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.
Drawing upon the most recent discoveries and scholarship in archaeology and the first-century Near East, The Dawn of Christianity reveals how a beleaguered group of followers of a crucified rabbi became the founders of a world-changing faith.
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.
Drawing upon the most recent discoveries and scholarship in archaeology and the first-century Near East, The Dawn of Christianity reveals how a beleaguered group of followers of a crucified rabbi became the founders of a world-changing faith.
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.
Dans ce récit relatant les souvenirs de guerre d'un jeune garçon vivant avec ses parents dans une ferme du bocage breton, on sent que le jeune spectateur a vécu intensément les événements qu'il rapporte.
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.
Ce livre retrace le cheminement de Georg Elser, simple menuisier, qui planifia l'attentat le plus stupéfiant destiné à éliminer Hitler et la direction du parti nazi lors de la commémoration de l'anniversaire du putsch de la brasserie à Munich.
