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5. Paris : Le système politico-administratif local, 1977-1987
No full textKnapp Andrew. 5. Paris : Le système politico-administratif local, 1977-1987. In: Annuaire des collectivités locales. Tome 7, 1987. pp. 65-90
3. Le communisme municipal au Havre : de l'ascension aux incertitudes
No full textKnapp Andrew. 3. Le communisme municipal au Havre : de l'ascension aux incertitudes. In: Annuaire des collectivités locales. Tome 8, 1988. pp. 51-65
Le Communisme municipal au Havre
No full textKnapp Andrew F. Le Communisme municipal au Havre. In: Études Normandes, 36e année, n°4, 1987. Géopolitique de la Normandie. pp. 61-79
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Des bombardements sur les champs de bataille normands: du débarquement au siège du Havre
No full textThis chapter demonstrates how the bombing of Le Havre in September 1944 was an extreme but unexceptional event in the battle for France, a logical continuation of the use made of heavy bombers to further the progress of ground forces since D-Day. Although a number of dysfunctions in this type of operation had been detected over the previous weeks, not all were corrected in time to prevent the operation of Le Havre causing huge and unnecessary destruction. Neither of the ground commanders on the spot, the German Eberhard Wildermuth and the British John Crocker, was careless of civilian life; yet each, in his own role, furthered the tragedy of the city
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Une arme nouvelle au centre de la guerre: les bombardements dans la stratégie des Alliés
No full textIn the 1930s two great powers undertook programmes that would lead, from 1942, to the mass production of four-engined bombers capable of destroying whole towns and killing their populations: not Nazi Germany, not Fascist Italy, nor yet the Soviet Union, but two democracies, the UK and the USA. Why was it these two apparently peaceful countries that invested so heavily in weapons so likely to kill civilians? Why did so-called ‘strategic’ bombing occupy such an important place in their way of making war? And what were the consequences for France
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