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The other Nuremberg: the untold story of the Tokyo war crimes trials
Par Arnold C Brackman. 1987
Recounts a tale of mass inhumanity inflicted upon prisoners of war, civilians, Asian labourers and even the Japanese populations. Unlike…
the Nuremberg trials, the Tokyo trial received little press at the time and has been almost forgotten since. c1987.The magic makers: magic and sorcery through the ages
Par David Carroll. 1974
A journey into the world of magic and the lives of its magicians, from ancient times to the present. Explains…
the difference between white and black magic and where magic begins and where it ends. 1974.The last Mughal: the fall of a dynasty, Delhi, 1857
Par William Dalrymple. 2007
On a dark evening in November 1862, a cheap coffin is buried in eerie silence. There are no lamentations or…
panegyrics, for the British Commissioner in charge has insisted, 'No vesting will remain to distinguish where the last of the Great Mughals rests.' This Mughal is Bahadur Shah Zafar II, one of the most tolerant and likeable of his remarkable dynasty who found himself leader of a violent and doomed uprising. The Siege of Delhi was the Raj's Stalingrad, the end of both Mughal power and a remarkable culture. 2007.The last days of the Raj
Par Trevor Royle. 1989
Royle looks at the last few years of the two centuries of British rule in India leading up to independence…
on 15 August 1947. The changing political climate of the 1930s and the influence of Gandhi are examined, as are the appointment of Lord Mountbatten as Viceroy and the slaughter during the civil war between Hindus and Muslims in the Punjab. The final chapter looks at events with forty years hindsight. 1989.The insider's guide to China
Par Derek Maitland. 1987
Survey of China's history and culture, combined with well-organized travel advice. Restaurants and hotels of note are mentioned in the…
text itself, with travel tips at the end of each chapter. c1987.La sorcellerie au Québec, du XVIIe au XIXe siècle ((Connaissance).)
Par Robert-Lionel Séguin. 1978
The histories: From The Earliest Times To The Fall Of The Western Empire (Everyman Paperback Classics Ser.)
Par Herodotus, George Rawlinson, Hugh Bowden. 1992
The Histories is divided into nine books, each named after one of the Muses. The rise of the Persian Empire…
is chronicled, and the causes for the conflict with Greece. The central theme is the clash between the Persian Empire of King Xerxes and a handful of Greek city states in which the Greeks were against all odds, victorious. The story is set in the ancient world of the Mediterranean and Near Eastern world from Spain to India, and from Ethiopia to central Russia. 1992.Pour que refleurisse le monde: entretiens
Par Irène Frain, Jetsun Pema. 2002
Écrit sous forme de dialogue entre deux femmes de culture différente, cet ouvrage commun nous donne le loisir de voir…
la situation tibétaine d'un point de vue féminin. Depuis l'invasion chinoise en 1950, plusieurs générations d'enfants sont nés en exil en Inde, leur principal pays d'accueil. Fonctionnant comme une sorte de rétrospective sur ces longues années de survie, le recueil évoque la vie dans les camps de réfugiés transformés en villages. Jetsun Pema, soeur du Dalaï-Lama, raconte comment l'éducation des enfants s'est réorganisée, en tenant compte de la préservation de la langue, de la religion et des valeurs traditionnelles, sans pour autant se couper du monde moderne. 2002Mémoire de Chine: [les voix d'une génération silencieuse]
Par Xinran, Prune Cornet. 2010
" Mémoire de Chine est la confession d'une génération dont l'histoire n'a jamais été racontée. Grands-parents et arrière-grands-parents décrivent avec…
leurs propres mots - pour la première et peut-être la dernière fois - les transformations qui ont définitivement changé la Chine au cours du siècle passé. Ce livre est à la fois un voyage à travers le temps et l'espace, et un mémorial dressé à ceux qui ont vécu guerres, insurrections, persécution, invasions, révolutions, famines, modernisation, occidentalisation, et qui ont survécu pour entrer dans le XXIe siècle. " -- 4e de couv. Titre uniforme: Zhongguo min zu zi zun de jian zheng zhe men.Oasis interdites
Par Ella Maillart. 1989
En janvier 1935, Ella Maillart quitte Pékin pour traverser la Chine d'est en ouest, atteindre les oasis " interdites "…
du Sin-Kiang et, de là, gagner le Cachemire. Ella Maillart est l'une des voyageuses les plus étonnantes de ce siècle, et la qualité de son regard sur les choses ne cesse de nous émerveiller. 1989.La sorcière
Par Jules Michelet. 1966
Michelet, historien et poète, nous raconte la sorcière médiévale. Pour lui, la sorcellerie était tout simplement une protestation de l'esprit…
de liberté contre celui de soumission représenté par l'Église Inquisitrice. 1966, c1862.The author, familiar with the language, politics, and culture of the most populous country in the world, gives his account…
of China harking back to Mao's "Liberation." Terrill focuses on the Chinese version of Communist ideology with its Leninist slant and the Chinese penchant for conformity, both of which he believes hamper the pro-democratic movement. 1992.A history of the Arab peoples
Par Albert Habib Hourani. 1991
L'empire désorienté
Par Catherine Bergman. 2001
Des origines à 1945 (Histoire du Japon et des Japonais. #1.)
Par Edwin O Reischauer. 1973
Une tragédie sans importance
Par William Shawcross, Françoise Bonnet. 1979
L'histoire d'un petit pays transforme en un vaste champ de bataille sanglant et témoin muet de l'affrontement d'une démocratie corrompue…
et du marxisme le plus totalitaire. C'est l'histoire vraie du Cambodge depuis l'invasion Américaine de 1970 jusqu'à l'occupation Vietnamienne actuelle. Descriptions régulières de violence. 1979. Titre uniforme: Sideshow.Biography of British biochemist Joseph Needham (1900-1995) discusses his intellectual development, marriage, and long-standing love affair with a visiting Chinese…
student. Features his travels to China and his investigations into the history of Chinese inventions and technology, including the compass, explosives, and suspension bridges. 2008.The crippled tree: China : biography, history and autobiography
Par Suyin Han. 1965
Women of the Long March: [the never before told story]
Par Lily Xiao Hong Lee, Sue Wiles. 1999
The Long March of 1934-5 is the central event in modern Chinese history. Virtually all of China's later Communist leaders…
took part, and the March has been the subject of many books and films. Most of what has already been written on the Long March is about the men: figures such as Mao Zedong, Zhou Enlai and Deng Xiaoping. This is the story of the women who took part in the Long March, seen through the biographies of three key players. Lee and Wiles trace the women's stories in three time periods: the Long March itself, a decade later at liberation and then forty years later. Drawing on interviews and published and unpublished sources, it is a moving account of a little understood group of women. 1999.The Yamato dynasty: the secret history of Japan's imperial family
Par Sterling Seagrave, Peggy Seagrave. 1999
Authors of "The Marcos Dynasty" and "The Soong Dynasty" scrutinize Japan's royal family, gauge the extent of their complicity in…
World War II, and investigate alleged postwar collusion with General Douglas MacArthur in rebuilding the country. The Seagraves claim many Japanese business and political leaders are embroiled in corruption. 1999.