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North Atlantic run: the Royal Canadian Navy and the battle for the convoys
Par Marc Milner. 1985
Nobody knows my name: more notes of a native son
Par James Baldwin. 2017
Night witches: the untold story of Soviet women in combat
Par Bruce Myles. 1990
In 1941, as the Nazi hordes swept eastward into the Soviet Union, the desperate call went out for female volunteers…
to join the Russian air force. Making up three regiments, the lives, exploits, loves and fears of these women are captured here - the pilots whom the Germans came to dread as the "Night witches". 1990.Next: petit livre sur la globalisation et le monde à venir
Par Alessandro Baricco, Françoise Brun. 2002
Ce livre est né en 2001 lors du G8 qui a eu lieu à Gênes. Il s'agit de quatre articles…
remaniés et enrichis qui furent précédemment publiés dans 'Repubblica'. L'auteur tente de "comprendre ce qu'est la globalisation, en se servant des contributions des experts et d'une bonne dose d'ingénuité". Un petit voyage qui n'a pas pour objectif de faire le tour de la question, mais qui arrive à démolir les idées préconçues et propose des avenues à explorer. Beaucoup d'humour, d'exemples et de compassions. 2002.Naples '44: an intelligence officer in the Italian labyrinth
Par Norman Lewis. 2002
Norman Lewis arrived in Naples as an Intelligence Officer attached to the American Fifth Army. By 1944 the city's inhabitants…
were so destitute that all the tropical fish in the aquarium had been devoured, and numbers of respectable women had been driven to prostitution. The mafia gradually became so indispensable to the occupying forces that it succeeded in regaining its former power. Despite the cruelty and suffering he encountered, Lewis writes in the diary, "were I given the chance to be born again, Italy would be the country of my choice." 2002.Native: dispatches from an Israeli-Palestinian life
Par Sayed Qashu. 2016
An Arab-Israeli, Kashua started writing (in Hebrew) with the hope of creating one story that both Palestinians and Israelis could…
relate to, rather than two that cannot coexist together. Here he writes about his children’s upbringing and encounters with racism, fatherhood and married life, the Jewish-Arab conflict, his professional ambitions, travels around the world as an author, and his love of books and literature. He reflects on social and cultural dynamics as experienced by someone who straddles two societies. 2016. Uniform title: Ben Haaretz.Nemesis: the battle for Japan, 1944-45
Par Max Hastings. 2008
A masterly narrative history of the climactic battles of the Second World War. The battle for Japan that ended many…
months after the battle for Europe involved enormous naval, military and air operations from the borders of India to the most distant regions of China. The great naval battle of Leyte Gulf; the war in China; the re-conquest of Burma by the British Army under General Slim; the Marines on Iwojima and Okinawa; LeMay's Super-fortress assaults on Japan; the atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki; the kamikaze pilots of Japan; the Soviet blitzkrieg in Manchuria in the last days of the war; and the terrible final acts across Japanese-occupied Asia. 2008.My life with Bob: flawed heroine keeps book of books, plot ensues
Par Pamela Paul. 2017
For twenty-eight years, Pamela Paul has been keeping a diary that records the books she reads, rather than the life…
she leads. Or does it? Over time, it's become clear that this Book of Books, or Bob, as she calls him, tells a much bigger story. For Paul, books reflect her inner life-- her fantasies and hopes, her dreams and ideas. And her life, in turn, influences which books she chooses, whether for solace or escape, diversion or self-reflection, information or entertainment. "My Life with Bob" isn't about what's in those books; it's about the relationship between books and readers. A testament to the power of books to provide the perspective, courage, companionship, and ultimately self-knowledge to forge our own path. 2017.Ten short years ago, Barack Obama became president of the United States, and changed the course of history. Ten short…
years ago, our America was hailed globally as a breathtaking example of democracy, as a rainbow coalition of everyday people marching to the same drum beat. We had finally overcome. But did we? Both the presidencies of Obama and Donald Trump have produced some of the ugliest divides in history: horrific racial murders, non-stop mass shootings, the explosion of attacks on immigrants and on the LGBTQ community, the rise of anti-Semitism and Islamophobia, a massive gap between the haves and the have-nots, and legions of women stepping forth to challenge sexual violence-and men-in all forms. In this collection of 13 essays, the author interweaves brutally honest personal stories with the saga of America, then and now. 2018.Myself with others: selected essays
Par Carlos Fuentes. 1988
In these essays the author reflects on the three great elements in his work: autobiography, love of literature and politics.…
He starts with his own beginnings as a writer, covers other writers such as Borges and Kundera, and ends with his most recent political statement, his commencement address at Harvard. This is not a translation; the author has used the English language alone. 1988.Mummies, bones & body parts (Photo Bks.)
