In July 1938 the United States, Great Britain and thirty other countries participated in a vital conference at Évian-les-Bains, France, to discuss the persecution and possible emigration of the European Jews, specifically those caught under the anvil of Nazi atrocities.
When asked to conjure an impression of the 'typical fighter pilot', you may be inclined to think of the confident, extroverted, gregarious type, rallying his men and flying in the pursuit of victory.
Ce témoignage personnel et historique retrace les destins de Viktor et Klara, embarqués par l'Union soviétique en 1944 pour participer à la reconstruction de l'URSS après la guerre et le retrait de l'Allemagne.
This comprehensive and superbly illustrated book describes in authoritative detail the characteristics and contribution to victory of these formidable American fighting vehicles.
Cet ouvrage soutient une thèse fondamentale : du point de vue idéologique et législatif, tout en Hongrie était prêt afin que le génocide des juifs de province puisse s'accomplir en quelques semaines, après l'occupation du pays par les Allemands en mars 1944.
On a map the Azores appear as nine tiny specks in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean, but their location was to prove strategically vital in two world wars.
Rare account of a non-German who fought in the elite Waffen-SS New information on the 11th SS Panzergrenadier Division No-holds-barred narrative of the Eastern Front This is the story of Erik Wallin, a Swede who volunteered for the Waffen-SS, serving in the panzer reconnaissance battalion of the 11th SS Panzergrenadier Division, a unit composed mainly of volunteers from Scandinavia.
Les Peintres, c'est ainsi que les nazis ont nommé les membres du réseau de résistance "La Rose blanche", parce qu'ils recouvraient les murs d'inscriptions telles que "A bas la dictature !
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.
Le caporal Gaston Rabot, volontaire calédonien du Bataillon du Pacifique, quitte Nouméa le 6 mai 1941, avec le Bataillon embarqué à bord du paquebot Zealandia.
Dear Mr Bigelow is an enchanting collection of weekly letters written between 1949 and 1961 from an unmarried woman working at the Public Baths in Bournemouth, to a wealthy American widower in New York.
On November 11, 1940, 21 slow, canvas-covered British warplanes, launched from the carrier Illustrious, attacked the harbor at the Italian port of Taranto and put most of the Italian navy out of commission.
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.
On 10 July 2018, exactly 100 years and 100 days after the formation of the world’s first independent air force, 103 aircraft of twenty-four types from twenty-five squadrons flew over London in the largest formation of military aircraft seen over the capital of the UK in nearly thirty years.
Terror was central to the Nazi regime, and the Nazi concentration camps were places of horror where prisoners were dehumanized and robbed of their dignity and where millions were murdered.
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 author of Shot Down in the Drink shares photos and anecdotes detailing the history of the World War II fighter plane and its crews across the globe.
Mémoires de soldat est avant tout le récit d'une errance subie à l'occasion d'événements exceptionnels, la débâcle de juin 1940, la capitulation et les camps de jeunesse.
With more than 1,700 cross-referenced entries covering every aspect of World War II, the events and developments of the era, and myriad related subjects as well as a documents volume, this is the most comprehensive reference work available on the war.
First published in 1946, this atmospheric memoir of the battle of the Atlantic offers one of the most original accounts of war at sea aboard a corvette, escorting convoys in both the North and South Atlantic.
Lively tales of aerial combat in the legendary Typhoon fighter History of the plane and the men who flew it in World War II Based on interviews with the pilots themselves The Typhoon fighter played a pivotal role in the Allies' success in the air and on the ground in World War II, from the Normandy beachhead to the Battle of the Bulge and the final battle for Germany.
