The figures are striking: There were about 320,000 Jews living in France in 1940, including some 135,000 immigrants. Of this total, a quarter were deported and murdered by the Nazi killing machine.

A classic hex and counter wargame, simulating the 1940 campaign in the West - the famous Fall of France, along with Belgium and Holland. The game is big, with over 300 units, mostly divisions ...

To Lose a Battle: France 1940 by Alistair Horne (Penguin, 1979 and many reprints) The Fall of France: The Nazi Invasion of 1940 by Julian Jackson (Oxford University Press, 2004) Top.

The Battle of France, 1940 Reviewed by Henry L. Roberts October 1959 Published on October 1, 1959 . Share & Download . Print Subscribe to unlock this feature or Sign in. Save Sign in and save to read ...

My Dad, who’d fought in France towards the end of the First World War, still felt the betrayal of the country he’d risked his life for when it capitulated to the Germans in 1940, less than ...

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. Search. Subscribe Login.

After several months of “phoney war”, the German army finally attacked France and the Low Countries on May 10, 1940. In less than a fortnight, the Wehrmacht swept through the country from the ...

Former French President Nicolas Sarkozy has been stripped of his Legion of Honor medal after he was found guilty of ...

AFTER an interval of precarious peace France is again at war. Again she is fighting not only for her existence, threatened by German imperialism, but for principles of liberty and individual human ...