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The first stop of our Normandy day trip from Paris will be at the far end of the American sector: the Pointe du Hoc. This steep cliff, sitting 30 meters (100 feet) above the sea, was a strategic ...
Sergeant Henry Ashton is now buried with full military honours in Loos British cemetery.
For the Christmas episode, Twice Upon a Time, Mickey played an Allied soldier, the first to cross No Man’s Land and shake hands with the German enemy.
President Macron’s government has been forced to withdraw an artificial intelligence-generated video celebrating the French Resistance after historians were outraged by errors including a German ...
The novel that topped his list is WW1 German soldier Erich Maria Remarque’s semi-autobiographical book All Quiet on the Western Front, first released in 1928.
Maple Leaves in Buxton tells the history of the WW1 Canadian soldiers who were treated at the Canadian Hospital in the town and those who never made it home. Photo submitted “It’s about the soldiers, ...
African prisoners made sound recordings in German camps in WW1: this is what they had to say A recent book called Knowing by Ear recounts recordings made by African prisoners to reveal the lives ...
African prisoners in German camps were studied by ethnographers, who recorded their voices. What they had to say is poignant and unexpected.
On 6 June 1944, Operation Overlord – aimed at liberating German-occupied western Europe – commenced as Allied forces stormed the beaches of Normandy, France. In what became known as the D-Day ...