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SECOND WORLD WAR HISTOIRE DE LA RÉSISTANCE EN EUROPE OCCIDENTALE
MYTHES DE LA SECONDE GUERRE MONDIALE
For the first time, an overview of the resistance movements in Western Europe through the actions of the clandestine forces in Norway, Denmark, the Netherlands, Belgium, France and Italy between 1940 and 1945, analyzing their interactions and inserting the history of the “shadow soldiers” in the grand scheme of Anglo-American strategy.
Twenty-one myths about World War II are explained and deconstructed by a group of historians and the editorial team of the magazine Guerres et Histoire.
January 2017
September 2015
Directed by Jean Lopez, the editor-inchief of Guerre et Histoire, and Olivier Wieviorka, a recognized specialist on the Resistance and the Second World War.
By Olivier Wieviorka, a recognized specialist on the Resistance and World War II.
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Italian -- Enaudi Einaudi Italian World English - Columbia University Press
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SECOND WORLD WAR LES CENT DERNIERS JOURS D’HITLER
LA SECONDE GUERRE MONDIALE
Jean Lopez chronicles the last days of Hitler’s life, from his return to Berlin in January 1945 to his suicide in April of the same year. Here are his movements, his proclamations, his acts of government and military command, his daily life and moods, narrated and explained through the testimony and actions of those who stayed with him to the end: Eva Braun, of course, but also Guderian, his driver, his bodyguard, and many more.
Brilliantly merging content and form, mastering the military, diplomatic and economic issues, moving from one front to another with dynamic style, peppering his main text with vivid portraits of key characters, Claude Quétel, eminent French historian and former director of the Caen Memorial, has hit the mark, producing a major work of history.
March 2015
January 2015
By Claude Quétel, historian and former director of the Caen Memorial.
By Jean Lopez, the editor-in-chief of Guerre et Histoire.
13 000 copies sold
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SECOND WORLD WAR LES SECRETS DU IIIe REICH
LES DERNIERS SECRETS DU IIIe REICH
March 2013
November 2015
Through the resolution of fifteen great enigmas, a descent into the heart of the secret history of the Third Reich and its prominent figures by the highly successful French historian, François Kersaudy.
In this most recent volume, through the resolution of six great enigmas, a descent into the heart of the secret history of the Third Reich and its prominent figures by the highly successful French historian, François Kersaudy, co-written with Yannis Kadari.
By François Kersaudy, a renowned historian, who has taught in Oxford and Paris, and a specialist on the Second World War.
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By François Kersaudy, a renowned historian, who has taught in Oxford and Paris, and a specialist on the Second World War, and Yannis Kadari, the Founder of Caraktère, a magazine on military history.
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SECOND WORLD WAR LETTRES DE LA WEHRMACHT
HISTOIRE DE LA RÉSISTANCE
Between 1939 and 1945, Wehrmacht soldiers wrote incessantly to their closest friends and family. In this selection of the most powerful and revealing letters selected among the 16 000 that were donated by German families to the Deutsche Dienststelle archive in Berlin, the reader discovers the Second World War, as seen from the inside.
The first major synthesis of the history of the French Resistance during the Second World War.
September 2014
January 2013
By Olivier Wieviorka, a recognized specialist on the Resistance and World War II.
Edited by Marie Moutier, a respected Germanist and specialist of the Third Reich.
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SECOND WORLD WAR NOUS VOULIONS TUER HITLER*
DANS LE BUNKER DE HITLER*
The last surviving member of the July Plot against Hitler, Operation “Valkyrie”, gives his personal testimony of how he and other young aristocrats in the German military committed themselves to the overthrow of the Nazi regime.
For the first time, Bernd Freytag von Loringhoven, ultimate survivor of the Reich’s last days, gives his eye-witness view of the events of Hitler’s last weeks in the Berlin bunker. On April 29th, 1945, he asked to leave the bunker and managed to cross Russian lines before he was taken prisoner by the British, who would liberate him three years later. Based on interviews with von Loringhoven, François d’Alançon has written a fascinating narrative in the first person.
