RESISTANCE AND BETRAYAL: The Death and Life of the Greatest Hero of the French Resistance. By Patrick Marnham. Random House, $25.95. IN June 1940 Hitler's armies shocked the world by defeating France ...

Douglas Johnson is the author of "France and the Dreyfus Affair" and other books and is emeritus professor of French history at the University of London. Jean Moulin has been called the greatest hero ...

TO PRESENT Frida Kahlo as something of a postscript in the life of her husband, Diego Rivera, may seem like a provocation to her ever-growing legion of admirers. But Patrick Marnham cannot be faulted ...

The term "road rage" was invented during my years of exile, but it has now lost all its mystery, thanks to the councillors of the City of Oxford. In its wisdom the Council has adopted an anti-motorist ...

Patrick Marnham is a biographer, reporter and screenwriter. He was a staff writer for Private Eye, literary editor of The Spectator and Paris correspondent of The Independent. His most recent book is ...

Driving out of London along Western Avenue on a sunny January morning, the Gatso speed cameras are flashing and popping like crazy. No one is driving fast, but the speed limit for traffic on this part ...