by Tom Preston | May 23, 2026 | Heros, Latest, People, War
Shot down while flying a reconnaissance mission at the height of the Cold War, Francis Gary Powers’s story of being captured and exchanged for a Russian spy went on to be immortalised in Steven Spielberg’s Bridge of Spies. His son, Gary Powers Jr discusses...
by Tom Preston | May 23, 2026 | Heros, War
Antony Penrose knew next to nothing about his mother, Lee Miller’s life before he was born, in his own words, he had “dismissed her as being a useless drunk who’d achieved nothing,” he says. It wasn’t until after his mother’s death in 1977 that his outlook on...
by Tom Preston | May 23, 2026 | Latest, Present Day, War
Jack El-Hai published the book The Nazi and the Psychiatrist in 2013; last year, it was adapted into Nuremberg, a film depicting the psychological standoff between Hermann Göring and psychiatrist Douglas Kelley before the Nuremberg trials. But what inspired El-Hai to...
by Tom Preston | May 23, 2026 | Latest, People
Centring on the life of Hugh Glass, a 19th-century fur trapper who survives a near-fatal grizzly bear attack, Tom Preston delves into the historical truth behind The Revenant for HistoFlick to reveal just how far the triple Oscar-winning epic strays from reality. One...
