Firsthand accounts of the wartime Nazi occupation of France stress the messy, haphazard nature of the resistance. The groups ...

Quelle surprise! While the legendary entertainer was traveling the globe being toasted as star, she was actually working as a ...

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After French leader calls block on Gaza aid 'shameful,' Netanyahu slams him for echoing 'despicable Hamas propaganda' while ...

Gertrude Stein, as Francesca Wade puts it in this masterpiece of biography, was a character of “bewildering contradictions”.

Stein and Toklas had already rented a country house near the Swiss border in Bilignin – Stein ... the couple stayed in France despite repeated entreaties to return to the safety of America.

Switzerland developed this defensive plan as a deterrent: any attempt to invade the country would have been extremely costly ...