Normandy’s coastline remains one of the most powerful reminders of World War II
Many of us have taken to the hot springs of Dorres without knowing anything of its interesting history during the Second World War. The fashionable contempt in which the French hold the clergy seems to have been completely unjustified in that era…..but judge for yourselves.
British soldiers, arriving at the camp in April 1945 were met with around 10,000 unburied corpses lying where they had died.
One of the most successful escape routes for allied airmen wishing to cross the border into Spain was right here in the P-O, known as the Pat Line, after the man who set it up.
We all learn differently, and as we grow older, one of the greatest blocks to learning is memory. And yet many of us can still sing along to new songs – and remember the words!
From their small grocery shop in Perpignan, the 3 courageous Sabaté women, joined the fight against fascism.
How was the unknown soldier (le Soldat inconnu) chosen?
In 1940, Louis Torcatis joined the French Resistance under the pseudonym Bouloc and became head of the secret army of Languedoc Roussillon.
When General de Gaulle published a list of 1,038 resistance heroes who contributed to the liberation of France; only six were women
The Spanish republican soldiers of the 9th company in General Leclerc’s 2nd Armoured Division fought Nazism on the side of the Allies