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By Didier Fischer. 2002
By Pascal Bruckner, Alain Finkielkraut. 1979
By Judith Perrignon, Marceline Loridan-Ivens. 2015
" La cinéaste, déportée alors qu'elle était adolescente, écrit une lettre à son père disparu à Auschwitz. Une vie plus…
tard, en souvenir d'un message qu'il lui a transmis avant de disparaître, elle se remémore la haine des nazis, l'amour de ce père idéaliste et la recherche de la paix. Prix de l'Académie des Lilas 2015. " -- 4e de couv.By Peter Schneider, Nicole Casanova. 2002
À travers l'étonnante histoire de Konrad Latte, un musicien juif qui survécut aux années du nazisme en Allemagne, Peter Schneider…
dresse le portrait des Justes allemands, ces citoyens ordinaires qui ont décidé un jour qu'ils devaient aider à sauver les juifs. 2002.Après nous avoir révélé en 2006 les coulisses de L'Après de Gaulle, Jean Mauriac relate ici pour la première fois…
sa longue aventure politique et journalistique avec l'homme du 18 juin, auprès duquel il fut accrédité par l'AFP dès la Libération et jusqu'à la mort du Général en novembre 1970. Seul reporter à avoir accompagné de Gaulle dans tous ses déplacements officiels - de ses premières visites aux villes libérées en septembre 1944 à leur croisière dans le Pacifique en 1956, de la « tournée des popotes » en Algérie à ses périples africains au temps de la décolonisation, et jusqu'à ses séjours privés en Irlande et en Espagne à la fin de sa vie -, Jean Mauriac a été aussi l'un des rares journalistes à qui de Gaulle ait parfois dévoué le fond de sa pensée et confié quelques-unes de ses intentions les plus secrètes. Relatant ce long compagnonnage, il ne cache pas la difficulté de concilier sa fidélité au Général et les exigences de son métier. Mais il résulte de cette expérience hors normes un témoignage extraordinairement proche, sensible, vivant, presque intimiste sur le personnage de Charles de Gaulle, saisi dans sa vie quotidienne à l'Élysée, lors de ses déplacements incessants en France et à l'étranger comme dans son exercice du pouvoir. Jean Mauriac évoque aussi une figure qui a naturellement beaucoup compté pour lui : celle de François Mauriac. Il brosse un portrait émouvant et assez inattendu de son père, de sa famille, la complexe tribu des Mauriac dont il est un des derniers survivants.By Michel Renouard. 2012
" Derrière le héros mythique, joué par Peter O'Toole dans le célèbre film de David Lean, se cache un personnage…
complexe, non exempt de zones d'ombre. Archéologue et agent de renseignement, homme d'action et auteur des Sept Piliers de la sagesse, Thomas Edward Lawrence (1888 - 1935) se disait à moitié poète, se voulait intouchable, et mourut prématurément dans un accident de moto. Ce livre retrace la vie et les aventures de l'insaisissable Lawrence d'Arabie, dont Winston Churchill affirmait qu'il était un des êtres les plus extraordinaires de son temps. " -- 4e de couv.By J. Douglas Harvey. 1984
By Marie Simon, Bernard Lortholary. 2015
" Tu sors sans étoile ? me demanda l'oncle Léo, indigné. Oui, je suis venue vous dire au revoir. J'irai…
ensuite voir Recha, répliquai-je. Tu peux t'en dispenser. Ils l'ont emmenée, dit-il sèchement. Tu nous déranges. Nous n'avons pas le temps. Mes soeurs sont occupées à préparer notre déportation. Elle est imminente. Excuse-moi. Je ne vais pas vous retenir longtemps. Je voulais seulement vous dire au revoir. Qu'est ce que tu imagines en ne répondant pas aux convocations ? Je veux survivre !" La retranscription des 77 cassettes du témoignage oral que Hermann Simon, le fils de Marie, a recueilli et édité. Retrace le parcours et la descente aux enfers de sa mère à partir de 1940. " -- 4e de couv. Titre uniforme: Untergetaucht : eine junge Frau überlebt in Berlin, 1940-1945.By Juliette Nouel-Rénier. 2007
Aujourd'hui, tout le monde peut expliquer d'où viennent les bébés. Mais, on ne l'a pas toujours su. Depuis la Préhistoire…
