Social groups: religious groups and communities

Never previously seen reports and plans marked restricted and classified have been sourced from Britannia Royal Naval College's Archive.

The first book on the James Ossuary discovery-with new arguments for its authenticity.

Iran's presidents have defined the Islamic Republic's attitudes towards the rest of the world.

A history of the 47,000 Spanish soldiers who volunteered to fight for Hitler in Russia during World War II.

This thrilling WWII biography tells the incredible true story of one of the Royal Air Force's greatest flying aces.

Marion Deichmann est née quelques semaines avant l'avènement d'Hitler.

In 1940 Britain faced its biggest threat since the Spanish Armada.

The study comprehensively and interestingly discusses Puri, the sacred city of Orissa.

Cette histoire tragique s'est déroulée loin des grandes rafles perpétrées par les nazis contre les Juifs de France.

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.

Margit n'a que 19 ans quand la Grande Guerre lui ravit Kálmán, l'amour de sa vie.

Never previously published in this format, documents once stamped 'restricted' have been sourced from Britannia Royal Naval College's Library.

This fascinating account sheds light on a little-known Nazi rebellion led by Georgian prisoners-turned-soldiers in the final days of WWII.

A rare account of a non-German, Erik Wallin, who fought in the Nazi Party's Waffen-SS during World War II-a no-holds-barred narrative of the Eastern Front.

Environ 60 millions de personnes sont mortes pendant la Seconde Guerre mondiale.

Quel parcours hors du commun que celui de Bernard Grouselle !

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.

Plutôt que d'envoyer les évadés en Espagne à travers les Pyrénées comme la plupart des autres réseaux, François-Shelburn amenait ses « colis » au nord de la côte bretonne pour les faire embarquer de nuit directement pour l'Angleterre dans des MGB, des canonnières anglaises.

Les Peintres, c'est ainsi que les nazis ont nommé les membres du réseau de résistance "La Rose blanche", parce qu'ils recouvraient les murs d'inscriptions telles que "A bas la dictature !

Ce deuxième tome étudie le comportement humain et religieux dans les situations extrêmes sous la dictature hitlérienne.

L'auteur de ce journal consigne son emploi du temps jour après jour, décrivant un quotidien on ne peut plus banal….

A celebration and a tribute to the warriors of the air who as young men served their country with unselfish devotion.

This is a unique, eye-witness account of everyday life right at the heart of the Nazi extermination machine.

Dans une France libérée mais exsangue matériellement et moralement, une tâche immense attend le général de Gaulle : le jugement de la collaboration, indispensable au rétablissement de l'autorité de l'État et œuvre de régénérescence de la nation.

The evacuation and subsequent German occupation of the Channel Islands during WWII, told through personal accounts, newspapers, and political decisions.

Le nazisme en 150 questions est un document qui s'attache à proposer au lecteur une radioscopie claire et complète du nazisme.

As the events of the Second World War fade into the distance it is important that the activities of a small band of brothers are not overlooked.

Despite the bewildering number of tomes devoted to the Napoleonic wars, much basic data as been hitherto unavailable to anyone other than the most ardent scholars.

The Tiger I and Tiger II tanks are probably the most famous German armoured fighting vehicles of the Second World War and despite the relatively small numbers produced, the heavy Panzer units of the German Army played a key role in the battles fought in North Africa, Italy, the Western Front and particularly in the East.

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.

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.

A military historian analyzes the ingenious WWII tanks known as Hobart's Funnies, detailing their development and their role in the D-Day campaign.

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.

After the Allies had defeated the Japanese in the Solomons and the Dutch East Indies, the capture of the Philippines became General MacArthur’s next objective.

Captain C Shore's enthusiasm for firearms led him to take every possible opportunity to try out different weapons, ammunition and methods of shooting.

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.

Une famille, tantôt allemande tantôt française, est ballottée sans cesse de 1870 à 1962 dans la tourmente des guerres.

Terror was central to the Nazi regime, and the Nazi concentration camps were places of horror where prisoners were dehumanized and robbed of their dignity and where millions were murdered.

Deux récits autobiographiques d'une forte authenticité nous sont ici proposés : le premier, L'exode de l'été 1940, décrit la capitulation, l'humiliation, la naissance de l'esprit de la Résistance au sein d'une France plongée dans la tourmente de l'invasion des troupes allemandes.

Arab debates about the critical relationship between religion and modernity began in the early nineteenth century.

During the 16th century's tumultuous years of religious reformation and revolution, Pilgram Marpeck consistently but discreetly stood up to the ruling powers, calling for freedom of religion and separation of church and state.

Le 100e bataillon d'Hawaii a été formé à Honolulu en 1942, peu de temps après l'agression japonaise contre Pearl Harbor.

Septembre 1939 : le champ de bataille prévisible du nouveau conflit franco-allemand est évacué à titre préventif.

Following the signing of the Treaty of Versailles in 1919, Germany was not permitted to build or operate submarines.

Keen to learn but short on time?

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.

There were eighty of them.