Books published by OREP

This book explores the famous Ardenne campaign of 1944-1945. This guide presents the battles through the perspective of the combatants, showing the human experience of those who struggled to stay alive during this terrible winter.

The battle of Omaha occupies a prevalent place in our collective memory due to the events of June 6, 1944. The beach code-named Utah has attracted less attention. Wrongly. The scale of the losses alone demonstrates that the Battle of Utah deserves to be investigated in a new light.

The First World War was as much a ordeal for women as it was for men. Women made themselves indispensable, and as a result, they asserted themselves more in society, taking a decisive step towards their emancipation. It became clear that nothing would ever be the same again.

"So it was in the Thirties that numerous commodities, appliances and devices taken for granted today were discovered : antibiotics, sulphonamides, radar, turbo-jets, synthetic rubber, mineral oils, radiotelephony, and artificial intelligence... but only the outbreak of the Second World War could give rise to their development and industrial use.

That they were unique or on the contrary produced in millions of copies, hundred objects presented within the framework of this work have this in common that they form the weft of one Major episode of the Second World War, the Battle of Normandy. If all the objects selected in these pages turn out "unknown persons", none is nevertheless harmless.

My name is William Bishop. I belong to the US 1st Infantry Division, the famous Big Red One. Today is the 6th of June 1944 and, in a few minutes, I'll be landing on Omaha Beach, in the Easy Red sector. A beach that will go down in History as Bloody Omaha... This is my story...

- Marcel Ouimet from Radio Canada here. I am with men from the Regiment de La Chaudiere before a small seaside resort called Bernieres-sur-Mer.

"A small red ball that goes through the greatest of twentieth century tragedies to tell us of its experience... Is that so impossible? And yet... Sam, a small boy who lived happily with his father Joshua and his mother Sarah, was given that very ball for his birthday and it became his best friend. Then catastrophe struck: the Vel d'Hiv Roundup.

A mysterious little character can be seen on scene 10 of the famous Bayeux Tapestry. His name is Turold. In this activity booklet, Turold tells you the same story as the one related on the Bayeux Tapestry, from which the 12 scenes reproduced here by Gilles Pivard have been freely inspired.

Having become king of England at the battle of Hastings in 1066, William of Normandy would go on to found a genuine empire. His reign lasted 21 years. Amongst his children were two kings, a Duke, an Abbess, and two Countesses.

This full color booklet tells the story of the origins of the Vikings through their assaults on Europe to the various established societies they created. There is information on Viking art, on runes on their constant quest for new territories and many other aspects of the story of this extraordinary people.