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It is published by the Presses Universitaires de France. The journal was established in 1949 as the Cahiers d'histoire de la guerre. In 1950 it was renamed as Revue d'histoire de la Deuxième Guerre mondiale and in 1982 as Revue d'histoire de la Deuxième Guerre mondiale et des conflits contemporains, before obtaining its current title in 1987.
The eleven volumes of the ADSS. Actes et Documents du Saint Siège relatifs à la Seconde Guerre Mondiale (French for Acts and Documents of the Holy See related to the Second World War), often abbreviated Actes or ADSS, is an eleven-volume collection of documents from the Vatican historical archives, related to the papacy of Pope Pius XII during World War II.
A consortium led by Louis Blériot bought the company's assets in 1913 and reorganised it as the Société Pour L'Aviation et ses Dérivés, retaining the SPAD acronym. The first Béchereau-SPAD designs were unusual two-seat biplanes which attempted to provide a forward-firing machine gun in a tractor configuration aircraft.
Apocalypse: World War I (in French: Apocalypse, la Première Guerre mondiale) is a TV series made up of 5 French documentaries created by Isabelle Clarke and Daniel Costelle, and narrated by Mathieu Kassovitz. Originally broadcast in 2014, it chronologically traces the history of World War I, from its origins to the end of the war. It gathers ...
The Croix de guerre des théâtres d'opérations extérieures is a bronze 37 mm wide cross pattée, between the arms, two crossed swords pointing upward. It was designed by the sculptor Albert Bartholome. On the obverse in a circular medallion, the effigy of the Republic ( Marianne) wearing a cap decorated with a laurel wreath, surrounded by a ...
La papauté et les problèmes de la paix pendant la Première guerre mondiale (in French). Paris, Montreal: L'Harmattan. ISBN 978-2-7384-4600-8. OCLC 37792654. Latour, Francis (2006). "Le discours pacifiste de Benoît XV pendant la Grande Guerre". Paroles de paix en temps de guerre : témoignages (in French). Conseil général de l'Aude. pp. 63 ...
The Armée de l'Air (literally, 'army of the air') is the name used for the French Air Force in its native language since it was made independent of the Army in 1933. This article deals exclusively with the history of the French air force from its earliest beginnings until its destruction after the occupation of France.
World War I began in the Balkans on July 28, 1914, and hostilities ended on November 11, 1918, leaving 17 million dead and 25 million wounded. Moreover, the Russian Civil War can in many ways be considered a continuation of World War I, as can various other conflicts in the direct aftermath of 1918. Scholars looking at the long term seek to ...