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Richard Overy est professeur à l’université d’Exeter (Grande-Bretagne). Il est l’auteur de nombreux ouvrages sur la Seconde Guerre mondiale, notamment Chroniques du IIIe Reich.
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Rain of Ruin

Richard Overy


Penguin

2025-03-06

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A remarkable account of the terrible climax of the Second World War in Asia, published to coincide with the 80th anniversary of the Hiroshima bombing.'A short but quietly devastating book, in which Overy adds new perspectives to a subject that has...

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Télécharger le livre :  Sous les bombes
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Les chiffres sont ahurissants : au cours de la Seconde Guerre mondiale, 600 000 civils européens trouvèrent la mort lors des bombardements et plus d’un million d’autres furent grièvement blessés. Dans cette sombre comptabilité, la France, où l’on dénombre le plus fort...

Editeur : Flammarion
Parution : 2014-10-01
Collection : Au fil de l'Histoire
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Télécharger le livre :  Why War?
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A richly absorbing book... Overy is unquestionably one of our finest living historians - The Daily TelegraphWhy has warfare always been part of the human story?From biology to belief, what explains the persistence of violent conflict?What light can this shed on...

Editeur : Pelican
Parution : 2024-06-27

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Télécharger le livre :  The Oxford History of World War II
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Histories you can trust. World War Two was the most devastating conflict in recorded human history. It was both global in extent and total in character. It has understandably left a long and dark shadow across the decades. Yet it is three generations since hostilities...

Editeur : OUP Oxford
Parution : 2023-02-07

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Télécharger le livre :  The Oxford History of World War II
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Histories you can trust. World War Two was the most devastating conflict in recorded human history. It was both global in extent and total in character. It has understandably left a long and dark shadow across the decades. Yet it is three generations since hostilities...

Editeur : OUP Oxford
Parution : 2023-02-01

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Télécharger le livre :  Blood and Ruins
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A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERWINNER OF THE DUKE OF WELLINGTON MEDAL FOR MILITARY HISTORYSHORTLISTED FOR THE GILDER LEHRMAN PRIZE FOR MILITARY HISTORY'A masterpiece. It puts all previous single-volume works of the conflict in the shade' Saul David, The TimesA bold new...

Editeur : Penguin
Parution : 2021-08-26

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Télécharger le livre :  The Birth of the RAF, 1918
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A short, brilliant account of the birth of the RAF for the centenary of its foundingThe dizzying pace of technological change in the early 20th century meant that it took only a little over ten years from the first flight by the Wright Brothers to the clash of fighter...

Editeur : Penguin
Parution : 2018-03-01

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Télécharger le livre :  The Oxford Illustrated History of World War Two
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World War Two was the most devastating conflict in recorded human history. It was both global in extent and total in character. It has understandably left a long and dark shadow across the decades. Yet it is three generations since hostilities formally ended in 1945 and...

Editeur : OUP Oxford
Parution : 2015-04-09

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Télécharger le livre :  The Bombing War
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The ultimate history of the Blitz and bombing in the Second World War, from Wolfson Prize-winning historian and author Richard OveryThe use of massive fleets of bombers to kill and terrorize civilians was an aspect of the Second World War which continues to challenge...

Editeur : Penguin
Parution : 2013-09-26

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Télécharger le livre :  The Road to War
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Hailed on publication as a thought-provoking, authoritative analysis of the true beginnings of the Second World War, this revised edition of The Road to War is essential reading for anyone interested in this momentous period of history. Taking each major nation in turn,...

Editeur : Vintage Digital
Parution : 2012-02-29

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Télécharger le livre :  Why The Allies Won
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'Outstanding...Overy has written a masterpiece of analytical history, posing and answering one of the great questions of the century' Niall Ferguson, Sunday TimesThe Allied victory in 1945 – though comprehensive – was far from inevitable. By 1942 almost the entire...

Editeur : Vintage Digital
Parution : 2012-02-29

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Télécharger le livre :  The Third Reich
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Defined by the messianic, iconic figure of Adolf Hitler, the twelve years of the Third Reich were one of the pivotal periods of the modern age. From small beginnings in the 1920s, the Nazi Party rose to a position of absolute power in Germany, bringing with it the...

Editeur : Quercus
Parution : 2011-08-25

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Télécharger le livre :  The Battle of Britain
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The Battle of Britain tells the extraordinary story of one of the pivotal events of the Second World War - the struggle between British and German air forces in the late summer and autumn of 1940. Exposing many of the myths surrounding the conflict, the book provides...

Editeur : Penguin
Parution : 2010-05-06

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Télécharger le livre :  1939
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'A gripping analysis of the final days of peace ... indispensable' M. R. D. Foot, The TimesRichard Overy's 1939: Countdown to War re-creates hour-by-hour the last desperate attempts to salvage peace before the outbreak of World War Two.24 August 1939: The fate of the...

Editeur : Penguin
Parution : 2009-08-27

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Télécharger le livre :  The Morbid Age
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British intellectual life between the wars stood at the heart of modernity. The combination of a liberal, uncensored society and a large educated audience for new ideas made Britain a laboratory for novel ways to understand the world. The Morbid Age opens a window onto...

Editeur : Penguin
Parution : 2009-05-07

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Télécharger le livre :  The Dictators
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Half a century after their deaths, the dictatorships of Stalin and Hitler still cast a long and terrible shadow over the modern world. They were the most destructive and lethal regimes in history, murdering millions. They fought the largest and costliest war in all...

Editeur : Penguin
Parution : 2005-04-28

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Télécharger le livre :  The Battle of Britain
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'No individual British victory after Trafalgar was more decisive in challenging the course of a major war than was the Battle of Britain ... In his carefully argued, clearly explained and impressively documented book ... Richard Overy is at pains to dispose of the myths...

Editeur : Penguin
Parution : 2004-10-28

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Télécharger le livre :  Russia's War
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RUSSIA'S WAR is the epic account of the greatest military encounter in human history. In a vivid, often shocking narrative, Richard Overy describes the astounding events of 1941-45 in which the Soviet Union, after initial catastrophes, destroyed Hitler's Third Reich and...

Editeur : Penguin
Parution : 1999-07-29

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