• Introduction
• The roots of Catholic "revolution": Thomism, the 'human person,' and Emmanuel Mounier
• Personalism at war : clandestine intellectual life and anti-Nazi resistance in World War II
• Catholicism in a newly Communist world : between Christian democracy and Catholic socialism
• The twilight of social Catholicism? Emmanual Mounier and Poland's Catholic press, 1945-1948
• World peace on nationalist terms : progressive Catholicism and the Stalinist turn of 1948
• Pastors and catechumens : Catholic renewal at the margins of Marxist revolution
• Stalinist Catholics of Europe, unite! The Stockholm Appeal and the Polish project of a Catholic-Socialist International, 1949-1953
• The limits of Catholic "revolution": the Vatican and Stalinism's turn against the church, 1953-1956.

In Poland in the 1940s and '50s, a new kind of Catholic intended to remake European social and political life-not with guns, but French philosophy This collective intellectual biography examines generations of deeply religious thinkers whose faith drove them into public life, including Karol Wojtyla, future Pope John Paul II, and Tadeusz Mazowiecki, the future prime minister who would dismantle Poland's Communist regime. Seeking to change the way we understand the Catholic Church, World War II, the Cold War, and communism, this study centers on the idea of "revolution." It examines two crucial countries, France and Poland, while challenging conventional wisdom among historians and introducing innovations in periodization, geography, and methodology. Why has much of Eastern Europe gone back down the road of exclusionary nationalism and religious prejudice since the end of the Cold War? Piotr H. Kosicki helps to understand the crises of contemporary Europe by examining the intellectual world of Roman Catholicism in Poland and France between the Church's declaration of war on socialism in 1891 and the demise of Stalinism in 1956.
(source: Nielsen Book Data)

Gewone helden' vertelt de boeiende verhalen van mannen en vrouwen in Nederland, België, Frankrijk en Zwitserland die hun leven riskeerden om duizenden mensen te helpen vluchten voor de nazi's. Over de oorlog en het verzet is veel geschreven, vaak over bekende verzetshelden en overlevenden van de Holocaust. Minder aandacht was er voor de vele anonieme mensen die op allerlei manieren vluchtelingen hielpen of in veiligheid brachten. Zo waren zo'n 340 mannen en vrouwen betrokken bij de ontsnappingslijn van het netwerk Dutch-Paris, opgezet door Jean Henri Weidner. Langs deze zorgvuldig geconstrueerde vluchtroute via België en Frankrijk naar Zwitserland en Spanje ontsnapten tussen 1942 en 1945 ruim 3000 mensen aan de nazi's. Mede dankzij het persoonlijke archief van Weidner zijn de verhalen van de vluchters en verzetsplegers van Dutch-Paris boven tafel gekomen. Dit boek geeft gewone helden een naam en een gezicht.

• The early years
• Leaving home
• World War I begins
• Training in the French Foreign Legion
• At the front
• The Battle of Artois
• Kiffin's recovery and new hope
• Pilot training
• The creation of the Lafayette Escadrille
• Verdun
• The Lafayette Escadrille comes of age
• Passing the torch
• The climax of the Lafayette Escadrille
• The transition to the U.S. Air Service
• The dawn of American air power
• The legacy of the Lafayette Escadrille
• Final thoughts.

"With the outbreak of World War I in August 1914, Kiffin Yates Rockwell of Asheville, North Carolina, volunteered to fight for France. Initially serving with the French Foreign Legion, he soon became a founding member of the Lafayette Escadrille. This book covers Rockwell's early life and military service with the Lafayette Escadrille"-- Provided by publisher.

"Le 6 octobre 1978, un ayatollah iranien encore peu connu dans son pays et presque totalement inconnu à l'étranger débarque à Paris. On l'installe à Neuphle-le-Château où tout avait été préparé pour son accueil. Le 1er février 1979, ce même personnage doté, d'une stature internationale, baptisé "imam", arrive à Téhéran et instaure un régime totalitaire particulièrement féroce qui perdure encore. Pendant ces cent douze jours, on lui fabrique une fausse biographie, on en fait un grand philosophe, un théologien, on l'appelle "une sorte de saint social-démocrate", on le transforme en leader charismatique. Il devient l'idole de l'intelligentsia de gauche. Qui était-il vraiment, quels étaient son origine, son parcours, qui avait financé cette gigantesque "opération Neauphle-le-Château", qui le soutenait ? Ce livre apporte des réponses précises, rigoureuses et documentées à ces questions et à bien d'autres qu'on est en droit de se poser. C'est également le récit de la fabrication de la promotion de l'islamisme radical qui menace aujourd'hui le monde civilisé et surtout les pays musulmans. Le récit de cette vaste supercherie, véritable mensonge planétaire, est mené avec la rigueur d'un ouvrage universitaire, mais se lit comme un roman, un roman de l'histoire"--P. [4] of cover.

On 6 June 1944, Allied forces stormed the beaches at Normandy. Alongside Operation Overlord - the invasion itself - the Allied command devised an elaborate two-part plan called Operation Fortitude. This plan aimed to draw enemy forces away from Normandy by inducing the Germans to believe that the main invasion of France would occur in the Pas de Calais.Historians analysing the Normandy invasion frequently heap praise on Fortitude, using phrases such as "unquestionably the greatest deception in military history." Many of these historians assume that the deception plan played a crucial role in the June 1944 assault. This book re-examines the sources, and suggests that other factors contributed as much, if not more, to the Allied victory in Normandy and, that Allied forces could have succeeded without the elaborate deception of Operation Fortitude. Moreover, the persistent tendency to exaggerate the operational effect of Fortitude on the German military performance at Normandy continues to draw attention away from other, technical-military reasons for the German failures there.
(source: Nielsen Book Data)