Creteil, ville de la banlieue sud-est de Paris, est marquee par la Seconde Guerre mondiale, dans les memoires familiales et l'occupation symbolique de l'espace public.
Alex and Mela Roslan and their children, an ordinary, brave Polish family rescue Jewish brothers from the Warsaw Ghetto, with whom they bond, keeping them safe through the Holocaust and into post-Holocaust years on an adventurous odyssey across Europea region seething with emergent antisemitism.
Janvier 1974, au petit matin sur une route enneigee de Haute-Savoie, une poignee d'anciens resistants et resistantes piege un traitre qui avait echappe a l'Epuration et coulait des jours tranquilles entre l'Argentine et la Suisse.
Aunque mucho se ha escrito sobre Hitler, faltaba una historia clara y concisa para no especialistas que pusiera al dia lo que verdaderamente sabemos sobre su vida y su personalidad: su infancia, sus influencias, su ambigua sexualidad, su actitud ante la religion, asi como la verdadera efectividad de sus politicas en una Alemania devastada por el desempleo y la hiperinflacion.
When the Allied Forces arrived in the Netherlands after Operation Market Garden, the country's long-awaited liberation from National Socialist occupation finally came in the summer of 1945.
The diaries and letters of Etty Hillesum (1914-1943) have a special place among the Jewish-Dutch testimonies of the Shoah, so much so that Etty Hillesum studies has become its own field.
When the Allied Forces arrived in the Netherlands after Operation Market Garden, the country's long-awaited liberation from National Socialist occupation finally came in the summer of 1945.
The Hollandsche Schouwburg is a former theatre in Amsterdam where, during the Nazi occupation of the Netherlands, tens of thousands of Jews were assembled before being deported to transit and concentration camps.
The diaries and letters of Etty Hillesum (1914-1943) have a special place among the Jewish-Dutch testimonies of the Shoah, so much so that Etty Hillesum studies has become its own field.
This is a translation of the only known detailed account of the building of the notorious 262-mile long Thai-Burma Railway by one of the Japanese professional engineers who was involved in its construction.
In the rolling hills of the Limburg Province, near the village of Margraten, they slowly loom up, row after row: thousands of white marble crosses and Stars of David.
The Pursuit of Justice is the first book to examine three separate instances of soldiers risking their lives during wartime to protest injustices being perpetrated by military authorities: within the United States Army during the American Civil War, the Australian Imperial Force during World War I, and the British Army during World War II.
This is a translation of the only known detailed account of the building of the notorious 262-mile long Thai-Burma Railway by one of the Japanese professional engineers who was involved in its construction.
In the rolling hills of the Limburg Province, near the village of Margraten, they slowly loom up, row after row: thousands of white marble crosses and Stars of David.
The Pursuit of Justice is the first book to examine three separate instances of soldiers risking their lives during wartime to protest injustices being perpetrated by military authorities: within the United States Army during the American Civil War, the Australian Imperial Force during World War I, and the British Army during World War II.
Dans cet essai biographique, Gregory Baudouin nous parle de Jean Moulin, l'homme, le prefet, le resistant, l'artiste mais aussi des villes ou il a vecu, de sa famille, des hommes et femmes qu'il a rencontres, qu'il a affrontes, qu'ils soient de la resistance, de la collaboration ou belligerants.
The Hollandsche Schouwburg is a former theatre in Amsterdam where, during the Nazi occupation of the Netherlands, tens of thousands of Jews were assembled before being deported to transit and concentration camps.
A deeply researched history of Floridas strategic and military roles in World War IIThe first book to share the entire history of Floridas involvement in World War II, State of War explores how the war transformed the state into a major hub of military industry and an important training base for ground, naval, and air forces.
World War II letters of a New Englander's journey from civilian to elite fighter squadron pilotBefore the Marine Fighting Squadron VMF-214 became known as the Black Sheep squadron led by Pappy Boyington, this air group was already flying missions from Guadalcanal.
At first glance it may sound provocative, but Wolfgang Bittner proves it with facts as conclusive as they are astonishing: Germany was and is betrayed and sold.
From April 1945, when Stalin broke the Soviet-Japanese Neutrality Pact and Harry Truman assumed the presidency, to the final Soviet military actions against Japan, Hasegawa brings to light the real reasons Japan surrendered.
In stark contrast to the widespread preoccupation with the wartime looting of priceless works of art, Bożena Shallcross focuses on the meaning of ordinary objects―pots, eyeglasses, shoes, clothing, kitchen utensils―tangible vestiges of a once-lived reality, which she reads here ascultural texts.
Nach dem Zweiten Weltkrieg wurden in Deutschland Hunderttausende Kinder von alliierten Soldaten und einheimischen Frauen geboren - aus Liebesbeziehungen, kurzen Affaren, Versorgungspartnerschaften oder Vergewaltigungen.
In this book, originally published in 1977, John Lukacs argues that the years 1939-41 were the decisive phase of the Second World War and The Last European War describes the history of an entire continent during these two years, one of the most crucial periods in Western civilization.
In this book, originally published in 1977, John Lukacs argues that the years 1939-41 were the decisive phase of the Second World War and The Last European War describes the history of an entire continent during these two years, one of the most crucial periods in Western civilization.
