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Sur les traces des Arabes et de l'Islam (Sur les traces)
Par Youssef Seddik. 2004
"Comme il aimait cette longue et paisible marche à travers un Damas encore endormi ! L'émir savourait un calme bonheur…
sur la route entre la Grande Mosquée des Omeyyades et sa demeure de l'autre côté de la ville." Partager à travers l'évocation de dix grands personnages poètes, hommes de foi, voyageurs, califes, savants les richesses et la diversité de la civilisation arabo-musulmane. Apprendre les fondements de notre histoire. Années 3 à 6. 2004.Sur les traces de Jules César (Sur les traces)
Par Stéphanie Morillon. 2002
Partager les conquêtes de César, d'Europe en Orient, à travers les récits des historiens de l'Antiquité. Découvrir les civilisations romaine…
et gauloise. Apprendre les fondements de notre histoire. Années 3 à 6. 2002.Sur les traces de Napoléon (Sur les traces)
Par Jean-Michel Dequeker-Fergon. 2004
La victoire d'Aboukir effaçait d'un seul coup tous nos revers et Kléber embrassa Bonaparte en s'exclamant : " Général, vous…
êtes grand comme le monde, et il n'est pas assez grand pour vous ! ". Partager l'extraordinaire destin de Napoléon Bonaparte : la fulgurante ascension, la toute-puissance, les victoires éclatantes et les défaites tout aussi spectaculaires. Années 3 à 6. 2004.Tank men: the human story of tanks at war
Par Robert J Kershaw. 2009
Ex-soldier and military historian Robert Kershaw brings to life the grime, the grease and the fury of a tank battle…
through the voices of ordinary men and women who lived and fought in those fearsome machines. This text draws on newly researched personal testimony from the crucial battles of the First and Second World Wars. 2009.Sword and blossom: a British officer's enduring love for a Japanese woman
Par Peter Pagnamenta, Momoko Williams. 2006
Arthur Hart-Synnot, a third-generation British officer, was sent to Japan in 1904 to learn the language of Britain's newest ally.…
Masa Suzuki, a beautiful Japanese woman scorned because of an early divorce, worked at the Tokyo Officers' Club. The two fell immediately in love and conceived a son before Arthur was whisked away by the military during WWI. Though Arthur would only see Masa little, he supported his Japanese family and kept alive the hope that he and Masa could live together blissfully. 2006.Susanna Moodie: letters of a lifetime
Par Susanna Moodie, Carl Ballstadt, Elizabeth Hopkins, Michael A Peterman. 1985
Follows Susanna, author of "Roughing it in the bush" (DC00892), from her Suffolk childhood and her experiences as an aspiring…
young writer in London, through her emigration to Upper Canada and five decades of Canadian life. c1985.Sun in winter: a Toronto wartime journal, 1942 to 1945
Par Gunda Lambton. 2003
In 1942 Gunda Lambton was a "war guest," a single mother sent from England to Toronto to avoid the war.…
While insanity raged throughout Europe she struggled to keep herself and her two small children going in a strange new home. While many people then were engaged in dramatic, heroic war work, her diary is a tribute to the quiet areas of endurance and pleasures of discovery that also distinguished those years. 2003.Surviving the killing fields: the Cambodian odyssey of Haing S. Ngor
Par Roger Warner, Haing S Ngor. 1988
Haing Ngor won an Academy Award for his performance as Dith Pran in the film "The Killing Fields" but his…
own story, of his experiences in Cambodia in the 1970s, is far more harrowing. He tells it simply, without embellishment; but his book is shocking - he even suggests that some readers may prefer to skip one chapter. It is a story of love, death and incredible courage; a battle against starvation, torture and ideological oppression. Descriptions of violence. 1988.Survival in Auschwitz: the Nazi assault on humanity
Par Primo Levi. 1996
In 1943, Primo Levi, a twenty-five-year-old chemist and "Italian citizen of Jewish race" was arrested by Italian fascists and deported…
from his native Turin to Auschwitz. This is his account of his ten months in the German death camp, of systematic cruelty and miraculous endurance. Included is a conversation between Philip Roth and Primo Levi never before published in book form. Descriptions of violence. 1996. Uniform title: Se questo è un uomo.Soldiers of a different cloth: Notre Dame chaplains in World War II
Par John F Wukovits. 2018
So tall within: Sojourner Truth's long walk toward freedom
Par Gary D Schmidt. 2018
Sojourner Truth was born into slavery but possessed a mind and a vision that knew no bounds. 'So Tall Within'…
traces her life from her painful childhood through her remarkable emancipation to her incredible leadership in the movement for rights for both women and African Americans. Grades K-3. 2018.Strawberries with the fuhrer: a journey from the Third Reich to New Zealand
Par Helga Tiscenko. 2000
The author was born in 1929 to parents who were actively involved with the Nazis. She writes of her childhood…
at a time of terrible upheaval in Europe. After the war she learn how distorted her world had been and later emigrated to New Zealand. 2000.Sharon and my mother-in-law: Ramallah diaries
Par Suad Amiry. 2005
The author writes of her experiences living on the West Bank from the early 80s to the present. The book…
contains a diary she kept during the Israeli invasion of Ramallah in 2002. Daily chores such as buying food and visiting friends become Herculean tasks for anyone living in a state of siege. 2003.Steal away home: one woman's epic flight to freedom-- and her long road back to the South
