French historian Marc Bloch witnessed the swift invasion of France by the Wehrmacht. He noted the Germans’ “embarrassing ...

White House rebuffs French Parliamentarian's call to reclaim the Statue of Liberty, asserting that US intervention in WWII saved France from Nazi rule ...

Blog posts represent the views of CFR fellows and staff and not those of CFR, which takes no institutional positions. President Donald Trump’s first month in office has been dizzying for U.S ...

Our security and defence analyst Michael Clarke has answered tonnes of questions on the Ukraine war that you've sent through. Some of the questions he's answered are: What could a peacekeeping ...

WELCOME BACK. A BLACK MILWAUKEE VETERAN WHO PLAYED A VITAL ROLE IN WORLD WAR TWO, IS NOW ALMOST 101 YEARS OLD. ANNA MAE ROBERTSON’S LIFE STORY IS KNOWN TO SOME HERE IN MILWAUKEE, AND HER ARMY ...

President Trump says the U.S. has spent $350 billion on the war in Ukraine—a figure that is at odds with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky’s tally, as well as U.S. government agencies and ...

It was one of eight such shelters built by the UK government during World War II in response to Germany’s Blitz bombing campaign that claimed the lives of around 30,000 people in London alone.

Something quite similar happened in France during World War II, when the part of the country not under direct German occupation was run by General Philippe Petain’s collaborationist government and ...

An American pilot killed in World War II has been accounted for 80 years after his bomber — dubbed "Heaven Can Wait" — crashed off the coast of New Guinea, U.S. officials revealed Monday.

“In the dark times / will there also be singing? / Yes, there will also be singing. / About the dark times.” –Bertolt Brecht When people imagine life under an authoritarian government, they probably ...