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An impressionistic portrait of a woman revered and reviled in Argentina, just in time for the scheduled December release of the Madonna film Evita. Eva Peron became an icon during her 1945-52 reign as wife of dictator Juan Peron , but one perceived in...

Turner (History/Yale; ed., Hitler: Memoirs of a Confidant, 1985, etc.) presents a compelling day-by-day account of the final month of unlikely parliamentary maneuvers that led to Adolf Hitler's appointment as Germany's chancellor in January 1933. By the...

Gestapo, ces trois syllabes ont, pendant douze années, fait trembler l'Allemagne, puis l'Europe entière. Jamais, dans aucun pays et à aucune époque, une organisation n'atteignit cette complexité, ne détint un tel pouvoir, ne parvint à un tel point de...

Sure to fuel the continuing controversy over the response of German citizens to National Socialism. Fest is one of the preeminent scholars of the Nazi period whose previous books (Hitler, 1974; The Face of the Third Reich, 1970) are considered standard...

Le présent ouvrage est un travail original, de première main, fruit d'une recherche de plusieurs années et qui comble un trou de notre historiographie : l'analyse des milieux ruraux dans la crise des années trente et leur radicalisation contre l'etat...

Ce livre d'une exceptionnelle puissance raconte l'histoire mondiale de la diplomatie, du XVIIe siècle à nos jours. Pourquoi le XVIIe siècle? Parce que c'est à cette époque que Richelieu invente la diplomatie européenne, désormais fondée sur la raison...

Au-delà de l'image du " bon Président Fallières " qui fait irrésistiblement penser à la Belle époque, ce livre part à la recherche d'un inconnu : Fallières ; n'a-t-il pas lui-même choisi d'être le plus discret des chefs d'État de notre histoire ? Qui...

On ne représente point, on assemble des coupures d'oeuvres ou de vie, et l'on monte un tableau qui impose au discours le silence du style. (...) La thèse argumentée, la biographie sérieuse se proposent de faire le tour du sujet ; l'ellipse cubiste du...

A full, lucid, and moving biography of the Nazi hunter who became the ``unwelcome conscience'' of post-Holocaust Europe. Pick, diplomatic editor and feature writer of the Guardian since 1961, got Simon Wiesenthal's cooperation for this biography without...

"A Fresh ans unvarnished portrait of fascinating, talented and deeply flawed family." —Boston Herald Laurence Leamer was granted unheralded access to private Kennedy papers, and he interviewed family and old friends, many of whom had never been interviewed...

Après des années d'un mutisme résolu concernant sa carrière d'actrice et son destin de femme, "la Française la plus connue après la tour Eiffel" raconte enfin ses heures de gloire, ses passions et ses peines. Impudique, fantasque, mais d'une sincérité...

A study of the rise of the Nazi Party that is sure to stir controversy. Traditional interpretations of National Socialism have stressed its irrational character: its mythial evocation of the Teutonic past; its pseudo-science of race and eugenics; and...

"An excellent historical introduction on the Resistance movement . . . and an appropriately taut translation . . . enhance the impact of this stirring tale of heroism, which concerns not only Resistance members but ordinary citizens, notably women."-Publishers...

This is the only book available that tells the full story of how the U.S. government, between 1942 and 1945, detained nearly half a million Nazi prisoners of war in 511 camps across the country. With a new introduction and illustrated with more than 70...

Significant new research that examines both the relevant prewar history of Auschwitz and the blueprints of the death camp's daily functions. Dwork (Holocaust Studies and Modern Jewish History/Clark Univ.) and van Pelt (Cultural History/Univ. of Waterloo,...

A challenge to traditional views of Jewish passivity in the face of the Holocaust. One of the most contentious aspects of that tragedy concerns the disputed role of the Jews themselves during WW II. Introduced into the postwar debate about the Holocaust...

Marking the fiftieth anniversary of the end of World War II, this is an extraordinary, unprecedented anthology of diaries written by children all across Nazi-occupied Europe and in England. Twenty-three young people, ages ten through eighteen, recount...

In the Portraits in Science series, an intelligent chronicle of Curie's life, from her struggle to educate herself in Russian-occupied Poland to her successes in France; her pioneering work with her husband; and her troubles and triumphs after his death....

In an engrossing tale of unsung heroes and high-risk missions, military historian Breuer (Feuding Allies, 1995, etc.) penetrates the little-known espionage, propaganda, and guerilla operations of the Korean war. When well-equipped, Soviet trained North...

Il est entré dans la vie publique à dix-sept ans comme journaliste aux côtés de Clemenceau, en pleine affaire Dreyfus. Il fut un des ministres les plus redoutés de la IIIe République. Emprisonné sur ordre de Vichy, déporté à Buchenwald puis ramené en...

Né à Paris en 1876, "professionnel" des succès scolaires et universitaires (reçu premier à Normale supérieur à dix-neuf ans), brillant chroniqueur diplomate, député en 1914, haut-commissaire aux affaires de guerre franco-américaines en 1917, André Tardieu...

Contrairement à une légende tenace, Drancy ne fut pas qu'un simple camp de transit. À seulement quelques kilomètres de Paris, on entrait dans la mort. La violence et les souffrances physiques infligées aux déportés montrent à quel point Drancy était bien...

