L'Alsace a une histoire très particulière : elle a subi de 1870 à 1945 cinq changements de nationalité, dont l'un, de 1940 à 1945, se fit sous la dictature nazie.
Ce livre retrace le parcours d'Edmond Vermeil, l'un des pères fondateurs de la germanistique française, ayant reçu la chaire des Etudes germaniques à la Sorbonne en 1933.
The Battle for Mametz Wood is normally associated with the endeavors of the 38th Welsh Division and was the first of those great battles to secure possession of the woodlands of the Somme.
Les relations entre les autorités d'occupation allemandes et les polices françaises n'entrent pas dans la traditionnelle classification entre Résistance et Collaboration.
Jay Stout breaks new ground in World War II aviation history with this gripping account of one of the war's most highly decorated American fighter groups.
As a young boy growing up in Port Elizabeth in the 1960s and 1970s, Steven Robins was haunted by an old postcard-size photograph of three unknown women on a table in the dining room.
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.
En 1939, à la frontière allemande, le collège Sainte-Marie de Sierck-les-Bains, au bord de la Moselle, doit être évacué de la Lorraine en région parisienne, à Bury.
As a young boy growing up in Port Elizabeth in the 1960s and 1970s, Steven Robins was haunted by an old postcard-size photograph of three unknown women on a table in the dining room.
"Never have I had greater respect for soldiers than those of the 14th Army who served under Bill Slim, and in particular those guys who were in the Chindit columns.
Incompris ou délibérément réinterprété, le livre Le problème de l'irrationalité dans l'esthétique et la logique du XVIIIe siècle (1923) d'Alfred Baeumler infuse, depuis bientôt un siècle, une vision du monde redoutable dans le discours scientifique.
The first Allied bombing raid on Berlin during the course of the Second World War, took place on 7 June 1940, when a French naval aircraft dropped 8 bombs on the German capital, but the first British raid on German soil took place on the night of 10/11 May 1940, when RAF aircraft attacked Dortmund.
Set deep in the heart of the Masurian woods of northern Poland, in what was formally East Prussia, lies a vast complex of ruined bunkers and shelters that once constituted Hitler’s headquarters – the Wolfsschanze or Wolf’s Lair – for Germany’s attack upon the Soviet Union in 1941.
Dans une France libérée mais exsangue matériellement et moralement, une tâche immense attend le général de Gaulle : le jugement de la collaboration, indispensable au rétablissement de l'autorité de l'État et œuvre de régénérescence de la nation.
Le 9 juin 1944, après le débarquement en Normandie, Paul Brisac, cadre supérieur de l'entreprise grenobloise Merlin-Gerin, quitte son usine pour monter au Vercors afin de prendre le commandement d'une compagnie civile et participer au "Plan Montagnard" de bouclage du massif par les résistants.
Extremely rare (possibly the only) book-length account of a Soviet penal unit in World War II Gritty, intense style conveys the brutality of war on the Eastern Front Composed of convicts--soldiers who conducted "e;unauthorized retreats,"e; former Soviet POWs deemed untrustworthy, and Gulag prisoners--the Red Army's penal units received the most difficult, dangerous assignments, such as breaking through the enemy's defenses.
Preserving the personal histories of civilians and soldiers who united to defend America during the Second World War, this unique oral history tells the stories of ordinary citizens who left jobs and families behind to contribute to the war effort.
