The British archives of the Napoleonic wars are unique, brimming with personal letters to family and friends or journals that record their innermost thoughts.
While artillery has been described as the queen of the Napoleonic battlefield, this was an era when cavalry could still play a decisive role in battle, as well as being vital on campaign.
This collection of essays studies the expression and diffusion of radical ideas in Britain from the period of the English Revolution in the mid-seventeenth century to the Romantic Revolution in the early nineteenth century.
Ce récit romancé est l'histoire d'une famille du Nord de la France, sur trois générations, au travers des parcours de vie noués aux grands mouvements de l'Histoire qui ont marqué cette région.
Les écrits de « Rose Blanche » naquirent au printemps 1942, en pleine seconde guerre mondiale, Hans Scholl, revenu à Munich du front de l'Est où il vient d'accomplir une période militaire comme infirmier dans la 6e armée, décide, avec sa soeur Sophie et quelques amis étudiants en médecine, de passer à l'action contre le régime nazi.
Ce livre constitue un humble hommage aux Alsaciens et Mosellans incorporés de force dans les armées allemandes lors de la Seconde Guerre mondiale et qui vivent dans l'ambiguïté de leur destin.
Preserving the personal histories of civilians and soldiers who united to defend America during the Second World War, this unique oral history tells the stories of ordinary citizens who left jobs and families behind to contribute to the war effort.
Au printemps 1944, alors que la guerre prend un tour défavorable pour l'Allemagne, la Hongrie met en place la plus radicale extermination des Juifs avec la déportation, de toutes les provinces, de quatre cent quarante mille personnes à Auschwitz.
Jay Stout breaks new ground in World War II aviation history with this gripping account of one of the war's most highly decorated American fighter groups.
Following decades of silence about the involvement of doctors, medical researchers and other health professionals in the Holocaust and other National Socialist (Nazi) crimes, scholars in recent years have produced a growing body of research that reveals the pervasive extent of that complicity.
Les itinéraires de vies de ce livre renvoient certes à des trajectoires spécifiques mais, en réalité, l'histoire des Rafenberg, Kac, Rymer, Flak est celle de milliers de familles juives d'origine polonaise, prises dans la fureur antisémite du nazisme et de la collaboration vichyste, celle de nombreux immigrés juifs de la mythique Mitteleuropa.
Gorbachev s Gamble offers a new and more convincing answer to this question by providing the missing link between the internal and external aspects of Gorbachev s perestroika.
The Tiger I and Tiger II tanks are probably the most famous German armoured fighting vehicles of the Second World War and despite the relatively small numbers produced, the heavy Panzer units of the German Army played a key role in the battles fought in North Africa, Italy, the Western Front and particularly in the East.
For a long time, the Norman Conquest has been viewed as a turning point in English history; an event which transformed English identity, sovereignty, kingship, and culture.
Finalist, 2022 Army Historical Foundation Distinguished Writing AwardsThe 614th Tank Destroyer Battalion was activated on 25 July 1942 at Camp Carson, USA and, like many other tank destroyer battalions, would be sent to Europe.
Cet ouvrage s'attache à retracer et à décrypter le parcours de Simone Veil, déportée en avril 1944 à Auschwitz, dans l'univers tentaculaire et complexe de la Shoah.
This is the first single-author study in over fifty years to offer an integrated appraisal of the early Middle Ages as a dynamic and formative period in European history.
Ordered by Hitler 'to hold, or to die' and to fight 'to the last grenade and round', the German army was a formidable opponent during the 1944 Normandy campaign.
Recent archaeological discoveries, coupled with long-lost but now available epigraphical evidence, and a more expansive view of literary sources, provide new and dramatic evidence of the emergence of rhetoric in ancient Greece.
Born in 1765, third son of King George III and Queen Charlotte, Prince William, Duke of Clarence, initially had little expectation of succeeding to the British throne.
When Jacobite enthusiast Michael Nevin successfully bid for a handwritten letter and memorandum by Bonnie Prince Charlie at an auction, little did he realise he had come into possession of material that would change our view of history.
During World War II, German armored reconnaissance laid the groundwork--often through small-unit actions--for the stunning tank and infantry operations that made the German military famous.
Après des années de recherches de lettres de soldats en guerre ou captivité pendant le 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.
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.
Submarine' is almost certainly the first book to bring together eye-witness accounts from almost every navy that deployed submarines in WW2, and it is far more than an account of WW2 missions.
