While historiography often insists on the French-German antagonism dominating the period 1870 to 1918, a new analysis of the « hereditary enmity" allows on the contrary to highlight contacts, links and exchanges between the two countries.

The unexpected and lasting resistance of Maubeuge during its siege in 1914 led to a controversy around General Fournier through the twentieth century.

Between 1914 and 1918, the Nord and Pas-de-Calais geographical areas met numerous difficulties. About 70% of the Nord and 25% of the Pas-de-Calais had to face a strong German occupation. On the west part of the front line, the territory became a strategic place for the allied armies, landing on Calais, Boulogne and Dunkerque. With such terrible...

This book reopens a project started ten years ago, working both at a distance from the 50th anniversary of May 68 celebrations, and as an oxymoron, in its very center. The approach at the time, a crossroads between testimonial and storytelling, then presented a restitution of the work of a research team led by Agnès Callu and supported by ...

After almost three decades since the collapse of the GDR, the image of East Germany is still present in television and film, mainly thanks to productions such as Good Bye, Lenin! and The Lives of Others that have deeply influenced our perception of the fall of the Berlin Wall and of life under communism. The primary scope of this book is to not...

The Great War tore the Roman Catholic Church: in both camps, it used the same religious references to legitimate the conflict. In the occupied dioceses, the confrontation of soldiers and civilians, churchgoers and priests of opposite nations maintained representations which were forbidding any real dialogue.

From a simple office to assist Chancellor Adenauer in his task of rehabilitating Germany in the world to a quasi-ministerial organization freed from the « Goebbels complex », the Office of Press and Information of the Federal Government gained in a decade considerable importance.

Living through a military occupation also means living with the enemy. The contributions presented here examine this idea, in 1914-18 just as in 1939-45 or during the periods of 'leaving wars'; in France and Belgium just as in Poland, Central Africa, or Germany. Between dialogue and power struggles, occupiers and occupied alike adapted to a ...