In 1980, while living in Belgium, the historian Lynn H. Nicholas read an obituary in The International Herald Tribune of the ...

Aided by her blond hair, blue eyes and fluency in German, she crossed enemy lines to spy on Germany for the French. She later received the Legion of Honor.

The Nine”, by Gwen Strauss, tells the extraordinary true story of how nine young women from the Resistance survived the ...

During World War II, she deceived her watchful mother so she could take part in dangerous missions. Later, she founded a girls’ school in Ivory Coast.

May 1945, Nazi Germany capitulated, bringing the Second World War in Europe to an end. Although a large part of France was no longer occupied, there were still "pockets" of German resistance in ...

The women, who supported the French resistance against Nazi occupation, had a moving reunion in April -- it was the first time they had seen each other since being freed from a German ...

The French Resistance was a movement of civilians and combatants who opposed the German occupation of France. While the episode's parallels to Earth-side conflicts throughout historical and modern ...

Renee Guette, 98, laughed as she looked at her computer screen in Texas. On the other end of the video call was 97-year-old Andree Dupont, living in France. The women, who supported the French ...