As any military historian will testify, among the most difficult of maneuvers is the strategic retreat. Napoleon's retreat from Moscow, Lee's retreat to Appomattox and MacArthur's retreat from the Yalu come to mind. The British Empire abandoned India in 1947 - and a Muslim-Hindu bloodbath ensued. ...more

July 31, 2008

Irena Sendler - credited with saving an estimated 2,500 Jewish children from the Holocaust by smuggling them out of the Warsaw Ghetto, some in baskets - died Monday in Warsaw. She was 98. ...more

May 13, 2008

Financial problems are threatening the completion of a Warsaw church meant to commemorate the late Pope John Paul II and the fall of communism. ...more

December 22, 2007

Cemetery director Przemyslaw Isroel Szpilman walks among the moss-covered and crumbling gravestones of the Warsaw Jewish cemetery, painstakingly jotting details in his notebook. ...more

December 16, 2007

Two small planes collided during an acrobatic display Saturday at an air show in Poland, killing both pilots, authorities said. ...more

September 2, 2007