January 2008
March 2005
By Philipp Freiherr von Boeslager, the last surviving member of the July Plot against Hitler.
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By Bernd Freytag von Loringhoven, and François d’Alançon, an international correspondent for La Croix.
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SECOND WORLD WAR BIOGRAPHIES
SECOND WORLD WAR BIOGRAPHIES
LES HOMMES D’HITLER
L’AMIRAL HORTHY
From «useful idiots» to «victims», historian Jean-Paul Bled presents the portraits of 23 prominent personalities in Nazi Germany, in the tradition of Joachim C. Fest.
Admiral Horthy’s life story (1868-1957) merges with the history of Hungary during the inter-war period. How could a man who had an unremarkable career as a naval officer of the AustroHungarian Empire ultimately leave such an indelible mark on the history of his country and that of Europe?
August 2015
September 2014
By Jean-Paul Bled, Professor Emeritus at the University of Paris IV Sorbonne and author, among other titles, of a notable biography of Bismarck for Perrin.
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By Catherine Horel, a researcher at the CNRS from 1995 to 2006, research director since then at the University of Paris 1. Catherine Horel is a specialist on Central Europe.
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JOUKOV
CANARIS
Among several remarkable officers who led Stalin’s armies to victory during the Second World War, Marshal Zhukov stands out as the man who conquered Hitler. More than a biography, the authors bring the 20th century Soviet Union alive through the amazing story of a man who knew and withstood every Soviet regime during the 8 decades of his life.
There are few men whose career path is more shadowed with ambiguity than that of Admiral Wilhelm Franz Canaris. A new and original biography of one of the most troubling figures of the 3rd Reich, Hitler’s master spy from 1935 to 1944. A controversial work that puts an end to the myth of Canaris the resistant.
November 2013
February 2012
By Eric Kerjean, a specialist on the Third Reich and civil and military intelligence.
By Jean Lopez, the editor-in-chief of Guerre et Histoire, and Lasha Otkhmezuri, a former diplomat, and now an advisor for Guerre et Histoire.
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SECOND WORLD WAR BIOGRAPHIES
DONITZ
STAUFFENBERG – L’HOMME QUI AURAIT DU TUER HITLER
March 2011
January 2009
A critical biography of the commander of the Kriegsmarine, Hitler’s ephemeral successor as head of the Third Reich, by a specialist on the history of naval strategy. From the time he was released from Spandau prison until his death in 1980, he became a kind of a cult figure for many of his compatriots, as much for his military role as for having ended the war, and he craftily played up the role offered him as the great martyr of the fall of the Third Reich.
A portrait of the man at the center of the plot to assassinate Hitler on July 20th, 1944, one of the emblematic figures of the German resistance to Naziism. By Jean Louis Thiériot, an attorney and a historian. Having spent much time in Germanic spheres, working at the French embassy in Vienna and, as a reserve officer with the Bundesmarine, he met – in preparation for this book – the last witnesses of the July plot and their heirs.
By François-Emmanuel Brezet, a former naval officer and specialist on the subject.
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SECOND WORLD WAR BIOGRAPHIES
LUCIE AUBRAC
HERMANN GOERING
In looking at the multiple facets of the most famous female member of the French resistance movement, this biography reveals a personality quite different from that known by legend. She was a controversial heroine, but above all, a fighter.
Based upon a wealth of German, English, American and Swedish documentary sources as well as interviews with witnesses, including Hitler’s aide de camp, this highly original work examines the National Socialist regime in the person of an immense figure.
By Laurent Douzou, a professor of history at the University of Lyon II and the Institut d’études politiques de Lyon (Sciences po Lyon).
By François Kersaudy, a renowned historian, who has taught in Oxford and Paris, and a specialist on the Second World War.
October 2009
12 000 copies sold
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November 2009
22 000 copies sold
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HEYDRICH ET LA SOLUTION FINALE
ERICH VON MANSTEIN February 2006
September 2008
Based upon unpublished archives, the first biography of the man who swept the French army off the map in 1940. This is the story of his life and of the major role he played as a superlative military strategist in the Third Reich’s campaigns in Poland, France, and the Soviet Union.
