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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While the massive invasion of the Benelux countries and France was going down last week, things were also developing on the ...

A retired U.S. Army officer, Dr. Forczyk, the author of several works on World War II, has written a detailed operational and tactical study of the Battle of France, one which does justice to the ...

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 ...

My brother, Dick, joined the RAF in August 1938 as ground crew. At the beginning of 1940 he was posted to 13 Squadron, an Army Co-operation Squadron with the BEF. When the German attack came in May ...

Few chapters in World War II history are as contentious as Vichy France. After the 1940 defeat, Marshal Philippe Pétain’s ...

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Eric Sevareid began his career as a reporter for CBS Radio just as France buckled and fell to the lightning strike onslaught of the German armies in the fair spring of 1940. The country of so many ...

America’s woke military of 2021 has echoes of the heavily politicized French military that was routed by the Nazi Germans in 1940. My grandmother and her family lived in the Vosges Mountains within ...