Political ideologies and movements

Narrative histories highlighting organization, combat experiences, and casualties of each division.

From the books and heretics burnt on the pyres of the Inquisition to self-immolations at protest rallies, from the massive burning of oil on the global scale to inflammatory speech, from the imagery of revolutionary sparks ready to ignite the spirits of the oppressed to car bombings in the Middle East, fire proves to be an indispensable element of the political.

Drummer Richard Bentinck of the 23rd of Foot (Royal Welch Fusiliers) was a rarity: he survived many sanguinary experiences and recorded his adventures.

Cette correspondance familiale, écrite entre 1942 et 1945 raconte à travers la banalité de la vie quotidienne la déchirure de la déportation d'une famille de Juifs polonais, arrivée en France en 1930.

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.

'Common men no longer start wars: they take part in them when someone else has started them.

Critical acclaim for William B.

The reasons why people arise to express dissatisfaction with their present situation, and how they imagine and work towards an alternative, have enduring relevance.

Cet ouvrage est un hommage à Sophie Scholl, courageuse jeune femme qui paya de sa vie sa farouche opposition à Hitler.

This is the first English-language translation of a crucial memoir of the dying days of Hitler’s Third Reich.

Jean Ayral, étudiant à Dax, entend l'appel du 18 juin 1940 et quitte la France.

Always marked out for high rank, Robert Laycock came into his own when selected to raise 8 Commando, a new ‘crack’ unit early in the Second World War.

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.