Libros

Quel cycliste parcourant les marais salants des environs de Loix ou quel estivant nageant à la pointe des Sablanceaux se doute que ces lieux paisibles ont été les témoins d'affrontements sanglants lors d'une tentative de conquête de l'île de Ré en 1627. Cette année-là, au lendemain des guerres de (...)

In this groundbreaking book, Selina O'Grady examines how and why the post-Christian and the Islamic worlds came to be as tolerant or intolerant as they are. She asks whether tolerance can be expected to heal today's festering wound between these two worlds, or whether something deeper than (...)

Au début de l'été 57 précédent la naissance du Christ, c'est-à-dire dans la deuxième partie de mai, cinq ans avant Alésia, César a virtuellement gagné ici la guerre des Gaules. Le génie de cet homme, la supériorité non contestable d'une race appelée à dominer l'univers connu, auraient tôt ou tard, (...)

Intended as a progressive development of the twin-engined Bf 110 Zerstoerer ('destroyer' or heavy fighter), the Me 210 first took to the air in September 1939. However, due to a lack of sufficient flight-testing before being declared service-ready, the Me 210 suffered from a less than satisfactory (...)

Though the French and British colonies in North America began on a 'level playing field', French political conservatism and limited investment allowed the British colonies to forge ahead, pushing into territories that the French had explored deeply but failed to exploit. The subsequent survival of (...)

The romantic and enigmatic character of this picture has inspired many theories about its subject, meaning, history, and even its attribution to Rembrandt. Several portrait identifications have been proposed, including an ancestor of the Polish Oginski family, which owned the painting in the (...)