World War 2

Princess Margriet of the Netherlands and her husband, Professor Pieter van Vollenhoven, took part in the official opening of the Canadian Tulip Festival during their visit to Canada, Saturday, May 14, 2022. After the ceremony at the "Man with Two Hats" monument, located across from Dow's Lake, the pair had…

I recently read (and greatly enjoyed) V2, Robert Harris’s absorbing second world war thriller about British attempts to locate and destroy the base in the Netherlands from which Hitler’s “Retaliation Weapon 2” – those devastating rocket-powered bombs aimed at London – were launched. Harris is famous for the meticulous research…

Princess Margriet of the Netherlands plants tulips with her husband Pieter van Vollenhoven, second from left, Ambassador of the Netherlands to Canada Ines Coppoolse, left, and National Capital Commission CEO Tobi Nussbaum, right, at Stornoway in Ottawa, on May 12.David Kawai/The Canadian Press Princess Margriet of the Netherlands is visiting…

Russian President Vladimir Putin evoked the memory of Soviet heroism in World War Two on Monday to urge his army towards victory in Ukraine, saying the West had been "preparing for the invasion of our land, including Crimea". Putin was speaking at the annual Victory Day parade on Moscow's Red…

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Author of the article: Russian forces stormed the Azovstal steel plant in Ukraine’s strategic port of Mariupol and stepped up missile strikes elsewhere, Ukrainian officials said, as President Vladimir Putin oversaw a parade of military firepower in Moscow. VICTORY DAY * Putin evoked the memory of Soviet heroism in World…

Good morning. Vladimir Putin has told Russian soldiers they are “fighting for the same thing their fathers and grandfathers did” as he used his Victory Day speech to tie the war in Ukraine to the memory of the second world war and justify his invasion. Prior to the speech, foreign…

Vladimir Putin was born seven years after the end of the second world war, and raised on the Brezhnev-era myth of the great victory. A man of no great education, he loved to quote Soviet films and old stories. The history books portrayed the “great patriotic war” as a magical…

Zelensky says ‘evil’ returned to Europe in an address for Victory Day to mark the end of Second World War Zelensky says ‘evil’ returned to Europe in an address for Victory Day to mark the end of Second World War Ukrainian forces were braced to defend their final bastion in…

IMPENDING TERROR Smoke rising in the sky is pictured from Paraskoviivka, eastern Ukraine, on Saturday, May 7, 2022, amid the Russian invasion of Ukraine. AFP PHOTO ZAPORIZHZHIA: All vulnerable civilians have been evacuated from the Azovstal steelworks holdout in Mariupol, Ukraine said Saturday (Sunday in Manila), presaging a showdown between…