All the Latest Game Footage and Images from Wargame: France 1940 A classic hex and counter wargame, simulating the 1940 campaign in the West – the famous Fall of France, along with Belgium and Holland ...

12 July 1940: The new state will be totalitarian with Pétain at its head, but administration will be decentralised Marshal Pétain in a broadcast from Vichy last night explained in outline what kind of ...

Two years after publishing a remarkable book on France's "dark years" (1940-44), Jackson returns to the historians' battlefield with an investigation of the fall of France in May-June 1940, which he ...

When Hitler invaded France in 1940, the conventional wisdom was that the French had the best military in Europe. This was despite Germany’s crushing victory over Poland and several other powers ...

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LONDON, May 10, 1940 (UP) - Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain resigned tonight and Winston Churchill agreed to form a new government. Nazis drive in France and Belgium, Churchill calls for "supreme ...

After the fall of France in 1940, the clergy welcomed Marshal Pétain as a saviour. But when Jewish people started being rounded up in the summer of 1942, Protestant pastors and Catholic clerics spoke ...

On the 6 May 1940 the regiment was warned to be ready to move overseas at 10 days notice. On the 20 May they found themselves at Southampton and at 5 a.m. on the 21 May they landed at Cherbourg France ...

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On the first of September, 1939 I was called up for service in the army. I was a gunner in the Befordshire Yeoanry, a territorial unit, which specialised in heavy artillery. We spent a few months near ...