Pierre Malinowski also wishes that due honours be paid to the men. "These were farmers, hairdressers, bank-clerks who came willingly to fight this war, and then died in a way that we cannot begin to ...

The remains of Charles-Etienne Gudin have returned to French soil more than 200 years after his death during Napoleon’s disastrous Russia campaign. The repatriation is thanks to an ally of former ...

A one-legged skeleton unearthed during a dig in Russia could solve a Napoleonic mystery more than 200 years old. Researchers from France and Russia believe the remains are those of General ...

For more than a century, the German troops have lain undisturbed where they perished over six agonising days after the 1,000ft Winterberg supply tunnel was blocked at both ends by pinpoint-accurate ...

PARIS—The French former commando clutched an unusual package on an early-morning flight from Moscow to Paris in September, on a mission blessed by the Russian and French presidents. Stashed in Pierre ...

AGUILCOURT /France/, May 29. /TASS/. French and Russian officials on Tuesday unveiled an obelisk commemorating the Russian soldiers, who defended France during the harsh battles of World War I. It has ...

A man with close ties to the Kremlin went looking for and found the remains of World War I Russian soldiers in France. Moscow hopes to use the discovery for diplomatic purposes. By Constant Méheut ...

MOSCOW, October 15. /TASS/. Veterans from the allied countries of the anti-Hitler coalition will hold meetings in Moscow and St. Petersburg under the aegis of the Foundation for the Development of ...

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Not since the 1970s has there been such an important discovery from the Great War in France. In woods on a ridge not far from the city of Reims, the bodies of more than 270 German soldiers have lain ...