Month: November 2012
Did Napoleon’s Favourite Marshal End His Days As An American High School Teacher?
“Was this hero of Napoleonic France really shot by a firing squad on Dec. 7, 1815?” “I AM NEY OF FRANCE!” Those were reportedly the last words of an obscure 77-year-old North Carolina schoolmaster whose death…
A Traumatic Birth – How the Newly Independent Poland Fought Five Wars in Two Years
“The first three years of Poland’s existence were marked by a constant state of war, conflicts fought almost simultaneously against and array of enemies.” THE MODERN STATE of Poland was born out of the geopolitical turmoil that…
Tommy vs. Charlie – Britain’s Little-Known Six-Month War in Vietnam
“British and Indian troops would become the first Allied soldiers to do battle with the Viet Minh, an insurgent army that would later go onto to vanquish the French and humble the United States.” IN…
Winning Hearts and Minds – The Art Of Propaganda Is As Old As War Itself
An all out ground war in Gaza seems inevitable in the coming days following a week’s worth of punitive air strikes against Palestinians by Israeli aircraft. The raids are a response to a surge of…
U.S. News Site Lists ‘Five Best’ WW2 Movies Ever — What Films Did They Miss?
We found this little story on the website for a Utah-based news station: It’s a list of the five supposed ‘best’ World War Two films ever made. While the author, Cody Carlson, rightly includes Patton (1970)…
Bomber Girls — The Women Flyers of World War Two
“Between 1942 and 1944, WASP pilots flew just about every sort of aircraft produced for the U.S. military from fighters and bombers to cargo planes and trainers.” LAST WEEKEND, a 92-year-old Colorado woman did something…
