World War 2

My Football Facts ⇒ Articles By Jonathan Lewis | 15th Jun 2022 The FIFA World Cup has been around since 1930 and happens every four years. It has been held constantly throughout this period except during World War Two. Undoubtedly, the FIFA World Cup is the most important football tournament…

Exclusive THE GRIT ESCAPE 23:38, 14 Jun 2022Updated: 0:08, 15 Jun 2022A BURIED World War Two motorbike was dug up by a man clearing bushes from his back garden. Richard Bannister, 54, was baffled when his spade hit a solid metal object. 4 A buried World War Two motorbike was…

While not the only contribution by Canadian service men and women, D-Day takes a prominent place in Canada’s cultural memory of the Second World War This article by Geoffrey Bird, Royal Roads University originally appeared on the Conversation and is published here with permission. Villages and towns along the Normandy coast will…

For 70 years, Andre Hissink has held a grudge against the Dutch government and has never shied from talking about. Finally, this week, the 102-year-old Second World War veteran’s persistence paid off – the Dutch king granted his wish for dual citizenship. “I am back a Dutchman, but still a…

Smoke rises above a burning oil storage facility on the outskirts of Donetsk, Ukraine May 4, 2022. Photo by Alexander Ermochenko /REUTERS I remember as a young man seeing newsreels of Second World War atrocities like the London Blitz and Auschwitz committed by the Nazi regime responsible for untold misery…

B.C. Premier John Horgan committed a $100 million endowment Saturday to address the lasting effects of the internment of Japanese Canadians in the province during the Second World War.  Horgan made the announcement on Saturday from the Steveston Martial Arts Centre, the oldest Japanese-style dojo in North America, in Richmond B.C. It comes on…

A more than 3,000-year-old gold signet ring that was stolen from an Aegean island in the Second World War, crossed the Atlantic, was bought by a Nobel Prize-winning Hungarian scientist and ended up in a Swedish museum has found its way back to Greece. It was the latest in a series…

One shot, one kill. By Lucy James on May 19, 2022 at 4:11PM PDT Sniper Elite 5, the latest in Rebellion’s head-shottin’, x-rayin’ shooter series is upon us. If this is your first Sniper Elite game, or you’re a series veteran, here’s everything you need to know about Sniper Elite…

A Polish Nobel Prize-winning author says that Russia presents a threat to the “free world” and its attack on neighboring Ukraine had echoes of the Second World War...Read More

Irena Hunka began her life in Poland, fled her home amid bombing when the Nazis invaded during the Second World War, survived starvation in a Siberian labour camp, evacuation to the Middle East and disease in a refugee camp in Africa — all before she was 25. After a perilous…