Le 16 mars 1244, Monts?gur, dernier sanctuaire du catharisme, tombait apr?s un si?ge de dix mois. Dans une Occitanie annex?e ? la couronne, il n'y eut plus de tentative de r?volte religieuse ni nationale.
It was a time of crisis, a time of tragedy--and a time of transcendent courage and determination. Leon Uris's blazing novel is set in the midst of the ghetto uprising that defied Nazi tyranny, as the Jews of Warsaw boldly met Wehrmacht tanks with homemade weapons and bare fists. Here, painted on a canvas as broad as its subject matter, is the compelling of one of the most heroic struggles of modern times.Review"Not only authentic as history . . . . It is convincing as fiction . . . . The story of a sacrifice that had real meaning and will forever be remembered . . . . A fine and important novel." --
The implosion of the Soviet Union was the culmination of a gripping game played out between two men who intensely disliked each other and had different concepts for the future. Mikhail Gorbachev, a sophisticated and urbane reformer, sought to modernize and preserve the USSR; Boris Yeltsin, a coarse and a hard drinking “bulldozer,” wished to destroy the union and create a capitalist Russia. The defeat of the August 1991 coup attempt, carried out by hardline communists, shook Gorbachev’s authority and was a triumph for Yeltsin. But it took four months of intrigue and double-dealing before the Soviet Union collapsed ...
Ce roman commence au printemps 1779, lorsqu'un enfant de dix ans ? l'accent ?tranger, maigre et mal peign?, entre ? l'?cole militaire de Brienne. Quinze ans plus tard, cet enfant entre dans la l?gende. Bonaparte est nomm? g?n?ral en chef des arm?es d'Italie par le Directoire. La suite, c'est Vend?miaire, Lodi, Arcole, la campagne d'Egypte. Cet homme de g?nie, despotique et visionnaire, s'appr?te ? conqu?rir la France, l'Europe et le monde. Son destin imp?rial est trac?. Jamais plus il ne cessera d'inviter au r?ve et de susciter la passion.
Il est Napol?on le Grand: apr?s Austerlitz, qui peut arr?ter l'empereur des Fran?ais? Il bouscule les rois, ? I?na, ? Friedland, ? Wagram. Il conquiert les femmes: Marie Walewska, la Polonaise, et Marie-Louise, l'Autrichienne, la petite-ni?ce de Marie-Antoinette! Son fils, le roi de Rome, descend donc de l'empereur d'Autriche. Quel parcours!Napol?on, que nous suivons pas ? pas, s'humanise. Amant imp?rieux de Marie Walewska et mari attentionn? de Marie-Louise, il voudrait retenir l'Histoire, ne pas avoir ? engager le fer contre le Tsar. Mais il est emport?: "Et ainsi la guerre aura lieu malgr? moi, malgr? lui", confie-t-il.Max Gallo nous fait partager, ? chaque instant de chaque jour, les bonheurs et les ardeurs du p?re, du mari, de l'amant, la volont? et l'esprit de d?cision de cet empereur des rois, lanc? dans le ciel de l'Histoire comme un m?t?ore. "Ce texte fait r?f?rence ? une ?dition ?puis?e ou non disponible de ce titre".
En 1812, il entre en Russie ? la t?te de cinq cent mille hommes. Un oc?an de feu d?truit Moscou. Un chaos de glace et de neige engloutit la Grande Arm?e. Pour la premi?re fois, l'Aigle baisse la t?te. D?s lors, l'Europe conquise se r?veille et se venge. Les puissants le trahissent, sa vieille garde pleure ? Fontainebleau. Le retour de l'?le d'Elbe annonce-t-il un nouveau chant du d?part? Le dernier acte est proche. Le soleil d'Austerlitz ne se l?vera pas sur la plaine boueuse de Waterloo. Encha?n? par les Anglais sur son rocher de Sainte H?l?ne, l'Empereur peut encore vaincre le temps et l'oubli et forger sa m?moire immortelle.
Former Marine and Pacific War veteran Robert Leckie tells the story of the invasion of Okinawa, the closing battle of World War II. Leckie is a skilled military historian, mixing battle strategy and analysis with portraits of the men who fought on both sides to give the reader a complete account of the invasion. Lasting 83 days and surpassing D-Day in both troops and material used, the Battle of Okinawa was a decisive victory for the Allies, and a huge blow to Japan. In this stirring and readable account, Leckie provides a complete picture of the battle and its context in the larger war.From Publishers WeeklyFrom Library Journal
Tony Judt’s makes one lament the overuse of the word “groundbreaking.” It is an unprecedented accomplishment: the first truly European history of contemporary Europe, from Lisbon to Leningrad, based on research in six languages, covering thirty-four countries across sixty years in a single integrated narrative, using a great deal of material from newly available sources. Tony Judt has drawn on forty years of reading and writing about modern Europe to create a fully rounded, deep account of the continent's recent past. The book integrates international relations, domestic politics, ideas, social change, economic development, and culture—high and low—...
The myth that the Nazi-era German armed forces, the Wehrmacht, was not involved in war crimes persisted for decades after the war. Now two German researchers have destroyed it once and for all. Newly published conversations between German prisoners of war, secretly recorded by the Allies, reveal horrifying details of violence against civilians, rape and genocide.
