Throughout human history, religion and politics have entertained the most intimate of connections as systems of authority regulating individuals and society.
Ce livre présente les témoignages d'une vingtaine de vétérans de la Seconde Guerre mondiale, héros modestes qui, malgré les atteintes de l'âge, ont conservé une jeunesse de coeur et d'esprit, mais aussi la simplicité et l'optimisme de leur engagement d'hier.
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.
Pour aider la France à mener la guerre de 1939-1945, cette dernière demande à ses colonies africaines de lui envoyer des hommes, de lui fournir des prestations et des marchandises et de prélever des impôts.
Volume two of the influential study of US foreign policy during the Cold War-and the media's manipulative coverage-by the authors of Manufacturing Consent.
In the early morning of 10 May 1940, the sky literally fell on the heads of the defenders of Fort Eben-Emael, considered to be Belgium's most powerful fortress.
Au sortir de la Première Guerre Mondiale, l'écroulement des grands empires européens donne naissance à de nouveaux pays dont beaucoup n'ont jamais été des Etats.
More than an account of Churchill's momentous meetings with Roosevelt, Stalin and other leaders at the height of the Second World War, this book illuminates the practicalities of transporting a prime minister through dangerous skies and across hostile oceans in a time of global war.
Combat biographies of seven ace pilots flying for the Nazi German air force during World War II, featuring in-the-cockpit accounts of aerial dogfights.
Offering a unique approach to history, this series of individual encyclopedias will delineate and explain the people, places, events, chronology, and ramifications of pivotal days in history.
The third volume in this definitive reference on the German Army in WWII, covering the organization, combat histories, and commanders of each division.
Epouse de Zygmunt Lubicz-Zaleski, écrivain, poète, professeur, grand passeur culturel entre la France et la Pologne, maria Zdziarska-Zaleska, docteur en médecine, vit à Paris, entourée de ses quatre enfants.
Après les 3 études sur les écrivains qui vivaient sous les dictatures franquiste, nazie, stalinienne, René Lévy consacre ce 4ème volet aux écrivains italiens sous le régime de Mussolini.
La biographie pleine de tourments du Hongrois Georges Szekeres est ici présentée par son épouse, essentiellement à partir de documents – provenant de France, de Hongrie ou d'Italie – où se mêlent citations militaires françaises ; procès verbaux de la police secrète hongroise ; souvenirs de ses amis ; correspondances inédites avec Paul Nizan et Maurice Merleau-Ponty ; documents d'archives, etc.
Clara Krauss, since birth, was entrusted with a unique gift that made her special, almost mystical, a gift that would define her fate and the fate of everyone around her, a fate that would guide her, and her family through the time of turmoil that defined their world, a world tainted by evil, a world with the stench of death.
Paul Revere's midnight ride; the Battles at Lexington, Concord, and Bunker Hill; and the people and places associated with the early days of the American Revolution hold a special place in America's collective memory.
The Sonderkommando the special squad of enslaved Jewish laborers who were forced to work in the gas chambers and crematoria of Auschwitz-Birkenau comprise one of the most fascinating and troubling topics within Holocaust history.
