Such harsh choices lie at the heart of Paris ’44, Patrick Bishop’s fascinating account of the liberation of Paris. On April 28 1944, thousands of French people gathered in the city centre to ...

To celebrate the Liberation of Paris in August 1944, the capital has prepared a week of intense commemorations on August 24 ...

“Paris must not fall into the hands of the enemy,” Adolf Hitler told his top general in Paris, “or if it does, he must find there nothing but a field of ruins.” Public domain via Wikimedia ...

On 25 August 1944, after a week of strikes, barricades and street battles, the capital welcomed General Charles de Gaulle, the leader of France's provisional government in exile, after four years ...

during the ceremonies commemorating the anniversary of Paris liberation from Nazi occupation. Photo by STEPHANE DE SAKUTIN / AFP Eighty years ago Parisians rose up against their German Nazi ...

Agence France-Presse was created in the tumult of World War II by a band of journalists who stormed a pro-Nazi newsroom and took over as Paris was in revolt. It was August 20, 1944, the day after ...

Patrick Bishop, acclaimed historian and author of bestsellers about the Royal Air Force during the Second World War (“Fighter Boys” and “Bomber Boys”), longtime foreign correspondent, and ...

France's outgoing Secretary of State for Veterans and Memory Patricia Miralles stands on a World War II-era jeep during a reenactment marking the 80th anniversary of the liberation of Paris from ...