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of John F. Kennedy and replete with many never-before-seen photographs, this posthumous memoir draws on previously unpublished oral histories, gallery talks, and speeches by Jacques...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

Many of the stars of the silver screen in twentieth-century Hollywood became national icons, larger-than-life figures held up as paragons of American virtues. Unfortunately, the private lives of actors such as John Wayne, Henry Fonda, and Errol Flynn...

A mostly reverential compendium of voices touched by the promise and spirit of John F. Kennedy’s presidency—and the shock of his death. Keen observers of the president, members of his devoted staff, children of his advisers, civil rights leaders, eyewitness...

A magical memoir about a singular childhood in England and India by the daughter of Lord Louis and Edwina Mountbatten. Few families can boast of not one but two saints among their ancestors, a great-aunt who was the last tsarina of Russia, a father who...

Gloria Swanson: Ready for Her Close-Up shows how a talented, self-confident actress negotiated a creative path through seven decades of celebrity. It also illuminates a little-known chapter in American media history: how the powerful women of early Hollywood...

Maurice Chevalier fut l'artiste de tous les défis, l'inventeur du one-man show qui, en 70 ans de carrière, 60 films, 1 000 chansons, a conquis le monde. Il est devenu une légende d'Hollywood malgré les accusations de collaboration active puis de communisme...

Le 28 juin 1914, dans Sarajevo écrasée de soleil, un certain Gavrilo Princip se réfugie à l'ombre d'un auvent pour guetter le cortège officiel de l'archiduc François-Ferdinand... Cinq semaines plus tard, le monde plonge dans une guerre qui entraînera...

La milice française a été le fer de lance du régime de Vichy. Créée le 31 janvier 1943 par Pierre Laval, chef du gouvernement, elle devait rassembler des volontaires pour défendre l'ordre contre la Résistance et les Alliés. Elle rêvait d'enthousiasme...

A biography of Gloria Swanson (1899–1983), who was difficult, vain, arrogant and self-deluded, as well as shrewd, stylish and magnetic. She was, by her own account, “every inch and every moment a star.” Swanson had limited gifts in terms of looks and...

In his acclaimed biography of JFK, Robert Dallek revealed Kennedy, the man and the leader, as never before. In Camelot's Court, he takes an insider's look at the brain trust whose contributions to the successes and failures of Kennedy's administration...

“The days dwindle down, to a precious few . . .” —from “September Song,” JFK’s favorite. They were the original power couple— outlandishly rich, impossibly attractive, and endlessly fascinating. Now, in this rare, behind-the-scenes portrait of the Kenne...

Otto von Bismarck war von 1871 bis 1890 der erste Reichskanzler des Deutschen Reiches und an dessen Gründung maßgeblich beteiligt. Hinter Bismarcks eindrucksvoller Karriere musste sein Privatleben oftmals zurückstehen. Diese Briefsammlung zeigt seine...

"There can never be a Janet Gaynor and Charles Farrell love team again." -- Janet Gaynor, 1970. From their first iconic pairing in 7th Heaven (1927) and in eleven films that followed, Janet Gaynor and Charles Farrell created an unparalleled cinematic...

Above the mud and misery of the trenches and the endless slugging matches of the First World War another contest was played out with all the military glamour, chivalric values and deadly outcome of a mediaeval, knightly tournament. This was the battle...

An unprecedented look at the life of Rose Kennedy reveals the private woman who became a political legend. In her compelling and intimate portrait, presidential historian Barbara A. Perry captures Rose Kennedy’s essential contributions to the incomparable...

En ce 13 Mars 1905, la température est encore très froide sur Paris. Une foule huppée se presse devant le guichet du musée Guimet afin d'assister à la toute première représentation française de "Mata Hari" alias Margaretha Grietze Zelle. Dans le gratin...

The Second World War might have officially ended in May 1945, but in reality it rumbled on for another ten years... The end of the Second World War in Europe is one of the twentieth century’s most iconic moments. It is fondly remembered as a time when...

“I EITHER WRITE THE BOOK OR SELL THE JEWELS,” Ava Gardner told her coauthor, Peter Evans, “and I’m kinda sentimental about the jewels.” So began the collaboration that led to this remarkably candid, wickedly sardonic memoir. Ava Gardner was one of Hollywood’s...

Lucky Luciano's posthumous memoirs may well have cost him his life. The partner of Meyer Lanksy and Bugsy Siegel, the man who created and controlled the "Commission" and the set down the rules, wanted to have his side of the story on record. It turns...

Axes clés de la présidence de Franklin Delano Roosevelt entre 1932 et 1945, le New Deal et le "Home Front" affectèrent de manière considérable les Etats-Unis, tant sur la scène économique et sociale que sur la scène internationale, et contribuèrent en...

Pendant dix ans, un Allemand dont le frère occupait les plus hautes fonctions dans l'armée du Ille Reich a livré à la France, et à travers elle, à la Pologne et aux Alliés, les informations les plus secrètes sur le réarmement de l'Allemagne, la réoccupation...

An eloquent, deeply intimate account of a Polish teenager’s endurance of successive deathly challenges unimagined in a lifetime. At age 13, Szlamek Pivnik, a tailor’s son in the poor but vibrant, predominantly Jewish town of Bedzin, Poland, essentially...

“. . . does an excellent job of telling the story of one of America’s finest and darkest episodes in World War II . . .” The early days of American’s involvement in World War II were marked by a chain of serious military defeats. Beginning with the attack...

Rather than writing yet another biography, Welch sets out to clarify and elucidate Hitler's role in the rise and fall of the Third Reich, a area that other historians have declared unreachable because so many documents were destroyed at the end of World...

«Prima di Benito Mussolini, nessun capo del governo italiano dedicò una simile attenzione alla produzione editoriale del proprio paese. Il Duce, forse per abitudine professionale da esperto redattore qual era, forse per appagare le sue ambizioni d'intellettuale...

"[A]n impressive achievement: a boot-level take on the conflict that is fresh without being cynically revisionist." —The New Republic. A groundbreaking history of ordinary soldiers struggling on the front lines, The Deserters offers a completely new perspective...

Le régime de Vichy marque-t-il une rupture profonde dans l'histoire contemporaine de la France ou faut-il y voir le prolongement des dérives de la IIIè République ? Question fondamentale que G. Noiriel reformule en montrant dans quelle mesure le passé...

While Richard Nixon's culpability for Watergate has long been established—most recently by PBS in 2003—what's truly remarkable that after almost forty years, conventional accounts of the scandal still don't address Nixon’s motive. Why was President Nixon...