But last week the Battle for France, also an important sector of the Battle for Europe, was well on the way to being lost. Arthur Koestler, brilliant novelist (Darkness at Noon) and acute observer ...

In late 1944, during the wake of the Allied forces' successful D-Day invasion of Normandy, France, it seemed as if the Second World War was all but over. On Dec. 16, with the onset of winter ...

France waged a war marked by "extreme violence" during Cameroon's fight for independence in the late 1950s, historians said ...

More than 1,600 people have fled their homes in western France as a third major storm in a week brought record rainfall and ...

The First Battle of the Marne marked the end of the German sweep into France and the beginning of the trench warfare that was to characterise World War One. Germany's grand Schlieffen Plan to ...

His declaration that the Nazi gas chambers were "merely a detail" of World War Two history and that the Nazi occupation of France was "not especially inhumane" were for many people repulsive.

If there really were 3 million hunting guns in France before the war, the confiscation regime was astonishingly ineffective, netting only about 800,000 weapons (though some guns were ditched ...

All the Latest Game Footage and Images from Battle Academy: Blitzkrieg France Following the invasion of Poland, Germany opens the western front and invades France. It’s the Blitzkrieg ...

Bullard fights in the Battle of Verdun—an apocalyptic struggle between the French and the Germans that raged for months. His bravery earned him the Croix de Guerre, one of France’s highest ...

Relations between France and its former colony have been fraught for decades, poisoned by resentment over the 132-year bloody rule, violence committed during Algeria’s war of independence that ended ...