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.
"Never have I had greater respect for soldiers than those of the 14th Army who served under Bill Slim, and in particular those guys who were in the Chindit columns.
Who would have thought that late conservative Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia would write a judicial opinion severely debilitating the free exercise of religion and democrats like Chuck Schumer and Ted Kennedy would come to the rescue?
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.
The RIA-Novosti press agency – now known as Sputnik in the West – has one of the best archives of Soviet Second World War photographs and for this remarkable book Alexander Hill has made a superb selection of them.
Ce court récit, qui se veut témoignage pour retrouver les traces de six Guinéens, tirailleurs sénégalais, fusillés à Clamecy le 18 juin 1940, prend en réalité une signification beaucoup plus profonde.
Ce récit est fondé sur des documents personnels, des souvenirs et anecdotes ainsi que des documents historiques qui constituent plus de quarante ans de recherches.
Following his first book in the TankCraft series on the British army’s Shermans during the battle for Normandy, Dennis Oliver has compiled a companion volume on those used by the US Army throughout the campaign in Western Europe.
An illustrated history of how Japan devised and launched a new kind of air campaign in late 1944 the suicidal assaults of the kamikaze units against the approaching Allied fleets.
The book's title Knowing Why They Lied; Apologetics for Dummies is intended to convey that the average churchgoing Christian might benefit by a handy evangelism tool that anyone, Christian or non, can evaluate, share, or use.
Volume one of the influential study of US foreign policy during the Cold War—and the media’s manipulative coverage—by the authors of Manufacturing Consent.
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.
Landmark study of the Canadians' first major operation in Normandy New revelations on the death of German panzer ace Michael Wittmann Handsomely illustrated with maps, photos, and diagrams On August 8, 1944, the Canadian Army launched Operation Totalize, a massive armored and mechanized infantry attack that aimed to break through enemy defenses south of Caen and trap the German Army in Normandy by linking up with Patton's Third Army.
Ordered by Hitler 'to hold, or to die' and to fight 'to the last grenade and round', the German army was a formidable opponent during the 1944 Normandy campaign.
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.
Paru pour la première fois en Allemagne en 1988, ce récit authentique, particulièrement émouvant et bouleversant, retrace l'enfance et l'adolescence de l'auteur dans le Königsberg national-socialiste, la destruction de la ville et les horreurs des premières années d'après-guerre sous l'occupation soviétique.
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.
En 1939, à la frontière allemande, le collège Sainte-Marie de Sierck-les-Bains, au bord de la Moselle, doit être évacué de la Lorraine en région parisienne, à Bury.
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.
L'antisémitisme ambiant des années 30, durant lesquelles se passa l'adolescence de l'auteur, l'amena tout naturellement à l'antifascisme et à un socialisme de coeur.
