History: specific events and topics

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.

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

The first scholarly edition of Maria Graham's Journal of a Voyage to Brazil (1824).

Britain was the cradle of the industrial revolution.

This edited collection investigates New Zealand's history as an imperial power, and its evolving place within the British Empire.

This book gives a radically new reading of Russia s cultural history.

On the morning of February 24, 1942, on the Black Sea near Istanbul, an explosion ripped through a decrepit former cattle barge filled with Jewish refugees.

« Goebbels, c'est du pus !

Le blocus de la colonie française de la Côte Française des Somalis et plus particulièrement de son port, Djibouti, entre 1940 et 1942, est l'histoire d'une guerre fratricide entre Français libres et Français de Vichy.

Peu après le départ de la féroce division allemande Das Reich de Figeac, la "division fantôme", tout aussi sanguinaire, fut chargée de continuer la lutte contre les Résistants.

For many Americans, the birth certificate is a mundane piece of paper, unearthed from deep storage when applying for a drivers license, verifying information for new employers, or claiming state and federal benefits.

Arrêté avec quatre de ses camarades pour activités communistes, Albert-Joseph di Fusco, cantonnier temporaire à la mairie du XVe arrondissement de Paris, avait été condamné à 20 ans de travaux forcés.

Private Dan Jones was captured by Nazi sergeants in a smoke-filled forest in Holland.

In the early 1880s the Mahdi unleashed a spectacularly successful jihadist uprising against Egyptian colonial rule in the Sudan.

Since antiquity, European Jewish diaspora communities have used formal appeals to secular and religious authorities to secure favors or protection.

Cet ouvrage retrace les souvenirs de Herbert Geschwind liés aux évènements de la Seconde Guerre mondiale, de la découverte de la France et de la Riviera française après son exil d'Autriche en 1938.

Le 11 avril 1945, plus de 3000 déportés à bout de force espèrent leur libération dans deux petites gares ferroviaires perdues au fin fond de l'Allemagne nazie.

In the past thirty years the world of model kits has undergone a veritable revolution.

In World War II, the U.

In The Slaveholders' Dilemma, Eugene D.

The acclaimed portrait of institutionalized patients whose abandoned possessions recall their forgotten livesA deeply moving testament to the human side of mental illness.

A revised and updated single-source reference book accurately detailing the German field forces employed in Normandy in 1944 and their losses.

The First World War is widely conceived as a pointless conflict that destroyed a generation.

Through letters and other writings, this historical study chronicles an Irish Catholic family's influence on mid-nineteenth-century South Carolina.

An illustrated guide to the markings used on WWII Era U.

L'auteur livre ici l'histoire de son père, Marcel Autant.

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.

During the Civil War, Union and Confederate politicians, military commanders, everyday soldiers, and civilians claimed their approach to the conflict was civilized, in keeping with centuries of military tradition meant to restrain violence and preserve national honor.

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

Queer history is a living practice.

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.

The tragic story of the killing of 14-year-old George Junius Stinney Jr.

On 24 May 1497 Girolamo Savonarola was led out to a scaffold in the middle of the Piazza della Signoria.

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.

This Mediterranean travel memoir offers “an engaging mix of history, food travelogue, and botany lesson .

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.

Events in Rwanda in 1994 mark a landmark in the history of modern genocide.

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

A unique way to turn bedtime stories into an opportunity to strengthen our bond with our children.