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La Grande guerre et ses suites , vues de l'intérieur, comme on ne les avait jamais montrées. En 1914, le polytechnicien Edmond Buat est lieutenant-colonel. Il est chef d'état-major général des armée……続きを見る

It was the inscription that made the antique scalpels so tantalising: ‘Isabella Stenhouse’. A woman doctor? A woman doctor who was rumoured to have served in the First World War? Could Isabella have……続きを見る

A l'occasion du centenaire de la bataille de Verdun (février à décembre 1916), Michel Bernard raconte par les mots et l'image, et à travers les visages des soldats, ce moment unique dans l'histoire ……続きを見る

In the early summer of 1914, the headmaster of Brighton College, Canon W. R. Dawson, spoke to the school in chapel. He called on every boy present to stand ready to sacrifice his life in defence of ……続きを見る

A controversial and important work of revisionist history that rebuts the accepted version of the role of the Versailles Peace Treaty in the rise of Nazism and the unleashing of World War II. The Ve……続きを見る

**20th Century War and Misery. The suicide of Hitler’s niece, the assassinations of Malcolm X and Franz Ferdinand, the Battle of the Somme and Stalingrad, and the betrayal of Anne Frank – these are ……続きを見る

La Grande guerre comme on l’a appelée, fut l’immense boucherie que l’on sait, véritable suicide de l’Europe dont l’Europe se souvient et qu’elle marque par de nombreuses commémorations encore un siè……続きを見る

This is the story of over 260 young lads from the Knutsford, Cheshire area who never returned from the Great War. The story of each man has been researched including the use of regimental war diarie……続きを見る

On 18 April 1947, British forces set off the largest non-nuclear explosion in history. The target was a small island in the North Sea, fifty miles off the German coast, which for generations had sto……続きを見る

Louis-Édouard Pollet, dit Michel Corday, né à Paris le 12 septembre 1869 et mort le 12 janvier 1937 à Serbonnes (Yonne), est un romancier français. Le journal de la Huronne comprend 2 tomes : Tome I……続きを見る

Louis-Édouard Pollet, dit Michel Corday, né à Paris le 12 septembre 1869 et mort le 12 janvier 1937 à Serbonnes (Yonne), est un romancier français. Le journal de la Huronne comprend 2 tomes : Tome I……続きを見る

Louis-Édouard Pollet, dit Michel Corday, né à Paris le 12 septembre 1869 et mort le 12 janvier 1937 à Serbonnes (Yonne), est un romancier français. Le journal de la Huronne comprend 2 tomes : Tome I……続きを見る

Presenting the desperate conflict of the First World War through the eyes of an ordinary German soldier, Ernst Jünger's Storm of Steel is translated by Michael Hofmann in Penguin Modern Classics. 'A……続きを見る

Pembroke. August 4, 1914. On a verandah in town four young people anxiously await news that will change irrevocably the course of their lives. A fifth arrives, out of breath, with the latest bulleti……続きを見る

This beautifully illustrated book provides details of every power that took part in Military aircraft activity during the First World War. The war was a global conflict with 57 nations involved but ……続きを見る

Designed as the benchmark against which competitors in the 1912 Military Aeroplane Competition were judged, the B.E.2 outperformed them all and was put into production becoming the most numerous sin……続きを見る

The Sopwith Camel may be the most celebrated British fighter plane of the First World War, but it was the Royal Aircraft Factory S.E.5a that almost all the highest scoring aces, including McCudden a……続きを見る

Hitler's U-boats and his dreaded pocket battleships such as Bismarck and Tirpitz - Churchill dubbed the latter as 'The Beast' - continue to fascinate an ever-growing interest in the Second World War……続きを見る

I am one of the million or more male residents of the United Kingdom, who a year ago had no special yearning towards military life, but who joined the army after war was declared. At Chelsea I found……続きを見る

Description : C’est le Journal que tenait une femme, Mme Ciboure, durant les deux premières années de la Guerre de 1914/1918. Son caractère et sa situation assez particuliers sont exposés dès ses pr……続きを見る

The work of six great scientists and its impact on the war is described for general readers in this book. Lawrence Bragg pinpointed the position of enemy artillery pieces with sound ranging, which e……続きを見る

Description : suite du Tome I "Les Hauts Fourneaux" et des évènements de la Grande Guerre de 1914/1918, la narration se poursuit jusqu'à la fin de l'année 1918. Extrait : "Je n’ose pas y croire. Je ……続きを見る

Cet ebook comprend les Tomes I et II, "Les Hauts Fourneaux" et "La Houille rouge", dans leur intégralité. Description : La guerre de 1914/1918 fût un des évènements les plus marquants du XXème siècl……続きを見る

The fuse to the First World War was lit in the Balkans where simmering hatreds exploded into violence. Like a string of firecrackers, these hatreds had been fuelled by attacks on the Turkish Ottoman……続きを見る

The North Eastern Railway underwent extreme change after the outbreak of war in August 1914. Within months, the company raised its own battalion of men and was the only railway company to do so. The……続きを見る

When war erupted in Europe in 1914, American journalists hurried across the Atlantic ready to cover it the same way they had covered so many other wars. However, very little about this war was like ……続きを見る

Winner of the 1921 Pulitzer Prize in History. Wartime commander, tactical innovator, military educator, iconoclastic troublemaker, Pulitzer Prize winner-those categories have only come together in a……続きを見る

L'histoire inédite du front le plus meurtrier et oublié de la Grande Guerre. L'histoire inédite du front le plus meurtrier, mais oublié, de la Grande Guerre. Si l'on connaît tout ou presque du confl……続きを見る

Winner: Norman B. Tomlinson Prize Winner: Richard W. Leopold Prize Winner: Army Historical Foundation Distinguished Writing Award Choice Outstanding Academic Title The Great War caught a generation ……続きを見る

This is an innovative account of how the concept of comradeship shaped the actions, emotions and ideas of ordinary German soldiers across the two world wars and during the Holocaust. Using individua……続きを見る