“It taught them evasive ways to survive” is not how Tom Brokaw wanted us to look on the experience of American veterans of World War Two. But it’s the sort of bracingly brutal respect for honesty that makes Mary Lee Settle’s writing seem at times like a slap across the face. Not...
World War Two killed more people, disrupted more lives, and probably had more far reaching effects than any other war in history. Eight decades on, some of the last living veterans have come together to reflect on and remember their time in the forces....
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plummeted to his death; many men killed in the trenches of France in 1918, interred in France, then brought back home to Brooklyn in 1921; and those who served in World War I and went on to live long lives, including Louis Belmer, the last of our surviving veterans, who died in ...
World War IIwas the most devastating war in history. Although we are unclear on how many people were killed, it is in the order of 50 million, with many times more both physically and psychologically damaged. Our study concerned one small group of veterans, British men who had fought in ...
Veterans of Love and War: A First World War Ghost Storywas poignant and beautiful. (If you liked this review or want more paranormal World War I stories in your life, go check out my reviews ofAn English HeavenandThe Last Photograph of John Buckley.) ...
Filed underd-day,Museums,Uncategorized,World War Two Tagged asd-day,D-Day Museum,Operation Overlord,second world war,World War Two The Long Long LONG Trail: First World War on the TV (part 1) With the centenary of the outbreak of the First World War looming, we have already seen a ste...
The anniversary of Nazi Germany's 1945 unconditional surrender after a war that cost 50 million lives is a holiday in European countries. Royals and world leaders paid tribute to the veterans and the day. Queen Elizabeth led tributes to veterans of World War II recalling the“neve...
There were approximately one hundred thousand wounded Chinese veterans in hospitals between Shanghai and the city of Wuhu. Trainload after trainload dumped them off at the station in Hsiakwan, the northern Nanking suburb. Some lay dying on the floor of the station, while others limped aimlessly...