On the eve of D-day, the wartime British PM drafted a letter that could have ended De Gaulle's political career.
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Casablanca Conference, (January 12–23, 1943), meeting during World War II in Casablanca, Morocco, between U.S. President Franklin D.
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Lot includes 'very unusual' correspondence between celebrated general and American singer Josephine Baker.
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In 1918, on the 11th hour of the 11th day of the 11th month, a peace agreement was signed in France to mark the end of World War One.
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The prime minister will also meet President Emmanuel Macron to discuss the wars in Ukraine and Gaza before the commemorations.
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Shortly after noon, the door to the villa opened, and Churchill, de Gaulle, and Giraud walked out, while Roosevelt was carried to his chair.
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In exile during the Nazi occupation of France, the great general spent three years in the British capital, a period that defined his sense...
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Churchill and De Gaulle were kept in the dark about a top secret British military plan to arm Vichy France, recently discovered documents...
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On June 16, 1940, with Nazi Germany on the brink of crushing France, British prime minister Winston Churchill and French undersecretary of...
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For a time, a brief and momentous time, he was France. It is one of history's strangest moments. France besieged; France defeated;...
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