History offers welcome insights into the current geopolitical context, writes Olivier Wieviorka. How might the situation evolve? Everything will depend on Vladimir Putin's determination to spread the ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Olivier Wieviorka’s “Normandy” is a revisionist history, but its impact on the reader seems somewhat less revolutionary than that: a ...

Throughout my life, I’ve received from American pop culture two basic, contradictory images of the French Resistance: 1. As a heroic vanguard that represented the will of the French people as a whole ...

Historian Olivier Wieviorka argues that we are currently witnessing the collapse of the international system that emerged after World War II in an opinion piece for Le Monde. By launching his tanks ...

"Originally published as Histoire du débarquement en Normandie : des origines à la libération de Paris, 1941-1944, © Éditions du Seuil, janvier 2007"--T.p. verso ...

Olivier Wieviorka, author of 'La Mémoire désunie' ('A divided memory'), takes a look at Charles de Gaulle's rousing 1940 radio appeal to his compatriots to resist the Nazi occupation.

In the spring of 1940, France’s “phony war” with Germany, begun the preceding year, turned all too real. Within a matter of weeks, its government, along with its army, was in frantic retreat. As a ...

Accounts of the Normandy campaign are not in short supply, but this one from a French military historian delivers an energetic, mildly revisionist overview. Historians tend to write that lack of ...

A French historian's claim that aboriginal Canadian soldiers scalped prisoners during the Second World War has drawn outrage from veterans and scorn from academics. The allegation has been described ...

With the French historians Olivier Wieviorka and Nicolas Offenstadt. From the soldiers in the trenches to the civilians and rulers behind the lines, a look back on one of the most devastating ...

The story is one of the most written about events in modern French history. The first large Allied military force to reach Paris on 24 August 1944 was the only French unit in France at the time. The ...