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Nous sommes à l'aube du 6 juin 1944. Il est six heures du matin lorsque les forces alliées débarquent sur les plages de Normandie. L'enjeu est de taille : il s'agit de porter un coup fatal au IIIe Reich d'Adolf Hitler et de libérer les territoires occupés. Le jour le plus long vient tout juste de se lever. Ce livre audio vous permettra d'en savoir plus sur : le contexte politique et social de l'époque ; les acteurs majeurs du conflit ; le déroulement du débarquement et sa chronologie ; les raisons de la victoire alliée.

This remarkable account has had an enduring influence on social and economic studies and has remained in print since its first English publication in 1885. It was written, in German, by a youthful Friedrich Engels, the son of a German industrialist, who was already concerned - even angered - by...

The discovery of DNA’s structure is the story of five towering minds in pursuit of the advancement of science, and for almost all of them, the prospect of fame and immortality: Watson, Crick, Rosalind Franklin, Maurice Wilkins, and Linus Pauling. Howard Markel skillfully recreates the intense intellectual journey, and fraught personal relationships, that ultimately led to a spectacular breakthrough. But it is Rosalind Franklin - fiercely determined, relentless, and an outsider at Cambridge and the University of London in the 1950s - who becomes a focal point for Markel.

Socialism was man's most ambitious attempt to supplant religion with a doctrine claiming to ground itself in "science". Each failure to create societies of abundance or give birth to "the New Man" inspired more searching for the path to the promised land: revolution, communes, social democracy, communism, fascism, Arab socialism, African socialism. None worked, and some exacted a staggering human toll. Then, after two centuries of wishful thinking and bitter disappointment, socialism imploded in a fin de siecle drama of falling walls and collapsing regimes.

Drawing on previously unpublished eyewitness accounts, prizewinning historian Donald L. Miller has written what critics are calling one of the most powerful accounts of warfare ever published. Here are the horror and heroism of World War II in the words of the men who fought it, the journalists who covered it, and the civilians who were caught in its fury. Miller gives us an up-close, deeply personal view of a war that was more savagely fought - and whose outcome was in greater doubt - than one might imagine. This is the war that Americans on the home front would have read about had they had access to previously censored testimony.

1920年代の熱狂的な繁栄から突如牙を剥いた株価大暴落がいかにして世界的な大不況へと連鎖したのか、現代の経済危機にも通じるドミノ倒しのメカニズムを鮮明に描き出します。先行きが不透明な時代において、通勤や...

A Short History of Japan traces more than two millennia of cultural evolution — from mythic origins and imperial dynasties to industrial rebirth and modern innovation. This concise yet vivid narrative explores how an island nation shaped by isolation, honor, and creativity became a global force of technology, art, and influence.

当高层权力斗争的狂热席卷全国，时代洪流中的普通人如何在长达十年的社会重组与群众运动中艰难求生？这段跨越一九六六至一九七六的历史绝非偶然，而是多重政治矛盾叠加后爆发的系统性震荡。对于渴望在通勤或碎片时...

芳醇なビールが注がれる賑やかなビアホールはいかにして、ドイツ史を揺るがす過激な政治運動とナチズムの温床へと変貌したのか。日常の歓談の場が狂気と分断の舞台へと変わる、知的好奇心を深く刺激する歴史の旅が...

分断された社会が暴力へと転じる恐怖と、民主主義と独裁の激しい衝突を描き出すスペイン内戦の歴史ドラマが、あなたの知的好奇心を強く刺激します。単なる過去の出来事ではなく、現代を生きる私たちが直面する危う...

歴史の陰に埋もれた「忘れられた戦争」の記憶を呼び覚まし、現代の安全保障と国際政治の根幹を鮮やかに解き明かす、凝縮された知的体験。毎日の通勤時間やリラックスタイムに耳を傾けるだけで、緊迫した冷戦時代の...

ひとつのルーツを持つ朝鮮半島がいかにして二つの対極的な世界へと引き裂かれたのか、その地政学的な運命とアジア史の深層を紐解く歴史ノンフィクションです。静かで思索的な世界観は、毎日の通勤時間や夜の落ち着...

The prizewinning historian and bestselling author of D-Day, Stalingrad, and The Battle of Arnhem reconstructs the Battle of the Bulge in this riveting new account On December 16, 1944, Hitler launched his ‘last gamble’ in the snow-covered forests and gorges of the Ardennes in Belgium...

How did "the West" come to be used as a collective self-designation signaling political and cultural commonality? Was the idea handed down from the ancient Greeks, or coined by nineteenth-century imperialists? Neither, writes Georgios Varouxakis in The West, his ambitious and fascinating genealogy of the idea. "The West" was not used by Plato, Cicero, Locke, Mill, or other canonized figures of what we today call the Western tradition. It was not first wielded by empire-builders.

The moments that it took Gavrilo Princip to step forward to the stalled car and shoot dead Franz Ferdinand and his wife were perhaps the most fateful of the modern era. An act of terrorism of staggering efficiency, it fulfilled its every aim: it would liberate Bosnia from Habsburg rule, and it created a powerful new Serbia, but it also brought down four great empires, killed millions of men and destroyed a civilization. What made a seemingly prosperous and complacent Europe so vulnerable to the impact of this assassination?

Weimar Germany brings to life an era of unmatched creativity in the 20th century - one whose influence and inspiration still resonate today. Eric Weitz has written the authoritative history that this fascinating and complex period deserves, and he illuminates the uniquely progressive achievements and even greater promise of the Weimar Republic. Weimar Germany also shows that beneath its glossy veneer lay political turmoil that ultimately led to the demise of the republic and the rise of the radical right.

On a cold February day in 1944, a British intelligence officer knelt in a Northamptonshire field, staring into a crate of onions. Hidden inside: Nazi explosives, bound for British ships, planes and factories. He began to dismantle the bomb, dictating every move into a field telephone. One slip...

古代アンコール王朝の壮麗な栄枯盛衰からクメール・ルージュによる破壊と再生の軌跡まで、複雑なカンボジア史における持続と断絶のコントラストを、日々の通勤や隙間時間で深く学び直せる没入型の歴史ドキュメンタ...

Discover the remarkable history of the Nuremberg Trials...In 1933, the National Socialist German Workers’ Party, triumphant after the July 1932 elections, was the largest political party in Germany. The Nazis quickly banned all other political parties and proceeded to implement the policies which aroused the anti-Semitic sentiment of the German people. When the Allied Powers joined forces to fight the Nazis, they were determined to bring the German leaders to justice in an international court where they would be tried for their war crimes.

Drawing on a huge range of sources - letters, memoirs, conversations - Orlando Figes tells the story of how Russians tried to endure life under Stalin. Those who shaped the political system became, very frequently, its victims. Those who were its victims were frequently quite blameless. The Whisperers recreates the sort of maze in which Russians found themselves, where an unwitting wrong turn could either destroy a family or, perversely, later save it: a society in which everyone spoke in whispers - whether to protect themselves, their families, neighbours or friends - or to inform on them.