The Vichy regime is the nickname given to the French State which succeeded the Third Republic following the defeat of May-June 1940. From July 10, 1940 to August 1944, France, defeated and occupied, was subjected to an authoritarian regime under the leadership of Marshal Petain who agrees to collabo
After the Battle of Manzikert (1071), in which the Seljuks defeated the Byzantine troops and even captured the basileus Roman IV Diogenes , the Turks began the invasion of the Anatolian peninsula. In just a few years the Byzantines were to lose their main breadbasket and the recruiting ground for th
To what degree can the torments of a war be represented to the general public? The difficulty is to highlight heroism and sacrifice in the face of the relentless observation of the battlefield. The question of military representation and victims will arise in force during the First World War, when m
The historical site of Thermopylae became a battlefield not only in the famous conflict of 480 BC. but several more times in history, with the last one in 1941. However, the battle of Thermopylae in 279 BC is of particular importance. when again the allied Greeks saved the homeland from the invading