Magazine Historyfor All - Sunday, April 22, 2012
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Algeria: events in the war (S. Thénault) Friday, April 20, 2012 9:50 |  Cnaudin
Read more: Algeria: events in the war (S. Thénault) Civil War: the capture of New Orleans (1/5) Friday, April 20, 2012 09:25 | Einhard
Read more: Civil War: the capture of New Orleans (1/5) A New History of the Russian campaign (PM Rey) Wednesday, April 18, 2012 9:20 | Desaix
Diplomacy: the Alpha and the Omega of the historical game of table Tuesday, April 17, 2012 9:40 | Di Stephano
Read more: Diplomacy: the Alpha and the Omega of the historical game of table Fabulous Story of the French flag (R. Delpard) Monday, April 16, 2012 9:35 | JPerrin
| The legend of the birth of Rome Saturday, April 21, 2012 16:15 | Pedro
Read more: The legend of the birth of Rome The beginnings of the Muslim world, seventh to tenth (collective) Thursday, April 19, 2012 9:45 | Cnaudin
Read more: The beginnings of the Muslim world, seventh to tenth (collective) Napoleon and the Russian campaign Wednesday, April 18, 2012 9:10 | Desaix Read more: Napoleon and the Russian campaign The Doolittle raid on Tokyo (1942) Wednesday, April 18, 2012 09:25 | Cnaudin
Read more: The Doolittle raid on Tokyo (1942) Jean de La Fontaine (1621-1695) - Short Biography Friday, April 13, 2012 09:00 | The Brinvilliers
Read more: Jean de La Fontaine (1621-1695) - Short Biography |
The war in Algeria in France remains a painful subject, even controversial, where history and memory can sometimes be induced to face. Like everything about this kind, the war of independence, as seen by some historians as one (or more) civil war, a lot of vehicle ideas, either on its origins, the conflict itself or its consequences. It is precisely these prejudices or stereotypes that some attacks Sylvie Thénault Algeria in his book: "events" in the war. Misconceptions about the Algerian war of independence (The Blue Rider). 
One of the cornerstones of the EU strategy, summarized in the "Anaconda Plan" General Scott, was the control of the Mississippi River and its estuary. The vast river basin, essential to the economy of the Deep South, converged on New Orleans, which made the city an ideal target and priority. Whenever she had the means, in the Northern navy began a blockade, not without difficulties. But this is a major amphibious operation that would give the North in April 1862, control of this strategic objective of the first importance. 
The bicentenary of the Russian campaign where Napoleon lost most of its hosts is that new releases of the war known to all but where there is often still many gray areas. To meet the challenge Napoleonic historiography has a new recruit in the person of Marie-Pierre Rey, Professor of Russian and Soviet history at the University of Paris I Sorbonne. A biography of Tsar Alexander I in 2009 it offers us this year "The terrible tragedy. A New History of the Russian campaign. " An excellent work taking advantage of the achievements of French research but also Russian and Anglo-Saxon. 
In the distant past the game world is summed up in one hand austere but very serious failures, and other games of chance for the family as the board game or Monopoly. It then came Allan B. Calhamer. This ephemeral U.S. diplomatic service worker revolution was the idea of the game The idea was as follows: players gather around a map and let them negotiate among themselves. The goal: domination by force and discussion. 
When a popular book dealing with colors and symbols opens with a dedication to Michel Pastoureau and intends to refer to his work, we finally say can be taken into a quality book on an interesting subject: the history of the construction the French flag. The historian knows that appearances are often misleading because it is not only a dubious history of the French flag that indicates Raphael Delpard but also an uncertain national novel. 
Rome, the mere mention of the name is enough to be born in the imagination of many countless images as related to the City itself, the Urbs, with its men, armed , his masterpieces. Yet Rome is above all a city state, a very old model born in Greece makes the combination of an urban core and a territory a whole, an indivisible entity, with which Rome will coincide with the entire Mediterranean basin. Rome was, as we know, the center of an immense empire, she has submitted the most diverse countries in its authority, mostly iron, with the power of his legions ... 
The historiography of early Islam is undergoing a revival in recent years, as the study of pre-Islamic Arabia. In what context was found Islam? How is it organized and expanded in the future? And, above all, what were its relations with other religions in the region, Judaism, Christianity but also, they are often forgotten, Zoroastrianism and Manichaeism? This is to all these questions, and many others, that aims to answer the book edited by Thierry Bianquis, Pierre Guichard and Mathieu Tillier, The beginnings of the Muslim world, seventh to tenth century. Muhammad autonomous dynasties (PUF, coll. New Clio). 
The "Day of Infamy" is still in everyone's head when General Arnold proposed to President Roosevelt on a bombing Tokyo. A raid that was known mostly symbolic, but that would help boost the morale of all allied troops from Japanese victims of this fatal December 7, 1941. Roosevelt gives carte blanche to his staff to find ways of organizing the raid. This is Lieutenant Colonel Doolittle, specialist aerial bombardment, which is responsible for conducting the operation. 
Jean de La Fontaine is universally known for his Fables. But he was also the author of Tales, Poems, Comedy, and Epistle of Speech, which does not always won him the admiration and friendship. Writer, poet slightly libertine, he accedes to the chair of the French Academy, his dearest ambition at the end of his life, but he will deny his first stories and thus be in "good standing" with God! 