Le Général Guisan Et L Esprit De Résistance

Author : Jean-Jacques Langendorf,Pierre Streit
Publisher : Cabédita Editions
Page : 270 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Generals
ISBN : 2882955804

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Le général Guisan et l'esprit de résistance by Jean-Jacques Langendorf,Pierre Streit Pdf

Le général Henri Guisan (1874–1960), commandant en chef de l'armée suisse durant la Seconde Guerre mondiale, a symbolisé la volonté de tout un peuple de préserver son indépendance, par les armes, si nécessaire. Cet ouvrage n'est ni une nouvelle biographie, ni une hagiographie, mais une étude originale. Elle replace Guisan dans son contexte, le compare aux personnalités qui ont osé affirmer, dans les moments les plus critiques de l'histoire de leur pays, leur esprit de résistance face aux menaces du totalitarisme. Les auteurs étudient la genèse de l'idée fondamentale de Guisan, la création d'un Réduit dans le massif alpin, et en démontrent la nécessité face à la puissance des armes d'attaque. Ils le comparent à d'autres tentatives analogues, l'inscrivant ainsi dans une perspective historique. Ils rappellent aussi l'exceptionnelle relation de confiance entretenue par Guisan avec le peuple suisse.

Author : Jean-Jacques Langendorf
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2024-03-07
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 2882959907

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Le général Guisan et le peuple suisse by Jean-Jacques Langendorf Pdf

Author : Jim Ring
Publisher : Faber & Faber
Page : 247 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2013-09-03
Category : History
ISBN : 9780571282401

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Storming the Eagle's Nest by Jim Ring Pdf

From the Fall of France in June 1940 to Hitler's suicide in April 1945, the swastika flew from the peaks of the High Savoy in the western Alps to the passes above Ljubljana in the east. The Alps as much as Berlin were the heart of the Third Reich.'Yes,' Hitler declared of his headquarters in the Bavarian Alps, 'I have a close link to this mountain. Much was done there, came about and ended there; those were the best times of my life . . . My great plans were forged there.'With great authority and verve, Jim Ring tells the story of how the war was conceived and directed from the Fuhrer's mountain retreat, how all the Alps bar Switzerland fell to Fascism, and how Switzerland herself became the Nazi's banker and Europe's spy centre. How the Alps in France, Italy and Yugoslavia became cradles of resistance, how the range proved both a sanctuary and a death-trap for Europe's Jews - and how the whole war culminated in the Allies' descent on what was rumoured to be Hitler's Alpine Redoubt, a Bavarian mountain fortress.

Author : Georges André Chevallaz
Publisher : Lexington Books
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : History
ISBN : 0739102745

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The Challenge of Neutrality by Georges André Chevallaz Pdf

Prominent historian and former President of the Swiss Confederation Georges-Andr Chevallaz begins his study of Swiss neutrality during World War II with two essential questions: Why, in the face of German imperialism ”with its authoritarian, totalitarian, and racist ideology ”did Switzerland declare neutrality? Why did it not join the "camp of democracies," or the other European nations who resolved to hold firm against the Germans? Chevallaz's provocative and insightful book, presented here for the first time in English, attempts to answer these questions. Chevallaz further offers an even-handed reevaluation of the role of the principal actors in Swiss politics of the time, notably Marcel Pilet-Golaz, head of the Department of Foreign Affairs, and General Henri Guisan.

Author : Mohammed Bedjaoui
Publisher : New York : Holmes & Meier
Page : 287 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 1979
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0841905886

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Towards a New International Economic Order by Mohammed Bedjaoui Pdf

Author : Alan I. Forrest
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : Electronic books
ISBN : 9780195059373

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Conscripts and Deserters by Alan I. Forrest Pdf

Between the outbreak of war with Austria in 1792 and Napoleon's final debacle in 1814, France remained almost continously at war, recruiting in the process some two to three million frenchmen--a level of recruitment unknown to previous generations and widely resented as an attack on the liberties of rural communities. Forrest challenges the notion of a nation heroically rushing to arms by examining the massive rates of desertion and avoidance of service as well as their consequences on French society--on military campaigns and the morale of armies, on political opinion at home, on the social fabric of local villages, and on the Napoleonic dream of bringing about a coherent and centralized state.

Author : Kemal Derviş,Ceren Özer
Publisher : CGD Books
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : UOM:39015060604017

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A Better Globalization by Kemal Derviş,Ceren Özer Pdf

Discusses the two broad dimensions of the globalization debate--economic, including finance, trade, poverty, and health; and political, covering security, the fight against terrorism, and the role of international institutions--and the significance of democratic consent in the twenty-first century--Provided by publisher.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 1960
Category : Alps
ISBN : MINN:31951001886808V

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The Alpine Journal by Anonim Pdf

Author : Henry Corbin
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 542 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2013-10-28
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781136142420

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Temple & Contemplation by Henry Corbin Pdf

First published in 1986. This volume brings together five lectures which were originally delivered at different sessions of the famous Eranos Conferences in Ascona, Switzerland. Henry Corbin himself had outlined the plan for this book, whose title suggests that these diverse studies converge on a common spiritual centre.

