and bumby gets kind of antsy doing this kind of work. he figures there has to be more to war than enforcing these kinds of regulations, so he gets invited to a party, a highly social event in north africa at the home of a brit named duff cooper, and there he meets randolph churchill, that is winston's son. he was a handful for winston, fought dramatically with him on a lot of occasions, and has successfully worked his way into british special ones. he wasn't invited. he didn't get a set of orders. he just kind of showed up and said i'm winston churchill, i want to be a part of. this goes on a long-range desert group and drops into occupied yugoslavia. to work with tito. so bumby hears this story and he thinks boy, this is sure an interesting way to spend your time during the war. i wonder if we have anything like this. so if you're an mp second lieutenant and you're looking to join the intelligence organization, nobody is going to help you. so he's pretty much on his own, there's no signs, there's no table of organization, and one day in

so bumby fits in well with this. he does take time off every so often to go fly fishing, another very hemmingway touch. on one occasion, he's fly fishing in a stream by himself and a german patrol comes by. he's wearing sort of a nondescript oss field uniform and really the only insignia on it is an american flag on one shoulder. they say something in german, not very complimentary, and laugh and walk on. bumby's luck does run out in the fall of 1944. he's in a firefight. he's severely wounded and he's captured. the germans treat him pretty well. they do realize he's a hemingway. in fact, he runs into the boyfriend of his former nanny from the period when he was growing up in europe. and spends the rest of the war in a p.o.w. camp, liberated in 1945, and then goes back to the states, gets evaluated. oss was very good about evaluating people, at least at the headquarters level. it was a little more sophisticated. so he gets interviewed by an officer who's making decisions about onboard assignments. bumby says i want t

bumbie also -- bumbie was a guy -- everybody lives in earnest's shadow, especially his sons and little brother. bumbie has trouble finding himself in life. he's in and out of the army. he serves in uniform for a number of years and tries various careers, stock broker, professional fisherman, whatnot. what he does do, marries a wonderful woman and they have two daughters, margo and mariette hemingway. one of them sadly commits suicide. ernest's brother lester also commits suicide. so it's, you know, it's again a sad family history that comes out. any -- can i ask you a question. anybody else have ideas why ernest would sign up with the kgb? is that stunning to you? is that -- you know, what would you do? how would you break it down? yes, sir? >> he said he was imagining things, an adventure -- the question was did he imagine he could be a double or triple agent? that would be a great adventure. i have thought of that and it's possible. you know, it's an intriguing -- it's an intriguing theory. if i could find that ernest had tried to work his way into placing where he would get better a

he loved what bumbi did in the oss. but he was really critical of anybody -- 9/11 the oss, which is the haven of free thinkers in the american war effort. even in the oss, there's still a lot of conventional bureaucracy and government behavior, and this just drives ernest crazy and he writes a letter after the war, he says yeah, there were some great people in oss, but there was also a lot of chicken dot, dot, dot in oss. so ernest does not have an official relationship with oss at this point. but he does go to europe. martha finally -- her argument carries the day. off they go to -- they both go off to europe. marcia's been a correspondent for collier's. ernest arranges for himself to be the correspondent for colliers, which really means a significant demotion for martha. and ernest gets a seat on a plane across the atlantic, gets in touch with martha and says i asked them, but they won't take women. i'm sorry, you can't come on the plane. i'll fly over and meet you there. i've arranged passage for you. the passage tha