A tour de force.' Nicholas Stargardt, University of Oxford '… an excellent book, a very real contribution to the study of the linkages of consumerism and war. … is a must-read for those interested not ...

France suffered a notoriously quick defeat at the hands of its German neighbor in World War II. The country capitulated just six weeks after Hitler's land invasion began on May 10, 1940.

during the wake of the Allied forces' successful D-Day invasion of Normandy, France, it seemed as if the Second World War was all but over. On Dec. 16, with the onset of winter, the German army ...

The Tirailleurs Senegalais, seen here at the end of the conflict, were sent to France ahead of an anticipated German invasion during World War Two France has for the first time acknowledged that ...