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 ...

West Palm Beach centenarian Franklin Simon, who celebrated his 100th birthday in June, served heroically in Europe during ...

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 ...

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 ...