Par Charlotte Wilcox. 2000
Describes various mummies preserved by glaciers, deserts, peat bogs and mountains from all over the world. Explains why anthropologists study…
these remains and what scientists learn from them. Conflicting attitudes toward the dead are discussed. For grades 4-7. 2000.Mothers in the fatherland: women, the family, and Nazi politics
Par Claudia Koonz. 1986
L'école des ponts jaunes: poème-vie (La voie des poètes)
Par Philippe Haeck. 2004
Philippe Haeck nous livre un poème-vie autour de l'école, composé de quarante-cinq fragments, chacun précédé et suivi d'un texte de…
création d'élèves. Un poème-vie sur l'importance d'explorer librement le territoire de l'imaginaire, sur la différence entre une parole qui rend compte d'une expérience et un discours ressassant un savoir théorique. 2004.C'est de l'eau: quelques pensées, exprimées en une occasion significative, pour vivre sa vie avec compassion
Par David Foster Wallace, Charles Recoursé. 2010
Enfants maudits: ils sont 200,000, on les appelait les "enfants de Boches"
Par Jean-Paul Picaper, Ludwig Norz. 2004
Issus des amours coupables de soldats allemands et de femmes du pays pendant l'Occupation, ces "enfants maudits", maintenant à l'âge…
de la retraite, veulent rompre le silence et enfin sortir de la clandestinité. Soixante ans après la fin de la Seconde Guerre mondiale, ils témoignent ici pour la première fois. Ce livre est pour eux un espoir. 2004.Memoirs of a book molesting childhood and other essays
Par Adele Wiseman. 1987
Essays on a variety of topics, from nostalgia for the passing of old ethnic markets to the author's pride in…
Canada's female authors, her early fascination with China, and the death of her mother. 1987.Meeting of generals
Par Tony Foster. 1986
Major-General Kurt Meyer of the German armed forces during World War II was charged as a war criminal for the…
murders of 43 soldiers. A court martial sentenced Meyer to death although no evidence was presented to prove he ordered the killings. 1987 winner of the Canadian Authors Association Literary Award. 1986.Masters and commanders: the military geniuses who led the West to victory in World War II
Par Andrew Roberts. 2009
'Masters and Commanders' describes how four men shaped the grand strategy of the West during the Second World War. The…
book traces the mutual suspicion and admiration, the rebuffs and the charm, the often explosive disagreements and wary reconciliations which characterized the relationships between them. 2009, c2008.Le livre d'Aron
Par Jim Shepard. 2016
Aron a 8 ans lorsqu'il se retrouve enfermé, avec toute sa famille, dans le ghetto de Varsovie. Pour ce petit…
garçon pauvre, habitué à se faire corriger, le ghetto est un autre terrain de jeux, nouveau et excitant. Mais très vite, l'horreur s'installe au coeur de la vie de tous les jours. La faim, le typhus font rage. Comment survivre ? Aron fait l'apprentissage du vol et du mensonge. Il découvre, mêlés l'un à l'autre, le sens de l'héroïsme et le goût de la trahison. Et rencontre l'homme qui va décider de son sort : le directeur de l'orphelinat, Janusz Korczak. Désormais, Aron a une mission. Saura-t-il se montrer à la hauteur de ce que l'on attend de lui ? 2016. Titre uniforme: The book of Aron.Le réseau Shelburne
Par Jean-Louis Morgan, Alain Stanké. 2017
Rares sont les témoignages des étrangers de l'ombre qui, au prix des mêmes périls que les résistants français, ont aidé…
ces derniers à s'approvisionner en armes, en argent et en faux papiers. Ces étrangers, dont nombre de Canadiens francophones, relevaient du SOE et du MI9. Frôlant cent fois la mort, ils ont prêté main forte aux maquis bretons lors d'actes de sabotage, ont assuré les communications avec les Alliés et exfiltré, principalement au cours de l'année 1944, quelque 135 aviateurs dont les appareils étaient tombés en territoire occupé. L'un de ces réseaux était animé par le sous-officier québécois Lucien Dumais, assisté de son compatriote Raymond Labrosse. Son nom ? Le réseau Shelburne. L'action de ces hommes et de ces femmes aura permis d'évacuer, en tout, 307 agents et soldats alliés. Les exploits peu croyables de ces héros - parmi lesquels David Birkin, père de Jane, lieutenant de canonnière - dormaient dans les archives des services secrets ou dans la mémoire des survivants. Les témoignages recueillis dans ce livre révèlent enfin au grand jour cet épisode crucial de la Seconde Guerre mondiale. 2017.