In the early morning of 10 May 1940, the sky literally fell on the heads of the defenders of Fort Eben-Emael, considered to be Belgium's most powerful fortress.
Au sortir de la Première Guerre Mondiale, l'écroulement des grands empires européens donne naissance à de nouveaux pays dont beaucoup n'ont jamais été des Etats.
This is a comprehensive and accessible account of the nature of nationalism, which has re-emerged as one of the fundamental forces shaping world society today.
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.
In this major new work, Thompson develops an original account of ideology and relates it to the analysis of culture and mass communication in modern Societies.
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.
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.
The third volume in this definitive reference on the German Army in WWII, covering the organization, combat histories, and commanders of each division.
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.
Après les 3 études sur les écrivains qui vivaient sous les dictatures franquiste, nazie, stalinienne, René Lévy consacre ce 4ème volet aux écrivains italiens sous le régime de Mussolini.
La biographie pleine de tourments du Hongrois Georges Szekeres est ici présentée par son épouse, essentiellement à partir de documents – provenant de France, de Hongrie ou d'Italie – où se mêlent citations militaires françaises ; procès verbaux de la police secrète hongroise ; souvenirs de ses amis ; correspondances inédites avec Paul Nizan et Maurice Merleau-Ponty ; documents d'archives, etc.
Clara Krauss, since birth, was entrusted with a unique gift that made her special, almost mystical, a gift that would define her fate and the fate of everyone around her, a fate that would guide her, and her family through the time of turmoil that defined their world, a world tainted by evil, a world with the stench of death.
The Sonderkommando the special squad of enslaved Jewish laborers who were forced to work in the gas chambers and crematoria of Auschwitz-Birkenau comprise one of the most fascinating and troubling topics within Holocaust history.
