As a historian of modern France, I have rarely seen a connection between my everyday life in my adopted state of Texas and my ...

Last weekend’s European Parliament elections didn’t mark a decisive continental turn to the far right, as my colleague Bob Kuttner noted yesterday, but it did signal a menacing rise in support for ...

Unless the whole world was deceived, the Vichy Government last week squarely and publicly placed its bet on Germany to win World War II. Not only did it yield to Germany, which men in France today ...

World War II history buffs can learn new details at a talk called "The War Within a War," about the intense rivalries between the British Empire and the government of Vichy France, on Jan. 8 at the ...

The generation to which I belong has a bad conscience. —Marc Bloch, 1940 The fall of France to Hitler’s army in the summer of 1940, besides marking a fateful turn in the military history of the Second ...