Liverpool city centre fell silent this morning at a poignant Remembrance Service marking 80 years since the D-Day Landings in Normandy and the Battle of Arnhem ... from Old Swan, was there ...
“Voices from Gettysburg: Letters, Papers, and Memoirs from the Greatest Battle of the Civil War,” the latest contribution from Civil War and Abraham Lincoln scholar Allen C. Guelzo, is filled with ...
The weight of 2024’s history books concentrates, as often in recent years, on the last century or so – though with revelatory ...
I’ve researched the rare moments of intimacy during war, when enemies see the humanity in each other and forge unlikely ...
That was true for 18-year-old Betty Webb, who was recruited to ... In September 1944 he was dropped into the Battle of Arnhem—a failed Allied attempt to secure a bridge over the Rhine River.
The following closures will be in place on Sunday, November 10: This year's theme is the 80th Anniversary of the D-Day Normandy Landings and the Battle of Arnhem. The Band of The Duke of Lancaster ...
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With the 80th anniversary of the Battle of the Bulge a month away, Army veterans Harry Miller and Frank Cohn will take center ...
As Kathy Penny sifted through the returned books of the bin, she noticed a book with a trim that was a little more dusty than ...
In “Stranger Than Fiction,” Edwin Frank maps a path from Dostoyevsky to Sebald, finding mystical power and surprising ties among 20th-century writers.
Indeed, throughout the decades, plenty of books — some highly acclaimed, some much more obscure — have been taken by filmmakers and transformed into some of the greatest motion pictures in ...