As a fan of history, I listened to a January podcast “The Rest Is History” by Tom Holland and Dominic Sandbrook. Few stories in military history are as extraordinary as that of Wojtek, the Syrian ...

Young soldiers, far away from home and missing their families, discover a bear cub. That’s how the story of Wojtek begins, back in 1942. He was alone in the mountains of Iran; nobody knows how he got ...

In 1942, a band of Polish soldiers freshly released from prisons and work camps stumbled upon an unlikely mascot when they traded goods for a Syrian brown bear cub. Drawn to his friendly demeanor and ...

The minimalism of this war story is touching, and the principals’ performances varied and powerful. Wojtek, as Poles (apparently) will well know, is the soldier-bear who joined the Polish fighters, ...

An Edinburgh-based man’s touching film about a bear adopted by a Word War II Polish veteran has been shortlisted for consideration at the Oscars. After a decade in production, animator Iain Gardner's ...