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By Stephen E Ambrose, Alain Deschamps. 2002
À la veille du débarquement allié de 1944, une unité d'élite, la compagnie E de la 101e division aéroportée de…
l'armée de terre américaine - 140 hommes - , est parachutée dans l'arrière-pays normand. Au prix de combats meurtriers, elle va contribuer à bloquer la contre-offensive allemande. Historien, spécialiste de la Seconde Guerre mondiale, l'auteur a dépouillé toutes les archives et rencontré les survivants pour composer, jour par jour, le récit de cette extraordinaire épopée. Descriptions régulières de violence. 2004, c2002. Titre uniforme: Band of brothers.By Didier Fischer. 2002
By Lytta Basset. 2007
En 2001, le fils de l'auteure, pasteure et théologienne protestante dont toute l'oeuvre est centrée sur la notion de malheur,…
se suicidait à l'âge de 24 ans. Pendant plusieurs mois, elle prit quotidiennement note des événements et des sentiments qui l'habitaient. Avec le recul, elle commente ses notes et tente de les interpréter à la lumière de la psychologie et des Evangiles.By Christophe Fauré. 2007
By Patrick Poivre D'Arvor. 1995
Puisque Solenn a choisi de mettre fin au combat qu'elle menait depuis trois ans contre les démons de sa maladie,…
je voudrais, comme Patrick, que sa disparition soit un signal d'alarme. J'aimerais que ce livre, écrit dans l'urgence de la douleur, soit un cri vers tous ceux et celles, adolescents ou préadolescents, qui seraient tentés par la terrible impasse du suicide. La souffrance qui se lit dans ces pages, à travers les lettres reçues, est celle, indicible, de Solenn et de milliers d'autres. C'est celle aussi des parents qui assistent, impuissants, à la destruction de leur enfant. Si cette souffrance qui a été la nôtre peut aider tous ceux qui ont été ou vont être confrontés à l'anorexie ou à la boulimie, alors Solenn ne sera pas morte pour rien.By Primo Levi, Nathalie Bauer. 2004
Pourquoi l'enfer des camps ? Pourquoi la destruction ? Pourquoi l'incapacité de l'homme à assimiler les leçons de l'Histoire ?…
En marge de ses récits sur Auschwitz, Primo Levi n'a cessé de s'interroger sur ce noyau incompréhensible de l'action humaine révélé par la Shoah, comme en témoigne ce recueil de textes rédigés entre 1955 et 1987. De là, Primo Levi tire les fils qui mènent au révisionnisme et au terrorisme, dénonce la répétition de l'Histoire, s'interroge sur la meilleure façon de transmettre ce que d'aucuns ont abandonné à l'indicible, s'exposant sans trêve au rôle de témoin. Des textes d'une passionnante actualité à travers lesquels se dessine une autobiographie à la fois scientifique, littéraire, politique et morale. 2004. Titre uniforme: L'asimmetria e la vita.By Marek Halter. 1995
L'auteur, un Juif qui a fui les persécutions nazies au cours de la Seconde Guerre mondiale, esquisse le portrait des…
hommes et des femmes, qui, en des temps dominés par les lâches et les tueurs, n'ont pas hésité à sauver la vie à des milliers de Juifs au péril de la leur. Leurs actions ont permis de ne pas désespérer de l'humanité. En rendant un vibrant hommage à ces Justes, en restituant leurs témoignages longtemps passés sous silence, l'auteur a voulu créer une mémoire du Bien. Car le Bien, dit-il, est l'espoir et sans ce dernier, on ne peut vivre. 1995.By Nicholas P Wolterstorff. 1987
Loin d'adopter un regard strictement français, Olivier Wieviorka replace le débarquement dans le contexte d'une guerre mondiale. S'appuyant sur des…
sources inédites il retrace cette longue épopée, des tout premiers projets à l'assaut final. 2007.By Ella Burakowski. 2015
The Gold family lived an idyllic life in pre-war Poland, but that life was shattered in 1939 when Germany invaded…
Poland and Jewish people were forced into the streets, their homes, schools, and businesses burned. Eventually, the Golds hid in a cramped, secret enclosure for twenty-six months. Appalling conditions, starvation, fear of imminent betrayal and capture makes this a heart-stopping testament to the human spirit. For junior high readers. Winner of the 2017 Red Maple Non-Fiction Honour Book Award. 2015.By Carolyn Jackson, Ken Setterington, Malcolm Lester, Jonathan Schmidt. 2013
A history of the persecution of homosexuals by the Nazi regime during the years of the Holocaust. When the Nazis…
came to power in Europe, the lives of homosexuals came to be ruled by fear as raids, arrests, prison sentences and expulsions became the daily reality. When the concentration camps were built, homosexuals were imprisoned along with Jews. The pink triangle, sewn onto prison uniforms, became the symbol of their persecution. For junior and senior high readers. 2013.By Martin L Parsons. 1998
