Open this photo in gallery: Canadian journalist Peter C. Newman stands under London's cloudy skies in 2005 to promote a new autobiography.Randy Quan/The Globe and Mail In September, 1940, on the night before he and his parents landed at Halifax’s Pier 21, the 11-yr-old Czech war refugee Pet? Neumann stayed up late to gaze out at the Atlantic and imagine the land where they were about to make their new home. It had been a harrowing months-long run from the Nazis, he later wrote: The family had secured visas mere days before they would have been deported from Venice to...