Winston Churchill: ruffian or hero?
PAT MURPHY: Doesn't matter. He was a very useful guy to have around when the chips were down
Tag: Second World War
Attlee and Churchill: bound together in war and peace
PAT MURPHY: Churchill once declared history would be good to him because he’d write it himself. But ostentatious self-regard just wasn’t Attlee’s style
Clearing the fog, and friction, of war
ALLAN BONNER: Public statements disclosing our intentions not to engage in an actual war were stupid ($)
Fall of Singapore shattered assumptions of British superiority
PAT MURPHY: On Feb. 15, 1942, Singapore – the so-called Gibraltar of the East – fell to a numerically smaller Japanese force ($)
Second World War attack helped shape Bell Island’s history
THINGS TO DO IN NEWFOUNDLAND/REMEMBRANCE DAY: It’s the only part of Canada that was attacked by the enemy during the war and the only domestic location where Canadians lost their lives ($)
Canadians fighting behind enemy lines – Remembrance Day
REMEMBRANCE DAY: Secret agents Raymond LaBrosse and Lucien Dumais rescued hundreds of downed airmen from German-occupied France ($)
War, tragedy, and a Broadway hit all part of Gander’s celebrated past
CYCLING CANADA: War, tragedy, and a collective act of generosity that became the genesis for a Broadway hit are all part of Gander’s celebrated past (FREE)
Stalin, Hitler and the fatal mistakes of Operation Barbarossa
PAT MURPHY: Stalin never lost his penchant for executing his officers. In the catastrophic early days of the German invasion, he shot eight generals ($)
We can buy weapons or educate children all over the world
GERRY CHIDIAC: The choice should seem obvious, yet around the globe governments still spend astonishing amounts of our money building military might (PREMIUM)
What did Germans really think of Hitler?
PAT MURPHY: The Nazi approach was a blend of carrots and sticks, resting on three pillars: popularity, tradition and coercion
Adolf Hitler’s fateful mistake
PAT MURPHY: If Hitler had declared war on Japan in support of the U.S., he might have kept the U.S. out of the European war. And that would have changed history
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