Winner of the Jewish Quarterly-Wingate Literary Prize for Non-fictionEdith's Book (published as Edith's Story in the US) is often compared to Anne Frank's diary.
Balkoski's depiction of 'Bloody Omaha' is the literary accompaniment to the white-knuckle Omaha Beach scene that opens Steven Spielberg's Saving Private Ryan.
It is the spring of 1944 and the outcome of World War II hangs in the balance, everything now hinges on an imminent Allied Invasion into France, D-Day.
In the aftermath of the Civil War, the Lost Cause gave white southerners a new collective identity anchored in the stories, symbols, and rituals of the defeated Confederacy.
A powerful story of sexual awakening during the Second World War, My Queer War, from the noted memoirist and critic James Lord tells the story of a young man's exposure to the terrors, dislocations, and horrors of armed conflict.
With characteristic originality and insight, Trudier Harris-Lopez offers a new and challenging approach to the work of African American writers in these twelve previously unpublished essays.
Ce livre en 2 tomes met au jour pour la première fois, l'essentiel des "Écrits de Jean Moulin" lui-même, puisque seul avait paru, posthume et préfacé par le Général de Gaulle, "Premier combat", en 1947 aux éditions de Minuit.
« Parce qu'il est un temps où il devient urgent de transmettre le passé dont on a hérité, je ressentis dans les années 2000 la responsabilité d'offrir dans la mémoire de notre famille une place à ceux qui avaient disparu dans la Shoah ».
Centered around one family’s preserved personal letters, this is “an intimate, engaging examination of the plight of German Jewish refugees” (Kirkus Reviews).
Operation Market Garden – the Allied airborne invasion of German-occupied Holland in September 1944 – is one of the most famous and controversial Allied failures of the Second World War.
This monumental 7-volume encyclopedia, the result of years of work by the Jack, Joseph, and Morton Mandel Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, will describe the universe of camps and ghettos-some 20,000 in all-that the Nazis and their allies operated, from Norway to North Africa and from France to Russia.
Second in the definitive reference series on the German Army in World War II, covering the organization, combat history, and commanders of each division.
Le présent ouvrage retrace l'histoire de la Zentrale Stelle de Ludwigsburg, une institution judiciaire qui fut chargée, dès 1958, de conduire dans l'Allemagne de l'ouest les enquêtes préliminaires des crimes nazis.
Sympathisant avant la guerre de 1939-1945 de l'Action française, Robert Daël est confronté au choc d'une défaite aussi rapide que brutale qui l'envoie jusqu'en Prusse orientale puis au Stalag XA à Schleswig, au nord de l'Allemagne.
Drawing on a superb collection of rare and unpublished photographs SS Foreign Divisions & Volunteers of Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia 1942 - 1945 describes how the occupying Nazis recruited Lithuanian, Latvian, and Estonian conscripts into the Waffen-SS.
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.