August 1944 became Covington County’s deadliest WWII month, as nine local soldiers and airmen—including two Omaha Beach ...
How reporter Martha Gellhorn snuck into Normandy, broke Army rules and became the only woman journalist to land on D-Day.
In June 1940, as France collapsed and Britain faced the prospect of resisting the Nazis alone, Winston Churchill searched for a French leader willing to keep fighting ...
ONE of Britain’s last Normandy invasion heroes who survived his tank being blown up has died aged 101. After fighting in France, Richard Aldred, of Callington, Cornwall drove a Cromwell tank ...
Sara Pennypacker’s novel for young readers tells the story of a boy awakening to courage in Nazi-occupied France.
In this episode of WW2 Wayfinder, we walk the historic streets of Nancy in the Lorraine region of France, tracing the city’s fall in 1940 and its liberation in September 1944. From German propaganda ...
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Revisit the Double V Campaign and the segregated WWII U.S. Army, where Black troops fought fascism abroad while facing racism at home.
Tributes have been paid following the death of a 101-year-old Normandy veteran who helped liberate France from the Nazis.
With 15,000 Jewish Americans in uniform, religious accommodation remains uneven across the ranks and many have difficulty accessing kosher meals and observing Shabbat or holidays The post ‘Spiritually ...
As Ian Buruma shows in “Stay Alive,” his crisply told and uncomfortably relevant history of wartime Berlin, they feed off the ...
President Donald Trump was right when he said that wobbly British Prime Minister Keir Starmer was no Winston Churchill.