A modern visit to the Abbaye d’Ardenne near Caen, France, where 20 Canadian prisoners of war were executed by members of the 12th SS Panzer Division in June 1944. The discovery of this “killing field” prompted one of the first war crimes [...]
If You’re Reading This – Last Letters from the Front Line is a book that had its origins in a BBC radio documentary I produced more than three years ago. Working with a colleague called Siobhan McClelland, whose uncle had [...]
A fascinating look by Sian Price on at letters from the front. The collection features 70 letters chosen from more than 30 000 letters she read in more than 10 different countries including Canada, the US, Britain, Australia, Wales and [...]
The international ‘responsibility to protect’ (R2P) is triggered when a state and its government is either unable, or unwilling to fulfil its own prior responsibility to protect its domestic population from suffering one or more of the four mass atrocity [...]
Internet auction sites. We all know them and many of us either love or despise their existence. Yet whatever one’s personal feelings towards the sale of personal artifacts on the internet, there is no denying the fact that these larger [...]
Some Reflections on the Italian Campaign (Keynote, 2010 Military History Colloquium) By Terry Copp After five years of reading and archival research plus three fascinating trips to the Canadian battlefields in Italy, I continue to marvel at the endurance and accomplishment [...]
Canada, Libya and R2P After the dismal failures of non-intervention by the international community in Somalia, Rwanda, and Bosnia; after the controversial NATO bombing of Serbia in the Kosovo crisis, in which Canadian Forces aircraft played a lead role; after [...]
The advance that began on the banks of the Moro River on 4 December was to continue until Point 59 north of Ortona was in Canadian hands. 8th Army’s offensive was over and Pescara and the road to Rome were [...]
The German paratroopers launched a major attack on the 48th Highlanders at 1430 hrs just after three Sherman tanks of the Ontario Regiment arrived. The tanks went into action immediately and the paratroopers were driven back in a panic. It [...]
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