Submitted by Jason McDonald on Sat, 2014-07-19 23:56
France suffered in World War I more than any other Western combatant. Most of the fighting on the Western Front took place on her soil, and she lost millions of men in trench warfare.
Submitted by Jason McDonald on Fri, 2014-07-18 22:23
At 12:05 AM on June 6, 1944, three gliders carrying an element of the British 6th Airborne Division silently cut loose form the their tow planes and drifted towards the Pegasus Bridge, one of the few bridges that led over the Seine towards Normandy.
Submitted by Jason McDonald on Wed, 2014-07-16 10:37
Submitted by Jason McDonald on Thu, 2014-07-03 21:53
The battle raging in Berlin signaled the end of the Third Reich. Soviet Red Army Forces and the western Allies pressed the Wehrmacht so far into Germany that neither Western commands nor Eastern commands had room to maneuver.
Submitted by Jason McDonald on Thu, 2014-07-03 17:10
In 1939 France's Third Republic was sixty-eight years old, despite church and state rivalries, corruption, and political factionalization. At the start of World War II every major politician and every political party had their own newspaper disseminating their own propaganda.
Submitted by Jason McDonald on Thu, 2014-05-29 23:38
Submitted by Jason McDonald on Thu, 2014-05-29 22:52
