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This work describes the turbulent existence of the German general staff from its resurrection by Hitler in 1935 to the end of World War II. It highlights the increasingly fractured relationship between general staff officers and Hitler during this period—a...

Lorsque Louis Fierens part pour le front de l'Est, son père, pourtant fervent patriote, lui dit : "Où il y a des femmes et des hommes qui souffrent et meurent, il faut un prêtre." Ce professeur dans un collège catholique, en accompagnant en Russie les...

En février 2011, Annie Girardot s'éteint après des années douloureuses passées dans les ombres de la maladie d'Alzheimer. Un cauchemar pour cette femme qui a vécu son existence avec autant d'intensité que son métier. Au-delà d'une carrière qui rythme...

Based on privileged access to the president and his private papers, this classic Cold War-era history by bestselling historian Stephen E. Ambrose gives an inside look at the way President Dwight Eisenhower managed America’s secret operations as general...

In this classic portrait of Dwight D. Eisenhower the soldier, bestselling historian Stephen E. Ambrose examines the Allied commander’s leadership during World War II. Ambrose brings Eisenhower’s experience of the Second World War to life, showing in vivid...

“No one owns the Holocaust. Professor McKale expresses the notion that those who deny the Holocaust thereby deny that Israel has the right to exist.” There are probably few scholars as knowledgeable in their special field of study as Donald M. McKale,...

Heinrich Himmler, an unremarkable looking man, was Hitler's top enforcer, in charge of the Gestapo, the SS, and the so-called Final Solution. We can only wonder, as biographer Peter Longerich asks, how could such a banal personality attain such an historically...

Bientôt le Débarquement, bientôt la Libération, c'est ce qu'espèrent les Français en janvier 1944. Mais le chemin est encore long jusqu'au tombeau du IIIe Reich, la capitulation allemande. C'est cette marche vers le triomphe de la liberté que Max Gallo...

A controversial intervention into the ongoing political and legal argument about whether and how to try Khalid Sheik Mohammed and his co-conspirators for their role in the 9/11 attack. British writer and commentator Shawcross (The Queen Mother: The Official...

Il arrive parfois qu'une adolescente s'éprenne d'un homme bien plus âgé qu'elle. La fascination est encore plus aiguë lorsque l'homme en question est auréolé d'une gloire naissante et fait couler l'encre des journaux et des magazines. Eva a 17 ans en...

La guerre d'Indochine est entrée dans l'histoire, alors que les derniers témoins nous quittent peu à peu. À l'initiative de La Sabretache, société d'histoire militaire, quatorze anciens du corps expéditionnaire français en Extrême-Orient racontent leurs...

During World War II, aviation was among the largest industrial branches of the Third Reich. About 40 percent of total German war production, and two million people, were involved in the manufacture of aircraft and air force equipment. Based on German...

A military historian’s look at the five-star admiral “who commanded the 2 million men and 1000 ships that won the war in the Pacific.” When Chester W. Nimitz (1885–1966) entered the Naval Academy, the Spanish-American War had only recently concluded....

A fresh, controversial, brilliantly written account of one of the epic dramas of the Cold War-and its lessons for today. "History at its best." -Zbigniew Brzezinski "Gripping, well researched, and thought-provoking, with many lessons for today." - Henry...

Shortly after 9:00 a.m. on May 27, 1947, the first of forty-nine men condemned to death for war crimes at Mauthausen concentration camp mounted the gallows at Landsberg prison near Munich. The mass execution that followed resulted from an American military...

High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! General Tomoyuki Yamashita, November 8, 1885 - February 23, 1946) was a general of the Japanese Imperial Army during World War II. He was most famous for conquering the British colonies of Malaya and Singapore,...

Ce numéro montre comment les acquis récents d’une historiographie encore trop peu connue en France – la plupart des ouvrages sont écrits en allemand ou en anglais –, permettent de répondre de manière renouvelée à quelques questions majeures sur ce qu’a...

Une nouvelle page de l'histoire commence avec les prises de pouvoir par des peuples révoltés. Ce roman donne l'occasion d'en vivre les conséquences et d'imaginer l'avenir de ce siècle. Le narrateur Jean Couturier, 78 ans, spécialiste des questions internationales...

Between the early 1930s and his death in 1953, Joseph Stalin had more than a million of his own citizens executed. Millions more fell victim to forced labor, deportation, famine, bloody massacres, and detention and interrogation by Stalin's henchmen....

“Eleanor Hancock has provided the first truly scholarly biography of Ernst Röhm in any language. The scholarship and documentation are generally superior, veritably exhausting the primary and secondary sources from Austria, Germany, Bolivia, Britain,...

