Nancy Wake was the most decorated servicewoman of World War II, but before the manhunts and the medals, she was just a New ...

Nisa Inayat Khan, a British-Indian spy who played a pivotal role in the French Resistance during World War II.

France surrendered to the Nazis in 1940 for complex reasons. The proximate cause, of course, was the success of the German invasion, which left metropolitan France at the mercy of Nazi armies. But the ...

The French postal service, La Poste, honoured Noor Inayat Khan with a stamp issued to honour the “Figures of the Resistance” ...

She endured horrors as a captured member of the French Resistance, and to ensure that her story, too, would survive, she depicted them years later in a series of stark paintings. By Adam Nossiter In ...

Marcel Ophuls, an Academy Award-winning filmmaker whose landmark documentary “The Sorrow and the Pity” debunked the myth of widespread French resistance to the Nazi occupation during World War II, ...

France has released a new postage stamp honouring British-Indian spy Noor Inayat Khan, the first woman radio operator sent to ...

Diplomats, academics and representatives from European missions marked 80 years of German-French reconciliation at an event ...

Pope Leo XIV on Friday declared 174 new martyrs, including 50 French Catholics who died in Nazi concentration camps during World War II and more than 100 Spanish priests killed during the Spanish ...