It’s not often that a historical novel is set in the Vietnam of the 1920s, a period when the land in Indochina was occupied ...

Sanary-sur-Mer is where the good guys fled. The good German guys. The good gifted German guys – intellectual heavyweights on the run from Hitler. It isn’t immediately obvious. Sanary appears to be, ...

Historically a place where monarchs and aristocrats would escape the winter in favour of warm Mediterranean climes, this southern French city is at its best in the off season.

It’s interesting to speculate what the United States would look like today if the smaller colonies in North America had survived ... Northwest and Western Canada might have become Russian, French, or ...

Filming began in January 1945 in difficult conditions – the Germans had left just six months earlier, studio space had been ...

The United States was dragged unwillingly into World War II by the surprise Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor on December 7, ...

For years the colonies had flourished in a state of “salutary neglect.” Britain had been content to leave the day-to-day ...

While the French fleet commanded by Admiral Comte de Grasse blocked the Chesapeake and held the British fleet at bay, American and French troops trapped British forces at Yorktown in the fall of 1781.

Roscoe Joyner received the National Order of the Legion of Honor award from a member of the Consul General of France on ...

There is immense pride felt in Morrisville among the South Indian community. Usha Vance is 38 years old and is also set to be the youngest second lady since the Truman administration.

Texas in the early 19th century wasn’t exactly a place for a retired general of Napoleon’s stature. It was a land of chaos ...