Par Karolyn Smardz Frost. 2017
Fifteen-year-old slave Cecelia Reynolds made her dangerous bid for freedom from the United States, across the Niagara River and into…
Canada. Escape meant that she would never see her mother or brother again. She would be cut off from the young mistress with whom she grew up, but who also owned her. Cecelia found a new life in Toronto’s vibrant African American expatriate community. Her rescuer became her husband, a courageous conductor on the Underground Railroad helping other freedom-seekers reach Canada. Widowed, she braved the Fugitive Slave Law to cross back into the United States, where she again found love, and followed her William into the battlefields of the Civil War. Finally, with a wounded husband and young children in tow, she returned to the Kentucky she had known as a child. But her home had changed: hooded Night Riders roamed the countryside with torches and nooses at the ready. When William disappeared, Cecelia relied on the support and affection of her former mistress - the Southern belle who had owned her as a child. Winner of the 2018 Speaker's Book Award. 2017.Still I rise: the persistence of phenomenal women
Par Laurel Corona, Marlene Wagman-Geller. 2018
Still I Rise takes its title from a work by Maya Angelou, and it resonates with the same spirit of…
an unconquerable soul, a woman who is captain of her fate. This book profiles inspiring women who embody this strength of character. Each chapter outlines the fall and rise of great women heroes who smashed all obstacles, rather than let all obstacles smash them. 2018.Shadow warriors of World War II: the daring women of the OSS and SOE
Par Gordon Thomas, Greg Lewis. 2017
Unveils the history of the courageous women who volunteered to work behind enemy lines. Sent into Nazi-occupied Europe by the…
United States' Office of Strategic Services (OSS) and Britain's Special Operations Executive (SOE), these women helped establish a web of resistance groups across the continent. Their heroism, initiative, and resourcefulness contributed to the Allied breakout of the Normandy beachheads, and they even infiltrated Nazi Germany at the height of the war, into the very heart of Hitler's citadel--Berlin. Young and daring, the female agents accepted that they could be captured, tortured, or killed, but others were always ready to take their place. 2017.Stalin's daughter: the extraordinary and tumultuous life of Svetlana Alliluyeva
Par Rosemary Sullivan. 2015
Born in the early years of the Soviet Union, Svetlana Stalin spent her youth inside the walls of the Kremlin.…
Communist Party privilege protected her from the mass starvation and purges that haunted Russia, but she did not escape tragedy--the loss of everyone she loved, including her mother, two brothers, aunts and uncles, and a lover twice her age, deliberately exiled to Siberia by her father. As she gradually learned about the extent of her father's brutality after his death, in 1967 Svetlana shocked the world by defecting to the United States. But she could not escape her father's legacy; her life in America was fractured; she moved frequently, married disastrously, shunned other Russian exiles, and ultimately died in poverty in Spring Green, Wisconsin. Winner of the 2015 Hilary Weston Writers' Trust Prize for Nonfiction, the 2016 British Columbia National Award for Canadian Non-Fiction, and the 2016 RBC Taylor Prize. Bestseller. 2015.Storming St Nazaire: the gripping story of the dock-busting raid, March, 1942
Par James Dorrian. 1998
The author tells the story of the raid to destroy the docks at St Nazaire so as to deny a…
berth to the German battleship Tirpitz. He describes the strategic situation, outlines the plan, and gives some background on the primary individuals involved before providing a highly-detailed account of the raid itself. 1998.Storm over Leyte: the Philippine invasion and the destruction of the Japanese navy
Par John Prados. 2016
As Allied ships prepared for the invasion of the Philippine island of Leyte, every available warship, submarine and airplane was…
placed on alert while Japanese admiral Kurita Takeo stalked Admiral William F. Halsey's unwitting American armada. It was the beginning of the epic Battle of Leyte Gulf - the greatest naval battle in history. Prados gives readers an unprecedented look at both sides of this titanic naval clash, demonstrating that, despite the Americans' overwhelming superiority in firepower and supplies, the Japanese achieved their goal, inflicting grave damage on U.S. forces. And for the first time, readers will have access to the naval intelligence reports that influenced key strategic decisions on both sides. Drawing upon a wealth of untapped sources--U.S. and Japanese military records, diaries, declassified intelligence reports and postwar interrogation transcripts--Prados offers up a masterful narrative of naval conflict on an epic scale. 2016.Stalin: the court of the Red Tsar
Par Simon Sebag-Montefiore. 2004
There have been many biographies of Stalin, but the court that surrounded him is untravelled ground. Simon Sebag Montefiore has…
unearthed the vast underpinning that sustained Stalin. Not only ministers such as Molotov or secret service chiefs such as Beria, but men and women whose loyalty he trusted only until the next purge. 2004.