YORKTOWN — Retired Navy SEAL Petty Officer 1st Class David Goggins is often referred to as the toughest man alive. His first stint in military service was with…
Edith Cavell’s dog, Jack, sits taxidermied in a glass case in the Imperial War Museum. He long outlived his owner. When the British nurse was imprisoned by the Germans in 1915, charged with hiding and helping Allied soldiers, she wrote to instruct her former hosts on properly caring for him; he would live out the final years of his life in a chateau in southern Belgium. Cavell was not so fortunate: she was executed by the Germans in October, an event that gives Rick Stroud’s new book, I Am Not A
Jack Jennings, who has died aged 104, spent three and a half years as a Japanese prisoner of war and worked as a slave labourer on the Siam-Burma “Death Railway”; he was thought to be the last survivor of the roughly 85,000 Allied soldiers who were captured when Singapore fell to the Japanese.
During one trek toward the end of World War II, Harold Williams and members of the 1st Infantry Division encroached upon a small village near the French-Belgian
16 October 2022 - Mulling over why I instinctively feel it is an error to misperceive military superiority as a precondition of freedom led to my tracking down a parenthetical idea in a piece I wrote some years ago on Steve Biko and his 1977 death. This at the hands of a system which, at that very time, I had entered as a bewildered, respectably scornful but unmistakably chastened conscript.
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