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Journal
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Hélène Berr |
From April 1942 to March 1944, Hélène Berr, a recent graduate of the Sorbonne, kept a journal that is an intensely moving, intimate and harrowing text of astonishing literary maturity. Her last recor… |
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De l'autre côté de l'eau
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Dominique de La Motte |
165 p. : 20 cm |
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Journal d'un rappelé d'Algérie
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Claude Rosales |
"Quantité d'ouvrages ont déjà été publiés sur ce que l'on a bien longtemps appelé pudiquement "Maintien de l'ordre et Opérations de police" et que depuis peu l'on ose enfin nommer 'La guerre d'Algéri… |
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Vietnam, qu'as-tu fait de tes fils?
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Pierre Darcourt |
The story of South Vietnam of 1975 when it fell under communist domination.
Chapter 1: Sous le signe du buffle favorable
Ch2 : Hanoi sape le credit de Saigon
Ch3: La campagne Ho Chi Minh
Ch4: Th… |
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Gardens of stone
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Stephen Grady |
September 2011, Halkidiki, Northern Greece: A solitary 86 year-old man gazes across an Aegean headland, knowing that he must finally confront his past. He begins to write. September 1939, Nieppe, Nor… |
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My battle of Algiers
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Ted Morgan |
Historian and biographer Morgan recalls a war that we would do well not to forget, recounting his own experiences as a French soldier in the savage Algerian War in 1956-1957. A Yale graduate who had … |
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33 days
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Léon Werth |
"A rare eyewitness account by an important author of fleeing the Nazis' march on Paris in 1940, featuring a never-before-published introduction by Antoine de Saint-Exupery. In June of 1940, Leon Wert… |
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Marcel's letters
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Carolyn Porter |
"A graphic designer's search for inspiration leads to a cache of letters and the mystery of one man's fate during World War II. Seeking inspiration for a new font design in an antique store in small-… |
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Une terrasse en Algérie
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Jean-Louis Comolli |
"We met on the terrace of the Excelsior. Every night. Fifteen years was our age. Algeria was still a French colony, but the war, under the name of "pacification", had entered the scene, sweeping Albe… |
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Geschichten aus Dachau
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Joseph Rovan |
An autobiographical account by a German Jew (later professor of German history and political sciences at the Sorbonne) who was arrested for resistance activities in France in 1944 and sent to Dachau.… |
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Under fire
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Henri Barbusse |
Henri Barbusse's Under Fire: The Story of a Squad (in the original French Le Feu: journal d'une escouade) was one of the first novels about World War I. Published at the end of 1916, it was based on … |
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Wine and war
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Don Kladstrup |
In 1940, France fell to the Nazis and almost immediately the German army began a campaign of pillaging one of the assets the French hold most dear: their wine. Like others in the French Resistance, w… |
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Résistance
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Agnès Humbert |
A real-life Suite Française, this riveting diary by a key female member of the French Resistance in WWII is translated into English for the first time. Agnès Humbert was an art historian in Paris dur… |
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Tank-fighter team
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Robert M. Gerard |
The story of a Groupe Franc de Cavalerie lieutenant, who fought the German invasion of France during the weeks prior to the Fall of France (WWII). |
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Pilote de guerre
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Antoine de Saint-Exupéry |
Flight to Arras is Saint-Exupéry's recollection of the final shattering days during World War II when, though the defeat of France was imminent, a pitifully inadequate number of French pilots and the… |
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