World War II
From the Archives: Last Hope Island
Often when we’re traveling, something we see makes me think about posts from the past, books I’ve read, or posts from the past about books I’ve read. While we were in Norway, that book/post was Lynne Olsen’s Last Hope Island. As soon as we got home, I pulled it off the shelf and have been…
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Road Trip Through History: Oscarsborg Fortress and the Nazi Invasion of Norway (plus a little bit about Sigrid Schultz)
As those of you who read my newsletter know,* My Own True Love and I spent two weeks in Norway on a history-nerd tour run by the Vesterheim Museum. We began with Vikings and ended with a tour of the royal palace in Oslo, which was far more interesting than I expected. (As is so…
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One Final Woman War Correspondent: Helen Kirkpatrick
American reporter Helen Kirkpatrick (1909-1997) had already spend five years as a foreign correspondent in Europe when America entered World War II. She had stumbled into reporting in1 935. After a summer job escorting 30 teenage girls around Europe, she cabled her husband that she wasn’t coming back and found a job with the Foreign…
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