Requiem for a Matelot
Some of the most inspiring and heroic things I’ve ever read come from the obituaries of the World War Two generation as they steadily recede into memory. Today the Globe […]
First Reviews of “The Pacific” are Good
If you have HBO on your cable package, invite me over because I don’t and I want to catch “The Pacific”. I’ll bring beer. Or maybe sake. Or both. The […]
Two Doctors at War
One of the reasons why people responded to shows like M.A.S.H. was the paradox of watching doctors, committed to saving and restoring lives, working in a combat environment designed to […]
Clio and the Basterds
Call me old-fashioned (like that’s a stretch) but I miss the historical military films that actually tried to offer a complex narrative that more or less resembled an approximation of […]
Late US War Hero had Canadian Connection
Other than the fact that this guy led the last known bayonet charge in US military history, my favourite part of the obituary below is that Millett deserted the US […]
A German Chaplain on the Russian Front
I’m always drawn to annecdotes in military history about the work of chaplains. This short and tantalizing story is found in Panzer Commander, the memoirs of Colonel Hans Von Luck, […]
Contemporary Photographs of the Western Front
Mike St. Maur Sheil is a British journalist who was inspired to document the battlefields of the Western Front of World War One after visiting Dunkirk with his father, who […]