Leica Sighting | Das Boot

Leica Sighting | Das Boot

A chrome Leica III in Wolfgang Petersen’s Das Boot, 1981. The actor Herbert Grönemeyer shoots with it in a couple of scenes and also has the lens off in one scene, wiping down the body.
Morocco | Mehfiz

Morocco | Mehfiz

Stumbled across, and almost into, a group of young men in Mehfiz, somewhat near Khamlia in the Sahara. These guys were at an open crevasse, mining for coal and quartz by hand. They did have some heavy machinery near by but almost all of their work was performed...
John Keegan | The Battle of Trafalgar

John Keegan | The Battle of Trafalgar

All the rigging was cut to pieces, the masts damaged by a number of shot, the guns in the upper decks dismounted. I was wounded by a splinter….the Admiral [Villeneuve] ordered the few men remaining on the upper decks—they were now useless, having no guns left...
Stonewall Jackson

Stonewall Jackson

Stonewall Jackson, one of the great and almost mythical military genius’ of the Civil War, was mistakenly shot by his own men on the night of May 2, 1863 at the The Battle of Chancellorsville. Dr. McGuire, present at his deathbed, captured Jackson’s last...
George S. Patton

George S. Patton

Though it is worthy of complaint that Patton is too often quoted, I still enjoy his ostentatious style and absolute mastery of logistics. Here are some favorites: “Audacity, audacity, always audacity.” “A good plan violently executed now is better than a perfect...
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