PN1501 Dr. James Mitchell had spent 15 years studying photographic archives at the New York Historical Society, but he had never seen anything quite like this. The portrait arrived in a donation box from an estate sale in Brooklyn, part of dozens of glass plate negatives wrapped in yellowed newspaper from 1923. Most showed typical late … Read more
Stepan Bandera was born on January 1, 1909, in the Ukrainian village of Stari Uhryniv, then part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. His father, Andriy, was a Greek Catholic priest, and his mother, Myroslava, was the daughter of a priest. When Bandera was five, the First World War reached the valley where the family lived. Trenches … Read more
Thirty chairs. That was the entire congregation at Prince Philip's funeral in April 2021. One of them held a woman who was not a Windsor at all. The press had a name for her: the Duke's mistress. That name hides far more than it reveals. Her own husband was not in the chapel. She had … Read more
At Prince Philip's funeral in April 2021, only 30 people were permitted to attend. Britain was still under COVID restrictions, and the pews of St. George's Chapel at Windsor sat almost entirely empty. Cameras captured a lone Queen Elizabeth sitting apart from her family, masked and quietly devastated. But among those 30 mourners, seated with … Read more
Wykonuję dobrą robotę. Nie jestem jednak typem faceta, który szpanuje na firmowych imprezach albo gra w korporacyjne gierki. Jestem niewidzialny w taki sposób, w jaki niewidzialni są często pracownicy średniego szczebla. Wystarczająco kompetentny, żeby mnie zatrzymać, ale nie na tyle imponujący, żeby mnie awansować. Znałem Dianę Ballard, zanim cokolwiek się między nami wydarzyło. Była moją … Read more
When Prince Philip was laid to rest on April 17, 2021, only 30 mourners were permitted inside St. George's Chapel at Windsor Castle because of pandemic restrictions. The Queen sat alone in black, wearing a black mask. Behind her filed the Prince of Wales, the Duke of York, and the Duke of Sussex. In the … Read more
In 1939, a man walked into one of Manhattan’s most exclusive restaurants and had papers thrown in his face. He was given one week to surrender half of everything he owned or die. His enemy controlled more money than some European nations and had never lost a battle in 40 years of organized crime. What … Read more
Otto Hermann Wilhelm Moll was born on March 4, 1915, in Hohen Schönberg, then part of the German Empire. When Reich President Hindenburg appointed Adolf Hitler as Reich Chancellor on January 30, 1933, Moll was 17 years old. After the Nazi takeover, the regime established a series of detention sites officially called concentration camps. In … Read more
Il salone da ballo sembrava uscito dalle pagine di una rivista, e ogni singolo dettaglio era stato scelto da mia nuora. I centrotavola, le sedie ricoperte di lino, le luci soffuse: tutto parlava di lei, del suo gusto, della sua mano. Ma io non ero lì per ammirare l’arredamento. Ero lì per la torta, per … Read more
In 1965, Anthony "Fat Tony" Salerno sat on a folding aluminum chair outside a store on East 115th Street. He wore a fedora tilted over his eyes and kept a damp, half-chewed cigar between his teeth. To passersby, he was just an old man watching traffic. To the underworld, he was the gravity that held … Read more