The long government service of Francois Boissy d'Anglas from 1789 to 1826 is unique, and his abundant writing provides a new look at the great drama of the French Revolution era.
Près de huit décennies après la fin de la Seconde Guerre mondiale, le moment est venu de s'interroger sur l'activité musicale s'étant développée dans les pays d'Europe centrale et orientale placés sous la domination de l'URSS.
The sector north of Ypres is best known for the inundation of much of the ground to the east of the Yser that acted as a block to the German advance in the autumn of 1914.
Over the course of the Middle Ages, the economies of Europe, Asia, and northern Africa became more closely integrated, fostering the international and intercontinental journeys of merchants, pilgrims, diplomats, missionaries, and adventurers.
Dans une France libérée mais exsangue matériellement et moralement, une tâche immense attend le général de Gaulle : le jugement de la collaboration, indispensable au rétablissement de l'autorité de l'État et œuvre de régénérescence de la nation.
They are two of twentieth-century history’s most significant figures, yet today they are largely forgotten – Paul von Hindenburg and Erich Ludendorff, Germany’s First World War leaders.
Dès la défaite de l'armée française en juin 1940, Charles Mangold, fonctionnaire du ministère des Affaires étrangères n'ayant aucune illusion sur la politique étrangère de l'Allemagne, quitte l'Alsace pour rallier Périgueux.
Drawing upon the most recent discoveries and scholarship in archaeology and the first-century Near East, The Dawn of Christianity reveals how a beleaguered group of followers of a crucified rabbi became the founders of a world-changing faith.
This is the compelling story of a former Jesuit who traveled to Ireland in order to better understand the IRA, its widespread support among Irish Catholics, and the country's continuing civil unrest.
Cet ouvrage explore un pan méconnu et bien peu « politiquement correct » de l'histoire du PCF, via son journal historique, L'Humanité, devenu un temps « clandestin ».
Although it was characterized by simmering international tensions, the early Cold War also witnessed dramatic instances of reconciliation between states, as former antagonists rebuilt political, economic, and cultural ties in the wake of the Second World War.
The Great Thorpe Railway Disaster of 1874 is the third title from Norwich writer and biographer Phyllida Scrivens, who lives less than half a mile from the site of the fatal collision.
Clara Krauss, since birth, was entrusted with a unique gift that made her special, almost mystical, a gift that would define her fate and the fate of everyone around her, a fate that would guide her, and her family through the time of turmoil that defined their world, a world tainted by evil, a world with the stench of death.
Drummer Richard Bentinck of the 23rd of Foot (Royal Welch Fusiliers) was a rarity: he survived many sanguinary experiences and recorded his adventures.
Cette correspondance familiale, écrite entre 1942 et 1945 raconte à travers la banalité de la vie quotidienne la déchirure de la déportation d'une famille de Juifs polonais, arrivée en France en 1930.
Ce livre est un témoignage de ce que fut Paris dans les années 1940 : la mémoire vivante d'un quartier du 13e arrondissement, vue par un gamin d'une dizaine d'années.
Despite a supreme belief in itself, the Royal Navy of the early eighteenth century was becoming over-confident and outdated, and it had more than its share of disasters and miscarriages including the devastating sickness in Admiral Hosier’s fleet in 1727; failure at Cartagena, and an embarrassing action off Toulon in 1744\.
The reasons why people arise to express dissatisfaction with their present situation, and how they imagine and work towards an alternative, have enduring relevance.
Mistress of everything examines how indigenous people across Britain's settler colonies engaged with Queen Victoria in their lives and predicaments, incorporated her into their political repertoires, and implicated her as they sought redress for the effects of imperial expansion during her long reign.
