Entre le 16 juin et le 24 juillet 1944 se déroula l'une des batailles les plus meurtrières faisant suite au débarquement des troupes alliées, notamment américaines, en Normandie : la bataille des Haies.

Despite Hitler's vow to destroy Paris, Parisians play a crucial role in driving the Nazis out.

On August 19, 1942, after nine hours of fighting, 1,197 allied soldiers, including 913 Canadians, are killed; 48 French civilians are dead; at the height of the fighting, the attackers lost four men per second; the Dieppe raid turned into a massacre.

The Alps Front, June 1940; a handful of French soldiers face a flood of Italians, after seeing great defeat; General Olry and his men remain stationed on the Alps; the Italians lose more than 6,000 men without seizing an inch of French territory.

In the heart of the Ardennes massif took place one of the bloodiest battles of the Second World War.

A look at the iconic February 21st, 1916 battle of Verdun in which the Germans are determined to use the destructive power of their heavy artillery as much as possible to drown the French lines under a rain of fire.