Free Europe is facing a new Dark Age
The lessons of the 1930s are obvious: isolationism, and appeasement of Fascist Russia, increase the chances of another world war
Tag: Second World War
Winston Churchill: ruffian or hero?
PAT MURPHY: Doesn’t matter. He was a very useful guy to have around when the chips were down
It’s time to commemorate Winston Churchill in Calgary
MARK MILKE: A statue of famed Second World War leader Sir Winston Churchill will soon grace downtown Calgary. His leadership contributed to a freer world
Hollywood icons and the Second World War
PAT MURPHY: Some Hollywood legends actually participated in the reality of war, rather than merely on celluloid
How to maximize the meaning in our lives
GERRY CHIDIAC: Jewish psychiatrist and Auschwitz prisoner Viktor Frankl believed that there’s nothing more significant than living with meaning
War and brutality go hand in hand
PAT MURPHY: By its very nature, the ferocity of sustained combat is conducive to behaviours that would be deemed shocking in normal life
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
When guilt is acknowledged, forgiveness can be earned
GERRY CHIDIAC: Eva Kor chose to forgive sadistic experimental scientist Josef Mengele and other Nazis for what they did to her
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