This collection of essays explores how fighting in the rugged, hostile lands of Afghanistan is no easy task.
Afghanistan has long been considered the graveyard of empires. Throughout their history, Afghans have endured the ravages of foreign invaders, from marauding hordes and imperial armies to global superpowers, while demonstrating a fierce independence and strong resistance to outside occupiers. Those who have ventured into Afghanistan with notions of controlling its people have soon discovered that fighting in that rugged, hostile land is no easy task. Afghans have proven...
This collection of essays explores how fighting in the rugged, hostile lands of Afghanistan is no easy task.
An examination of the SOE, its accomplishments, and the Canadian connection to the organization.
During the Second World War, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill created the Special Operations Executive (SOE) to conduct acts of sabotage and subversion, and raise secret armies of partisans in German-occupied Europe. With the directive to set Europe ablaze, the SOE undertook a dangerous game of cat and mouse with the Nazi Gestapo. An agent s failure could result in indescribable torture, dispatch to a concentration camp, and, often, a death sentence.
While the...
An examination of the SOE, its accomplishments, and the Canadian connection to the organization.
