Produced by the French military at the foundry and steelworks factory in Saint-Chamond, around 400 of the tanks would ultimately be manufactured by the war's end. The Saint-Chamond weighed 23 tons ...

He saw Pétain's rise to power as a coup d'état. Other Free French units were directly attached to Allied forces, including the British SAS and RAF, and the Soviet Air Forces. The US Army also supplied ...

American and British troops, who’d invaded Normandy two months earlier, were pushing the German Army east, but they were ...

Britain was Germany’s most formidable military foe, but remained out of reach across the Channel. He needed to weaken the French first. He planned to use a relatively small number of men to ...