Eric S. Margolis 24 May 2010 In history’s first major airborne assault, just after dawn on 10 May, 1940, 71 German paratroopers from Luftwaffe General Kurt Student’s elite 7th Fliegerkorps landed from ten gliders atop Belgium’s Fort Eben Emael. Huge, heavily armed, Eben Emael was […]
May 10, 2010 LONDON – Confusion resulting from Britain’s hung election continues after a weekend of furious negotiations between the three competing parties. At the time of this writing, no coalition has yet been agreed upon, but a deal is considered imminent. British parties are not used to forming […]
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 […]
