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The glorious battle Indian soldiers fought in Italy, on a terrain as tough as the Himalayas Lt Gen H S Panag (retd) © Provided by The Print On 8 July, the Chief of Army Staff, General M.M. Naravane, inaugurated the Indian Army Memorial at Cassino, Italy, to commemorate the Indian soldiers killed in action during the Battle of Cassino, January-May 1944. In 1975, while hitchhiking in Italy, I spent two days studying one of the bloodiest battles of the Second World War, fought around Monte Cassino. While the Commonwealth War Cemetery and Memorial at Cassino acknowledged the con...

It is with deep sadness that the family announces the peaceful passing of Mieczyslaw (“Mietek” or “Mike”) Kalaska, 97 years of age, on January 5 2021, after a brief stay in hospital. He leaves in mourning his wife Gertrude (Niewiadomy), three children, John (Constance Reid), Richard (Wendy Orr), and Mary (Marvin Wrigley), 6 grandchildren, Erin, Kyle, Colin, Kiara, Adriana, and Chad, and one great-granddaughter, Hannah, who he called “Hania” and who was his greatest source of joy during his final 7 years. He also leaves behind many family members in his native Poland. He was predec...

Join Our distrust of Soviet Russia began years before the Cold War, when we were still allies fighting the Nazis. As a heartbroken American diplomat wrote about Poland’s treatment at the hands of the Soviets: “No one can stop Russia from doing the taking if she is determined to go through with it. No one can force Russia to do the giving if she is determined not to go through with it. … We should bow our heads in silence before the tragedy of a people … whom we have saved from our enemies and whom we cannot save from our friends.”