Découvrez enfin tout ce qu'il faut savoir sur la bataille de Stalingrad en moins d'une heure ! Le 23 août 1942, l'armée allemande convaincue de sa supériorité entre à Stalingrad, ne se doutant pas une seconde de ce qui l'attend. Face à la résistance de l'Armée rouge, la confiance se dissipe peu à peu. La population n'est pas prête à abandonner la ville. Hommes, femmes et adolescents se battent contre les Allemands et des combats de rue...

"Winner of the Best Book Award, Experimental Research Section of the American Political Science Association" Donghyun Danny Choi is assistant professor of political science at Brown University. Mathias Poertner is assistant professor of political science at the London School of Economics and Political Science. Nicholas Sambanis is Presidential Distinguished Professor of Political Science and director of the Identity & Conflict Lab at the University...

Operation Chastise, the overnight destruction of the Möhne and Eder dams in north-west Germany by the RAF's 617 Squadron, was an epic that has passed into Britain's national legend. Max Hastings grew up embracing the story, the classic 1955 movie and the memory of Guy Gibson, the 24-year-old wing-commander who won the VC leading the raid. In the 21st Century, however, Hastings urges that we should review the Dambusters in much more complex shades....

Este libro es una guía práctica y accesible para saber más sobre la batalla de Stalingrado, que le aportará la información esencial y le permitirá ganar tiempo. En tan solo 50 minutos, usted podrá: • Descubrir el contexto político y social en el que se enmarca la batalla de Stalingrado, en plena Operación Azul de los alemanes, dispuestos a doblegar a los soviéticos • Profundizar en las biografías y actuaciones de los dos personajes...

Mass Violence in Nazi-Occupied Europe argues for a more comprehensive understanding of what constitutes Nazi violence and who was affected by this violence. The works gathered consider sexual violence, food depravation, and forced labor as aspects of Nazi aggression. Contributors focus in particular on the Holocaust, the persecution of the Sinti and Roma, the eradication of "useless eaters" (psychiatric patients and Soviet prisoners of war), and...

A rare day-to-day account by a young German squadron leader in Jagdstaffel 35 during the grim last year of World War I. Originally published in 1933, Wings of War provides minute descriptions of kills, losses, and the Germans' step-by-step retreat in the face of increasingly overwhelming Allied forces in the air. Brutally honest and vividly written, Rudolf Stark's account of the end-game of the Imperial German Army Air Service provides an intimate,...

Siegfried Kracauer (1889–1966) was a film critic and independent sociologist and theorist. He is the author of The Mass Ornament and Theory of Film (Princeton). Leonardo Quaresima is professor of film history and criticism and director of cinema studies at the University of Udine. An essential work of the cinematic history of the Weimar Republic by a leading figure of film criticism First published in 1947, From Caligari to Hitler remains an...

When her father is needed for the war effort, Gerda and her rural German family "borrow" three French prisoners of war to help around their farm, a strange relationship that leads to friendship, in a book based on a true story.

"The stories of the children whose families were torn apart as a result of a failed attempt to assassinate Hitler in 1944"-- Provided by publisher.

"Winner of the Spiro Kostof Book Award, Society of Architectural Historians" "Shortlisted for the Wallace K. Ferguson Prize, Canadian Historical Association" "Azure Magazine's Gift Guide: Seven Books for Distanced Design Lovers" Despina Stratigakos is a vice provost and professor of architecture at the University at Buffalo, State University of New York. She is the author of Hitler at Home and Where Are the Women Architects? (Princeton), and has written...