Through a richly illustrated chronology with commentary, Jean-Christophe Buisson tells the story of 1945, the pivotal year of the 20th century in every field: political, geopolitical, military, social and cultural. A future reference work.
This article was originally published in “Figaro Magazine”.
You don’t have to be a history buff to know that 1945 saw the end of the Second World War. An end marked by symbolic landmarks: liberation of Auschwitz (January 27), meeting between Roosevelt, Churchill and Stalin at Yalta (February 4-11), suicide of Adolf Hitler (April 30), capture of Berlin by the Soviets (May 2), double surrender of the Reich in Reims and Berlin (May 7-8), atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki (August 6 and 9), Japanese surrender (September 2).
These dates are of course listed in [1945book album published by Jean-Christophe BuissonJean-Christophe Buisson has published a new album, using a formula he has already successfully experimented with three times for the same publisher, when, with the help of chronological notes and often little-known illustrations, he recounted the year 1917, then the history of Communism, and finally that of Fascism and Nazism. But there are hundreds of other dates to be found in this brilliant new work: not only…
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