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Burns’s Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award–winning history of Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s final years The second entry in James Macgregor Burns’s definitive two-volume biography of Roosevelt begins with the president’s precedent-breaking third term...

In his celebrated bestsellers Agent Zigzag and Operation Mincemeat, Ben Macintyre told the dazzling true stories of a remarkable WWII double agent and of how the Allies employed a corpse to fool the Nazis and assure a decisive victory. In Double Cross,...

Who is Natalie Wood? On Sunday, November 29, 1981, the world woke to the news that the talented and well-loved movie star Natalie Wood was dead. She was only 43 years old. But as details of her death became known, the loss became both a tragedy and a...

Memoir of the youngest child of Winston Churchill, focused largely on the years encompassing World War II. Countless books have been written about Churchill, and even this memoir is only the latest book that Soames (Clementine Churchill, 2002, etc.) has...

To publish for the fiftieth anniversary of her tragic death, this definitive account dispels the rumors and sets the record straight on her last two years. Keith Badman delves into the reality of Monroe’s last days in this surprising, and painstakingly...

“a crazy quilt of a tale . . . Donald Wolfe manages to capture the full complexity of the woman . . .” What occurs to the reader before not too many pages of The Last Days of Marilyn Monroe fly by is how very farfetched it all seems: that the three great...

This book unveils probably the last and definitely the finest, unpublished piece of the jigsaw making up the now immortal image of Marilyn Monroe - photos taken by famous photographer Milton Greene who was Marilyn's artistic advisor, agent, and business...

Historian Weintraub (Pearl Harbor Christmas: A World at War, December 1941, 2011, etc.) looks at an ailing President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s last campaign. In 1944, Roosevelt was in very poor health, plagued by a heart condition, high blood pressure and...

Fascist Italy has received far too little attention in the military history of the Axis partnership. This is the first comprehensive study of Benito Mussolini's military efforts to build an empire during World War II. It details the fascist dictator's...

A keen biography conveying the French general’s driving sense of destiny. Considered by the French to be the greatest French figure since Napoleon (“a monument carved out of some ancient rock, above and beyond ordinary beings”), Charles de Gaulle (1890–1970)...

Were the D-Day landings saved from failure because of a lone secret agent ? Agent Garbo tells the astonishing story of a self-made secret agent who matched wits with the best minds of the Third Reich — and won. Juan Pujol was a nobody, a Barcelona poultry...

Journalist Konrad Heiden was one of the first to hear the young Adolf Hitler's rousing orations and to recognize his political ingenuity and perverse, self-serving ideology. As a staff reporter on the Frankfurter Zeitung Heiden was one of the first writers...

Essential reading for anyone interested in the most famous American crime of the twentieth century. Since its original publication in 2004, The Case That Never Dies has become the standard account of the Lindbergh kidnapping. Now, in a new afterword,...

Admiral Yamamoto Isoroku was the defining Japanese naval commander of World War II. Although by no means part of the militarist clique that dominated Japanese politics in the 1930s, when war came Yamamoto was completely committed to his country's cause...

The fighting around the town of Demyansk was one of the longest encirclement battles on the Eastern Front during the Second World War, stretching from February 1942 to February 1943. Originally, the German 16. Armee occupied Demyansk in the fall of 1941...

The battle of El Alamein in 1942 was one of the most crucial events in the entire Second World War. Before it, the British had never won a major battle on land against the Germans; nor indeed had anyone else, even the Russians. At Alamein the British...

Sports journalist Davis recounts an influential and largely forgotten chapter in Olympic lore. As the Summer Olympics, and all the attendant pomp and circumstance, prepare to return to London in 2012, this book serves as a reminder of the event’s less-glamorous...

The year 2012 marks the centenary of Eva Braun's birth. This is the strange-but-true saga of her life, richly illustrated from her own personal photograph albums, as well as from other captured German archives. She married German dictator Adolf Hitler...

High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Einsatzgruppen (German: "task forces"; singular Einsatzgruppe; official full name Einsatzgruppen der Sicherheitspolizei und des SD) were SS paramilitary death squads that were responsible for mass killings,...

Ils ont une même origine : ils sont tous les deux marins. Ils exercent la même activité : ils sont maîtres espions. Ils vont servir le même maître : Adolf Hitler. La comparaison entre l'amiral Wilhelm Canaris, chef de l'Abwehr, et l'Obergruppenführer...

Cet ouvrage captivant, richement documenté d'archives et de témoignages pour la plupart inédits, dresse un tableau complet de la Libération de la France, jour après jour, région après région. On y découvre l'ampleur des combats en Normandie et le rôle...

