In July 1987, the "Butcher of Lyon" was sentenced to life in prison by a French court. Four years earlier, the BBC reported ...

Pedro Vera drove an Army ambulance, ferrying the wounded to field hospitals, on D-Day and at the Battle of the Bulge. Somehow ...

Marthe Cohn, a Holocaust survivor and nurse who went behind Germany enemy lines on behalf of French intelligence and helped undermine the German military in the waning days of World ...

SSgt. Felix Shostak was labeled missing in action during the Second World War. He remained missing through the 21st century, but an investigation by family members and the military has finally brought ...

In this month’s picks, a look back at a city in France during the Nazi occupation, an assessment of a renowned gay politician ...

In ‘Operation Biting,’ Max Hastings narrates a daring action by British special forces that could have come from the pen of ...

By June 1940, German forces had blitzed through France in just six weeks, leading more than half of the country to be occupied. As a result, French staples like cheese, bread and meat were soon ...

As the Allies prepared to invade Normandy, a small team of SAS commandos and 400 straw-filled burlap dummies duped the Nazis ...

Germany's chancellor held a friendly meeting with US President Donald Trump at the White House, and said he hopes for progress on trade talks and putting pressure on Russia.

The June 6, 1944, D-Day invasion of Nazi-occupied France used the largest-ever armada of troops and vehicles to breach Hitler’s defenses in western Europe.