L'auteur montre dans cette monographie la position problématique des fonctionnaires plus soucieux du « principe d'obéissance » que de l'« éthique » – propre à les conduire à imposer des limites à leur devoir d'obéissance voire, pour certains, à résister.
Français à part entière la veille, indigène israélite d'Algérie le lendemain, l'abrogation du décret Crémieux le 7 octobre 1940 frappe le jeune Raymond Ellouz, venu d'Alger à Paris pour étudier la musique sacrée juive.
Countless studies have assessed the dramatic reforms of Mikhail Gorbachev, but their analysis of the impact on European communism has focused overwhelmingly on the Soviet Union and Eastern bloc nations.
Entre 1942 et 1945, l'Afrique française du Nord a connu le taux de mobilisation le plus élevé jamais enregistré dans les annales de l'histoire militaire de France.
The assault guns and tank destroyers deployed by the Wehrmacht during the Second World War are not as famous as tanks like the Tiger and Panther, but they were remarkably successful, and they are the subject of Anthony Tucker-Jones's wide-ranging photographic history.
Operation Höss or Aktion Höss was the codename for the mass deportation of Hungarian Jews and their murder in the gas chambers of Birkenau extermination camp.
Operation Market Garden – the Allied airborne invasion of German-occupied Holland in September 1944 – is one of the most famous and controversial Allied failures of the Second World War.
Tout en montrant la puissance actuelle des partisans du capitalisme néolibéral, cet ouvrage propose un projet libertaire de société et une stratégie de résistance et d'accélération pour sa disparition.
Informed by Eric Wolf s Peasant Wars of the Twentieth Century, published in 1969, this book examines selected peasant struggles in seven Latin American countries during the last fifty years and suggests the continuing relevance of Wolf s approach.
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.
As Europe lurched towards war during the 1930s, many people in Britain, with the memories of the horrors of the First World War painfully fresh, set out to build groups opposed to the idea of a future war.
En 1940, Brazzaville abrita un camp de la France libre, qui dispensa une formation de base d'officier d'infanterie à deux-cent-quatre-vingts jeunes volontaires européens, qui furent immédiatement projetés dans les différents théâtres d'opérations de la Seconde Guerre mondiale.
In the light of the escalation of sectarian tensions during and after Mubarak's reign, the predicament of the Arab world's largest religious minority, the Copts, has come to the forefront.
Jean Paul Pallud, author of the highly acclaimed The Battle of the Bulge Then and Now, presents - for the first time through comparison 'then and now' photographs - a detailed account of the Battle of France: the forty-five traumatic days from May 10 to June 24, 1940 that resulted in one of the most remarkable military victories of modern times.
Cet ouvrage soutient une thèse fondamentale : du point de vue idéologique et législatif, tout en Hongrie était prêt afin que le génocide des juifs de province puisse s'accomplir en quelques semaines, après l'occupation du pays par les Allemands en mars 1944.
On a map the Azores appear as nine tiny specks in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean, but their location was to prove strategically vital in two world wars.
Le 22 juin 1940, le caporal Léon Noguéro du 49e Régiment d'Infanterie de Bayonne est fait prisonnier par les troupes allemandes dans les Vosges, au hameau les Feignes, les armes à la main.
On November 11, 1940, 21 slow, canvas-covered British warplanes, launched from the carrier Illustrious, attacked the harbor at the Italian port of Taranto and put most of the Italian navy out of commission.
In 1942, John Eppler was one of two German spies inserted behind British lines in Egypt after an epic crossing of the Western Desert organised by the Hungarian explorer Count László Almásy, Operation ‘Condor’.
First published in 1946, this atmospheric memoir of the battle of the Atlantic offers one of the most original accounts of war at sea aboard a corvette, escorting convoys in both the North and South Atlantic.
For the first time, leading Second World War authors from around the world have collaborated on a definitive anthology of the greatest snipers of the war.
The author of Shot Down in the Drink shares photos and anecdotes detailing the history of the World War II fighter plane and its crews across the globe.
The author of Memoirs of a Revolutionary brings to life the unwavering commitment of red Petrograd during some of the Russian Revolution's darkest hours.
