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L'espoir guidait leurs pas
Peu de textes ont raconté l'épopée des milliers d'hommes qui se sont portés au secours de la République agressée. Rémi Skoutelsky, s'appuyant sur d'importants fonds d'archives et sur nombre d'entretiens, nous donne ici une somme tragique et émouvante : on y découvre le contingent français dans ses idéaux, ses combats, dans son quotidien. L'auteur, grâce à des témoignages magnifiques, fait revivre, pour nous et pour l'histoire, l'aventure dans ses moindres détails. Il répond ainsi aux questions suivantes : pourquoi s'engage-t-on dans les Brigades internationales ? Quel est le processus de recrutement des volontaires ? Qui sont ces volontaires ? De quelles régions viennent-ils ? Quel est leur métier d'origine ? leur passé militaire ? Quelles sont leurs appartenances politiques ? Quelle est la vie au front ? Quelle est leur situation familiale ? Luttent-ils contre le fascisme, ou défendent-ils, à l'avance, leur patrie menacée ? Reviennent-ils en France, et dans quelles conditions ? Rémi Skoutelsky dessine, au fil des pages, une figure courageuse et méconnue, le brigadiste au corps souffrant, au destin anonyme...
British Volunteers in the Spanish Civil War
During the Spanish Civil War of 1936-1939 almost 2,500 men and women left Britain to fight for the Spanish Republic. This book examines the role, experiences and contribution of the volunteers who fought in the British Battalion of the 15 International Brigadesasking: * Who were these volunteers? * Where did they come from? * Why did they go to Spain? * How much did they actually help the Spanish Republic? In contrast to recent revisionist interpretations, this work stresses the crucial importance of the war experience itself, rather than political ideology, in the understanding of the volunteers' role and experiences within the Spanish war. This book will be of essential interest to historians and those interested in the Spanish Civil War.
Transnational Soldiers
Warfare in the modern era has often been described in terms of national armies fighting national wars. This volume challenges the view by examining transnational aspects of military mobilization from the eighteenth century to the present. Truly global in scope, it offers an alternative way of reading the military history of the last 250 years.
Fighters in the Shadows
Robert Gildea’s penetrating history of France during World War II sweeps aside the French Resistance of a thousand clichés. Gaining a true understanding of the Resistance means recognizing how its image has been carefully curated through a combination of French politics and pride, ever since jubilant crowds celebrated Paris’s liberation in 1944.
France and the Spanish Civil War
In this wide-ranging study of French intellectuals who represented the Spanish Civil War as it was happening and in its immediate aftermath, Martin Hurcombe explores the ways in which these individuals addressed national anxieties and shaped the French political landscape. Bringing together reportage, essays, and fiction by French supporters of Franco's Nationalists and of the Spanish Republic, Hurcombe shows the multifaceted ways in which that conflict impacted upon French political culture. He argues that French cultural representations of the war often articulated a utopian image of the Nationalists or of the Spanish Republic that served as models behind which the radical right or the radical left in France might mobilise. His book will be of interest not only to scholars of French literature and culture but also to those interested in how events unfolding in Spain found an echo in the political landscapes of other countries.
Reparations for Nazi Victims in Postwar Europe
A history of reparations from a comparative and transnational perspective, tracing back to their origins in the final years of the Second World War.
Facing the Catastrophe
Covering Western and Eastern Europe, this book looks at the Holocaust on the local level. It compares and contrasts the behavior and attitude of neighbors in the face of the Holocaust. Topics covered include deportation programs, relations between Jews and Gentiles, violence against Jews, perceptions of Jewish persecution, and reports of the Holocaust in the Jewish and non-Jewish press.
Dispossession
"This collection of essays by a range of international, multidisciplinary scholars explores the financial history, social significance, and cultural meanings of the theft, starting in 1933, of assets owned by German Jews. Despite the fraught topic and the ongoing legal discussions surrounding it, the subject has not received much scholarly attention until now. As such, the volume offers a much needed contribution to our understanding of the history of the period and the acts. The essays examine the confiscatory taxation of Jewish property, the looting of art and confiscation of gold, the role of German freight forwarders in property theft, salesmen and dispossession in the retail world, theft from the elderly, and the complicity of the banking industry, as well as the reach of the practice beyond German borders"--
The Will to See
An unflinching look at the most urgent humanitarian crises around the globe, from one of the world’s most daring philosopher-reporters “Call[s] on people not just to see the world, but to be moved and interested by what they find there, and to do something about it.”—Anne Applebaum, The Atlantic “Fierce and elegant, Lévy’s musings will be of profound interest to any reader of modern continental philosophy.”—Kirkus Reviews, starred review Over the past fifty years, renowned public intellectual Bernard-Henri Lévy has reported extensively on human rights abuses around the world. This new book follows the intrepid Lévy into eight international hotspots—in Nigeria; Syrian and...
Stalin's Agent
This is the true story behind General Alexander Orlov, the man who never was, now revealed in full for the first time: Stalinist henchman, Soviet spy, celebrated defector to the West, and central character in the greatest KGB deception ever.
