The Boys from the Bridge - The Story of Attenborough's Private Army

<p>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 fifty young British actors who were brought together to train under the eagle eye of a former director of The SAS to represent the heroic band of Paratroopers who held Arnhem Bridge against insurmountable odds in 1944.</p><p></p><p>The APA worked for six months alongside major stars such as Anthony Hopkins Sean Connery Michael Caine and Sir Laurence Oliver. It was one of the hottest summers on record; so hot that the APA drank the local bars dry! <em>The Boys from the Bridge</em> recounts their extraordinary story.</p><p></p>