Résultats pour "The Affair" dans Histoire

Le 16 octobre 1984, le capitaine de gendarmerie Étienne Sesmat était sur les bords de la Vologne, dans les Vosges, au moment où on retirait des eaux le corps du petit Grégory. Il ne se doutait pas, en cet instant, que cette affaire allait bouleverser sa vie et sa carrière... Un document inédit. Le fait divers qui a inspiré les documentaires "Qui a tué le petit Grégory?" (Netflix, 2019) et "Une affaire française" (TFI, 2021). Né en 1954, Étienne Sesmat est originaire de Meurthe-et-Moselle.

“L’Affaire” est une collection de récits d’enquête. Faits divers, terrorisme, trafic, mafia, scandales politiques… ce podcast présenté par Sina Mir revient sur des affaires connues ou méconnues à travers des témoignages inédits et propose des séries d’investigations de grande ampleur sur les failles de nos sociétés. Parce que nous sommes persuadés que derrière les actes isolés et les parcours individuels, il y a souvent des injustices structurelles plus ou moins visibles.Si vous aimez ce podcast, abonnez-vous pour être informé de la sortie de nouveaux épisodes, et ...

De l'ombre à la lumière. Les grandes affaires des services secrets du XXe siècle revisitées et racontées par un spécialiste hors pair. Qu'est-ce qui fait d'une opération des services secrets une "grande affaire" ? Son impact dans les rapports de forces entre les Etats comme à l'intérieur des Etats. Ces opérations d'envergure appellent tout naturellement un récit haut en couleurs, avec des personnages à l'avenant.

L'affaire Dreyfus (1894-1906), du nom de cet officier juif alsacien accusé d'espionnage au profit de l'Allemagne, est toujours présente dans nos mémoires. Elle resurgit, au gré de l'actualité, comme une référence historique essentielle. Mais qui était au juste le capitaine Dreyfus ? Y a-t-il eu plusieurs affaires plutôt qu'une ? Le J'accuse... ! de Zola en offre-t-il un récit exhaustif ? Et l'écrivain a-t-il été assassiné ? Quels ont été les rôles réels des militaires Picquart et Esterhazy, du politique Clemenceau et de l'écrivain Péguy ?

Qu'il y-a-t-il de plus fascinant que les services secrets ? Avec notre collection espionnage, levez le voile sur les grandes affaires d'espionnage et découvrez la vraie histoire et les plus sombres secrets des plus célèbres espions.

Le 22 décembre 1894, un procès d'État condamne un capitaine juif, alsacien, innocent de toute charge, pour crime de "haute trahison" (en faveur de l'Allemagne). S'ouvre, deux ans plus tard, une crise majeure de la République. Mais l'engagement pour Dreyfus, la défense des droits de l'homme et du citoyen, la lutte contre l'antisémitisme et le nationalisme entraînent un sursaut civique de la société. Le 12 juillet 1906, un arrêt solennel de la Cour de cassation réhabilite l'officier.

Hercule Poirot solves his first case in the Agatha Christie novel that started it all, now in a fully restored edition that features a “missing chapter” along with commentary from Christie expert John Curran. Who poisoned the wealthy Emily Inglethorp and how did the murderer penetrate and...

In Covert Regime Change, Lindsey A. O’Rourke shows us how states really act when trying to overthrow another state. She argues that conventional focus on covert cases misses the basic causes of regime change. O’Rourke provides substantive evidence of types of security interests that drive states to intervene. Covert Regime Change assembles an original dataset of all American regime change operations during the Cold War. This fund of information shows the United States was 10 times more likely to try covert rather than overt regime change during the Cold War.

On October 13, 1894, Captain Dreyfus was summoned by the General de Boisdeffre to the Ministry of War. Despite minimal evidence against him he was placed under arrest for the crime of high treason. Not long afterward Dreyfus was incarcerated on Devil's Island. But how did an innocent man come to be convicted? And why was he kept locked up for so long? The Dreyfus Affair uniquely combines a fast-moving mystery story with a snapshot of France at a moment of great social flux and cultural richness.

