A monument at the Normandy beaches contains the first six lines of the French poem. The post The poem that launched D-Day for the French Resistance appeared first on We Are The Mighty.

Directed by J. Lee Thompson, The Passage (1979) is an action-war movie inspired by Bruce Nicolaysen’s novel, Perilous Passage ...

Earlier this week, commemorations were held to mark the mass killings in July 1944 by German troops of French Resistance fighters and civilians in the village of  Vassieux-en-Vercors in south-east ...

An estimated 10,000 German soldiers stormed Vassieux-en-Vercors, completely devastating the village and dealing one of the most serious single blows to the French Resistance.

The attack by the French milice on April 16, 1944 did not end the activities of the resistance on the Vercors Plateau, with the Allies seeing it as potentially crucial in the landings in northern ...

Shot down over occupied France. Befriended by the French Resistance, betrayed to the Nazis, Roy becomes one of one-hundred and sixty-eight Allied airmen who are imprisoned at Buchenwald ...

Samuel Beckett, who served in the French Resistance, asks in Waiting for Godot: “Was I sleeping, while the others suffered?” Since October, that line has been ringing in my ears. I have watched as my ...

From her ties to both Nazis and the French resistance to a life of rags to riches, Chanel was a woman of contradictions. Binoche tells us how she channeled her in “The New Look.” The zombie ...

Thousands of German soldiers moved in on southeastern France's Vercors Plateau in July 1944 in a bid to crush a regional uprising led by a rural French Resistance group. Over 100 Resistance fighters ...

Over 100 Resistance fighters died in the bloody battles on the mountainside. Many of them were of African origin but who they were and why they decided to join the French Resistance has only ...