The air war in Europe

World War II

World War II.

Europe's monastery and convent guesthouses : a pilgrim's travel guide

They went left

Killing Patton : the strange death of World War II's most audacious general

The Monuments Men : Allied heroes, Nazi thieves, and the greatest treasure hunt in history

We will not be silent : the White Rose student resistance movement that defied Adolf Hitler

The night war

The boys who challenged Hitler : Knud Pedersen and the Churchill Club

Lilac girls : a novel

The Monuments Men

Monuments Men.

Monuments Men (Motion picture)

Monuments Men (Motion picture). French.

National Geographic visual history of the world

Visual history of the world

National Geographic

Introduction -- Prehistory : from the beginning to ca. 4000 B.C. -- The Stone Age : the beginning of mankind -- It all began in Africa -- Early hominoids -- Territorial expansion -- Campsites and the use of tools -- Fire and the hunt -- Language and burial of the dead -- Religion and cults -- The art of early man -- The "Neolithic Revolution" -- The Tell cultures -- First empires : ca. 7000 B.C.-200 A.D. -- Introduction -- Migration of peoples -- The early states of Mesopotamia -- Ancient Egypt -- The Hittites -- Kingdoms on the borders of the Fertile Crescent -- Syria and Palestine -- Key ideas : Judaism -- The Medes and the Persian Empire of the Achaemenids -- The nomads of the Eurasian Steppes -- Key ideas : the religions of India, China, and Japan -- India from the beginnings to the invasion of Alexander the Great -- Early China up to the "Warring States" period -- The ancient world : ca. 2500 B.C.-900 A.D. -- Introduction -- Crete and Mycenae -- the beginnings of Greek culture -- Classical Greece from the culture of the Polis to the end of independence -- The rise and fall of a world power : from Macedonia to the Diadochoi -- Judea and Arabia before the Romans -- Carthage : world power and rival of Rome -- The Etruscans : the League to the Roman Empire -- From Constantine to the rise of Byzantium -- Key ideas : Christianity -- Armenia and Asia Minor from the Diadochoi to the Romans -- Persia under the Parthians and the Sassanians -- Celts, Slavs, and Germanic tribes -- The great migration of peoples -- The nomad empires of the Eurasian Steppes -- Ancient India -- China's first emperors of the Qin and Han dynasties -- The first kingdoms in North and Northeast Africa.

The Middle Ages : 5th-15th century -- Introduction -- The Germanic empires -- The kingdom of the Franks -- The Holy roman Empire in the High and Late Middle Ages -- Switzerland -- France in the High and Late Middle Ages -- Burgundy and the Netherlands -- England in the Middle Ages -- Ireland and Scotland in the Middle Ages -- Italy in the Middle Ages -- Spain and Portugal in the MIddle Ages -- Northern Europe -- Eastern Europe -- Russia -- The Byzantine Empire -- Southeast Europe -- The Crusades -- Key ideas : Islam -- The Mongolian Empire and its successors -- India -- China after the Han Dynasty -- Japan -- Southeast Asia -- Sub-Saharan Africa -- The settlement and early high cultures of America -- The early modern period: 16th-18th century -- Introduction -- The German Empire : the Reformation and its consequences -- In focus : the Reformation -- The Thirty Years' War -- The Holy Roman Empire under Enlightened Absolutism -- France : from the wars of religion to the eve of the Revolution -- The rise of England -- The Netherlands : from the struggle for independence to the French Occupation -- The Italy of Popes and princes -- Spain and Portugal -- Eastern Europe and Scandinavia -- Russia's rise as a great power -- The Ottoman Empire, the great power of the East -- North Africa -- Persia under the Safavids and Qajars -- Mogul India and the European trading companies -- China under the Ming and Manchu Emperors -- Japan from the Muromachi Period to the Tokugawa Shogunate -- Southeast Asia -- Africa -- The ancient American empires and the conquest by Spain and Portugal -- North America to the founding of Canada and the United States -- Oceania and Australia to the arrival of the Europeans.

The modern era: 1789-1914 -- Introduction -- The French Revolution -- In focus : the French Revolution -- Napoleonic domination -- The Industrial Revolution begins in Europe -- German states : the reshaping of Austria and Prussia -- Imperial Germany -- Austria-Hungary -- France -- Great Britain -- The Benelux countries -- Italy from the Congress of Vienna to the eve of World War I -- Portugal and Spain -- Scandinavia -- Russia from the Treaty of Tilsit to the abdication of the Last Czar -- The Ottoman Empire -- Egypt -- Persia and Afghanistan -- India -- China to the last of the emperors -- Japan -- Southeast Asia -- African State building and colonization -- The United States : beginnings and rise to world power -- Latin America -- The World Wars and interwar period : 1914-1945 -- Introduction -- The First World War -- Key ideas : ideologies of the 20th century -- The unpopular democracy : the German Reich -- Under the Swastika : Nazi Germany -- Austria : from Habsburg Empire to German "Ostmark" -- Switzerland : island of stability -- France : insecurity and occupation -- Britain between the World Wars -- Ireland : division and independence -- Belgium and the Netherlands : objects of German power politics -- Italy under Fascism -- Spain and Portugal -- Scandinavia and the Baltic -- Poland -- Hungary and Czechoslovakia -- The Soviet Union.

Southeast Europe between the Wars -- The decline and fall of the Ottoman Empire -- The reorganization of Arabia -- Iran and Afghanistan : battle for independence -- China between Empire and Communism -- Imperial Japan and Southeast Asia -- The British Commonwealth : emancipation of the British colonies -- Africa under colonial rule -- Ethiopia and Egypt : between subjugation and independence -- Euphoria and depression : the US between the Wars -- Latin America -- The Second World War -- In focus : World War II -- The contemporary world : 1945 to the present -- Introduction -- Trends in world politics -- The path to European unity -- Germany -- Austria -- Switzerland -- Great Britain : from Commonwealth to European Union -- Ireland -- France -- Belgium, the Netherlands, and Luxembourg -- Italy -- Spain : from military dictatorship to constitutional monarchy -- Portugal -- Northern Europe -- Eastern and Central Europe -- Yugoslavia -- Greece and Turkey -- The Soviet Union and its successor states -- Northwest Africa -- Israel -- The Arab world and the Near East -- Pakistan and India -- Southeast Asia -- China, Japan and Korea -- Australia, New Zealand, and Oceania -- Africa since the independence of its nations -- Canada -- The United States : global power -- Latin America -- Key ideas : globalization -- Index.