‘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 ...

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 ...

In October 1939, the squadron moved to Vassincourt, where it became a part of the AASF, ready for operations over the front line. This force included ten squadrons of Fairey Battle light bombers, ...

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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 first of September, 1939 I was called up for service in the army. I was a gunner in the Befordshire Yeoanry, a territorial unit, which specialised in heavy artillery. We spent a few months near ...