Drawing on a superb collection of rare and unpublished photographs SS Foreign Divisions & Volunteers of Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia 1942 - 1945 describes how the occupying Nazis recruited Lithuanian, Latvian, and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.
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.
Follow Peter Millar on a journey in the heart of Cold War Europe, from the carousing bars of 1970s Fleet Street to the East Berlin corner pub with its eclectic cast of characters who embodied the reality of living on the wrong side of the wall.
Le 11 avril 1945, plus de 3000 déportés à bout de force espèrent leur libération dans deux petites gares ferroviaires perdues au fin fond de l'Allemagne nazie.
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 ».
As a young boy growing up in Port Elizabeth in the 1960s and 1970s, Steven Robins was haunted by an old postcard-size photograph of three unknown women on a table in the dining room.
Captain F J Walker, RN, did more than any other man at sea to win the Battle of the Atlantic, a vicious and unrelenting struggle which Churchill described as the dominating factor throughout World War Two.
Filled with fine-scale drawings of Australian, Belgian, Canadian, Czech, French, Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Polish, Romanian, and South African armored vehicles, including:*; Centauro Tank Destroyer (Italy)*; TKS Light Reconnaissance Tank (Poland)*; Ram Kangaroo Personnel Carrier (Canada)*; Renault R-35 Light Tank (France)*; Type 3 Chi-nu Heavy Tank (Japan)*; Scorpion AC1 Cruiser Tank (Australia)*; TACAM R-2 Tank Hunter (Romania)*; And many, many more .
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.
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.
Operation Dynamo, the successful evacuation of Belgian, British, Dutch, French and Polish troops from the beaches at Dunkirk between 27 May and 4 June 1940, was not only a pivotal moment of the war, but one that changed its final outcome.
In a well-known text called The Communist Hypothesis , first published in 2007, the renowned philosopher Alain Badiou breathed fresh life into the idea of communism as an intellectual representation that provides a critical perspective on existing politics and offers a systemic alternative to capitalism.
Le présent essai a pour objet d'offrir au lecteur des générations futures une synthèse des faits marquants de la vie publique de Charles de Gaulle, en ce qu'ils sont emblématiques de son action, pendant la guerre et durant sa présidence de la République de 1959 à 1969.
The idea of finding a 'third way' in politics has been widely discussed over recent months - not only in the UK, but in the US, Continental Europe and Latin America.
This book is a historical study of the events of October 1941 in the Viaz’ma pocket, based on documents found in the Russian Federation’s Central Archive of the Ministry of Defense, the German Bundesarchiv, and the US National Archives.
Cet ouvrage a plusieurs objectifs : faire connaître, à partir d'une approche historique des persécutions, les circonstances dans lesquelles des enfants de tous âges ont été confrontés à la séparation brutale avec le milieu familial et ont dû en urgence être cachés, changer de nom, taire leurs origines, parfois embrasser une autre religion.
Saint-Nazaire, 1949 : c'est dans un baraquement construit durant la guerre par les allemands que grandit la petite fille entre ses deux frères, sa mère couturière et son père mécanicien.
Political power is often viewed as the sole embodiment of 'social power', even while we recognize that social power manifests itself in different forms and institutional spheres.
Renowned German aviation specialist Manfred Griehl has collected a unique and valuable selection of photographs of Luftwaffe projects that never made it into battle.
