Garcia explained that the authors wanted to “show the overseas space for what it is in its own history, and not only from the moment France set foot there". Each map represents a layer of France's ...

Even though millions of French troops were manning the defensive Maginot Line in early 1940, Hitler's brilliant blitzkrieg strategy caught the Allies by surprise, and Germany occupied France ...

as the Allied forces attempted to break through the German front line in northern France, 1916. This interactive map shows the victories, defeats and painful stalemate, and how the lessons learned ...