Holland, September 1944 Eisenhower finally admits to Montgomerys daring plan:to rush through the Netherlands with his armored and airborne troops to outflank the German defences. But Market Garden was not equipped with all the necessary means. It was ultimately the failure in front of Arnhem that p
There is a certain tendency, logical on the other hand, to contemplate the figure of Adolf Hitler from a monolithic prism:that of a dictator and genocide incapable of having a human feeling. It is a common view that also occurs in serial killers, for example, because his criminal actions inevitably
Nancy, 1854 - Thorey, Meurthe-et-Moselle, 1934.) Lyautey Marshal of France. Coming from a family of soldiers from Lorraine, the young Lyautey maintained the tradition by entering Saint-Cyr in 1873 then at the staff application school two years later, before serving in 1877 in the cavalry, his w
Photo credit:©Olaf Tausch, 2009 Djoser reigns over Egypt around -2650, under the IIIth dynasty of the Old Kingdom, of which he is the second king. Under his authority, the country is unified. The necropolis of Saqqara, not far from Memphis, has always housed the tombs of kings. They are erected out