From the year 1066 with the Norman Conquest of England to 1815 with the end of the Napoleonic Wars, the French and English/British fought literally dozens of wars. However, the final Anglo-French ...

When the U.S. launched Operation Torch to seize Casablanca, intelligence predicted the Vichy French garrison would cooperate.

Barnsley, Eng.: Seaforth / Annapolis: Naval Institute Press, 2017. Pp. 328. Illus., maps, diagr., tables, biblio., index. $75.00. ISBN: 1591146399 A Design History of ...

A French battleship sunk in 1917 by a German submarine has been discovered in remarkable condition on the floor of the Mediterranean Sea. The Danton, with many of its gun turrets still intact, is ...

Although battleships were supplanted by aircraft carriers by the end of World War II, they remain a testament to a bygone era of warfare—and a symbol of their nations’ might. For nearly half a century ...

Key Point: Only eight dreadnoughts remain, all in the United States. The age of the steel line-of-battleship really began in the 1880s, with the construction of a series of warships that could carry ...