European history

Race in 20th-century German history is an inescapable topic, one that has been defined overwhelmingly by the narratives of degeneracy that prefigured the Nuremberg Laws and death camps of the Third Reich.

When asked to conjure an impression of the 'typical fighter pilot', you may be inclined to think of the confident, extroverted, gregarious type, rallying his men and flying in the pursuit of victory.

Ce livre retrace le cheminement de Georg Elser, simple menuisier, qui planifia l'attentat le plus stupéfiant destiné à éliminer Hitler et la direction du parti nazi lors de la commémoration de l'anniversaire du putsch de la brasserie à Munich.

Danielle Amon est née en 1937 de parents juifs de Constantinople, francophones et laïques, installés à Paris depuis dix ans.

Spitfire Pilot is the exhilarating and moving memoir of D.

Winner of the National Jewish Book Award: "e;This valuable resource covers an aspect of the Holocaust rarely addressed and never in such detail.

Le 15 mai 1940, Robert, « petit Parigot et bureaucrate », tel qu'il se définit, est fait prisonnier non loin de Hannappes, dans les Ardennes françaises.

À 17 ans, Simone Thomas, résistante dénoncée aux nazis, fuit Nevers où elle est née pour Paris.

More than an account of Churchill's momentous meetings with Roosevelt, Stalin and other leaders at the height of the Second World War, this book illuminates the practicalities of transporting a prime minister through dangerous skies and across hostile oceans in a time of global war.

"e;A tremendous account of the 1936 Olympics: the athletes, the atmosphere, and most important the politics behind those infamous games.

Keen to learn but short on time?

Drummer Richard Bentinck of the 23rd of Foot (Royal Welch Fusiliers) was a rarity: he survived many sanguinary experiences and recorded his adventures.

Seventy-five years after the end of the Second World War the details of Soviet ships, their activities and fates remain an enigma to the West.

Après des années de recherches de lettres de soldats en guerre ou captivité pendant le dernier conflit avec l'Allemagne nazie, Jean-Pierre Duhard a pu réunir plus de 2200 correspondances émanant de 300 prisonniers, qui ont fourni la matière à cet ouvrage.

The Declaration of Independence as you've never seen it beforeSome of us cherish it with near-scriptural reverence.

Nous découvrons ici le parcours atypique d'Albert Fossey.

L'auteur s'intéresse au processus de l'oubli tel qu'il a pu se construire dès l'immédiate après-guerre, à partir des silences des principaux acteurs de l'époque, parmi lesquels nombre d'intellectuels.

The Waffen SS were considered the elite of the German armed forces in the Second World War and were involved in almost continuous combat.

A labourer, journalist and a professor who lived through four successive periods of German political history from the German Empire, through the Weimar Republic and the Nazi state through to the German Democratic Republic Victor Klemperer is regarded as one of the most vivid witnesses to a tumultuous century of European history.

À l'heure où plusieurs dictateurs se réfèrent à la religion pour justifier leurs exactions, il est intéressant d'analyser cet usage chez Adolf Hitler.

Ce deuxième tome étudie le comportement humain et religieux dans les situations extrêmes sous la dictature hitlérienne.

Over two hundred years ago, on 21 June 1813, just southwest of Vitoria in northern Spain, the British, Portuguese and Spanish army commanded by the Duke of Wellington confronted the French army of Napoleon’s brother Joseph.

Janvier 1944, François Lespine, entré deux mois plus tôt à Bordeaux dans un groupe de la Résistance, affilié à l'Organisation Civile et Militaire (OCM), est arrêté par la douane allemande à Arcachon lors d'une opération de renseignements.

Au sortir de la Première Guerre Mondiale, l'écroulement des grands empires européens donne naissance à de nouveaux pays dont beaucoup n'ont jamais été des Etats.

One of the most famous units of World War II and all of military history.

Situated close to the South Coast, on flat land to the north of Chichester in West Sussex, lies Goodwood Aerodrome.

When the Washington Naval Treaty of 1922 effectively banned the building of battleships, competition between the major navies concentrated on the next most powerful category, heavy cruisers limited to 10,000 tons displacement and 8-inch guns.

In February 1685, James II succeeded his brother Charles II on the English throne.

De cette Pologne juive, que reste-t-il d'auter que des souvenirs comme ceux de Lisa, juive polonaise?

Rare look into the secret military operations of Hitlers GermanyPage-turning narrative detailing the units exploitsVery few books have been written about this clandestine operations unit, which was run by the German Armys intelligence service.

« C'est la guerre.

Ce livre retrace l'histoire vécue par les familles de l'auteur et de son épouse, originaires des Vosges et d'Alsace d'une part, de Bretagne d'autre part.

A heavily illustrated account of how the tanks of 4th Armored Division defeated two panzer brigades over 11 days of battle at Arracourt.

King John of England was married to two women: Isabella of Gloucester and Isabelle of Angoulême.

For nearly 60 years--from its uprising against British rule in the 1950s, to the bloody civil war between Greek and Turkish Cypriots in the 1960s, the Turkish invasion of Cyprus in the 1970s, and the United Nation's ongoing 30-year effort to reunite the island--the tiny Mediterranean nation of Cyprus has taken a disproportionate share of the international spotlight.

Des « chants nazis » dans l'armée française sont périodiquement dénoncés dans les médias.

When asked to conjure an impression of the 'typical fighter pilot', you may be inclined to think of the confident, extroverted, gregarious type, rallying his men and flying in the pursuit of victory.

Very Special Ships is the first full-length book about the six Abdiel-class fast minelayers, the fastest and most versatile ships to serve in the Royal Navy in the Second World War.

In 1688, a vast fleet of 463 ships, twice the size of the Spanish Armada, put to sea from Holland.

Le Bataillon du Pacifique vit le jour en avril 1941, au lendemain des ralliements des Nouvelles-Hébrides, des Établissements français d'Océanie et de la Nouvelle-Calédonie au général de Gaulle.

"e;As combat veterans and high commanders know, logic is often a stranger in wartime.

Following the signing of the Treaty of Versailles in 1919, Germany was not permitted to build or operate submarines.

The third and final volume in Tony Lurcock's series of compilations of British eye-witness accounts of Finland from the mid-18th century.

Tadeusz Komorowski was born in 1895 in Galicia, a region then ruled by the Austrians, and he served in the Austro-Hungarian Army in the First World War.

Cette guerre dont la menace planait déjà va bouleverser la vie de la famille de l'auteure et celle de toute une région tant de fois déchirée, conquise et reconquise, mais riche de deux cultures.

Violence exploding in public spaces, corruption by political figures and economic elites, the will of the people thwarted in both elections and votes in the senate, military misadventures abroad, and rampant economic inequality at home diminishing a shared sense of the common good - in sum, a republic in disarray.

"La déflagration intérieure provoquée par la disparition de mes parents fut si violente que ses traces disparurent au fond de moi pour très longtemps.