As the columns of French infantry marched up the slopes of the Mont St Jean at Waterloo, the British heavy cavalry, the Royal Scots Greys to the fore, crashed into the packed ranks of the enemy.
This book uses an empathic reading of Yiddish diarists' feelings, evaluations, and assessments about persecutors in the Warsaw, Lodz, and Vilna ghettos to present an emotional history of persecution in the Nazi ghettos.
Here are some of the best of Churchill's letters, many of a more personal nature, written to a wide range of people, including his schoolmaster, his American grandmother and former President Eisenhower.
Here are some of the best of Churchill's letters, many of a more personal nature, written to a wide range of people, including his schoolmaster, his American grandmother and former President Eisenhower.
Les archives militaires allemandes concernant la Première Guerre mondiale ayant quasiment brûlé en totalité lors des bombardements du 14 avril 1945 sur Berlin-Potsdam, cette traduction d'un livre publié en 1930 permet d'avoir une vision allemande de la terrible bataille du Bois de Belleau au nord-ouest de Château-Thierry en juin 1918, ce qui est totalement inédit à ce jour.
Un appel tourmenté de sa grande tante et voilà Simon Ehrlich propulsé dans un monde parallèle peuplé d'âmes juives qui illuminent l'histoire sous de nouvelles couleurs et divulguent des secrets d'État, des mystères scientifiques ou ceux du monde de l'Art.
Français à part entière la veille, indigène israélite d'Algérie le lendemain, l'abrogation du décret Crémieux le 7 octobre 1940 frappe le jeune Raymond Ellouz, venu d'Alger à Paris pour étudier la musique sacrée juive.
A savvy study (Publishers Weekly) and a fascinating exploration of the roles many spy novelists played during World War II and the influence of intelligence work on their writing.
The volume focuses on violence during the breakdown of East Central European states brought by one of the most violent periods in modern European history: from the start of the Great War in 1914 until 1923 when Europe, finally, achieved peace after a series of civil conflicts and interstate wars.
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.
Based on research conducted in archives in six countries, An International History of South America in the Era of Military Rule: Geared for War offers a detailed account of the tensions and fears of war that engulfed South America in the 1970s, when most countries of the region were ruled by military governments.
Based on research conducted in archives in six countries, An International History of South America in the Era of Military Rule: Geared for War offers a detailed account of the tensions and fears of war that engulfed South America in the 1970s, when most countries of the region were ruled by military governments.
This work examines in a comparative historical way the socialist, liberal and conservative strands of Anglo-American anticommunist thought before the Cold War.
Spencer traces the full story of this historic ship from its conception and construction in 1799 to its ultimate demise in 1823, when she was stranded and broke up on Little Curacao Island in the West Indies.
Cette chronique familiale romancée, rédigée par Clara pour honorer une promesse faite à sa grand-mère Paula, s'appuie sur le journal intime de la vieille dame dans lequel elle raconte la vie des Meier en Pologne, leur installation à Paris, les persécutions dont ils furent victimes de la part des nazis et de leurs complices français et son engagement dans la résistance en Haute-Provence.
"e;This book will add to the long and distinguished collection of marine history and is well worth the read for anyone interested in personal accounts of modern combat.
The Second World War Illustrated: 1944 follows the author's visual tour of the war by means of painstakingly researched and digitally restored pictures from the period of the key battlefields and events of the period from September 1943 to the late summer of 1944.
The landlocked county of Wiltshire, characterised by its high downland and wide valleys, has a rich military history that stretches back through the centuries.
The soldiers of the First World War left a little-known legacy in forgotten caves along the Western Front: thousands of inscriptions and wall carvings that tell stories of courage, pride, hope and fear.
Voici le destin difficile d’un jeune Alsacien devant abandonner famille et études, n’ayant eu d’autres choix que de vêtir tour à tour l’uniforme des deux camps et forcé à survivre dans un monde auquel rien ne le prédestinait afin de partir en guerre.
Historian and systems engineer Lars Celander surveys the different types of drones, detailing their navigation, communication, sensor systems and weaponry.
Bill Ehrhart's experiences in the Vietnam War have defined his life--first as an enlisted member of a Marine infantry battalion, then as an author, poet and teacher who has spent fifty years explicating the war and its consequences in books, lectures and interviews.
Discovering Cyrus: The Persian Conqueror Astride the Ancient WorldSome of the most fascinating human epochs lie in the borderlands between history and mystery.
