One of the scholars who did not shy away from the story was Antony Sutton, author ofWall Street and the Bolshevik Revolution, whose meticulous research of State Department documents, Canadian government records, and other historical artifacts pieced together the details of Trotsky’s unlikely journey...
WAR "Some years ago I applied for my grandfather's war medals and also his medical records. "In 1917, he was shot in the ankle of his right leg and the bullet went right through. "He was treated in the Canadian military hospital in Kirkdale, in Liverpool. "His records show that ...
“I think the government of Canada botched the commemoration of the First World War,” said author and military historian Jack Granatstein, a former head of the Canadian War Museum. “Other than the Vimy Ridge celebration in 2017, I think they have done a very bad job.” This past Remembr...
German Kaiser Wilhelm II increasingly delegated his power to the German high command, allowing Hindenburg and deputy Erich Ludendorff to dominate German military policymaking for the rest of the war. When von Hindenburg called the entire German corps from the Western Front to confront the advancing R...
William D. Otter was a Canadian army officer. He joined the army and helped suppress the Riel (North West) Rebellion (1885). He became the first commanding officer of the Royal Canadian regiment of infantry (1893) and led a Canadian force in the South Af
William Mitchell was a U.S. Army officer who early advocated a separate U.S. air force and greater preparedness in military aviation. He was court-martialed for his outspoken views and did not live to see the fulfillment during World War II of many of hi
Private, 2nd Battalion, Canadian Infantry (Eastern Ontario Regiment); attached to Trench Mortar Battery. Died April 28, 1916, of wounds received in action. Buried in Lijssenthoek Military Cemetery, Belgium. (UWL; St Paul's Sch. Reg., FWR, CWGC) Firth, Arnold Born Jan. 1, 1882, at ...
Paths of Glory, American war film, released in 1957, that elevated its young director, Stanley Kubrick, to international prominence. Its controversial portrayal of the French military prevented it from being shown in several European countries for years.