In June 1944, more than two million Allied troops landed in France. By August, Paris was liberated. “It had been four long years in the desert, a darkness endured into a bright dawn,” writes Ryan Holiday in Courage Is Calling: Fortune Favors the Brave.

1: “Paris! Paris outraged! Paris broken! Paris martyred! But Paris liberated!” proclaimed General Charles de Gaulle, the leader of the French resistance. Yesterday, … continue reading

1: On June 14th, Hitler’s Nazi troops marched into Paris. As France fell to Germany, “it was overrun not just by tanks but by the fear of its own leaders who quietly and quickly negotiated a surrender with the worst aggressor in modern history,” writes Ryan Holiday in Courage Is Calling: Fortune Favors the Brave.

While France was surrendering, French General Charles De Gaulle boarded a small plane to … continue reading