Quelle est la tragédie du Laconia ?

Au début des années 1930, l’Allemagne est officiellement désarmée. Le traité de Versailles, signé après la Première Guerre mondiale, lui interdit de posséder une armée moderne, des chars, une aviation de combat et limite drastiquement ses effectifs. Pourtant, quelques années plus ...  Show more

Mein Kampf est sans doute l’un des livres politiques les plus célèbres — et les plus sinistres — du XXᵉ siècle. Rédigé par Adolf Hitler dans les années 1920, il y expose son idéologie, son antisémitisme radical, sa vision raciale du monde et ses ambitions territoriales. Pourtant, ...  Show more

“A story of horror unparalleled in the annals of the Sea.” On the 14th of April 1912, Titanic, a floating palace sailing through the North Atlantic, found itself hurtling towards a formidable iceberg. Contrary to the panicked reactions of her crew who, fatefully, pulled the hulki ...  Show more

As passengers of Southampton embarked for the RMS Titanic's maiden voyage in 1912, a crew member commented to a traveler, "God himself could not sink this ship." But a young stewardess named Violet Jessop wasn't so sure. She'd already survived a shipwreck on the Titanic's sister ...  Show more

Costa Concordia hit submerged rocks off the Italian island of Giglio in January 2012, leaving a fifty-metre-long gash in the hull. More than four thousand passengers and crew were on board. Ian and Janice Donoff were hoping to get away in a lifeboat, but it got stuck as it was be ...  Show more

July 16, 1945. It’s the summer of 1945 and World War II is underway. The USS Indianapolis has just set out from Mare Island on a top-secret mission. The famous vessel is delivering enriched uranium and other components of “Little Boy” to Tinian Island. The mission is technically ...  Show more