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Jamais le " journal de bord " du général Louis Rivet n'avait, jusqu'à présent, été livré au public. Rédigés parle chef des services spéciaux français entre 1936 et 1944, ces carnets sont restés inédits depuis la Libération. Exceptionnels, ils plongent...

Simon Wiesenthal was the legendary 'Nazi hunter', a Holocaust survivor who dedicated his life to the punishment of Nazi criminals. A hero in the eyes of many, he was also attacked for his unrelenting pursuit of the past, when others preferred to forget....

Middling true-crime life of Mafia kingpin Lucky Luciano, once a byword for the most vicious breed of mobster. Born Salvatore Lucania in Sicily in 1897, Charles Luciano had been a made man since emerging from the worst tenements of the Lower East Side,...

Clandestine missions. Clever, devious, daring. Passionately committed to a cause. During America's most divisive war, both the Union and Confederacy took advantage of brave and courageous women willing to adventurously support their causes. These female...

Women leaders of the twentieth and twenty first centuries have powerfully influenced the course of major political events and have spearheaded social change on an international scales. Some women were elected to public office and others were appointed...

Togo Heihachiro (1848–1934) was born into a feudal society that had withdrawn into seclusion for 250 years. As a teenage samurai, he witnessed the destruction wrought upon his native land by British warships. As the legendary "Silent Admiral," he was...

For the first twenty-five years of his criminal career, Charles “Lucky” Luciano was a vicious mobster who rose to become the multimillionaire king of the New York underworld. For the next twenty-five years of his life, Luciano was a legend—-but a fake...

Milan, le 25 avril 1945, 20 heures : le convoi qui emporte Mussolini et ses plus fidèles lieutenants s’ébranle vers une destination incertaine. Trois jours plus tard, à Giulino di Mezzegra, sur la rive ouest du lac de Côme, le Duce et Claretta Petacci...

In May 1945, as the triumphant Red Army crushed the last pockets of German resistance in central Berlin, French soldiers fought back. They were the last surviving members of SS Charlemagne, the Waffen SS division made up of French volunteers. They were...

Sur la colline de Montmartre, le lycée Rollin (aujourd'hui Jacques-Decour) fut le creuset des parcours les plus stupéfiants de la Résistance et de la collaboration françaises. Une France miniature, où se côtoyèrent cancres et bons élèves, collaborateurs...

Dans l'histoire du mouvement ouvrier allemand, l'attention des historiens s'est souvent focalisée sur les partis et les syndicats. C'est à la culture ouvrière que s'intéresse cet ouvrage et en particulier au sport qui en constitua le ciment. Prenant le...

What turned Adolf Hitler, a relatively normal and apparently unexceptional young man, into the very personification of evil? To answer this question, acclaimed historian Brigitte Hamann has turned to the critical, formative, years that the young Hitler...

A selection of the Military Book Club To many close students of World War II, von Manstein is already considered to be the greatest commander of the war, if not the entire 20th century. He devised the plan that conquered France in 1940, thence led an...

The large-scale detainment of specific ethnic groups by the U.S. government goes back a long way, writes journalist Dickerson. The author covers many instances from colonial times to the present day, but the bulk of the narrative focuses on policies instituted...

Volume 2 in this new series continues the overview of each Waffen-SS unit that fought during World War II, where it was raised and where it fought. Within each of the various battles covered, the book focuses specifically on each Waffen-SS soldier that...

Hess's thoughts on Hitler, Churchill's order to Hess's psychiatrist to falsify his report—here is the full story of Rudolf Hess’s imprisonment in Spandau. Rudolf Hess was Adolf Hitler’s Deputy Führer until, in 1941, he flew to Scotland, ostensibly to...

Copiously illustrated and carefully described, this is the first full treatment of two of the Third Reich's most important figures. While Nazi Germany's temporary ascendancy owed much to military skill, the talent of its engineers not only buoyed the...

Dr. Robin O'Neil's latest study on the Holocaust, "Oskar Schindler: Stepping Stone to Life," follows thematically from his previous book, "Belzec: Stepping Stone to Genocide," 2008, and his PhD thesis, "Belzec: Operation Reinhardt and the Origins of Jewish...

A l'issue de la bataille de Troyes. le général Patton adressa ce message au général Wood, commandeur de la 4ème Division Blindée américaine : "Ce que cette Division vient d'accomplir n'a jamais été égalé. Par cette affirmation. je ne veux pas dire seulement...

In 1941-42 Nazi Germany appeared to be invincible in North Africa against the British and in Eastern Europe against the Soviet Union. Some very specific plans were being drawn in Berlin to ensure the genocide of the Jews in Palestine. With the invasion...

Here is a gripping account of the major postwar trial of the Nazi hierarchy in World War II. The Nuremberg Trial brilliantly recreates the trial proceedings and offers a reasoned, often profound examination of the processes that created international...

In the darkest days of World War II, an American Mafioso is the Allies’ only hope to tip the scales of victory. The classic Jack Higgins thriller : As the Allies struggle to gain a foothold in Italy in 1943, American gangster Charles “Lucky” Luciano is...

Aucun grand capitaine de la Seconde Guerre mondiale n´a écrit de récit aussi clair et aussi percutant sur la stratégie militaire que Rommel dans ses Mémoires. Soucieux de tirer les leçons de ses campagnes, il rend compte mieux que quiconque du Blitzkrieg...

Depuis plus de soixante ans, une histoire quasi officielle ne cesse de diaboliser l'armistice de juin 1940, souvent qualifié d'« abominable ». Après une étude extrêmement minutieuse et sans concession de cette période capitale, de mai à juillet 1940,...

An infamous date in history provides the backdrop for a race-against-the-clock thriller. While investigating the murder of her bisexual cabaret-performer brother three years ago in 1931, journalist Hannah Vogel fled Germany with the very young Anton,...