Author: Isabelle Bournier
Publisher:
ISBN: 9782737374203
Category :
Languages : fr
Pages : 144
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Où débarquer ? Eisenhower était-il l'homme de la situation ? Qu'est-ce que le plan d'intoxication allemand ? Fallait-il débarquer à marée haute ou à marée basse ? toutes ces questions et bien d'autres thèmes comme le gigantesque embouteillage sur les plages, la météo, botte secrète des Alliés, ou la Panzerkontroverse nous sont révélés par cet ouvrage riche et vivant. Le Débarquement de Normandie a été le plus grand débarquement amphibie de l'histoire dont l'enjeu a été de la plus haute importance dans la libération de l'Europe : une opération d'une telle envergure, tenue complètement secrète, porte en elle une foule d'histoires parfois inédites et toujours étonnantes.
Author: Larry Collins
Publisher: Robert Laffont
ISBN: 9782221102770
Category :
Languages : fr
Pages : 321
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Le jour J fut vraiment le jour du miracle. Le sort du Débarquement, et donc la libération de la France, ou la défaite de l'Allemagne nazie, fut vraiment indécis durant ces heures capitales et ces journées d'épreuves. Une défaite alliée en Normandie n'était pas exclue, ni les conséquences terribles qui en auraient découlé. C'est pourquoi il est passionnant de rassembler aujourd'hui les pièces de ce gigantesque puzzle dont la mise en place a finalement abouti au succès de cette opération sans précédent. Dans ce livre, Larry Collins s'est attaché à retrouver, démonter, expliquer heure par heure la trame secrète des événements, les décisions des chefs - leurs erreurs aussi -, du montage du projet au déroulement et au succès final de la plus fantastique partie d'échecs de l'Histoire contemporaine. Un jour du miracle qui fut aussi un jour de deuil et de gloire
Author: Rémy Desquesnes
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Atlantic Wall (France and Belgium)
Languages : fr
Pages : 224
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Author: Robert M. Neer
Publisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 0674075471
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 318
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Napalm, incendiary gel that sticks to skin and burns to the bone, came into the world on Valentine’s Day 1942 at a secret Harvard war research laboratory. On March 9, 1945, it created an inferno that killed over 87,500 people in Tokyo—more than died in the atomic explosions at Hiroshima or Nagasaki. It went on to incinerate sixty-four of Japan’s largest cities. The Bomb got the press, but napalm did the work. After World War II, the incendiary held the line against communism in Greece and Korea—Napalm Day led the 1950 counter-attack from Inchon—and fought elsewhere under many flags. Americans generally applauded, until the Vietnam War. Today, napalm lives on as a pariah: a symbol of American cruelty and the misguided use of power, according to anti-war protesters in the 1960s and popular culture from Apocalypse Now to the punk band Napalm Death and British street artist Banksy. Its use by Serbia in 1994 and by the United States in Iraq in 2003 drew condemnation. United Nations delegates judged deployment against concentrations of civilians a war crime in 1980. After thirty-one years, America joined the global consensus, in 2011. Robert Neer has written the first history of napalm, from its inaugural test on the Harvard College soccer field, to a Marine Corps plan to attack Japan with millions of bats armed with tiny napalm time bombs, to the reflections of Phan Thi Kim Phuc, a girl who knew firsthand about its power and its morality.
Author: Lim Word
Publisher: Litres
ISBN: 5040940610
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 1699
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Sulla était-il avant Spartacus ou vice versa? Nero – avant ou après Caligula? Quelles sont les dynasties des Habsbourg et des Hohenzollern, quel rôle ont-elles joué dans l’établissement du Second Reich? Combien de chars ont combattu près de Prokhorovka? Quand la guerre de Yom Kippour a éclaté et qui l’a gagnée? Pourquoi le grand URSS s’est-il effondré? Souvenons-nous de tout, nous passerons en revue la bande de film du temps, image par image, afin que tout se passe bien aujourd’hui.
