‘In some countries, the French have the reputation of being anti-Semitic,” Jacques Semelin writes in “The Survival of the Jews in France, 1940-44.” It is the goal of his careful study to show that ...

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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 over Poland and several other powers ...

Two years after publishing a remarkable book on France's "dark years" (1940-44), Jackson returns to the historians' battlefield with an investigation of the fall of France in May-June 1940, which he ...

The "Vichy cure" to which Marshal Pétain and his Ministers are subjecting their unhappy country is much more drastic than the three weeks' recovery to which elderly ladies and gentlemen used to submit ...

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America’s woke military of 2021 has echoes of the heavily politicized French military that was routed by the Nazi Germans in 1940. My grandmother and her family lived in the Vosges Mountains within ...

My brother, Dick, joined the RAF in August 1938 as ground crew. At the beginning of 1940 he was posted to 13 Squadron, an Army Co-operation Squadron with the BEF. When the German attack came in May ...

On the 6 May 1940 the regiment was warned to be ready to move overseas at 10 days notice. On the 20 May they found themselves at Southampton and at 5 a.m. on the 21 May they landed at Cherbourg France ...