Written by a Commando veteran of World War II, this is a remarkable, vivid and honest account of the battles and actions behind the award of the thirty eight Battle Honours that were awarded to the Army Commandos by Her Majesty the Queen in 1958.
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.
Written by a Commando veteran of World War II, this is a remarkable, vivid and honest account of the battles and actions behind the award of the thirty eight Battle Honours that were awarded to the Army Commandos by Her Majesty the Queen in 1958.
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.
Itinéraire d'un père, combattant actif de la bataille de France en 1940, prisonnier de guerre, « triangle rouge », résistant pris dans les barbelés des camps nazis condamné à la déportation pour rébellion, sabotage et tentatives d'évasion.
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.
The evacuation and subsequent German occupation of the Channel Islands during WWII, told through personal accounts, newspapers, and political decisions.
Drummer Richard Bentinck of the 23rd of Foot (Royal Welch Fusiliers) was a rarity: he survived many sanguinary experiences and recorded his adventures.
Le 11 avril 1945, plus de 3000 déportés à bout de force espèrent leur libération dans deux petites gares ferroviaires perdues au fin fond de l'Allemagne nazie.
Submarine' is almost certainly the first book to bring together eye-witness accounts from almost every navy that deployed submarines in WW2, and it is far more than an account of WW2 missions.
Dans ce livre, l'auteur raconte avec sa gouaille de titi parisien, sa pudeur, mais aussi avec beaucoup de sobriété, son quotidien de gamin du Faubourg Saint-Antoine, pendant l'Occupation allemande.
Le blocus de la colonie française de la Côte Française des Somalis et plus particulièrement de son port, Djibouti, entre 1940 et 1942, est l'histoire d'une guerre fratricide entre Français libres et Français de Vichy.
The assault guns and tank destroyers deployed by the Wehrmacht during the Second World War are not as famous as tanks like the Tiger and Panther, but they were remarkably successful, and they are the subject of Anthony Tucker-Jones's wide-ranging photographic history.
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.
Ce récit romancé est l'histoire d'une famille du Nord de la France, sur trois générations, au travers des parcours de vie noués aux grands mouvements de l'Histoire qui ont marqué cette région.
In 1942, John Eppler was one of two German spies inserted behind British lines in Egypt after an epic crossing of the Western Desert organised by the Hungarian explorer Count László Almásy, Operation ‘Condor’.
Tadeusz Komorowski was born in 1895 in Galicia, a region then ruled by the Austrians, and he served in the Austro-Hungarian Army in the First World War.
The third volume in this definitive reference on the German Army in WWII, covering the organization, combat histories, and commanders of each division.
This book is a historical study of the events of October 1941 in the Viaz’ma pocket, based on documents found in the Russian Federation’s Central Archive of the Ministry of Defense, the German Bundesarchiv, and the US National Archives.
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.
Cette chronique familiale romancée, rédigée par Clara pour honorer une promesse faite à sa grand-mère Paula, s'appuie sur le journal intime de la vieille dame dans lequel elle raconte la vie des Meier en Pologne, leur installation à Paris, les persécutions dont ils furent victimes de la part des nazis et de leurs complices français et son engagement dans la résistance en Haute-Provence.
The desperate struggle between the Wehrmacht and the Red Army for Budapest in 1944 and 1945 was as lethal and destructive as any of the urban battles fought during the Second World War.
