Many pivotal developments in the course of history did not start in palace halls or parliaments, but rather on battlefields where soldiers and warriors faced deadly opposition and risked their lives ...

Jean-Marie Le Pen, father of the far-right National Front party of France and self-proclaimed torchbearer of traditional French values who was a frequent presidential contender and was twice ...

The Founding of Australia 1788 was painted in 1937 by Algernon Talmage. It was commissioned for the sesquicentenary celebrations of 1938. The painting depicts the moment that Captain Arthur Phillip ...

The Founding of Australia 1788 was painted in 1937 by Algernon Talmage. It was commissioned for the sesquicentenary ...

blaming it for the Indochina war. “Fascist!” the Communist benches responded in chorus. Poujade soon drifted into xenophobia and the dogged defense of French rule in Algeria (l’Algérie ...

Petraeus’s real legacy is that of a general who understood and then adapted to fight the war he was in ... forces very often fail to adapt-the French in Indochina and Algeria, the Soviets ...

In the worst possible case, war might break out, gradually in the grey space between peace and war, and then suddenly with weapons being launched with ... the Netherlands East Indies, French Indochina ...

An pilot’s memoir of high-risk reconnaissance and aerial intelligence-gathering in Vietnam.

France, which has a large defence industry, has often complained when other European Union members have opted to buy U.S. weapons when French or European ... at least World War Two.

A monarchist in his youth, Le Pen attended law school in Paris in the 1940s and in 1954 joined the French Foreign Legion, serving as a paratrooper in Algeria and in French Indochina. Throughout ...

The French and German foreign ministers have met Syria’s new de facto rulers in Damascus, marking the first trip by top European officials to the country since the fall of former president ...