Social groups: religious groups and communities

Declared a terrorist menace yet elected to government in a free election, Hamas now stands as the most important Sunni Islamist group in the Middle East.

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In World War II, the U.

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

This new collection of studies presents fresh insights into a war fought over unusually difficult terrain and with exceptional supply demands.

The M7 Howitzer Motor Carriage, dubbed the Priest, was the most successful and widely used example of American self-propelled artillery during WWII.

Critical Acclaim for TOP SECRET TALES of World War II"e;A book for rainy days and long solitary nights by the fire.

Combat history of the U.

“From Pearl Harbor to Leyte Gulf and Okinawa to Iwo Jima, the stories are presented as the individual soldiers, sailors, and marines lived them.

This gripping history details the remarkable exploits of a Commando and Special Operations Executive operative during the Second World War.

This new book tells the story of the Ocean class of standard cargo ships, their design, building, and careers, and the author places them firmly in the context of the battle of the Atlantic which was raging at the time of the first launchings.

Ce récit est celui d'une rencontre entre un jeune Français et un officier allemand durant la Seconde Guerre mondiale.

Voici le destin difficile d’un jeune Alsacien devant abandonner famille et études, n’ayant eu d’autres choix que de vêtir tour à tour l’uniforme des deux camps et forcé à survivre dans un monde auquel rien ne le prédestinait afin de partir en guerre.

Philosophers have long struggled to reconcile Martin Heidegger's involvement in Nazism with his status as one of the greatest thinkers of the twentieth century.

Sabine Olewkowiez Cann part à la recherche des traces de cet homme dont elle porte le nom.

Ce livre présente les témoignages d'une vingtaine de vétérans de la Seconde Guerre mondiale, héros modestes qui, malgré les atteintes de l'âge, ont conservé une jeunesse de coeur et d'esprit, mais aussi la simplicité et l'optimisme de leur engagement d'hier.

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.

'Common men no longer start wars: they take part in them when someone else has started them.

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.

Avec l'occupation allemande et l'instauration du régime du maréchal Pétain, le sort des Juifs de France est scellé.

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.

Ce livre réunit deux témoignages.

The discovery of a limestone burial box with the inscription "e;James, son of Joseph, brother of Jesus"e; set the world of biblical archaeology abuzz.

Reinhard ‘Teddy’ Suhren fired more successful torpedo shots than any other man during the war, many before he even became a U-boat commander.

Tajikistan is a key state in Central Asia, and will become crucial to the regional power balance as it transitions away from Soviet government systems and responds to the rise of Chinese financial power alongside the continuing presence of Russian military might and instability in neighboring Afghanistan.

Refreshingly different perspective on the momentous events of D-Day.

In this inspirational book of values, former ambassador Dick Capen presents a refreshing balance of optimism and realism to remind us that it's never too soon, never too late, to "e;finish strong.

L'auteur de cet ouvrage, ancien prisonnier de guerre en Allemagne, a frôlé le drame et le cocasse.

In her uniquely crafted memoir In the Morning .

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.

La Résistance allemande et autrichienne pendant la Seconde Guerre mondiale est peu connue.

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.

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.

Compilation of first-person German accounts from the battle of Stalingrad.

With the razor pen and keen intellect that have won him numerous loyal readers for his previous books, Egyptian economist Galal Amin here takes on the terms of the debate between the Arab world and the west.

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.

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

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’.