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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.
A world war is an international conflict that involves most or all of the world's major powers. Conventionally, the term is reserved for two major international conflicts that occurred during the first half of the 20th century, World War I (1914–1918) and World War II (1939–1945), although some historians have also characterised other global conflicts as world wars, such as the Nine Years ...
Élisabeth-Claude Jacquet de La Guerre ( née Jacquet) was born on March 17, 1665, into a family of musicians and master instrument-makers in the parish of Saint-Louis-en-l'Île, Paris. Her grandfather, Jehan Jacquet, and her father, Claude Jacquet, were harpsichord makers. Claude taught his sons and daughters how to survive and thrive in the ...
Ethiopia in 1915, with the disputed Huwan region (coral color) During World War I, Ethiopia briefly forged an alliance with the Allied Powers, following Italy's entry into the war in 1915. In June 1916, a dynastic conflict emerged when the uncrowned Emperor, Lij Iyasu, was alleged to have converted to Islam under the influence of the Ottoman ...
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 ...
German troops marching through the Belgian capital, Brussels, in 1914. The German occupation of Belgium (French: Occupation allemande, Dutch: Duitse bezetting) of World War I was a military occupation of Belgium by the forces of the German Empire between 1914 and 1918. Beginning in August 1914 with the invasion of neutral Belgium, the country ...
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.
Remake of Les Croix de bois, trench warfare on the Western Front D 1937 France Grand Illusion: La Grande Illusion: Jean Renoir: Two French POWs plot their escape D 1937 France Mademoiselle Docteur: Salonique, nid d'espions: G. W. Pabst: During the First World War, a woman doctor falls in love with one of her patients who turns out to be a ...