Angelina Jolie at AFI FEST 2015. Courtesy of Jason Merritt/Getty Images.
The only painting Winston Churchill painted during World War II is hitting the auction block and it has a very unlikely consignor. The work, which the former prime minister originally gifted to US President Franklin D. Roosevelt, is being offered at Christie’s by the actress and philanthropist Angelina Jolie.
The intimate scene, which carries an estimate of £1.5 million to £2.5 million ($2.1 million to $3.4 million), will lead Christie’s modern British evening sale on March 1.
Before finding its way into the collection of Hollywood royalty, the picture was passed from FDR to his son Elliott Roosevelt. The Jolie Family Collection has owned
The Queen s Gambit and the streamer s newest addition to the genre is no different.
The Dig, a drama film released Jan. 29, is set in the English countryside during World War II, and tells the true story of the groundbreaking (pun very much intended) archeological dig that would come to be known as Sutton Hoo. During the excavation, led by Basil Brown (played in the film by Ralph Fiennes), archeologists discovered multiple Anglo-Saxon burial sites dating back to the sixth and seventh centuries, including a remarkably well-preserved and undisturbed ship burial containing hundreds of artifacts widely considered to be among the most important in British history.
Internment Camps in Scotland
A little-known network of internment camps operated in Scotland during World War II.
During the Second World War units of the Polish Army who had escaped from Nazi Europe were based in Scotland, protecting the North Sea coast from possible German invasion. They were joined by Jewish soldiers in Anders Army, freed after the German invasion of Russia, who reached Britain through Iran, Palestine and the journey round Africa. There were about a thousand Jewish soldiers in the Polish Army in Scotland and their bases were considered to be sovereign Polish territory. This is the story of the Jewish soldiers, their positive and negative experiences of these dark times.
British Commanders Underestimated Italian Forces at Bir el Gubi (and Paid the Price)
When planning the relief of Tobruk in late 1941, British Eighth Army commanders brusquely discounted the opposition they would face from Italian armored forces.
Here s What You Need to Know: The first armored battle of Operation Crusader was an Axis more appropriately, an Italian victory.
February 1941 saw the fortunes of war favor the British in the North African wasteland of Cyrenaica (modern Libya). Two months prior the Italian 10th Army, over 250,000 strong under Marshal Rodolfo Granziani, had been swept from the area sustaining 12,000 men killed and missing, another 130,000 captured, with the loss of 400 tanks, hundreds of aircraft, as well as 850 artillery pieces.