Let’s Not Forget the ‘D-Day Dodgers’ – the Italian People Haven’t

 In June 1944, Lady Nancy Astor, a member of the British Parliament reputedly gave a speech in which she referred to the Allied troops then fighting the Nazis in Italy as the ‘D-Day Dodgers’; implying they were missing the real fight then raging across Normandy. Though she denied making the

Book Review: Forgotten Victory

 First canadian Army and the cruel Winter of 1944–45 During the winter of 1944–45, the western allies desperately sought a strategy that would lead to Germany’s quick defeat. Hundreds of thousands of soldiers in trenches and dugouts suffered through the bitterest European winter in fifty years. The Allied high command