Winston Churchill
D-Day succeeded thanks to an ingenious design called the Mulberry Harbors
Churchill and his team of engineers, scientists and military officers designed a marine staging area known as the Mulberry Harbors, later actualized in the prime minister’s bathtub. This design would later be the key to their success in the invasion of Normandy, France, on D-Day.
For the Russians, D-Day was significant, but maybe not as important as the West imagines
The Soviet Union sacrificed a lot during World War II. Millions of Russians died, more than from any other country. And for them, the D-Day invasions were an answer to their appeals to the West to relieve pressure on the Soviet forces who were battling the Nazis.
Remembering an American contrarian: Christopher Hitchens dead of cancer
Christopher Hitchens, a man who wasn’t afraid to take on anyone, died on Thursday of esophageal cancer. He was famous for his biting criticism of, well, everyone, from Henry Kissinger, “a war criminal,” to Mother Theresa, “a fanatic, a fundamentalist, and a fraud,”
British Cartoonist Steve Bell Draws American Presidents
Cartoonist Steve Bell has been skewering British politicians since his career took off in the late 1970s. Because his obsession is politics, a good number of American presidents have come in for in his particular brand of satire. Steve Bell’s leftist politics inform how he characterizes US presidents. George W. Bush was easy. Barack Obama: not so much.