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"Dorette, vous devriez écrire un livre qui retracerait vos rencontres, vos hommages, vos anecdotes...", lui a glissé Alain Jessua lorsqu'il l'a rencontrée à Turckheim en 2007. Admiratrice inconditionnelle de Romy Schneider, l'auteur ("Madame Cinéma de...

Retracer l'histoire de Vichy suppose de se débarrasser d'abord des certitudes assénées depuis soixante-dix ans par les camps opposés. Puis de reprendre au plus près des archives, publiques comme privées, l'étude de ces cinq années tragiques pour en comprendre...

« Aux basses heures de la nuit, le 29 juin 1967 sur un tronçon de la route US 90 qui relie la ville de Biloxi à la Nouvelle Orléans, une Buick Electra 225 bleu métallisé, modèle 66, se trouva engagée dans une collision mortelle. » Dans cette Buick broyée...

As a prelude to the post-war concept of a single "main battle tank" design, vehicles during World War II tended to be categorized as light, medium, and heavy, depending on their use. In this last category, tanks had grown in size, weight, and firepower...

“From this century, in France, three names will remain : de Gaulle , Picasso, and Chanel .” – André Malraux . Coco Chanel created the look of the modern woman and was the high priestess of couture. She believed in simplicity, and elegance, and freed women...

More of Max Roth’s bloody adventures in the Sonderbattalion Kurz, the cut-throat, brutal SS partisan hunters and looters. This time it is the Fuhrer, Adolf Hitler who insists on the theft of a Christian relic, believed to have been touched by Jesus Christ...

In the tradition of Ken Follett and Nelson DeMille, The Double : Churchill, Hitler, and the Duel over Rudolf Hess Jerome Tuccille, whose best-selling biographies of Donald Trump, Alan Greenspan, the Gallo wine clan, and others have earned him wide acclaim,...

History for busy people. Hitler in an Hour is the concise biography of Nazi dictator, Adolf Hitler. Covering Hitler’s early life, military service in World War I and eventual rise to power, first as the leader of the Nazi party and then to head of state,...

Rudolf Hess, Germany's Deputy Fuhrer, Leader of the Nazi Party, 'flew alone in an unarmed acroplane, through a night of fire and ruin, on the most dangerous flight of his life.' This is an amazing true story of his secret peace mission, with plans to...

Starting in September 1918 and continuing through December 1921 my two Great Aunts and my Grandmother amassed an amazing amount of letters that chronicled the events of their world at the end of WW1. My Great Aunt, Rosalie O'Donnell, joined the Red Cross...

The Secrets of the FBI by New York Times bestselling author Ronald Kessler reveals the FBI’s most closely guarded secrets and the secrets of celebrities, politicians, and movie stars uncovered by agents during their investigations. Based on inside access,...

In a trenchant discussion of journalism, biography and ethics, Newsday senior editor Wick (Bad Company: Drugs, Hollywood and the Cotton Club Murder, 1990, etc.) examines the life of William Shirer (1904–1993), American war correspondent and author of...

Of American and German parentage, Ernst Hanfstaengl graduated from Harvard and ran the family business in New York for a dozen years before returning to Germany in 1921. By chance he heard a then little-known Adolf Hitler speaking in a Munich beer hall...

A charismatic yet notorious character, Sepp Dietrich the man is impossible to separate from Sepp Dietrich the General, who was awarded twenty-four different honors during his service to the Nazi party and was known for his devotion to his men as he led...

Marilyn Monroe, véritable icône de la beauté, incarnation du rêve américain, est la femme la plus célèbre et la plus idolâtrée des temps modernes. Cinquante ans après sa mort, sa légende ne cesse de grandir. Cet ouvrage nous permet de découvrir, pour...

It is one of the greatest mysteries of the twentieth century. How did Marilyn Monroe die? Although no pills were found in her stomach during the autopsy, it was still documented in the Los Angeles coroner's report that she had swallowed sixty-four sleeping...

An extraordinary biography of the legendary screen star Marilyn Monroe (originally published in 1973) by Norman Mailer, one of America's most important writers of the second half of the Twentieth Century. Mailer, the winner of two Pulitzer Prizes, was...

Fernand de Brinon, Marquis de Brinon; August 26, 1885 - April 15, 1947) was a French lawyer and journalist who was one of the architects of French collaboration with the Nazis during World War II. He claimed to have had five private talks with Adolf Hitler...

Charles-Marie-Photius Maurras, né le 20 avril 1868 à Martigues (Bouches-du-Rhône) et mort le 16 novembre 1952 à Saint-Symphorien-lès-Tours, (Indre-et-Loire), est un journaliste, essayiste, homme politique et poète français, théoricien du nationalisme...

1944 : Au lendemain de la Libération, et à la faveur de mouvements de foule, les Français laissent exploser leur joie mais aussi de sombres désirs de vengeance. Des pulsions meurtrières qui mènent certains à des massacres arbitraires et sommaires. Dans...

From a 27-year CIA veteran, a thoroughly documented insider’s view of illegal activities undertaken on the “dark side” of the global war on terror. As an experienced CIA spy, Carle came to the conclusion that there was a major disconnect between the White...

Submerged memories of a remarkable encounter in Auschwitz drove an aged British World War II veteran to reveal his plainspoken, moving story—assisted by BBC journalist Broomby. Avey admits he did not join the army in 1939 “for King and Country,” but rather...

In The Murder of Nikolai Vavilov, acclaimed journalist and author Peter Pringle recreates the extraordinary life and tragic end of one of the great scientists of the twentieth century. In a drama of love, revolution, and war that rivals Pasternak's Dr....

"In this series separate books illustrate different aspects of International Criminal Law. Each volume starts with an introduction to the related subject and contains the most important documents, jurisprudence and other information related to that subject."...

Maurice Barrès est l’homme de la Revanche de 1870 et des « bastions de l’Est », de la Lorraine, en particulier mosellane, qui est au cœur de Colette Baudoche. Il est aussi, avec Charles Maurras, le doctrinaire majeur du nationalisme français. « Prince...