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| | From a New York Times obit by Richard Sandomir headlined "Guy Stern, Who Fled Germany and Then Interrogated Nazis, Dies at 101.": Guy Stern, who fled rising antisemitism in Nazi Germany at 15 for a new life in the United States but returned to Europe during World War II as a member of a military [...]
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| | Happy Veterans Day, formerly called Armistice Day since it marked the end of World War One on "the eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month" of 1918. Here are six books on that often-neglected conflict. (I will omit Barbara Tuchman's Guns of August because of how well-known it already is.) THE HAT...
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| | "D-Day's 75th anniversary will represent the last large-scale gathering of living soldiers, sailors and airmen who took part in the fight for Europe." LAST WEEK'S commemorations of the anniversary of D-Day may now be over,...
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| Charles Laughton as the clever and greedy Captain Kidd. Image: Daily Motion In may ways, it must have been difficult to star in a movie with Charles Laughton. The Oscar-winning British actor probably didn't mean to steal every scene he was in, but it happened anyway. Look at the seafaring adventure Captain Kidd (1945) starring...