In May 1940, German Panzer divisions collided with France’s elite mechanized cavalry near Hannut in Belgium. French tanks ...

Richelieu fled Brest days ahead of the German army, 95 percent complete and carrying Bank of France gold. A British torpedo ...

Marc Leopold Benjamin Bloch was a French historian, one of the founders of the Annales School of French social history. Bloch ...

Warwick, Eng.: Helion / Philadelphia: Casemate, 2021. Pp. 222. Illus., maps, appends., notes, biblio., index. $39.95 paper. ISBN: 1914059018 The BEF in the Aftermath ...

The Nazi collaboration film, from French director Emmanuel Marre, won the best screenplay honor at Cannes.

Food is part of our daily lives, but not every story about its origin is true. Over time, myths and tall tales about how ...

The actor and theater director plays Charles de Gaulle in the recently released two-part film. In this article, he explains ...

There are some lives that seem almost too extraordinary to be true. They begin in comfort and convention, only to be swept ...

France were runners-up last time but will have to settle for either third or fourth place at FIFA World Cup 2026. Didier Deschamps' side, led by captain Kylian Mbappé, topped Group I ahead of Norway, ...

Americans spent their money on cars, televisions and other modern appliance, Library of Congress At the end of World War II, American soldiers returned home to a country quite different from the one ...

Tupperware targeted women who were interested in working, Tupperware, Inc. During the Second World War, women proved that they could do "men's" work, and do it well. With men away to serve in the ...