Le 23 juin 1939, le ministre des Affaires étrangères allemand, Joachim Von Ribbentrop, mène une délégation diplomatique jusqu'à Moscou. Il y signe un accord avec son homologue soviétique. Il s'agit du fameux pacte Ribbentrop-Molotov baptisé aussi pacte Germano-soviétique qui donne le coup d'envoi à...

Hitler's would-be assassins ranged from simple craftsmen to high-ranking soldiers, from the apolitical to the ideologically obsessed, and from enemy agents to his closest associates. This title presents their story - of their plans, their motives and their failures. It also offers a different perspe...

The Nazi-Soviet Pact stunned the world when it was announced, the Second World War was launched under its auspices with the invasion and division of Poland, and its eventual collapse led to the war's defining and deciding clash. This book tells the full story of the pact between Hitler and Stalin. ...

Berlin was the nerve-centre of Hitler's Germany - the backdrop for the most lavish ceremonies, it was also the venue for Albert Speer's plans to forge a new 'world metropolis' and the scene of the final climactic bid to defeat Nazism. Yet while our understanding of the Holocaust is well developed, w...

Most people have heard of the Stauffenberg Plot but it is not widely known that this was only one of a long series of attempts on the life of Adolf Hitler. The Germans, Soviets, Poles and British all made plans to kill the Fuhrer. Lone gunmen, disaffected German officers and the Polish Underground, ...

For nearly two years the two most infamous dictators in history actively collaborated with one another. The Nazi-Soviet Pact stunned the world when it was announced, the Second World War was launched under its auspices with the invasion and division of Poland, and its eventual collapse led to the wa...

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" Ce livre ambitieux et exigeant balaye non seulement l'ensemble de l'histoire allemande et polonaise, mais réussit à saisir celles de l'Europe centrale et de l'Est, en les rassemblant. Breslau apparaît comme le théâtre d'une lutte perpétuelle entre Allemands et Polonais, Habsbourg et Hohenzollern, ...

The story of Central Europe is anything but simple. As the region located between East and West, it has always been endowed with a rich variety of migrants, and has repeatedly been the scene of nomadic invasions, mixed settlements and military conquests. In order to present a portrait of Central Eur...