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.
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.
Rare look into the secret military operations of Hitlers GermanyPage-turning narrative detailing the units exploitsVery few books have been written about this clandestine operations unit, which was run by the German Armys intelligence service.
Ce livre résulte des entretiens réalisés par l'auteur entre 1982 et 1984, dans le Morvan, avec Armand Simonnot ancien bûcheron, militant pacifiste puis communiste, premier Franc-Tireur et Partisan de l'Yonne, devenu garde du corps du dirigeant communiste Charles Tillon.
The RIA-Novosti press agency – now known as Sputnik in the West – has one of the best archives of Soviet Second World War photographs and for this remarkable book Alexander Hill has made a superb selection of them.
Quatre diplomates français, Jules Blondel, Henri Roux, Charles Colonna-Césari et le marquis Edgar de Kergariou, au péril de leur vie, ont aidé, protégé et sauvé de nombreuses vies de l'enfer nazi.
Le 15 mai 1940, Robert, « petit Parigot et bureaucrate », tel qu'il se définit, est fait prisonnier non loin de Hannappes, dans les Ardennes françaises.
This new book tells the story of the Ocean class of standard cargo ships, their design, building, and careers, and the author places them firmly in the context of the battle of the Atlantic which was raging at the time of the first launchings.
Comme le déclarait en 1943 le médecin-général Adolphe Sicé, "deux grands hommes auront marqué cette ville: de Brazza, auquel elle doit son nom; de Gaulle, auquel elle doit son destin.
On the morning of February 24, 1942, on the Black Sea near Istanbul, an explosion ripped through a decrepit former cattle barge filled with Jewish refugees.
La prise d'Alger par les Alliés dans la nuit du 7 au 8 novembre 1942 ne fut pas le simple coup de main envisagé par la Royal Navy, qui y perdit deux destroyers.
Finalist, 2022 Army Historical Foundation Distinguished Writing AwardsThe 614th Tank Destroyer Battalion was activated on 25 July 1942 at Camp Carson, USA and, like many other tank destroyer battalions, would be sent to Europe.
Reconstituer l'itinéraire de ces deux personnages, de l'enfance au grand âge, permet de mettre en lumière de nombreux aspects de la France des années 30, de la Résistance à la Déportation, de même que des conflits de mémoire actuels et des débats sur l'écriture de l'histoire.
Katyn the Soviet massacre of over 21,000 Polish prisoners in 1940 has come to be remembered as Stalin s emblematic mass murder, an event obscured by one of the most extensive cover-ups in history.
