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The Battle of France (French: bataille de France; 10 May – 25 June 1940), also known as the Western Campaign (German: Westfeldzug), the French Campaign (Frankreichfeldzug, campagne de France) and the Fall of France, during the Second World War was the German invasion of the Low Countries (Belgium, Luxembourg and the Netherlands) and France.
Clemenceau lectured about France's position in the postwar adjustment of Europe. [5] Williamson later served as a member of the editorial staff of the Sunday Times, and he penned the "Headline Footnotes" column. Williamson served as Assistant Sunday Editor of The Times until leaving for his job at Newsweek in 1933. [2]
17-18 May: Antwerp and Brussels would fall to Germany; the Allies were forced to retreat to the coastline of France. 20 May: General Maxime Weygand replaces General Maurice-Gustave Gamelin as supreme Allied commander due to major losses across France.
In 1939 and 1940, France faced a united, determined, and technologically-sophisticated enemy. Although it was desperately important for France to match its enemy's traits with determination and unity of its own, French national leaders instead frittered away their final months before the catastrophe in a round of internal hostility, intrigue and backbiting, which led to the restoration of ...
The financial results for 2009 as reported by The Washington Post Company showed that advertising revenue for Newsweek was down 37% in 2009 and the magazine division reported an operating loss for 2009 of US$29.3 million (equivalent to $41.61 million in 2023) compared to a loss of US$16 million in 2008 (equivalent to $22.64 million in 2023). [30]
Here are 14 historical magazine issues that are worth a small fortune today. 1. Life Magazine (November 29, 1963) eBay. ... 14. Newsweek Magazine (February 24, 1964) eBay.
Janine di Giovanni [3] is an author, journalist, and war correspondent currently serving as the Executive Director of The Reckoning Project. [4] [5] She is a senior fellow at Yale University's Jackson Institute for Global Affairs, [6] a non-resident Fellow at The New America Foundation and the Geneva Center for Security Policy in International Security and a life member of the Council on ...
After his tenure with Newsweek, O'Donnell worked for many years as a freelance journalist in Germany, and published pieces in magazines ranging from Life magazine to The Saturday Evening Post. He later joined the U.S. State Department as an adviser on Berlin. He spent his last years as a journalism professor at Boston University.