Robert Pike

Originally published on French History Network Blog When a single singed page landed at his feet, having drifted down from the...

There are far more personal stories attached to Oradour-sur-Glane than I was able to fit into a single volume. Now that the book, Silent...

I first visited Oradour-sur-Glane in 1993. My mother was an A level History teacher and my parents were Francophiles. It followed that I...

Louise Bardet never got to eat lunch with the elder of her two children on 10 June 1944. That morning the sky had been grey and the air...

Two years to the day before Oradour-sur-Glane was destroyed by the SS Das Reich (the subject of my own upcoming book, Silent Village)...

On June 10 1944 The French village of Oradour-sur-Glane was destroyed by the SS. Here Robert Pike previews his next book 'Silent Village

In April 1943 two young French men, both of Eastern European-Jewish heritage, struck up a friendship with Maryse Nicolas and Monette...

Alexandre Villaplane and the 'Phalange nord-africaine' in the Dordogne. Alexandre Villaplane described the day he led the French national...

In 1971 Marcel Ophuls released a film that sparked a change in how France viewed the occupation. Four hours long, it upset the...

Cinema is important to the French. As the birthplace of the motion picture, the country shares a special relationship with the medium....

Jacques Poirier was a Frenchman who joined Maurice Buckmaster's F section of the Special Operations Executive (S.O.E) in London. He was...

The development of the Resistance accelerated greatly due to military developments well outside the sphere of influence of the...

I recently spent an extremely profitable not to mention enjoyable day at the Brighton home of Rod Kedward, Emeritus Professor of History...

I was lucky enough to meet Jacques de la Bardonnie at his Château Laroque, overlooking the picturesque village of...

I first met Ralph Finkler in 1996 and was delighted to catch up with him again on two occasions recently. His story led to my deep...