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Heroes of WWII in France – Females all of them! – Part 3 –Noor Khan

June 10, 2020 By Ray Johnstone   |  

Her fluency in French soon led to her recruitment by SOE where she trained to become a wireless operator and secret agent.


Heroes of WWII in France – Females all of them! – Part 2 – Odette Sansom

November 10, 2019 By Ray Johnstone   |  

Born Odette Hallowes in Amiens in 1912.


Heroes of WWII in France – Females all of them! – Part 1 – Violette Szabo

October 31, 2019 By Ray Johnstone   |  

Violette was born in Paris in 1921. Her father was a publican, taxi-driver and car salesman from London. When her parents went back to Stockwell in England, Violette stayed on in Picardy with her aunt for financial reasons.


Collaboration versus resistance—alive, well and living in France

August 20, 2019 By Ray Johnstone   |  

This week we celebrate the anniversary of the Liberation of Paris in August 1944. What have we learned in the 75 years since the Nazis were driven out of France?


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The darker side to Bordeaux: France and the slave trade – from past to present

April 19, 2018 By Ray Johnstone   |   Bordeaux, France

Discover the dark history of Bordeaux and its historical links to the notorious slave trade.


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International relations: Anglo-French alliance WWII to Brexit — the end of the affaire?

February 22, 2018 By Ray Johnstone   |   France

Explore international relations between France and the UK, and discover the Anglo-French alliance from WWII until the present.


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Jean Moulin: France’s hero? Unravelling fact from fiction

April 26, 2017 By Ray Johnstone   |   France

Who was Jean Moulin? And was he really one of the great heroes of the French Resistance?


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Advice from a Melbourne pub: France for Christmas – leave the stockings at home

December 13, 2016 By Ray Johnstone   |   Melbourne, France

Don’t be the turkey this year! I overheard some great advice on spending Christmas in France


Book Review: Final Transgression by Harriet Welty Rochefort

September 15, 2020 By Henrie Richer   |  

Harriet Welty Rochefort paints this complex tableau of war in France with a fine brush and a great deal of humanity.


Dunkirk Golf Course: designed for battle

December 15, 2020 By Annette Cripps   |  

Berthet says: “I think Vauban would have approved… and perhaps even prescribed golf lessons for soldiers’ education!”


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