I received a message from Jim Ryan, the president of the University of Virginia. At first, I thought it was like countless ...

As Tim Bouverie shows in his masterful new diplomatic history of the war, the prime minister was right, both in his ...

This regime, better known as Vichy, held power during the four long years of French collaboration with Nazi Germany, the country that had defeated and, at first, occupied roughly the northern half ...

Allan Little explores the troubling legacy of the trial that divided and shook France to its core, finding Pétainism still ...

London was well aware that the right-wing Vichy government — under Field Marshal Philippe Pétain, hero of the First World War — had more affection for the Third Reich than it did for Britain.

In this month’s picks, a look back at a city in France during the Nazi occupation, an assessment of a renowned gay politician and an exploration of press freedoms in sovereign tribal nations.