Boys from the Bridge Author:Sebastian Seeba Abineri The Boys from the Bridge: The Story of Attenborough's Private Army — In 1976, twenty-one-year-old Sebastian Abineri was cast in Richard Attenborough's epic war film A Bridge Too Far. He joined "Attenborough's Private Army" (APA), a group of young British actors, who were brought together to train under the eagle eye of... more » a former director of the SAS to represent the heroic band of patroopers who held Arnhem Bridge against unsurmountable odds in 1944.
The APA worked for six months alongside major stars... It was one of the hottest summers on record; so hot that the APA drank the local bars dry! The Boys from the Bridge recounts their extraordinary story.« less