Richard Cobb Livres
Richard Cobb fut un historien britannique dont le parcours académique non conventionnel, marqué par des années de recherche indépendante dans les archives françaises, a profondément influencé son œuvre fondamentale sur les prémices de la Révolution française. Cette dévotion aux sources primaires et au détail méticuleux devint la signature de son approche de l'histoire. Au-delà de ses réalisations universitaires, Cobb est également célébré pour ses écrits autobiographiques perspicaces, offrant aux lecteurs une perspective personnelle unique. Son travail est loué pour sa compréhension profonde des forces historiques et de la condition humaine.
Marseille
- 96pages
- 4 heures de lecture
This is the real story of the terrifying murders that tore families and communities apart. The author separates fact from fiction, looking for the truth behind the myth.
Using the original police reports, state of the art photographs, unseen images and diagrams, they present the truth about what actually happened in the autumn of 1888.
The French Revolution Voices from a momentous epoch 1789-1795
French and Germans, Germans and French
- 272pages
- 10 heures de lecture
The most difficult and often savage relationship in 20th century western Europe was between the French and the Germans. Twice, cataclysmic wars were fought out on their borders, successfully by the French in 1914-18 and unsuccessfully in 1940. Both wars led to military occupation--for the large block of northern France behind the German trenches in the First World War and ultimately the whole country in the Second. Richard Cobb's extraordinary book is a meditation on the whole idea of occupation. How do you survive? When do you collaborate? What moral compromises are necessary? Above all, it is a book about the way that history gives a shape and rationality to events which for those living through them are completely mysterious, and terrifying. For those trapped under German rule--frightened, confused, malnourished--what is the right course of action? French and Germans, Germans and French recreates, with a brilliant mix of wit and sympathy, the story of one of the modern era's great dramas.
Still Life Sketches from a Tunbridge Wells Childhood
A Sense of Place
- 152pages
- 6 heures de lecture
French and Germans. Germans and French
A Personal Interpretation of France Under Two Occupations, 1914-1918/1940-1944
An extraordinary history of French lives under occupation in the First and Second World Wars, this is an intimate, unforgettable meditation on the strange mixture of compromise and betrayal, collaboration and resistance that marks defeat, written by one of the greatest historians of France
