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A gripping first-hand account of the devastating "last chapter" of the Holocaust, written by a privileged eyewitness, the secretary of the Hungarian Judenrat, and a member of Budapest's Jewish elite, How It Happened is a unique testament to the senseless brutality that, in a matter of months, decimated what was Europe’s largest and last-surviving Jewish community. Writing immediately after the war and examining only those critical months of 1944 when Hitler's Germany occupied its ally Hungary, Erno Munkácsi describes the Judenrat's desperation and fear as it attempted to prevent the looming catastrophe, agonized over decisions not made, and struggled to grasp the immensity of a tragedy that would take the lives of 427,000 Hungarian Jews in the very last year of the Second World War. This long-overdue translation makes available Munkácsi's profound and unparalleled insight into the Holocaust in Hungary, revealing the "choiceless choices" that confronted members of the Judenrat forced to execute the Nazis' orders. With an in-depth introduction, a brief biography of Erno Munkácsi, ample annotations by László Csosz and Ferenc Laczó, two dozen archival photographs, and detailed maps, How It Happened is an essential resource for historians and students of the Holocaust, the Second World War, and Central Europe.
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Ce livre a été imaginé à partir d’une exposition réalisée par Le Centre de la Presse dans le cadre du centenaire de la Grande Guerre. Trois objectifs ont guidé son auteur : premier objectif mettre en lumière la diversité, la richesse et le poids de la presse française entre 1914 et 1919 ; plus de soixante-dix revues et journaux, nationaux et régionaux, illustres ou inconnus, sont présentés dans ce livre. L’origine de chaque périodique est évoquée afin de lui donner du sens et de bien le situer dans l’histoire générale de la presse. Second objectif : expliquer comment cette presse a couvert les principaux événements qui se sont déroulés durant ce conflit, avec au-dessus d’elle une censure d’état puissante et omniprésente. Enfin troisième objectif : faire de ce livre un ouvrage grand public, une grande porte ouverte sur l’Histoire de la Presse, accessible à tous.
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Het reisverslag en de gebeurtenissen van de Britse Compagnie 143 op hun duizenden mijlen in dienst van R.A.S.C. Tank Transporten (1941-1945).
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World War, 1939-1945 --- Anniversaries, etc --- World War (1939-1945)
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A Polish writer's experience of wartime France, a cosmopolitan outsider's perspective on politics, culture, and life under duress When the aspiring young writer Andrzej Bobkowski, a self-styled cosmopolitan Pole, found himself caught in occupied France in 1940, he recorded his reflections on culture, politics, history, and everyday life. Published after the war, his notebooks offer an outsider's perspective on the hardships and ironies of the Occupation. In the face of war, Bobkowski celebrates the value of freedom and human life through the evocation--in a daringly untragic mode--of ordinary existence, the taste of simple food, the beauty of the French countryside. Resisting intellectual abstractions, his notes exude a young man's pleasure in physical movement--miles clocked on country roads and Parisian streets on his trusty bike--and they reveal the emergence of an original literary voice. Bobkowski was recognized in his homeland as a master of modern Polish prose only after Communism ended. He remains to be discovered in the English-speaking world.--
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