George Murray Levick was the physician on Robert Falcon Scott's tragic Antarctic expedition of 1910. Marooned for an Antarctic winter, Levick passed the time by becoming the first man to study penguins up close. His findings were so shocking to Victorian morals that they were quickly suppressed and seemingly lost to history.

By bestselling author Jennet Conant, a stunning account of Julia Child’s early life as a member of the OSS in the Far East during World War II, and the tumultuous years when she and Paul Child were caught up in the McCarthy witch hunt and behaved with bravery and honor. Bestselling author...

An NPR Best Book of 2017 Heiress to the nearly forty-billion-dollar L’Oréal fortune, Liliane Bettencourt was the world’s richest woman and the fourteenth wealthiest person. But her gilded life took a dark yet fascinating turn in the past decade. At ninety-four, she was embroiled in what has...

Col. Mike Hoare tells how he planned to overthrow the militant socialist government of the Seychelles, what went wrong at Mahé airport, and of his trial and imprisonment in South African jails....

Although not a member of the National Socialist Party, Leni Riefenstahl was the film-maker darling of the Nazis and Adolf Hitler. First a successful dancer and actress in Germany, she became more notorious when she produced and directed Victory of Faith and Triumph of the Will, the chilling documentaries about Nazi Party congresses at Nuremberg. Glenn Morris was an All-American farm boy from tiny Simla, Colorado, as well as a former college football star and student body president at the school now known as Colorado State University.

New York City, 1972: Bobby Comfort and Sammy "the Arab" Nalo were highly skilled jewel thieves who specialized in robbing luxury Manhattan hotels. (They once robbed Sophia Loren's suite, relieving the Italian actress of over $1 million in gems.) With the blessing of the Lucchese crime family, their next plot targeted the posh Pierre Hotel - host to kings and queens, presidents and aldermen, and the wealthiest of the wealthy.

What began as the obscure local case of two Italian immigrant anarchists accused of robbery and murder flared into an unprecedented political and legal scandal as the perception grew that their conviction was a judicial travesty and their execution a political murder. This book is the first to reveal the full national and international scope of the Sacco-Vanzetti affair, uncovering how and why the two men became the center of a global cause célèbre that shook public opinion and transformed America’s relationship with the world.

"What Really Happened in Iran", by Ray Takeyh: Conventional wisdom about the 1953 coup in Iran rests on the myth that the CIA toppled the country's democratically elected prime minister. In reality, the coup was primarily a domestic Iranian affair, and the CIA's impact was ultimately insignificant.

The Dreyfus Affair: The History and Legacy of France’s Most Notorious Antisemitic Political Scandal examines the chain of events that produced one of the most notorious episodes in modern French history. A case was built with the central objective of protecting the integrity of French military establishment, and in the process, the relatively muted anti-Semitism in France (at least in comparison to other European nations) was transformed into an era of virulent and violent Jew-hatred that characterized and sullied the final decade of the 19th century in France.

Pour écouter ce dossier, et les 500 autres émissions Timeline, il suffit de s'abonner (2€ par mois, ou 20€ par an) à cette adresse : https://m.audiomeans.fr/s/S-tavkjvmoTimeline vous présente L’Affaire Dreyfus avec trois émissions qui permettent de comprendre toute l'affaire, avec un contradicteur qui tente - en vain ? - de soulever une possible faille dans le procès ...Première émission : Cette émission se concentre sur la narration de l'histoire de l'Affaire Dreyfus. Elle explore les événements qui ont conduit à l'arrestation et à la condamnation d'Alfred Dreyfus, ainsi ...

The gritty memoir of a former US Marine and Presidential Guard, who, after being unjustly held and abused in a Russian gulag for three years and freed in a high-profile prisoner exchange, seeks revenge against his former Russian captors by volunteering to fight in Ukraine. In August 2019, Trevor...