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FRANCE’S DISASTER OF JUNE 1940
June 13, 2015 METZ, FRANCE - The dramatic seaborne rescue of 328,000 Allied troops from Dunkirk in June, 1940 is well known. But the tragic effort of almost 300,000 French troops to break out of...
View ArticleWHY DO WE LAMENT A-BOMBS AND NOT FIRE-BOMBS?
8 August 2015 All war is a crime. There is no such thing as a “good war.” As the great Benjamin Franklin said, “there is no good war; and no bad peace.” We are now in the midst of the annual...
View ArticleTHE FIRST PARIS MASSACRE
21 November 2015 Last week’s massacre in Paris was not, as almost every writer mistakenly claimed, the worst atrocity in the City Of Light since World War II. As the renowned Mideast expert Robert Fisk...
View ArticleITALY’S PUPPET-MASTER
December 19, 2015 The French, who know much about intrigue, have a very useful expression, “an Italian scandal.” This means a scandal or plot that is so complex or tangled it defies understanding, and...
View ArticleTHE GREATEST MURDERER IN HISTORY
30 January, 2016 “When I’ve finished occupying the Soviet Union,” quipped a relaxed Adolf Hitler at dinner one night in 1941, “I’ll put that man Stalin back in charge. He’s the only person who knows...
View ArticleHELL ON EARTH
27 FEBRURY 2016 VERDUN – One hundred years ago this week, German artillery launched a mighty barrage of one million shells at French defenses on the wooded hills and deep ravines above the ancient...
View ArticleHOW METZ GAVE PATTON A BLOODY NOSE
21 May 2016 For those, like this writer, who esteem the arts of modern fortification, Metz is the Florence of military architecture. I greet the spring each year in Metz. This imposing city combines...
View ArticleSUEZ: THE END OF EUROPE’S EMPIRES
26 November 2016 Sixty years ago, I was home after school, sitting in our living room on New York’s Central Park West, reading a history of Rome and listening to Dvorak’s splendid cello concerto when...
View ArticleJAPAN’S ‘NOBILITY OF FAILURE’ IN 1941
10 December 2016 Seven decades after Japan’s surprise attack on Pearl Harbor some truth is finally beginning to emerge from the miasma of propaganda that still clouds our vision of World War II. It...
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