In June 1940, as France collapsed and Britain faced the prospect of resisting the Nazis alone, Winston Churchill searched for a French leader willing to keep fighting ...

Winston Churchill and Franklin Roosevelt found Charles de Gaulle admirable and infuriating in equal measure, and readers may well feel the same way about his war memoirs, now in a fresh reprint ...

Since 2001, the Charles de Gaulle has served as the crown jewel of French military might. It is the only nuclear-powered ...

General de Gaulle famously evoked “a certain idea of France” in his memoirs, but in fact he embodied it. He was the man who, from London, on June 18, 1940, called on the French to refuse the offer of ...

German soldiers and officers saw Charles de Gaulle less as a battlefield commander and more as a powerful symbol of French resistance. After France’s rapid defeat in 1940, de Gaulle’s broadcasts from ...

Charles de Gaulle’s quote “I respect only those who resist me, but cannot tolerate them” by Charles de Gaulle points out a ...

Eastern Mediterranean Sea, Nov. 25, 2016: A sailor checks ordnance on the wing of a Rafale M fighter-bomber prior to flight operations onboard the French aircraft carrier Charles de Gaulle. The ...

When it comes to nuclear aircraft carriers, America operates the bulk of them. But France is the only other country to have a nuclear-powered carrier at its disposal. While France's flagship carrier, ...