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Does the world need another book on that dismal year? Absolutely, if it’s by Hastings (Inferno: The World at War, 1939–1945, 2011, etc.). After many accounts of World War II, the veteran military historian tries his hand, with splendid results. Most readers...

“Ellis paints a portrait of a politician who, like many other politicians, often publicly sailed with the prevailing political winds of the day but who, in private, constantly exhibited a fundamental commitment to fairness and justice. Freedom’s Pragmatist...

A prescient World War II diary by a German judge who loathed the Nazi regime yet was a military judge during the war. Taken up the day after his 59th birthday, on March 28, 1944, until the end of the war, and infused with his raging against the duplicity...

In 1967, a Baltimore man named Howard Donahue began investigating the assassination of President John F. Kennedy. Like countless Americans, Donahue was fascinated by the events in Dallas. But what separated him from other amateur sleuths, and even the...

A chronicle of the friendship between writer Albert Camus and biologist Jacques Monod, skillfully combining science, biography and history. They first came together in September 1948 to cooperate in a venture against international communism known as Groupes...

How a Danish national “we” kept the Nazis at bay—and largely saved its Jewish population. In this passionately argued study, former Politiken editor in chief Lidegaard (Defiant Diplomacy, 2003, etc.) takes on the complicated creation of the “model protectorate”...

Jusqu'où le Front national ira-t-il ? Rarement le parti de Marine Le Pen n'a semblé si près de la dédiabolisation qu'il s'était assignée; jamais il n'est apparu aussi proche du pouvoir. Beaucoup s'en alarment, mais cette dédiabolisation n'a rien d'une...

Premier biographe à puiser dans un matériau nouveau - les carnets de Joseph Goebbels, publiés en 2006 -, Peter Longerich pénètre dans le cercle intime du pouvoir. Il démêle les relations complexes qui unissaient Goebbels, sa femme et Hitler dans un triangle...

Après l'armistice du 11 novembre 1918, cinq terribles années de guerres se clôturent enfin, cinq années qui ont vu l'apparition des armes chimiques, la généralisation des bombardements, l'enlisement des armées. Et qui ont fait dix millions de morts......

During the twelve years of Hitler’s Third Reich, very few Germans took the risk of actively opposing his tyranny and terror, and fewer still did so to protect the sanctity of law and faith. In No Ordinary Men, Elisabeth Sifton and Fritz Stern focus on...

A well-organized, fast-moving political narrative situating the absolute breakdown of Germany's currency in 1923 in the double context of the international drive for World War I reparations and the violent effects of internal political extremism. Royal...

Adolf Eichmann was among the Gestapo war criminals who managed to escape from Europe and establish new lives in Argentina. The search for him involved an international group of Nazi hunters who left no stone unturned to determine where and how he had...

Quatre hommes figurent au sommaire de ce livre. Tous, dans le cadre du régime de Vichy, ont exercé le pouvoir, au plus haut niveau. Tous ont connu un sort tragique : l'amiral Darlan assassiné ; Pierre Pucheu , l'un des esprits les plus brillants de sa...

Le héros, né en 1871, est une incarnation vivante de la IIIe République. Tout y est : naissance dans la classe moyenne rurale, ascension par l'excellence scolaire, double carrière locale et nationale dans la tradition du parlementarisme français, exaltation...

Ace reportage on the unique relationship between a prison physician and one of the Third Reich’s highest ranking officials. Profoundly expanded from an original article in Scientific American, science and historical journalist El-Hai’s (Creative Writing/Augsburg...

The nephew of a Dutch Jewish dance teacher sent to Auschwitz gradually uncovers her tale of survival and triumph. Glaser’s name appears solely on the title page of this work, though he has taken his aunt Rosie’s wartime diary and fleshed it out for publication,...

Published on the eve of the fiftieth anniversary of the assassination of John F. Kennedy and replete with many never-before-seen photographs, this posthumous memoir draws on previously unpublished oral histories, gallery talks, and speeches by Jacques...

Based on recently available archives this is the first in-depth scholarly study of Italian military espionage during World War II. Italy's ultimate demise in the course of the war becomes clear in reading this book that is filled with previously unknown...

An investigation into the secretive life of the youngest daughter and heiress to a Gilded Age copper tycoon. Huguette Clark (1906–2011) lived for more than a century and never once wanted for money. At her death, she was estimated to be worth—incorrectly,...

Etrange paradoxe, le maréchal Gueorgui Joukov, l'homme qui a battu les armées du IIIe Reich, sans doute l'un des plus brillants capitaines du XXe siècle, ne bénéficiait d'aucune biographie en français. Pourtant, de la défense de Moscou en décembre 1941...

Tome 1 : Nono - Le Veilleur de nuit - la Prise de Berg-op-Zoom - La Pélerine écossaise - Deux couverts - La Jalousie - Faisons un rêve - Jean de La Fontaine - Un soir quand on est seul - L'Illusionniste - Deburau - Le Mari, la femme et l'amant - Mon père...

A debut novel of Jews and Germans, families and soldiers hidden from the Nazis. Based upon the true story of Franciszka Halamajowa, Witterick’s novel is told by four narrators, beginning with Franciszka’s daughter, Helena. Raised in Germany with her older...

The vilified heir to the Hapsburg throne wins a touching rehabilitation in this nonscholarly look at his love match and sad demise. King (A Season of Splendor: The Court of Mrs. Astor in Gilded Age New York, 2008, etc.) and Woolmans (25 Chapters of My...

Like her art, Marilyn Monroe was rooted in paradox: She was a powerful star and a childlike waif; a joyful, irreverent party girl with a deeply spiritual side; a superb friend and a narcissist; a dumb blonde and an intellectual. No previous biographer...

British documentary filmmaker and journalist Harding traces the lives of Auschwitz Kommandant Rudolf Höss and Hanns Alexander, a Jewish refugee from Nazism who hunted him down and brought him to justice. The author only learned about his great-uncle Hanns'...