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EVB2945253: Long lines of C-47 transports loaded with paratroopers at an English airfield, Sept. 17, 1944. Operation Market Garden would drop 34,600 airborne troops near key bridges in the Netherlands. A BRIDGE TO FAR, was a 1977 film based on Cornelius Ryan's 1974 book about the disastrous battle. World War 2 / Bridgeman Images
EVB2943897: Martha Eccles Dodd and her husband Alfred K. Stern in the late 1930s, when they began spying for the Soviet Union. Her earlier romantic life when she lived in Berlin with her father, U.S. Ambassador William Dodd, is detailed in Erik Larson's book, 'In the Garden of Beasts: Love, Terror, and an American Family in Hitler's Berlin' / Bridgeman Images