A true story accusing three of Her Majesty's Judges of dishonesty A book which raises important questions about the power, integrity and accountability of our judgesThe judges of England and Wales - obliged by their oath of office to apply the law without fear or favour; the Magna Carta - a promise that no one will be denied justice; the rule of law - a promise that public officials, including judges, are bound by the law; Parliament - the sovereign law-maker to which the judges are subservient: is all this true or simply a pleasant fiction?
Rare account of a non-German who fought in the elite Waffen-SS New information on the 11th SS Panzergrenadier Division No-holds-barred narrative of the Eastern Front This is the story of Erik Wallin, a Swede who volunteered for the Waffen-SS, serving in the panzer reconnaissance battalion of the 11th SS Panzergrenadier Division, a unit composed mainly of volunteers from Scandinavia.
The orthodox view of Vyacheslav Molotov is that he was no more than Stalin's faithful servant; a dogmatic conservative communist of little or no imagination.
Les Peintres, c'est ainsi que les nazis ont nommé les membres du réseau de résistance "La Rose blanche", parce qu'ils recouvraient les murs d'inscriptions telles que "A bas la dictature !
The Tiger I and Tiger II tanks are probably the most famous German armoured fighting vehicles of the Second World War and despite the relatively small numbers produced, the heavy Panzer units of the German Army played a key role in the battles fought in North Africa, Italy, the Western Front and particularly in the East.
Le caporal Gaston Rabot, volontaire calédonien du Bataillon du Pacifique, quitte Nouméa le 6 mai 1941, avec le Bataillon embarqué à bord du paquebot Zealandia.
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.
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.
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.
The author of Memoirs of a Revolutionary brings to life the unwavering commitment of red Petrograd during some of the Russian Revolution's darkest hours.
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.
Apparue brusquement à l'échelle mondiale après 1917, à la suite de la révolution russe et de l'installation sur l'avant-scène de l'Histoire du phénomène communiste, l'« identité communiste » s'est formée avant 1914, entre 1890-1908, au plein cœur de la social-démocratie européenne et du phénomène démocratique européen.
The reasons why people arise to express dissatisfaction with their present situation, and how they imagine and work towards an alternative, have enduring relevance.
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.
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.
Fin des années 40 : deux blocs se partagent le monde, mais une bande de jeunes refuse ce choix : être du bord des bureaucrates à l'Est ou des capitalistes à l'Ouest.
This the first of a new three-part series in which Antonio Negri, a leading political thinker of our time, explores key ideas that have animated radical thought and examines some of the social and economic forces that are shaping our world today.
L'anarchisme est un mouvement d'idées et d'action qui, en rejetant toute contrainte extérieure à l'homme, se propose de reconstruire la vie en commun sur la base de la volonté individuelle autonome.
