The True North Strong and Free I am a Canadian born in England to a Canadian soldier father and a British mother. However, I grew up in Montreal, served in the Royal Canadian Navy and studied economics at Concordia University. I took a gap year in the UK, which...
I’m Canadian and grew up in a non-racist society. As a university student in Montreal during the mid-to-late 1960s, I had a left-leaning South African lecturer who explained the crimes against nonwhite people by apartheid and opened my eyes to the 1960...
Are We in Cold War 2.0—The China Chapter? Many seek answers to whether the “East” and “West” are engaging in a “new” Cold War. The term Cold War is defined as “a state of political hostility between countries characterized by...
I’ve written four historical fiction novels over the past dozen years. I have worked alone, with only occasional comments from one or two friends. And at various stages I have sought the advise from professionals – skilled readers and editors. I’ve learned...
The research for my third book began with the so-called “interwar years” from 1919 to 1939. My grandfather returned from four years as a German prisoner of war, a wisp of a man after 1,479 days of hunger and anguish in captivity, weakened and demoralised by the...
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