After months of inaction, France, Belgium and Holland fell in just six panic-stricken weeks... and Winston Churchill became ...

A 99-year old veteran has been awarded France's highest military distinction in recognition of his service during World War Two. Douglas Charles Cracknell, from Cransford, near Framlingham, Suffolk ...

With the Axis in the ascendancy in North Africa and optimistic of taking the Suez canal, the battles of El Alamein were ...

In the 1930s a series of heavy bombers were built by French Manufacturer Farman. Though often forgotten, they were able to ...

Just 14 years old when his father died, 75-year-old Manasquan resident Paul Stalknecht recently had the opportunity, via the ...

The Six Triple Eight cleared a years-long backlog of mail in just three months. Eighty years later, the unit is finally getting the recognition it deserves ...

Around 120,000 of these so-called "boat people" found refuge in France. There are now an estimated 400,000 people either born in Vietnam or with Vietnamese heritage living in the country.

explores the transformative role of the automobile in pre–World War II France and highlights innovations across art and industry by those who embraced it as a provocative expression of the ...

A Syrian Islamist rebel ex-spokesman is to go on trial in France on Tuesday under the principle of universal jurisdiction, accused of complicity in war crimes during Syria's civil war. French ...

Henry Langrehr, decorated World War II veteran and author from Clinton, died Wednesday at the age of 100. Langrehr was just 19 when he jumped from a plane over France during the war, moments ...