Author: Electre
Publisher:
ISBN: 9782765408475
Category :
Languages : fr
Pages : 2148
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Author: Olivier Wieviorka
Publisher: Columbia University Press
ISBN: 0231548648
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 339
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In just three months in 1940, Denmark, Norway, Belgium, the Netherlands, Luxembourg, and France fell to the Nazis. The German occupation of Western Europe had begun—but a brave few rose up in defiance. National resistance has long been celebrated in remembrances of World War II, depicted as making significant contributions to the defeat of Nazi Germany. However, the so-called army of shadows drew heavily on the support of London and Washington, a fact often forgotten in postwar Europe. The Resistance in Western Europe, 1940–1945 is a sweeping analytical history of the underground anti-Nazi forces during World War II. Examining clandestine organizations in Norway, Denmark, the Netherlands, Belgium, France, and Italy, Olivier Wieviorka sheds new light on the factors that shaped the resistance and its place in the grand scheme of Anglo-American military strategy. While national actors played a leading role in fomenting resistance, British and American intelligence services and propaganda as well as financial, material, and logistical support were crucial to its activities and growth. Wieviorka illuminates the policies of governments in exile and resistance actors regarding cooperation with the British and Americans, pointing to the persistence of national self-interest and long-standing historical tensions. Drawing on a wide range of archival sources and bringing together the political, diplomatic, and military dimensions of the conflict, this book is the first account of the resistance on a continental scale and from a trans-European perspective.
Author: Jean Quellien
Publisher: Orep
ISBN: 9782815100328
Category : World War, 1939-1945
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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June 6 1944 is a date forever etched in history. With the landing of Allied troops on the Normandy coast, so began one of the major confrontations of the Second World War. This illustrated history of the region examines the fate of its people and the liberators who would set them free.
Author: Bénédicte Vergez-Chaignon
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 1000911624
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 232
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In November 1942 Anglo-American forces landed in French North Africa, which soon afterwards broke with Marshal Pétain’s Vichy regime in France and re-entered the war on the Allies’ side. On Christmas Eve the high commissioner Admiral François Darlan was assassinated in Algiers. Why? Like the press and public opinion in Britain and America, General Charles de Gaulle’s Free French movement and the resistance in France were appalled that the Allies had allowed Darlan to retain office, even though as prime minister under Pétain he had previously advocated military collaboration with Nazi Germany. Few mourned Darlan’s death, many were relieved, some were jubilant. His killer was Fernand Bonnier de la Chapelle. Who was this twenty year old and what drove him to murder? Bénédicte Vergez-Chaignon paints a sympathetic portrait of the young idealist manipulated by local resistance leaders. As she tells Bonnier’s story, the author illuminates the imbroglio of North Africa’s competing political forces. She traces Bonnier’s short life, the assassination, his court-martial and execution within 48 hours, the subsequent judicial investigations which became bogged down in the complex rivalry between the Allies, the remnants of the Vichy regime, the Resistance and other factions. The story ends with Bonnier’s posthumous rehabilitation and recognition as a member of the French Resistance. Bonnier’s biography reads like an absorbing novel, with its twists and turns, reconstructed dialogue and author’s acute observations. As well as being a tragic human story, It is an illuminating study of the convoluted political context of the affair, which will be unfamiliar to some Anglophone readers. It is an academically rigorous piece of original research, based in part on previously inaccessible family archives Bénédicte Vergez-Chaignon’s story of Darlan’s assassination was received in France as * ‘a shocking book and a historian’s great work’ (Le Patriote Résistant) * ‘a detailed enquiry ... bordering on a detective novel which brings out the conspiratorial atmosphere reigning in Algiers in the wake of the Allied landing of 8 November 1942’ (Le Monde des Livres) * it ‘shows the extent to which the 1940s were years of complete ambiguity’ (Le Figaro Littéraire) * ‘Bénédicte Vergez-Chaignon, a meticulous historian, paints the portrait of a young idealist dying to wash away the stain of defeat’ (Midi Libre).
Author: Laure Humbert
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108831354
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 373
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An original insight into how occupation officials and relief workers controlled and cared for Displaced Persons in the French zone.
