Over the Brink and Into the Abyss: A Memoir from World War II Austria

By: Jeff Emanuel (Diary)  |  March 21st at 11:59 PM  | 

THE BASIC HISTORY of World War II’s European front is (or should be) well known to every western adult and schoolchild. From the offensives that brought the majority of the European continent under Axis control, to the D-Day invasion and Operation Overlord, to Hitler’s unthinkable campaign to exterminate Jews and other “undesirables,” the general flow of the first half of the 1940s has been the | Read More »

President Obama: Are You or Are You Not Going to Normandy for the 65th Anniversary of D-Day?

By: Jeff Emanuel (Diary)  |  April 8th at 06:30 PM  | 

During his incredibly successful [/snark] trip to Europe last week, President Obama rejected an invitation from French president Nicolas Sarkozy to visit Normandy, France — the site of the 1944 D-Day beach landing. The reason given by the Obama administration? They didn’t want to offend the Germans by having the U.S. president visit the site where over 4,400 allied soldiers died in the operation that | Read More »