WWII
Giving up to a U.S. invader in France
Because of disease, all of the Canal du Midi’s plane trees must be destroyed
REVIEW: Leningrad: Tragedy of a city under siege, 1941-44
Book by Anna Reid
REVIEW: The Fog of War: Censorship of Canada’s Media in World War Two
Book by Mark Bourrie
Review: Lost in Shangri-La
Book by Mitchell Zuckoff
Food as a weapon of war
A new book makes clear that food was central to the Second World War
Spooks with shady pasts
Germany’s foreign intelligence service is looking into its past—and turning up Nazis
The Memory Project — Aiming to save history
How the Memory Project keeps alive the stories of Canada’s war veterans
Patrick Gordon Forbes Murdoch (1926-2010)
He loved the Pacific ocean but ended up in the ski hills. ‘The snow was really calling him.’
Hans Wilhelm Berg 1931-2009
As a child in Hitler’s Germany, he started gliding. ‘He hated marching, so he got into flying.’