German World War I flying ace known as "The Red Baron," was killed by Allied fire over Vaux-sur-Somme, France. In 1954, U.S. Air Force planes began flying French troops to Indochina to reinforce ...

‘Finally a book on the First Indochina War that goes beyond the standard account of a simple conflict between Ho Chi Minh’s Vietnam and the French. The war against the colonizer is there, but so is ...

Close-up Photographer of the Year (CUPOTY) was founded in 2018 by Tracy and Dan Calder. It is the largest competition in the ...

The French colonization of Vietnam remains one of the most harrowing chapters in the legacy of European imperialism, leaving ...

Seven decades after the communist victory, memories have dimmed and the two nations have built a friendship atop the positive legacies of French rule.

In March 1945, U.S. Army Air Forces intensified their strategic bombing campaign over Japan. Instead of flying high-altitude ...

1859-83 - France slowly colonises Indochina ... base outside the Warsaw Pact. 2004 - First US commercial flight since the end of the Vietnam War touches down in Ho Chi Minh City.

This is by far the most engaging and comprehensive treatment of the Third Indochina War to date.’ Pierre Asselin, author of Vietnam's American War: A New History, 2nd Edition ‘The first truly ...

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

The Spanish Civil War gave rise to modern war photography as we still know it: immediate, gut-wrenching, uncomfortable and often surreal visions of life at its most extreme juxtaposed with visions ...

If the fig and banyan trees at this temple have seen much, so too a sole almond tree at the grim Hoa Lo Prison built by the ...

When some leading thinkers at the London School of Economics saw fascism take hold in the 1930s, Oxford history professor Ben ...