...Liddell Hart judged that ‘the only serious chance of French resistance collapsing completely is as a sequel to a rash offensive on their part,...
...column at Pontigny, France, 1/9/1944; first emergence of French Resistance at Doullens, 2/9/1944; story of Major Tony Mellor's dealing with...
Hi there! I've just found your website/formum and this is my first posting. I'm making a family albus for my mother. Her father Lies Boers and...
Danny, I do find this passage in Post 16 odd: The Operation Torch landings at Casablanca were on 8/11/1942, the landing was 100% American (the...
...known Communist and had led the Communist faction of the French Resistance. From: Liberated Paris - Paris After the Liberation: 1944-1949 and...
I agree with Ewen, the position in Indochina calls for some perspective. At the time of the armistice there was a French garrison in Indochina of...
The dash across northern France (and the problems it caused (and the solutions)). With bridges across the River Seine established the way was now...
Michel My uncle also said that his LCT was carrying Bren Gun/Universal Carriers which gives support to your suggestion above that LCT 923 carried...
He had been in a German pow camp, and actually escaped from a train in Nice while the group was being transported for POW exchange. You can hear...
...which she became one of the very early members of the french resistance and later became a SOE agent in France who parachuted into France just...
...a symbol of horror and hope. If you were a member of the French Resistance, or even just a French citizen living on edge during the Nazi...
20th August 1944 Sgt. Felix Jean "Rico" Lagarde, 340 (Ile-de-France) Squadron flying PL124 Spitfire MkIX on an armed recce to Bernay Hit by flak...
Don't forget the Résistance, which gave de Gaulle the necessary legitimacy to represent all French people who did not accept the Armistice, and...
I would agree with what Christian Wilson has said in Post #27. A very good account of the era of occupation is Peter Novick's work The Resistance...
"World War Two divided France, and after the liberation most people chose not to speak about the war years for fear of opening old wounds. In Val...
A very misleading statement. At its height, the Milice did not have more than 35,000 members, out of which a maximum of 15,000 were considered as...
Absolutely agreed Michel, and seconded. Dear Christian Wilson, if you have never seen "The Sorrow and The Pity" ("Le Chagrin et La Pitie" as your...
Correct, but as Sheldrake said, the situation was not black and white, because many of those who supported the Vichy regime were against...
The Liberation of Lille - September 1944 More to add in edit Film : Métropole de Lille - La Libération de Lille - Ina.fr With... Google...
Osprey are doing their reveal of upcoming 2022 titles and this one caught my eye. It's in their general military releases so a "book book", not a...
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