Nancy Wake was the most decorated servicewoman of World War II, but before the manhunts and the medals, she was just a New Zealand-born journalist who'd witnessed Nazi thugs beating Jewish people in ...

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

In early 1941 in Nazi-occupied France, a German officer stopped a 17-year-old girl and her ailing grandfather. She explained that they were taking the train to see family in their home village near ...

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

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 ...

PARIS — The search for the unknown photographer began in the summer of 2022, with the discovery of an old photo album at a flea market in the town of Barjac, in the south of France. Documentary ...

The video may have lasted less than 30 seconds, but it was long enough to provoke anger from historians and members of the French public. In honor of National Resistance Day, which commemorates those ...