Even when she was heartbreaking on screen, she was luminous-a woman who appeared to glide through a charmed, effervescent life. To this day, she’s remembered as the ultimate Givenchy girl, an ethereal presence who took her breakfasts at Tiffany’s, and always in a little black dress. This image, of wartorn tenacity, is hardly the type associated with Hepburn in the popular imagination. What has been largely forgotten is that among those courageous souls was… a teenaged Audrey Hepburn? For about a week, in fact, the future movie star kept a Red Devil hidden in the cellar. Nevertheless, the bravery of those Airborne “Red Devils” has lived on in pop culture, as have the Dutch resistance fighters who sheltered them. A technical failure by the Allied Powers to defeat the Nazis in 1944, this invasion of the Netherlands left British paratroopers stranded around a bridge in Arnhem, far too removed from their tanks to hold the line. In stories of doomed World War II gallantry, little is as romanticized as Operation Market Garden.
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