La tonte de milliers de femmes soupçonnées de "collaboration horizontale" avec l'ennemi est un phénomène qui a longtemps filé entre les doigts des historiens professionnels.
It’s been a State secret for more than 70 years: The official line in the UK has always been that it never happened – but this new work challenges the assertion that no German force set foot on British soil during World War Two (the Channel Islands excepted), on active military service.
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.
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.
Ce livre nous plonge dans l'univers concentrationnaire par le témoignage, les lettres et les discours de l'instituteur basque Jean-Pierre Castaingts, déporté à Buchenwald, Dora et ses Kommandos.
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.
Bread for the Day is a daily-use devotional resource filled with rich treasures: -A brief scripture reading (NRSV texts) for each day following the daily lectionary developed by the Consultation on Common Texts and presented in Evangelical Lutheran Worship -Dated for January 1, 2018, through December 31, 2018 -A prayer and hymn for each day -Brief yet helpful introductions to the seasons -Table graces/meal prayers for the holidays and seasons -Household blessings for special times throughout the year, including Anniversary of a Baptism, Blessing for the New Year, Blessing for a Home at Epiphany, Blessing of the Household for Thanksgiving Day, Remembering Those Who Have Died, Lighting the Advent Wreath, Blessing of the Christmas Tree -Monthly pages for recording prayer requests -Notes on festivals and commemorations -Simplified forms for morning and evening prayer -Waking prayers and bedtime prayers, including prayers with children
Use Bread for the Day for personal, household, or group devotions.
This comprehensive and superbly illustrated book describes in authoritative detail the characteristics and contribution to victory of these formidable American fighting vehicles.
L'épopée des tirailleurs sénégalais couvre un siècle et demi, de 1818 à 1960; elle a été marquée par un drame, le 1er décembre 1944, à Tiaroye, près de Dakar.
Après avoir souffert de la faim et abandonné un enfant sous X pendant l'Occupation, puis échappé au sort des femmes tondues à la Libération, une jeune Française tente de survivre.
The first Allied bombing raid on Berlin during the course of the Second World War, took place on 7 June 1940, when a French naval aircraft dropped 8 bombs on the German capital, but the first British raid on German soil took place on the night of 10/11 May 1940, when RAF aircraft attacked Dortmund.
Ce témoignage personnel et historique retrace les destins de Viktor et Klara, embarqués par l'Union soviétique en 1944 pour participer à la reconstruction de l'URSS après la guerre et le retrait de l'Allemagne.
Offering a unique approach to history, this series of individual encyclopedias will delineate and explain the people, places, events, chronology, and ramifications of pivotal days in history.
The Sonderkommando the special squad of enslaved Jewish laborers who were forced to work in the gas chambers and crematoria of Auschwitz-Birkenau comprise one of the most fascinating and troubling topics within Holocaust history.
Les relations entre les autorités d'occupation allemandes et les polices françaises n'entrent pas dans la traditionnelle classification entre Résistance et Collaboration.
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.
Le présent ouvrage retrace l'histoire de la Zentrale Stelle de Ludwigsburg, une institution judiciaire qui fut chargée, dès 1958, de conduire dans l'Allemagne de l'ouest les enquêtes préliminaires des crimes nazis.
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.
Pour aider la France à mener la guerre de 1939-1945, cette dernière demande à ses colonies africaines de lui envoyer des hommes, de lui fournir des prestations et des marchandises et de prélever des impôts.
Centered around one family’s preserved personal letters, this is “an intimate, engaging examination of the plight of German Jewish refugees” (Kirkus Reviews).
Jeune surveillante SS des camps de concentration nazis, Irma Grese fut condamnée à mort par un tribunal militaire britannique en 1945 lors du procès de Belsen et pendue ensuite dans la prison de Hamelin.
L'infraction de négationnisme, créée par la loi Gayssot du 13 juillet 1990 et insérée à l'article 24 bis de la loi du 29 juillet 1881 sur la liberté de la presse, a fait couler beaucoup d'encre, notamment pour exprimer des réserves quant à la conformité du délit à notre Constitution.
La Seconde guerre mondiale n’a pas dérogé à l’apparition d’innovations, notamment sur le plan médical, au prix parfois de vies humaines perdues au cours d’expérimentations très discutables.
Through detailed exploration of events in Tunisia, Egypt, Bahrain, Libya, Syria and Yemen, Sean Burns here breaks down the concept of professionalism within the armed forces into its component parts and demonstrates how variation in military structures determines their behaviour.
The first Allied bombing raid on Berlin during the course of the Second World War, took place on 7 June 1940, when a French naval aircraft dropped 8 bombs on the German capital, but the first British raid on German soil took place on the night of 10/11 May 1940, when RAF aircraft attacked Dortmund.
