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Behind the success of 'Reacher' was a harrowing struggle Alan Ritchson survived with a mix of faith, love, and brute force. He tells his story.

Private lunch to welcome to Melbourne the nephew of Anders Lassen, the celebrated Danish soldier who played an important part in the liberation of Greece in WW2.

Alan Ritchson’s career breakthrough as Reacher, the hulking champion and righteous protector of the underdog, was hardly helpful when it came to starring in the poignant true story that is Friday’s “Ordinary Angels.”

In January 1942, Gus March-Phillipps (depicted by Henry Cavill) and Anders Lassen played key roles in a mission that seemed more at home in a spy novel than reality.

The movie is based on the true story of Britain's real-world Special Operations Executive (SOE) during World War II, the forerunner of today's special operations that conducted many of the same kinds of missions.

By overcoming global supply chain issues through its approach to component sourcing and  manufacturing, Universal Robots currently offers one of the shortest lead times in the market,  shipping cobots in […]

An incident off the coast of West Africa in late 2021 offered a rare look at the operations of Denmark's Frømandskorpset, or Frogman Corps.

Until the German occupation of his native Denmark in April 1940 Anders Lassen had no interest in the War. Yet over the next five years he became a highly decorated Special Forces legend and the only non-Commonwealth recipient of the Victoria Cross. After taking part in a mutiny on board a Danish ship, he made his way to Scotland. He first joined the Special Operations Executive before serving with the Small Scale Raiding Force, Special Air Service and Special Boat Service. He took part in the d...

Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare, a World War II movie based on the book  Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare: How Churchill’s Secret Warriors Set Europe Ablaze and Gave Birth to Modern Black Ops by Damien Lewis. Lewis’s book tells the true story of “the top-secret ‘butcher-and-bolt’ black ops units Prime Minister Winston Churchill tasked with stopping the unstoppable German war machine.” The book’s synopsis has even more detail: When France fell to the Nazis in 1940, Churchill d...