In this book Dr. Parsons looks behind the government propaganda and traditional portrayals of the evacuation in order to uncover…
the myths which have surrounded this period in British History. His analysis of documentary evidence reveals a more complex picture of evacuation than has hitherto been recognised. Parsons has also allowed the evacuees to speak for themselves through his collection of oral history testimonies. 1998.By Kathy Clark. 2009
Momma had always told Susan that there was no safe place for a Jew, especially in German-occupied Hungary in 1944.…
So why were twelve-year-old Susan and her sister, Vera, being sent to a convent to be kept safe? Susan and her sister soon discover the true nature of courage, sheltered by a group of nuns who risk their lives to protect them. Based on a true story. Grades 4-7. Some descriptions of violence. 2009.By Tony Spooner. 1992
Malta was a vital base from which Allied aircraft could inflict serious damage on the crucial Axis supply route to…
Rommel in North Africa. In order to secure that route the might of the Luftwaffe and Italian Air Forces were thrown together against the tiny island, affecting not just the defending servicemen and women but the entire population. Heavily bombed and running short of fuel and food, the island laboured to stand firm in the face of the enemy. This book describes how the RAF and FAA fighter, bomber, torpedo and reconnaissance aircraft crews took the fight to the enemy and triumphantly succeeded with every odd stacked against them. 1992.By Dudley Pope. 1998
FLAG 4, the signal for attack with torpedoes, is an account of the actions of British motor torpedo boats and…
US PT-boats in the Mediterranean during the Second World War. It is based on the eyewitness accounts of the officers and men who served in these perilous actions. 1998.By Robin Neillands, Roderick De Normann. 1994
This is the story of one day, fifty miles of French coast and about 200,000 men: of Operation "Overlord" and…
the events of June 6th, 1944. Told in the words of those who were there, from commanding officers to privates, are the tales of British, Canadian, American and German soldiers, sailors and airmen and the men and women of the French resistance. Here is a full account of the largest, most complex invasion in the history of warfare. 1994.By Pamela Howe Taylor. 1997
Using letters, diaries and newspaper reports the text tells of the people of Oswaldtwistle in Lancashire at the end of…
the Second World War, who welcomed German prisoners of war from the local camp into their homes at Christmas, and later they scraped together food and clothing to send to those same prisoners when they were repatriated to a devastated Germany. 1997.By Stephen H Morgan, John A Weal. 1998
The Third Reich's last ditch efforts to sweep the massed Allied bomber formations from the skies of Germany centred around…
the new crop of jet 'wonder weapons' that were issued to the 'Jagdwaffe' from mid-1944 onwards. Despite operating from autobahns and forest runways, always being short of the exotic fuels necessary and lacking any strength in numbers, a handful of pilots amassed amazing scores in the last year of the war on these aircraft, flying with units like JG 7, JV 44 and NJG 11. This is their story. 1998.By Anna Porter. 2007
In summer 1944, Rezso Kasztner, a lawyer and journalist, met with Adolf Eichmann in Budapest, where the two men made…
an agreement that allowed 1,684 Jews to leave for Switzerland by train. In other manoeuvrings, Kastzner may also have saved another 40,000 Jews already in the camps. Kasztner was later judged for having "sold his soul to the devil", and prior to being exonerated, he was murdered in Israel in 1957. Some explicit descriptions of violence and strong language. 2007.By Mark Zuehlke. 2004
On June 6, 1944, the greatest armada in history stood off Normandy and the largest amphibious invasion ever began, as…
107,000 men aboard 6,000 ships attacked the French coast. Of the 18,000 Canadians involved in storming Juno Beach, one out of every six either died or was wounded, yet they were the only Allied troops to meet their objectives. Drawing on personal diaries as well as military records, the author depicts Canada's pivotal contribution to the most critical Allied battle of World War II. 2004.