Author : Suzanne Desan,Lynn Hunt,William Max Nelson
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2013-03-19
Category : History
ISBN : 9780801467479

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The French Revolution in Global Perspective by Suzanne Desan,Lynn Hunt,William Max Nelson Pdf

Situating the French Revolution in the context of early modern globalization for the first time, this book offers a new approach to understanding its international origins and worldwide effects. A distinguished group of contributors shows that the political culture of the Revolution emerged out of a long history of global commerce, imperial competition, and the movement of people and ideas in places as far flung as India, Egypt, Guiana, and the Caribbean. This international approach helps to explain how the Revolution fused immense idealism with territorial ambition and combined the drive for human rights with various forms of exclusion. The essays examine topics including the role of smuggling and free trade in the origins of the French Revolution, the entwined nature of feminism and abolitionism, and the influence of the French revolutionary wars on the shape of American empire. The French Revolution in Global Perspective illuminates the dense connections among the cultural, social, and economic aspects of the French Revolution, revealing how new political forms-at once democratic and imperial, anticolonial and centralizing-were generated in and through continual transnational exchanges and dialogues. Contributors: Rafe Blaufarb, Florida State University; Ian Coller, La Trobe University; Denise Davidson, Georgia State University; Suzanne Desan, University of Wisconsin-Madison; Lynn Hunt, University of California, Los Angeles; Andrew Jainchill, Queen's University; Michael Kwass, The Johns Hopkins University; William Max Nelson, University of Toronto; Pierre Serna, Université Paris I Panthéon-Sorbonne; Miranda Spieler, University of Arizona; Charles Walton, Yale University

Author : Jean-François Fayet,Carine Fluckiger
Publisher : Georg Editeur
Page : 852 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Peace
ISBN : UVA:X004469743

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Guerres et paix by Jean-François Fayet,Carine Fluckiger Pdf

Author : Anja Thomas
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 365 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2019-10
Category : Europe
ISBN : 3848747723

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Assemblee Nationale, Bundestag and the European Union by Anja Thomas Pdf

The growing importance of national parliaments is one feature of the stronger differentiation within the EU. Habermasian expectations of an increasing consensus on political norms seem to be invalidated by current events. In her book, in which she draws on her award-winning PhD thesis, Anja Thomas makes an important theoretical and empirical contribution to our understanding of the social causes of this development. Analysing EU affairs in the Assemblee nationale and Bundestag since 1979, she uncovers a paradox: increasing experience with the EU leads to national institutions growing in importance for MPs discourse on the role of parliaments in the EU. Revisiting social theory, in particular Max Webers old institutionalism, the author presents a new model that explains this phenomenon. This book should be read by students of both parliaments in the EU and European integration processes.

Author : Philip Reichel,Jay Albanese
Publisher : SAGE Publications
Page : 577 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2013-04-29
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781483311241

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Handbook of Transnational Crime and Justice by Philip Reichel,Jay Albanese Pdf

Transnational crime and justice will characterize the 21st century in same way that traditional street crimes dominated the 20th century. In the Handbook of Transnational Crime and Justice, Philip Reichel and Jay Albanese bring together top scholars from around the world to offer perspectives on the laws, crimes, and criminal justice responses to transnational crime. This concise, reader-friendly handbook is organized logically around four major themes: the problem of transnational crime; analysis of specific transnational crimes; approaches to its control; and regional geographical analyses. Each comprehensive chapter is designed to be explored as a stand-alone topic, making this handbook an important textbook and reference tool for students and practitioners alike.

Author : Myriam Dunn Cavelty,Victor Mauer,Thierry Balzacq
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 499 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2009-12-16
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781135239077

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The Routledge Handbook of Security Studies by Myriam Dunn Cavelty,Victor Mauer,Thierry Balzacq Pdf

Focusing on contemporary challenges, this major new Handbook offers a wide-ranging collection of cutting-edge essays from leading scholars in the field of Security Studies. The field of Security Studies has undergone significant change during the past twenty years, and is now one of the most dynamic sub-disciplines within International Relations. It now encompasses issues ranging from pandemics and environmental degradation to more traditional concerns about direct violence, such as those posed by international terrorism and inter-state armed conflict. A comprehensive volume, comprising articles by both established and up-and-coming scholars, the Handbook of Security Studies identifies the key contemporary topics of research and debate today. This Handbook is a benchmark publication with major importance both for current research and the future of the field. It will be essential reading for all scholars and students of Security Studies, War and Conflict Studies, and International Relations.

Author : Claudia Aradau,Rens Van Munster
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 190 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2011-05-02
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781136717574

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Politics of Catastrophe by Claudia Aradau,Rens Van Munster Pdf

This book argues that catastrophe is a particular way of governing future events – such as terrorism, climate change or pandemics – which we cannot predict but which may strike suddenly, without warning, and cause irreversible damage. At a time where catastrophe increasingly functions as a signifier of our future, imaginaries of pending doom have fostered new modes of anticipatory knowledge and redeployed existing ones. Although it shares many similarities with crises, disasters, risks and other disruptive incidents, this book claims that catastrophes also bring out the very limits of knowledge and management. The politics of catastrophe is turned towards an unknown future, which must be imagined and inhabited in order to be made palpable, knowable and actionable. Politics of Catastrophe critically assesses the effects of these new practices of knowing and governing catastrophes to come and challenges the reader to think about the possibility of an alternative politics of catastrophe. This book will be of interest to students of critical security studies, risk theory, political theory and International Relations in general.