19 April 2010 The crash on 10 April of an airliner carrying Poland’s president, Lech Kaczynski, his wife and 94 of the nation’s political, military and economic leaders, was a heart-rending tragedy. But for Poles, tragedy is a constant. Poland’s epic, thousand-year history has always alternated between extremes of tragedy […]
15 March 2010 Sixty-five years ago, the 5th US Marine Amphibious Corps, made up of the 3rd, 4th, and 5th Marine Divisions, assaulting the heavily fortified volcanic island of Iwo Jima in one of World War II’s most dramatic battles. The outcome was a given. The collapse of Japan’s […]
