This is the longest single battle of World War One and lasts nine months. The Germans fail to break through or exhaust the French army and when the battle is over both sides have lost around ...

It’s basically a manifesto calling for the mass recruitment for Africans into the French army. Mangin didn ... contribution of empire troops in World War One. Students could be encouraged ...

Napoleon considered the Iberian Peninsula another world — with ... KERATRAUNT: It’s a war of atrocities. It’s guerilla war — the word comes from this time. The French army has never ...

One French war correspondent in Hanoi who met her at an ... “He suggested us to join the army under a fixed-term contract to see whether we liked it.” In 1963, she married retired French ...