Les Mémoires de Raymond Patoux sont uniques en leur genre : cinquante ans de militantisme libre et indépendant, représentatif du syndicalisme de la Charte d'Amiens, avec un idéal libertaire toujours défendu contre le stalinisme et toute bureaucratie.
When "e;talking"e; pictures first appeared in cinema theaters in the late 1920s, films about newspaper journalists quickly became a Hollywood mainstay.
The study analyses the polices role in society, about its bad name and looks into the history of the institution, dating back to the ancient period, and is presented with research oriented approach and logical treatment achieving a totality.
A poignant memoir of pre-1979 Iran and the human drama behind the fall of the last shahIn October 1999 during a trip to Cairo, Cyrus Kadivar, an exiled Iranian living in London, visited the tomb of the last shah and opened a Pandoras box.
François Vincent Raspail (1794-1878), républicain irréductible, s'est opposé avec constance et opiniâtreté à tous les régimes qui se sont succédés depuis la Restauration, avant d'être nommé en 1876, en tant que doyen d'âge, président de l'Assemblée nationale de la toute jeune Troisième République.
La conquête du pouvoir politique repose sur la nécessité d'avoir une parfaite maitrise des données culturelles, sociales et psychologiques de son milieu, mais aussi elle repose avant tout sur un talent personnel de l'acteur politique, condition sine qua non pour susciter respect et admiration.
Si l'on excepte Auray (1364) et Najerá (1367), les défaites françaises face aux Anglais, après Crécy et Poitiers, cessèrent avec le sacre de Charles V, roi du miracle, qui annula les conséquences du traité de Brétigny par la « recouvrance » des provinces perdues.
"e;Death, drugs and the occult meet in grisly inquiry at the Mexican border"e; in this true crime account of a mass murder by a serial killing cult leader (The New York Times).
Romancier atypique, unanimement salué comme l'un des plus créatifs du paysage littéraire français contemporain, Éric Chevillard est l'auteur d'une œuvre imposante, sur laquelle se sont penchées depuis le berceau les fées de la critique universitaire pour en révéler toute la virtuosité et la profondeur.
Au début des années 1960, à l'occasion du tournage du film Un roi sans divertissement, Jacques Brel écrivit la chanson Pourquoi faut-il que les hommes s'ennuient (?
Secrets of the Cold War focuses on a dark period of a silent war and offers a new perspective on the struggle between the superpowers of the world told in the words of those who were there.
How can Christians today interact with those around them in a way that shows respect to those whose beliefs are radically different but that also remains faithful to the gospel?
Journalism is complicated business: journalists are paid by management but work for the citizens; they tend to be self-taught (there is little evidence of mentoring and much disdain for journalism schools); and they need to be objective even when they're not impartial.
This book explores how different publics make sense of and evaluate anti-terrorism powers within the UK, and the implications of this for citizenship and security.
When Franklin Delano Roosevelt founded the Civilian Conservation Corps in 1933, newspapers relating to the organization were launched almost immediately.
Before Jutland is a definitive study of the naval engagements in northern European waters in 1914-15 when the German High Sea Fleet faced the Grand Fleet in the North Sea and the Russian Fleet in the Baltic.
By the summer of 1915 Germany was faced with two major problems in fighting World War I: how to break the British blockade and how to stop or seriously disrupt the British supply line across the Atlantic.
The Battle of Jutland, May 31-June 1, 1916, pitted Great Britain and Imperial Germany-the two largest fleets of World War I-against one another for the first time.
Genesis of the Grand Fleet: The Admiralty, Germany, and the Home Fleet, 1896-1914 tells the story of the prewar predecessor to the Royal Navy's war-winning Grand Fleet: ?
In the latest addition to the History of Military Aviation series, Peter Dye describes how the development of the air weapon on the Western Front during World War I required a radical and unprecedented change in the way that national resources were employed to exploit a technological opportunity.
In his groundbreaking work, In Defence of Naval Supremacy, Sumida presents a provocative and authoritative revisionist history of the origins, nature and consequences of the "e;Dreadnought Revolution"e; of 1906.
At the 1919 Paris Peace Conference, where the victorious Allied powers met to reenvision the map of Europe in the aftermath of World War I, President Woodrow Wilson's influence on the remapping of borders was profound.
An in-depth, finely detailed portrait of the German Army from its greatest victory in 1871 to its final collapse in 1918, this volume offers the most comprehensive account ever given of one of the critical pillars of the German Empireand a chief architect of the military and political realities of late nineteenth-century Europe.
Dans cet ouvrage, Jean Vital Fructueux Koléla-Kouka rend un vibrant hommage à son frère cadet Parfait Kolélas, fondateur de l’UDH-YUKi, un des partis politiques majeurs qui occupent la scène politique congolaise.
In 'True Crime: Pinkerton National Detective Agency' by Allan Pinkerton, readers are immersed in a collection of captivating stories based on real criminal cases solved by the legendary Pinkerton National Detective Agency.
Towards A New Christian Political Realism presents a new theoretical approach to understanding the role of religion in international relations, considering the strengths of Christian realism, classical realism, and neorealism, as well as the literature about the relevance of religion for IR.
Sixty years since the tripartite aggression of France, Great Britain and Israel against Egypt, this is the first account about Egyptian military operations during the Suez War of 1956 (or ‘Suez Crisis’, as it is known in the West).
