The huge IMAX theater in Washington, DC where I watched Dunkirk was packed with young people. Out of hundreds in…
Mark TooleyJuly 23, 2017
Christopher Plummer began his cinematic career in The Sound of Music as an imperious anti-Nazi Austrian captain who goes into…
Mark TooleyJuly 4, 2017
There are several famous sardonic quotes about Germany’s role in the world. One is Churchill’s 1943 remark after Germany surrendered in North Africa: “The Hun is always either at your throat or your feet.”
Mark TooleyJune 8, 2017
No historical movie is historically accurate, as movies are always mainly about entertainment not instruction. Some biopics depart from truthful…
Mark TooleyJune 3, 2017
55 years ago, the chief architect of the holocaust was executed in Israel.
Marc LiVeccheMay 31, 2017
Nigel Hamilton’s Commander in Chief reveals Franklin Roosevelt formulated at a very early phase a clear vision for how a liberal international order should look post-World War II.
Daniel StrandMay 23, 2017
Friday I attended a memorial service at Fort Myer for Nixon-era Defense Secretary Melvin Laird, who died in November at…
Mark TooleyMay 22, 2017
This week in Moscow there was the usual lavish military parade, bristling with missiles and other weaponry, commemorating victory in…
Mark TooleyMay 12, 2017
Leading French National Front presidential candidate Marine Le Pen has sparked controversy by claiming France bears no responsibility for French police collaboration in the 1942 Vél d’Hiv arrest of 13,000 Jews, who were shipped to their demise at Auschwitz.
Mark TooleyApril 12, 2017