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North Atlantic run: the Royal Canadian Navy and the battle for the convoys
Par Marc Milner. 1985
Nexus (Littératures)
Par Henry Miller, Christian Séruzier. 2004
"Nexus", publié en 1960, devait être suivi d'un second volume, mais le projet de "Nexus 2" fut laissé en plan…
en 1962 après 112 feuillets. Ainsi, la conclusion à la trilogie "Crucifixion en rose" restera inachevée. Précisons que "Nexus 2" constitue la chronique des déplacements, en 1928, de Miller et de son épouse June dans divers pays d'Europe, dont la France, le Royaume-Uni, la Hongrie, etc. Les scènes érotiques abondent, et pas seulement avec June (nommée ici "Mona"). 2004.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.Nagasaki: life after nuclear war
Par Susan Southard. 2015
Published to coincide with the seventieth anniversary of the bombing of Nagasaki, a narrative of human resilience, told through first-hand…
experiences of five survivors, reveals the physical, emotional, and social challenges of post-atomic life. 2015.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.Near myths: a love affair with Greece
Par John Ebdon. 1989
John Ebdon's affection for the Greeks is without stint, and his curiosity about them and their beautiful surroundings is boundless.…
As a wise old man from the island of Siphos once said to him, "You see Yanni, when a Greek is born, he follows life - and wins it. And then, Yanni, he enjoys life! Endaxi? OK? Bravo!". Not a bad lesson for any of us! 1989.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.Narrow dog to Carcassonne
Par Terry Darlington. 2005
Terry and Monica Darlington are intrepid pensioners who made the surprising decision to sail their canal narrowboat Phillis May, sixteen…
hundred miles across France and down to the Mediterranean, accompanied only by their whippet Jim. They took advice from nautical experts, who told them they would lose their boat and their lives (and, indeed, Jim). It is a true story of high adventure in France, England, Belgium and out at sea, as experienced by two innocents and a reluctant dog. Some strong language. 2005.Murray was the United Kingdom's Ambassador to Uzbekistan until he was removed from his post in October 2004 after exposing…
appalling human rights abuse by the US funded regime of the President of Islam Karimov. In this memoir, he lays bare the dark and dirty underside of the War on Terror. 2007.Mrs. Adams in winter: a journey in the last days of Napoleon
Par Michael O'Brien. 2010
Bancroft Prize-winning British historian re-creates the forty-day journey by Louisa Catherine Adams and her seven-year-old son from St. Petersburg, Russia,…
to Paris during the winter of 1815. Provides an in-depth look at the early life of the future American first lady, wife of John Quincy Adams. 2010.Mothers in the fatherland: women, the family, and Nazi politics
Par Claudia Koonz. 1986
Les geishas, ou, Le monde des fleurs et des saules
Par Robert Guillain. 1988
Très peu d'Occidentaux sont parvenus à pénétrer et à comprendre le monde secret des geishas japonaises. Robert Guillain, qui a…
vécu 40 ans en Asie, nous livre sur cet univers un témoignage sans précédent. 1988.Les services secrets chinois: de Mao aux JO
Par Roger Faligot. 2008
Cette enquête menée sur plusieurs années sur les services de renseignements chinois et les coulisses de la politique internationale de…
Pékin est issue des archives américaines, françaises, russes et chinoises. L'auteur a interviewé des spécialistes de la diplomatie, des responsables de la défense, et met à jour les performances du renseignement chinois fondées sur l'art de la guerre secrète. 2008.Dictionnaire insolite de la Norvège ((Dictionnaire insolite).)
Par Ingrid Van Houdenhove, Simon Descamps. 2014
" Si à Oslo règne Harald V, la vraie souveraineté en Norvège est bien celle de la nature. Cliché ?…
Réalité ! L'outdoor s'enseigne à l'école. Les Sâmes continuent à élever des rennes mais ont leur parlement depuis 1989. Se rendre en Norvège, c'est avant tout rencontrer un mode de vie original, où le repas chaud se prend à 17 heures et où la pizza surgelée est élevée au rang de plat national. On s'y régale de fromage brun, d'oeufs et de langue de morue tandis que le saumon n'est pas un plat de fête. On peut aussi planter sa tente partout ou dormir dans des hôtels de glace... " -- 4e de couv.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.Miles away: a walk across France
Par Miles Morland. 1992
In 1989 Miles Morland gave up his high-pressure job in the London office of a Wall Street firm--with no specific…
plans for the future. His wife Guislaine, whom he had divorced and remarried, suggested they walk across southern France. Morland recounts their preparations for the trip, their blistering trek, the French history they learned, the side trips they made, and their delight in being together. Some strong language. 1992.Megève, un roman d'amour (Memoires - Temoignages - Biographies Ser. #Vol. 6089742)
Par Nadine De Rothschild. 2004
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.Mediterranean: portrait of a sea
Par Ernle Dusgate Selby Bradford. 1971
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.