Rejecting established assumptions that the «final solution» was the fruit of a decision of the Wannsee conference, this work demonstrates how, from the beginning of the Barbarossa campaign in Russia, Reinhardt Heydrich, coordinator and technocrat, organized the systematic and immediate liquidation of Jews on the Eastern Front.
By Benoît Lemay, a professor at the Université de Québec, and a specialist on the 2nd World War.
By Edouard Husson, graduate of the Ecole Normale Supérieure, researcher and historian, is renowned in German and French academic circles.
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SECOND WORLD WAR BIOGRAPHIES
JEAN MOULIN
MIHAILOVIC, A hero betrayed by the Allies
March 2003
1999
The biography of reference for this major figure of the French resistance whose life and death have always been shrouded in mystery. The author treats the challenges faced by the resistance movement and traces the creation of the myth around Jean Moulin.
The passionate story of a Serbian general, the main figure of the anti-fascist resistance, who was shot to death by the Yugoslav communists for opposing Tito, after he was betrayed by Churchill who had considered him a hero of the free world.
By Jean-Pierre AzĂŠma, a French historian specialized in the Second World War and, in particular, the resistance and the Vichy regime.
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By Jean-Christophe Buisson, the Figaro Magazine‘s culture editor.
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SECOND WORLD WAR SPECIAL FOCUS
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TOUT SUR MEIN KAMPF
UN FASCISME ROUMAIN
The heated debate – coinciding with the infamous work’s entry into the public domain – warranted a historian’s investigation. This study covers the genesis and content of the book, as well as its real historical impact and its publishing history, full of twists and turns – and evidently continuing today, as Mein Kampf is still selling (quite well) all around the world.
The study of Rumanian archives, exploited here for the first time by a historian, reveals the little known reality of Europe’s third fascist movement, after that of Nazism and Italian fascism, during the inter-war years. It draws as well a picture of Rumania’s role in the Second World War.
January 2017
By Claude Quétel, historian and former director of the Caen Memorial.
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Romania, Japan and the Arab World
March 2014
By Traian Sandu, a former student of the prestigious Ecole Normale Supérieure of Saint-Cloud, and an accredited research director in history.
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LE MOYEN -ORIENT PENDANT LA SECONDE GUERRE MONDIALE
CE QUE SAVAIENT LES ALLIÉS August 2007
September 2011
A fascinating and little known element of World War II: how the Allies put together a code-breaking system that allowed them to penetrate the encrypted secret plans of Hitler and of the Japanese. Based on research in archives recently made available.
Did the Arab world collaborate with the Axis, or did it support the Allies? Did Nazi ideology strike a chord in Iran, Palestine, Iraq or Egypt? This is a unique global history of the Middle East during the Second World War and a text essential to an understanding of the historical evolution of the entire Middle East and what it is today.
By Christian Destremau, a historian specialized in Islam and the conflicts of the 20th century. His biography of the orientalist Louis Massignon was awarded the Prix de la biographie de l’Académie Française.
By Christian Destremau, a historian specialized in Islam and the conflicts of the 20th century. His biography of the orientalist Louis Massignon was awarded the Prix de la biographie de l’Académie Française.
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LA WAFFEN SS, SOLDATS POLITIQUES EN GUERRE
LA VIE MONDAINE SOUS LE NAZISME
Based upon exceptionally extensive German archives, this book refutes a number of popular assumptions and outlines the major figures of the Waffen SS, from the leaders of the Third Reich to the henchmen and executioners.
Research into unpublished archive sources, private journals and agendas, photographs and diplomatic documents reveals another history of National Socialism, one of pleasures and privileges, a view behind the scenes of Nazi power, from 1919 to 1945.
August 2007
January 2006
By Jean-Luc Leleu, a research engineer at the CNRS, University of Caen/Normandie. This work was awarded the 2006 French Ministry of Defense prize for the best military history.
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By Fabrice d’Almeida, a professor and researcher in contemporary history at the University of Paris II and author of numerous history titles.
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