Reading Time: 3 minutes During the Cold War, Canada encouraged thousands of Nazi war criminals to immigrate from Ukraine
Tag: Second World War
Piecing together the last days of Imperial Japan
Reading Time: 4 minutes Historical animosity between Japan and the Soviet Union shaped the final act of the Second World War
The Manhattan Project’s indispensable man
Reading Time: 4 minutes Maj. Gen. Leslie Groves had a reputation for getting things done
Winston Churchill and the villainous ‘Guilty Men’
Reading Time: 4 minutes An influential book from 1940 laid the guilt of appeasing Nazi Germany at the feet of 15 public figures
Winston Churchill: ruffian or hero?
Reading Time: 4 minutes 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
Reading Time: 3 minutes Churchill’s leadership contributed to a freer, more flourishing world, and he admired all things Albertan
Hollywood icons and the Second World War
Reading Time: 4 minutes MURPHY: Some Hollywood legends actually participated in the reality of war, rather than merely on celluloid
How to maximize the meaning in our lives
Reading Time: 3 minutes There’s nothing more significant than living with meaning
War and brutality go hand in hand
Reading Time: 3 minutes Combat naturally leads to behaviours that would be deemed shocking in normal life
Canadians fighting behind enemy lines – Remembrance Day
Reading Time: 5 minutes Secret agents Raymond LaBrosse and Lucien Dumais rescued hundreds of downed airmen from German-occupied France