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Died: January 23, 2021. HAL Holbrook, who has died aged 95, was a Tony and Emmy award-winning actor who carried a quiet authority in everything he appeared in. This came with added menaces for his iconic cameo in All the President’s Men, Alan J Pakula’s 1976 film about the Watergate scandal that brought down Richard Nixon’s presidency.  Holbrook played Deep Throat, the shadowy informant who meets the Washington Post investigative journalist Bob Woodward (Robert Redford) in an under...

Keith Lowe’s “Prisoners of History” examines how different countries’ statues and museums about the war resonate today.

Keith Lowe’s “Prisoners of History” examines how different countries’ statues and museums about the war resonate today.

“Prisoners of History: What Monuments to World II Tell us About our History and Ourselves” by Keith Lowe; William Collins (302 pages, $29.99) ––– A pedestal is a risky place to take a stand. In America, official tributes to leaders from Robert E. Lee to Abraham Lincoln have been destroyed or defaced. In Europe, memorials to Communist dictators have been torn down. In the Middle East, even ...

The Bomber Command Museum of Canada (BCMC) plans to add more than 200 names to its Memorial Wall.