Selasa, 29 November 2016

Ukrainian’s Fight for France

Rather than serve as instruments of the Waffen–SS’ s brutal partisan war in eastern France, two Ukrainian battalions went over to the French Resistance. A long-forgotten battle in northeastern France gives ample credence to the cliche “ truth is stranger than fiction.” During the summer of 1944, in little more than 100 days, two battalions …

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