The struggle against Nazism in France was also a struggle against homegrown reactionary forces embodied in the Vichy regime. Eight decades after a seemingly decisive defeat, the heirs of Vichy are ...

France's liberation in 1944 brought joyous freedom but also a brutal 'Wild Purge.' Women accused of intimacy with German ...

Boualem Sansal was welcomed at the Élysée where President Emmanuel Macron met the 81-year-old writer shortly after his arrival from Berlin.

"Peter Caddick-Adams's account of the Allied invasion of France in June 1944 matches the monumental achievement of his book on the Battle of the Bulge, Snow and Steel, which Richard Overy has called ...

Although British Prime Minister Winston Churchill and American President Franklin Roosevelt often were at odds with Soviet Premier Josef Stalin during WWII, it is a myth that they disliked him.They ...

French families recall rapes committed by a handful of GIs after D-Day. A note to listeners that this piece mentions sexual assault. A warning - the next story is about sexual assault. It will last ...

Israeli-French peace activist Ofer Bronchtein helped shape President Emmanuel Macron's plan to recognize a Palestinian state ...

Evelyn Armstrong has been recognised with France's highest military honour A 104-year-old woman has received the Legion d'Honneur - France's highest military honour - for her service in World War Two.