German, William II, was cousin of Russian, Nicholas II, and their grandmother and grandmother-in-law in the case of Nicholas, was Victoria, queen and empress, grandmother also of Britain's King George V, cousin of Kaiser and Czar.. ..…

In 1940, Pétain took the helm of French government and requested armistice. no French leader has wanted to be associated with Pétain, and this week President Emmanuel Macron managed, in remarkable blunder, to start controversy over Pétain's memory. ..…

That there was still a war ongoing says much about the resilience of the British and French forces. Still, John Keegan, the late distinguished British historian, points out that the Americans’ arrival in force was “deeply depressing” to the Germans, who had already “destroyed the..…

The line it established between South and North was defined as a “provisional military demarcation line” temporarily separating the opposing French and Viet Minh armed forces, pending national elections for a unified government. ..…

These plans of the French government are similar to the plans of every ruling class in history, when faced with revolution. ... It was not at all the army or the police (who were so demoralised that even the reactionary intelligence branch, as we have seen, was refusing to collaborate with..…