Après la défaite de 1940, et face à l'effondrement surprise de la puissance française, tous les regards se tournent vers un horizon d'espoir et d'incertitude : les colonies. La France est ...

Entre 1941 et 1943, un millier d’Indochinois sont enrôlés pour curer la vallée des Beunes, près des Eyzies. Une exposition au ...

In 1940, following France's surrender to Germany, its colonies had to decide which side to take. After the Indian Ocean island of Madagascar rallied to the Vichy government, the Allies became ...

The President welcomed at the Kremlin President of the Republic of the Congo Denis Sassou Nguesso, who arrived in Moscow to ...

Britain desperately needed help and Roosevelt wanted to offer it, but the US was isolationist and anti-colonial so it came at ...

Over a million Africans who were called to service by colonial powers took part in the war. Many never returned – and those ...

Tensions over the fate of British colonies would dog the relationship ... she could so easily have become a second Vichy France. Phil Craig is the author of 1945:Reckoning – War, Empire and ...

où les coloniaux qui se battent pour la France Libre affrontent ceux qui servent au nom de Vichy… Les forces de l’Axe comprennent également des Africains, à commencer par les auxiliaires ...

La Résistance et la Libération figurent parmi les épisodes les plus remarquables de la lutte des classes en France. La ...