Les textes inédits de Marilyn Monroe, écrits entre 1943 et 1962. Tout un univers intérieur pour découvrir l'autre face de l'icône. Fiche Technique EAN commerce : 9782757828953 Editeur (Livre) : Points Date sortie / parution : 07/06/2012 Auteur : Marilyn...

A welcome new biography of the ruthless Red Army general who defeated the Nazis and then spent decades alternately disgraced and rehabilitated in Soviet Russia. Roberts (History/University College Cork; Stalin’s Wars, 2007, etc.) relies less on his subject’s...

A writer of numerous baseball books (A Great Day in Cooperstown: The Improbable Birth of Baseball’s Hall of Fame, 2006, etc.) shifts to another summer event, telling the little-known story of the 1896 Olympics, the first in 1,500 years. Imagine: An American...

One of the most prominent and controversial personalities in the 20th-century history of the church is revealed in this collection of current research on Pope Pius XII, Eugenio Pacelli. The featured lectures complement the Papal Committee for Historical...

Admiral Wilhelm Canaris was appointed by Hitler to head the Abwehr (the German secret service) eighteen months after the Nazis came to power. But Canaris turned against the Führer and the Nazi regime, believing that Hitler would start a war Germany could...

Le soleil, la montagne, la mer... Le département des Pyrénées-Orientales collectionne les cartes postales du bien-vivre, tant par sa douceur climatique que par la beauté de ses paysages. Mais il a aussi sa face cachée, telle une fresque criminelle où...

Dans l'Allemagne nazie. L'Europe occupée, la France de Vichy, les principaux lieux et médias d'une expression publique libre ont été supprimés, contrôlés ou pervertis. C'est dans ce contexte qu'une parole courageuse est portée par nombre de pasteurs en...

Romy Schneider est une star qui, trente ans après sa disparition, rayonne toujours au firmament du cinéma. Elle était la plus française des actrices autrichiennes. Une actrice devenue légende dont on garde en mémoire les grands rôles, qu'il s'agisse de...

An intimate memoir recalling a young photographer's relationship with Marilyn Monroe just months before her death, with extraordinary photographs, some of which have never been published. "With the precision of a surgeon, Schiller slices through the façade...

A Washington Post Notable Book of the Year. For decades, Walter Cronkite was known as "the most trusted man in America." Millions across the nation welcomed him into their homes, first as a print reporter for the United Press on the front lines of World...

In the years between 1940 and 1945, a total of approximately 12,500 Belgians served in the Waffen-SS, a number roughly equal to the strength of an infantry division in 1944. Because of political and social problems and different objectives of the volunteers,...

This biography examines, in great detail, the life of Theodor Wisch, Waffen-SS General and Swords to the Knight's Cross holder. A member of the "Leibstandarte" from its 1933 creation to the end of World War II, he led some of its most famous combat elements...

C'est en Norvège, entre le 9 avril et le 10 juin 1940, que se déroule le premier affrontement de la guerre entre l'Allemagne et les Alliés. Pour Hitler, c'est " l'entreprise la plus culottée de l'histoire militaire moderne " ; pour Churchill, c'est l'occasion...

Collègien sous l'Occupation « Le mauvais esprit » En clin d'oeil à Jean Giraudoux, l'auteur de ce journal, Jean Saintive, alias Jacques Forestier, laisse pour seul indice sur sa véritable identité une simple photo avec au dos un nom : celui d'un collège...

A detailed examination of Winston Churchill the author. British historian Clarke (Keynes: The Rise, Fall, and Return of the 20th Century's Most Influential Economist, 2009, etc.) has studied Churchill for decades, but the author has been bothered by a...

Jamais une First Lady n'a été aussi populaire qu'Eleanor Roosevelt. Née en 1884 dans une famille de l'aristocratie américaine protestante, elle épouse à vingt-deux ans, un cousin éloigné, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, futur président des Etats-Unis, l'homme...

A l'heure de la commémoration des 70 ans de la bataille de Bir Hakeim en terre de Lybie, premier sursaut militaire de la France libre, voici la première biographie du marechal Pierre Koenig, l'un des militaires les plus héroiques de la seconde guerre...

"Beaucoup de choses sont possibles dès lors que l'on a été convenablement formé, a dit un jour Elizabeth Il. Il faut mûrir dans un rôle que l'on s'habitue à jouer et accepter le fait que c'est là votre sort dans l'existence. C'est un emploi à vie..."...

« Une enfance lyonnaise sous l'occupation » retrace les souvenirs d'une petite fille, puis d'une adolescente, qui vécut à Lyon le temps de l'occupation, époque bruissante d'événements. Elle a observé beaucoup, s'est posé des questions alors que bien des...