The late historian Stephen Ambrose wrote biographies of Presidents Dwight Eisenhower and Richard Nixon, as well as many books ...

France is a country where history still feels alive, with centuries of culture, power, war, and art leaving their mark across ...

There, every person has a story, a collective thread, which ties them to not only D-Day but the days that followed. St. Lô, known for a long time as the “Capital of Ruins,” was liberated a ...

Gen. Christopher T. Donahue, commanding general of U.S. Army Europe and Africa, led Memorial Day tributes Sunday at the Somme ...

Normandy is a region in France that truly has it all – dramatic coastlines, charming villages, fascinating cities, and a ...

Over 80 years ago, Allied forces stormed the beaches of Normandy in a bold assault that changed the course of history and set ...

From a traditional Japanese village to the music capital of Ireland, these small towns have all the beauty and charm you ...

THE wind swirls sand around my boots and gulls bounce overhead as I read the 47 Royal Marine Commando Memorial at the viewpoint in Port-en-Bessin, the site of a daring raid following D-Day.

Returning home on Leave, Lewis got a telegram recalling him to HMS Dacres, one of three headquarters ships used during the D-Day landings ... it was sunk just off the French coast. Swimming to safety ...

The 60th Infantry landed on the Moroccan coast ... on D-Day, but that didn't spare him from any intense fighting. Like many Allied infantry units, he got caught in the hedgerows of the French ...

This was the reality for the first 156,000 American, British, and Canadian soldiers that landed on the beaches of Normandy on June 6, 1944, D-Day. Take a rare glimpse ... While on their way to the ...