Mayer's WWII experience as a Jewish refugee from Germany and member of the U.S. "Ritchie Boys" intelligence unit inspired his deep scholarship on the history of diplomacy.
About: Claire Andrieu, Tombés du ciel, le sort des pilotes abattus en Europe, 1939-1945, Tallandier / Ministère des Armées - In her study of the fate of the 100,000 or so airmen who fell during the Second World War, Claire Andrieu challenges the separation between civilians and soldiers, regular and irregular combatants, wait-and-see attitudes and active resistance, frontline and rear, through an empirical investigation that is destined to become a landmark work.