Leading authors, Ken Alford and Ted Savas, dig into the dirty little secrets of post-war Europe and America. They uncover evidence of collusion at worst and the turning of a blind eye at best, which enabled many leading Nazi's to escape apprehension and...

The question of the collaboration of Jews with the Nazi regime during the persecution and extermination of European Jewry is one of the most difficult and sensitive issues surrounding the Holocaust. How could people be forced to cooperate in their own...

Malraux, ce n'est pas seulement André. C'est aussi Clara : sans elle, sa vie, sa légende auraient sans doute été différentes. Entre eux a existé un lien fait de complicité et de passion. Ils se sont aimés, déchirés, trompés. Ils ont tout connu ensemble,...

Fifth full-updated 2011 edition. Shows that German records said there were 4.5 million Jews under Nazi control. There have been 4.3 million "victim" claims since the war; The Auschwitz Camp Museum has confessed that the "gas chamber" shown to tourists...

Lenaïc Gravis-Blériot et Christophe Belser se retrouvent sur cet ouvrage et unissent à nouveau leur plume pour notre plus grand plaisir. Après avoir exhumé des archives judiciaires des affaires oubliées du département, et d'autres encore bien vivaces...

Fifty years ago in April, 1961, the trial of Adolf Eichmann opened in Jerusalem. At first most observers concentrated on the details of the amazing arrest of the former SS officer hiding in Argentina under an assumed name. The trial informed the world...

Only days after Normandy, Hitler is taken out of the equation and Heinrich Himmler, brutal head of the SS, assumes control of the Reich. On the Allied side, there is confusion. Should attempts be made to negotiate with the new government or should unconditional...

A short story collection about German life during World War II. Roegner introduces his collection in an academic manner, creating the notion that his book is an account of real-life details as experienced by ordinary Germans during WWII; “These people...

Pierre Mendès France et Pierre Bérégovoy sont certes des grandes figures de la gauche républicaine, mais ils incarnent au plus haut degré l'honneur en politique. Bien qu'il n'ait dirigé que brièvement le gouvernement de la France, Mendès France représente...

Ingénue dans les années 30, femme fatale durant les sixties, mamie aujourd'hui, Danielle Darrieux a traversé l'histoire du cinéma telle une merveilleuse étoile brillant au firmament. Discrète au quotidien mais omniprésente dans son métier, belle toujours,...

Bogart is not just a movie star biography. Perhaps no other book has ever provided a more graphic rendering of what life was like for a contract player when the big studios ruled Hollywood or has so dramatically captured what happened in the late 1940's...

In this impressive work, Maochun Yu tells the dramatic story of the intelligence activities of the Office of Stategic Services (OSS) in China during World War II. This book is the first research-based narrative & analysis of America's wartime intelligence...

Le manque de sommeil et la panique due à la scène poussent Romy Schneider à abuser d'alcool, d'analgésiques, de somnifères, de stimulants et autres médicaments. La grandeur de son succès va de pair avec son incapacité à savourer ce qu'elle a réalisé....

Their relationship was that of fairy tales. Their devotion so intense they wed each other not once, but twice. In the first book to focus on both Natalie Wood and Robert Wagner, the author of the bestseller Gable & Lombard and the critically acclaimed...

On vacation with his girlfriend, Ingeborg, the German war games champion Udo Berger returns to a small town on the Costa Brava where he spent the summers of his childhood. Soon they meet another vacationing German couple, Charly and Hanna, who introduce...

A vivid 11-day account of a World War II holiday. As in previous volumes on Christmastime during critical moments in history (General Sherman’s Christmas: Savannah, 1864, 2009, etc.), prolific biographer and military historian Weintraub dramatically recaps...

Once described as 'the man who invented Hitler', Ernst Röhm was one of the key figures of the fledgling Nazi Party. Commander of the notorious 'Stormtroopers', the fanatical brown-shirted mobsters who assisted Hitler's rise to power in the 1930s; and...

J. Edgar Hoover : A WikiFocus Book details the early life and education, FBI career, Gangster wars, COINTELPRO years, late career and death, Legacy, Personal life, Freemasonry, Honors, Portrayals, Writings, Legacy and impact of J. Edgar Hoover. John Edgar...

De l’assassinat d’Henri IV à Mai 68, ce livre raconte quatre siècles de dossiers brûlants. Il plonge dans la grande Histoire : Ravaillac, Louis XVII, Ravachol, la Résistance, la guerre d’Algérie, mais aussi dans le monde de la pègre, des marginaux et...

Reinhard Heydrich is widely recognized as one of the great iconic villains of the twentieth century, an appalling figure even within the context of the Nazi leadership. Chief of the Nazi Criminal Police, the SS Security Service, and the Gestapo, ruthless...