If the photograph of this Army officer unfurling the American flag looks vaguely familiar to you, there may be good reason for the déjà vu. The iconic scene depicts the liberation of the small and ...
France’s veterans minister visited Algeria Sunday to mark the 70th anniversary of the 1945 Sétif Massacres, in which up to 45,000 Algerians were killed by French colonists and soldiers. Jean-Marc ...
Pétain entered France at eight o'clock this evening and was immediately taken prisoner, the French news agency announced to-night. The agency said that Pétain crossed the Swiss frontier at La Ferriere ...
TheThe massacres of Sétif, Guelma and Kheratta are considered by historians to be the very first events of the Algerian war of independence against French rule, which erupted in earnest in 1954 and ...