An estimated 70 million people may have died in Soviet gulags. Such raises many questions: Where is the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising of the Stalinist reign of terror? Where are the six hundred prisoners armed with stolen guns and grenades attacking the Nazi guards, literally blowing up the death houses at Treblinka, and fleeing into the nearby Polish forests? Where are the suicide missions? How could the Russian people have gone to their incarceration, torture, and slaughter like lambs? Was fear of government retaliation so pervasive in the Soviet mind that it negated any and all forms of resisting, dissenting, and ...
Первого издания к сожалению не нашел, поэтому отсканировал издание второе 1953 года с дополнительной главой, рассматривающей процесс Берии.Лучший анализ развития идеологии коммунизма и Советского Союза от Ленина до Сталина, который мне попадался. Особая его ценность в том, что выполнен современником — книга была начата еще при жизни Сталина, а закончена уже после его непредвиденной смерти и смещения Берии. Некоторые положения наивны, большинство прогнозов — как мы теперь знаем — не подтвердились, но тем не менее Deutscher провел на редкость здравое иследование причин возникновения культа личности и его соответствия тогдашним реалиям. Честно говоря, я бы с удовольствием заменил многие главы школьного учебника этой книгой. Например только здесь нашлась более или менее полная информация о Маленкове, период правления которого у нас традиционно пробегают в двух словах.Изложение логичное и последовательное, без попыток превдонаучной абракадабры. Язык вполне соответствует, хотя стилистика оставляет желать лучшего — временами слишком много повторений, можно выделить даже особенно «любимые» автором слова.Ах да, ну и самое главное :) Эта книга и есть первоисточник той самой знаменитой цитаты про Сталина, соху и атомные ракеты. Если остались еще Фомы меднолобые, отныне можно посылать их прямиком на Либрусек.
SKARBAJ?S SENDIEN?S Vilis ZemgarsVilis Zemgars, ?staj? v?rd? Vilis Derums, ir t?lu aiz republikas robe??m paz?stams medic?nas zin?t?u doktors, paleopatologs, Latvijas PSR Eksperiment?l?s un kl?nisk?s medic?nas zin?tnisk?s p?tniec?bas instit?ta vec?kais zin?tniskais l?dzstr?dnieks. Par ilggad?gu un nevainojamu darbu tautas vesel?bas aizsardz?b? un par akt?vu sabiedrisko darbu sa??mis vair?kus vald?bas apbalvojumus.Rom?ns par aizv?sturiskiem laikiem tagad?j? Baltijas teritorij?
The early years of Bolshevik rule were marked by dynamic interaction between Russia and the West. These years of civil war in Russia were years when the West strove to understand the new communist regime while also seeking to undermine it. Meanwhile, the Bolsheviks tried to spread their revolution across Europe at the same time they were seeking trade agreements that might revive their collapsing economy. This book tells the story of these complex interactions in detail, revealing that revolutionary Russia was shaped not only by Lenin and Trotsky, but by an extraordinary miscellany of people: spies and ...
Submarine warfare of to-day: how the submarine menace was met and vanquished, with descriptions of the inventions and devices used, fast boats, mystery ships, nets, aircraft, &c., &c., also describing the selection and training of the enormous personnel used in this new branch of the navy.This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at .
After World War II, the former allies were saddled with a devastated world economy and traumatized populace. Soviet influence spread insidiously from nation to nation, and the Atlantic powers—the Americans, the British, and a small band of allies—were caught flat-footed by the coups, collapsing armies, and civil wars that sprung from all sides. The Cold War had begun in earnest.In , prize-winning historian Norman Stone assesses the years between World War II and the collapse of the Iron Curtain. He vividly demonstrates that for every Atlantic success there seemed to be a dozen Communist or Third World triumphs. Then, suddenly and against all odds, the Atlantic won—economically, ideologically, and militarily—with astonishing speed and finality.An elegant and path-breaking history, is a monument to the immense suffering and conflict of the twentieth century, and an illuminating exploration of how the Atlantic triumphed over its enemies at last.
This highly controversial book reveals, for the first time, one of the greatest military, political and financial secrets of recent times. It is nothing less than the true, if fantastic, account of how Pakistan and the USA covertly controlled the largest guerrilla war of this century, dealing to the Soviet Russian presence in Afghanistan a military defeat that has come to be called ‘Russia’s Vietnam’. From 1983 to 1987 Brigadier Mohammad Yousaf was the head of the Afghan Bureau of Pakistan’s Inter-Service Intelligence (ISI – akin to the CIA), and as such was effectively the Mujahideen’s commander-in-chief; he is, ...
A BLACK SWAN is a highly improbable event with three principal characteristics: It is unpredictable; it carries a massive impact; and, after the fact, we concoct an explanation that makes it appear less random, and more predictable, than it was. The astonishing success of Google was a black swan; so was 9/11. For Nassim Nicholas Taleb, black swans underlie almost everything about our world, from the rise of religions to events in our own personal lives.Why do we not acknowledge the phenomenon of black swans until after they occur? Part of the answer, according to Taleb, is that ...
