On the night of June 12, 1940, Britain’s newly formed Hadock Force prepared to launch its first bombing raid on Italy, only ...
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How France crumbled in just six weeks in 1940

France’s sudden defeat at the start of World War II shocked the world. This video explains how German planning, French ...
A historian of the Nazi occupation of France is being sued by her own relatives for alleged libel after she promoted her ...
The military link between Greenland and the US remained solid right through the Cold War, though today there is only a ...
An army veteran who spent five years in a German prison camp during World War Two has been laid to rest. Eric Reeves, from ...
More than five years in the making, Antonin Baudry ’s French-language two-part biopic De Gaulle will finally hit the big screen in France next year. Pathé lifted the lid of the production on Monday, ...
From a jewel heist to crumbling galleries, it’s been a dire year for the world’s most visited museum. At least France has woken up to its predicament, says political commentator Agnès Poirier ...
A triple header of author talks will take place Jan. 13 with three local writers, Chip LoCoco, Vicki Salloum and Elisa ...
Denmark orders troops to defend Greenland as Trump renews takeover threats; diplomatic efforts intensify, NATO allies respond.
On 9 April 1940, the day that Denmark fell to the Nazi war machine, the Danish envoy to the United States, Henrik Kauffmann, ...
Eighty-five years ago, the ruling camarilla around Marshal Gustav Mannerheim invited Nazi Germany to garrison Finland and ...
In France during World War II, German alcohol shipments helped to provide crucial intelligence for the Allies.