C'est l'histoire vraie de six barons Empain. Le premier est un personnage magnifique. Homme d'affaires carnassier, innovateur, empirique et visionnaire, il édifie une immense fortune dans le monde entier, invente une ville en Egypte, s'approprie le Métro...

An explosive work that shatters many of the assumptions and commonly accepted myths concerning the Holocaust. Goldhagen (Government and Social Studies/Harvard) offers irrefutable proof that will force us to reconsider our previous understanding of the...

SS Kommandant Rudolph Höss (1900-1947) was history's greatest mass murderer, personally supervising the extermination of approximately two million people, mostly Jews, at the death camp in Auschwitz, Poland. Death Dealer is a new, unexpurgated translation...

Qu'est-ce qu'un grand homme ? On n'y répondra pas sans rompre le pieux consensus qui salue dans le héros du 18 juin la voix plus que le texte, la grandeur plus que la pertinence, le panache du rebelle plutôt que la sagesse de celui qui avait prévu et...

Pour John Kennedy, il était "l'homme d'Etat du monde": de Gaulle voyait en lui l' "inspirateur" du processus d'intégration européenne; selon Henry Kissinger, personne n'a plus fortement marqué notre temps. La personnalité comme le rôle exact de l'un des...

En octobre 1995, il y aura dix ans que Simone Signoret est morte. Jean-François Josselin fut un de ses plus proches confidents. Il vécut les dernières années de Simone en témoin affectueux et privilégié, d'où ce livre - ni biographie, ni recueil de souvenirs,...

Legendary for his tactical speed in war, General George S. Patton (18851945) was also notable for drama and style. Unfortunately, this plodding biography is not. The historic image of Patton has been indelibly molded by George C. Scott's 1970 film performance:...

A taut, terse Holocaust narrative that is all the more powerful for its ironic reserve. Adelsberger (1895-1971), a noted German-Jewish immunologist, spent her internment in Auschwitz as a physician in the Gypsy camp (until its liquidation in July 1944)...

Tout dirigeant d'une société importante, entre 1940 et 1944, était-il «condamné» à travailler pour l'Allemagne ? Pouvait-on rester patron et devenir résistant ? Comment s'est déroulée l'aryanisation des entreprises juives et quelles ont été les responsabilités...

En bref La réédition d'un grand classique de Ian Kershaw. Une plongée saisissante dans le quotidien de l'Allemagne nazie et des persécutions antisémites. Le livre Voici enfin rééditée l'étude fondamentale qui a révolutionné notre connaissance de l'opinion...

In a narrative based primarily on the personal correspondence of the youthful Winston Churchill, his family, and other contemporaries, interspersed with the mature Churchill's poignant reminiscences, his granddaughter provides a rare and moving look at...

“This superb and definitive description of Vichy’s policy . . . has two conspicuous merits. It pulverizes the defense of those apologists of Vichy who claim that Pétain or Laval weren’t as bad as all that. It also allows the historical debate to shift...

Schindler's List, the movie based on the nonfiction novel based on the life of the German businessman who saved scores of Jews from the Holocaust, has become a beginning study "text" for individuals and school, college, and independent learning classes...

Telford Taylor est colonel de l’armée américaine, spécialiste des services de renseignements lorsqu’il intègre, au printemps 1945, l’équipe de juristes américains chargée de l’accusation au procès Nuremberg. Dans Procureur à Nuremberg, il livre son témoignage...

An exhaustively researched account of the ``opening act of Nazi genocide'': the murder of approximately 70,000 physically and mentally handicapped German citizens. Friedlander (History/Brooklyn College; coeditor of the 26- volume Archives of the Holocaust...

No American has been more identified with his country than John Wayne. For millions of people from the heartland to the furthest corners of the earth, he simply is America. Wayne virtually defined the role of the cowboy and the soldier, unswervingly playing...

Pour mieux l'asservir, l'Allemagne nazie voulait " libérer le peuple français de ses parasites " et lui révéler les sortilèges de la communauté des destins français et allemand menacés par la " ploutocratie anglo-saxonne " et le " judéo-bolchevisme "....

A monumental attempt to pierce the facade of lies, deceit, evasions, and half-truths erected by Hitler's favorite architect and minister of armaments and war production in the Third Reich. Sereny (The Invisible Children, 1985, etc.) here continues a project...

The Nuremburg trials remain, after nearly a half a century, the benchmark for judging international crimes. Using new sources—ground-breaking research in the papers of the Nuremburg prison psychiatrist and commandant, the letters and journals of the prisoners,...

In August 1945 Great Britain, France, the USSR, and the United States established a tribunal at Nuremberg to try military and civilian leaders of the Nazi regime. G. M. Gilbert, the prison psychologist, had an unrivaled firsthand opportunity to watch...

Poignant in its honesty and grim in its details, Escape from Sobibor offers stunning proof of resistance - in this case successful - by victims of the Holocaust. The smallest of the extermination camps operated by Nazi Germany during World War II, Sobibor...

The personal and candid account of General Patton's celebrated, relentless crusade across western Europe during World War II. First published in 1947, War as I Knew It is an absorbing narrative that draws from Patton's vivid memories of battle and his...

Bugsy Siegel built Las Vegas, but it was Tony "The Ant" Spilotro who ran the show. Now William F. Roemer, Jr., veteran FBI agent and scourge of the Cosa Nostra, tells the shocking story of how a teenage wiseguy grew up to become "the man" in Vegas. From...