The United States, according to the New York Times, has a Maginot Line problem. In the first in a series of articles castigating the 21st century U.S. military for allegedly failing to adapt to modern ...

All the Latest Game Footage and Images from Wargame: France 1940 A classic hex and counter wargame, simulating the 1940 campaign in the West - the famous Fall of France, along with Belgium and Holland ...

‘In some countries, the French have the reputation of being anti-Semitic,” Jacques Semelin writes in “The Survival of the Jews in France, 1940-44.” It is the goal of his careful study to show that ...

When Hitler invaded France in 1940, the conventional wisdom was that the French had the best military in Europe. This was despite Germany's crushing victory over Poland and several other powers ...

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A retired U.S. Army officer, Dr. Forczyk, the author of several works on World War II, has written a detailed operational and tactical study of the Battle of France, one which does justice to the ...

My father joined the army in 1939, and on 12/02/1940 was posted to the 1st.Ammunition Divisional Workshop. after training in the south of England around the New Forest area I believe, he went to ...

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It was the 15th July 1939 when I was called up to join the First Militia at Norton Barracks, Worcester, the Head Quarters of the Worcestershire Regiment. War broke out on the 3rd September 1939. It ...

On the first of September, 1939 I was called up for service in the army. I was a gunner in the Befordshire Yeoanry, a territorial unit, which specialised in heavy artillery. We spent a few months near ...