Les écrits de « Rose Blanche » naquirent au printemps 1942, en pleine seconde guerre mondiale, Hans Scholl, revenu à Munich du front de l'Est où il vient d'accomplir une période militaire comme infirmier dans la 6e armée, décide, avec sa soeur Sophie et quelques amis étudiants en médecine, de passer à l'action contre le régime nazi.
** Guardian Politics Book of the Day**For over a hundred years, the British Labour Party has been a bastion for working class organisation and struggle.
Senator Chuck Hagel has long been admired by his colleagues on both sides of the Senate floor for his honesty, integrity, and common-sense approach to the challenges of our times.
Burying the Sword: Counteracting Jihadism with Interfaith EducationThis book analyzes the historical and political context in which various forms of violent extremism (jihadism) have emerged in the Middle East, Europe, and in Africa since 9/11/2001.
Drawing on a superb collection of rare and unpublished photographs SS Foreign Divisions & Volunteers of Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia 1942 - 1945 describes how the occupying Nazis recruited Lithuanian, Latvian, and Estonian conscripts into the Waffen-SS.
Long before war was declared on 3 September 1939, Brighton had steadily and carefully prepared for the coming conflict by building shelters, organising defence and rescue services, and providing the population with advice of its own or from government sources.
In this book Paul Hirst makes a major contribution to democratic thinking, advocating "e;associative democracy"e;; the belief that human welfare and liberty are best served when as many of the affairs of society as possible are managed by voluntary and democratically self-governing associations.
In the aftermath of the Civil War, the Lost Cause gave white southerners a new collective identity anchored in the stories, symbols, and rituals of the defeated Confederacy.
Ce livre est un témoignage de ce que fut Paris dans les années 1940 : la mémoire vivante d'un quartier du 13e arrondissement, vue par un gamin d'une dizaine d'années.
How our dominant Christian worldview shapes everything from personal behavior to public policy (and what to do about it)Over the centuries, Christianity has accomplished much which is deserving of praise.
Centered around one family’s preserved personal letters, this is “an intimate, engaging examination of the plight of German Jewish refugees” (Kirkus Reviews).
How our dominant Christian worldview shapes everything from personal behavior to public policy (and what to do about it)Over the centuries, Christianity has accomplished much which is deserving of praise.
Au cours d'une carrière politique d'un demi-siècle, couvrant les deux guerres mondiales, Churchill fut deux fois Premier Lord de l'Amirauté (ministre de la Marine) et Premier ministre de la Grande-Bretagne.
De 1945 à 1956, à l'apogée conjointe du phénomène communiste français et du stalinisme, la psychanalyse - avec le processus de sa condamnation de juin 1949 - se trouve être poussée au cœur même des processus d'achèvement de la structuration de l'identité communiste du PCF comme « parti marxiste ».
Early on a wartime winter's morning in 1941, an 8,000-ton cargo ship loaded with whisky ran aground in the beautiful and treacherous seas of the Outer Hebrides.
Peu après le départ de la féroce division allemande Das Reich de Figeac, la "division fantôme", tout aussi sanguinaire, fut chargée de continuer la lutte contre les Résistants.
This is the story of how Nazi war criminals escaped from justice at the end of the Second World War by fleeing through the Tyrolean Alps to Italian seaports, and the role played by the Red Cross, the Vatican, and the Secret Services of the major powers in smuggling them away from prosecution in Europe to a new life in South America.
Ce récit intime à deux voix, à mi-chemin entre la biographie et l'autobiographie, retrace la vie de Paulette Fouchard-Ayot, résistante sous l'occupation, reconnue par la République mais inconnue du grand public, véritable femme de l'ombre.
