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St Cadfan's Church, Tywyn, is said to be "e;as remarkable a church as any in Wales, despite the ravages of time"e; (Buildings of Wales: Gwynedd).

Describes the Desert Fox's preparation for military greatness, his rise to prominence, and his early campaigns in Africa.

This is Ken Wharton's second oral history of the Northern Ireland troubles told again from the perspective of the ordinary British soldier.

Explores Irish nationalism in Britain, from the politics of John Redmond to the political violence of Michael Collins.

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.

Deux récits autobiographiques d'une forte authenticité nous sont ici proposés : le premier, L'exode de l'été 1940, décrit la capitulation, l'humiliation, la naissance de l'esprit de la Résistance au sein d'une France plongée dans la tourmente de l'invasion des troupes allemandes.

The first half of a two-part study on Operation Barbarossa, Hitler's plan to invade Soviet Russia during World War II, and what went wrong.

Le 19 juin 1940, les troupes allemandes s'installent à Angers.

In 1071 Muslim Turks crushed the Byzantine Emperor’s Anatolian army at Manzikert.

In this important new book the renowned historian Serge Gruzinski returns to two episodes in the sixteenth century which mark a decisive stage in global history and show how China and Mexico experienced the expansion of Europe.

After the Allies had defeated the Japanese in the Solomons and the Dutch East Indies, the capture of the Philippines became General MacArthur’s next objective.

War is the story of individuals painted into a broader tapestry of overpowering events.

The Crushing of Army Group North 1944-45 on the Eastern Front tells the story in words and images of the last bitter months fought on Russian soil and the battle of the Baltic States that ensued.

In February 2014, Russia initiated a war in Ukraine, its reasons for aggression unclear.

Cet ouvrage s'intéresse aux moments indécis de 1940.

10 Mai 1940 c'est la guerre.

Trois femmes, témoins de la Shoah racontent leur expérience à des élèves.

The German Afrika Korps was an outstanding military organisation that experienced both the height of glory and the depth of defeat in the Western Desert campaign.

This gripping history details the remarkable exploits of a Commando and Special Operations Executive operative during the Second World War.

David's father was a young man of seventeen when he joined the Merchant Navy in the early spring of 1939.

Twelve Voices from Greece and Rome is a book for all readers who want to know more about the literature that underpins Western civilization.

The British archives of the Napoleonic wars are unique, brimming with personal letters to family and friends or journals that record their innermost thoughts.

"J'ai longtemps cru que je les retrouverais, que le hasard de la vie nous ferait nous rencontrer et, bien sûr, nous reconnaître [.

Ce livre est écrit avec les souvenirs et récits de déportés.

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.

Londres, juillet 1940.

Fortunée Abignoli est arrêtée par la police française lors des rafles de Marseille, le 24 janvier 1943.

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.

The GIs called her Joey.

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.

The study comprehensively and interestingly discusses Puri, the sacred city of Orissa.

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.

Unrestricted Warfare reveals the dramatic story of the harsh baptism by fire faced by U.

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.