Groups such as the Maquis - were men and women who avoided Vichy France’s forced labor by hiding in the mountains. They used ...

Germany tried twice in the 20th century to conquer Europe and very nearly achieved that goal in World War II. In fact, not ...

While the RAF, USAAF, Red Air Force, Japanese Air Forces, and Luftwaffe dominate memory, there were other notable air forces ...

His speech remains one of the most famous orations in French history. Regardless, Pétain's representative signed the armistice on 22 June and Pétain became leader of the new regime, known as Vichy ...

World War I gave rise to a heated century-long debate about its causes. In Disputing Disaster, Perry Anderson surveys this ...

In this 3-hour Jewish Paris tour in the Marais we'll join a local historian and discover this hidden history of the city's Jewish Quarter, from the 12th century to World War II. Together ... art from ...

In 1944, as Allied troops celebrated D-Day victory, a French family experienced a trauma that would be felt for generations: ...

With in-depth interviews and startling reënactments, the director Mosco Boucault details the anguish and the heroism of a ...

PARIS — France is tapping retired defense-industry workers to create what it calls a “defense industrial reserve,” a pool of experienced labor that can help ramp up production of weapons and ...

Keir Starmer became the first British prime minister to attend Armistice commemorations in France since World War II on Monday, as the two countries appear to be forging closer ties ahead of an ...

French-language songs are enjoying unprecedented success in non-francophone countries thanks to artists like Stromae, Aya Nakamura, Celine Dion and Edith Piaf. What makes people who don’t speak ...

Rape is widespread in Sudan's civil war, a United Nations investigation said Tuesday, accusing paramilitaries especially of committing sexual violence on a "staggering" scale. Children are not ...