Nearly a million Jews were consumed by the ovens of Treblinka before August 2, 1943. On that day 600 prisoners armed with stolen guns and grenades attacked the Nazi guards, burned the camp, and fled into the nearby Polish forests. Of these, forty survived...

The Spandau Diary — what was in it? Why did the secret intelligence agencies of every major power want it? Why was a brave and beautiful woman kidnapped to get it? Why did a chain of deception and violent death lash out across the globe, from survivors...

Pas très catholique est un film français réalisé par Tonie Marshall, sorti en 1994. L'histoire d'un privé dont une des enquêtes dérape vers la grosse affaire, celle qui relève habituellement de la police. La particularité de ce privé est que c'est une...

Disregard the deceptive title. The prolific Hoyt (199 Days, The Last Kamikaze, etc.) offers an illuminating picture of the wide-ranging, if ultimately ineffectual, roles played by Hermann Wilhelm Goering in Nazi Germany's rise and fall. A WW I fighter...

Post-World War II scholarship and films like The Sorrow and the Pity have frequently replaced the old Gaullist notion of widespread resistance, and cultivated the impression that the French may well have been a "nation of collaborators," embracing the...

Alois Brunner, alias Alois Schmaldienst, alias Georg Fischer, alias Ali Mohammed, est le plus grand criminel nazi vivant. A 78 ans, il se terre aujourd'hui en Syrie alors qu'il fait l'objet de cinq demandes d'extradition pour crimes contre l'humanité....

A thorough and well-documented analysis by Paterson (History/U of Connecticut) of how Castro came to power in Cuba and why the United States failed to stop him. Drawing on U.S., Canadian, and British records, as well as considerable research in private...