th, 1914, the car in which Francis Fe...
Sweaty Palms
In 1996, Kathie Lee Gifford was accused of using a Honduras sweatshop to produce...
Chomsky on Iraq
One evening in March 2003, Noam Chomsky delivered a lecture on the war in Iraq. ...
Makeshift Chapel
"We have a parson attached to us now," Raymond Asquith wrote in a letter home du...
Kindly Astor
"During World War I, Nancy Astor set up a Red Cross hospital at Cliveden. A very...
Warner & Goulding
Though Edmund Goulding agreed to direct the screen adaptation of John Van Druten...
Patriot
During his first visit to the Cannes film festival, Vince Vaughn was dismayed to...
Classic Koster
The director Henry Koster was forced to flee from Germany in the 1930s after pun...
Joe Higgins
Some time after his honorable discharge after World War I, Harold Ross met with ...
Orwell & the Blitz
Although he was shot in the throat by a sniper in the Spanish civil war (while f...
Austerity Dressing?
"Quite early in the war, Norman Hartnell was summoned to discuss the Queen's cos...
Dugout
"During the second battle of Arras [World War I]," Roland Pertwee later recalled...
German Armistice
"I asked Clemenceau how he heard that Germany was soliciting an armistice [durin...
Jewish Catholic Saint
"True heroes are indeed rare. Unique is Edith Stein, who went to her
death in A...
Gertrude Stein & Vichy France
In Wars I Have Seen, Gertrude Stein related the following story (generall...
Sakai
Following World War II, Saburo Sakai - the Imperial Japanese Navy's ace pilot wh...
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