PARIS — The search for the unknown photographer began in the summer of 2020, with the discovery of an old photo album at a flea market in the town of Barjac, in the south of France. Documentary ...
Aug. 25 (UPI) --On this date in history: In 1609, Galileo Galilei exhibited his first telescope in Venice. In 1718, the city of New Orleans was founded. In 1875, Matthew Webb, a 27-year-old British ...
In “Paris 1944,” Patrick Bishop tells the story of the German occupation during World War II, with equal attention to French resisters and collaborators. Adolf Hitler with the architect Albert Speer, ...
Patrick Bishop’s new Paris 1944 is by far the best-written study in English of the controversial topic of France under German rule. A journalist and popular historian, Bishop brings alive for the ...
PARIS (Reuters) - A seminar on Paris that Amherst College Professor Ronald Rosbottom gave a decade ago piqued the U.S. academic's curiosity about the Occupation, the four years when German troops held ...