(les femmes font-elles des bébés toutes seules ?) jusqu'au 19e siècle, ce livre soulève les questions que les hommes se sont posées pour élucider ce mystère. Années 3-6 et plus. 2007.By Abu Bakr al Rabeeah, Winnie Yeung. 2018
Tells the story of Abu Bakr al Rabeeah, a young boy whose family moved from Iraq to Syria just before…
the start of the Syrian civil war. It recounts what it was like living in Syria during this time -- the normal things like video games, sleepovers, and family jarringly juxtaposed with car bombings, massacres, and the constant threat of what could happen next. In 2014 the family finally found safety in immigrating to Edmonton, Canada, and the book also recounts both the gratefulness and the loneliness of the family's immigration experience. 2018.By Philip Gray. 2005
Journalist Gray was the World War II Captain of the crew of a Lancaster bomber, as the RAF took the…
war right into the heart of Germany. Both Gray and his crew felt they were in charge of the undisputed king of the skies, the "mighty Lanc", but danger lurked around every corner. Here, Gray reveals the true relationships between himself and his team, and between the team members themselves. 2005.By Mel Rolfe. 2003
Born into grinding poverty, McIntosh was a few days old when he was given by his young mother to her…
parents to bring up. This book tells the story of how the RAF finally accepted McIntosh after at first rejecting him, but then initially gave him the lowliest of jobs. He eventually trained as an air gunner and during his time with 207 Squadron, based at Langar, Nottinghamshire and Spilsby in Lincolnshire, he flew over 50 sorties during World War II. Although Bomber Command did not record details of "kills" by air gunners, Wallace, who shot down eight enemy aircraft with one probable, is widely believed to be its top sharpshooter. 2003.By Christina Lamb. 2007
In 1939, before compulsory call-up, Christian Lamb felt she had to 'do her bit' for the war effort. Her comfortable…
life was about to be turned upside down. With her naval background, the WRNS was the obvious choice - with its attractive uniform and tricorne hat - but this was for officers only, the first of many nasty surprises. This book gives an account of what life was truly like for the wartime Wrens. 2007.By Karen Levine. 2002
In March 2000, a suitcase arrived at a children's Holocaust education centre in Tokyo, Japan, with the name Hana Brady…
painted in white on the outside. The centre's curator searches for clues across Europe and North America to find out who Hana was and what had happened to her. Her journey takes her back through seventy years to a young Hana and her family, whose happy life in a small Czech town was turned upside down by the invasion of the Nazis. Winner of the 2003 Silver Birch Award. Winner of the 2003 CNIB Tiny Torgi Award. Grades 4-7. 2002.By Nathaniel Tripp. 1996
A writer's account of his combat experiences as an infantry platoon leader in Vietnam. Depicts the deteriorating morale of American…
forces following the Tet Offensive in 1968. He interweaves stories of home and family with his war recollections. Includes strong language, violence, and sex. c1996.By Josephine Butler. 1991
Dr Butler, French educated and with a medical degree from the Sorbonne, was recruited by Churchill as the sole woman…
in his "Secret Circle", twelve intelligence agents who answered only to him. Flown more than fifty times into occupied France, arrested by the Gestapo for insulting two officers and under constant threat of discovery and death, here is the dramatic story of an Englishwoman who led a Resistance group. She describes both the inner circles who planned the war and the ordinary people of an invaded land. 1991.By Bill Newton Dunn. 1992
The biography provides an account of one airman's very distinguished career, a man who did not survive the war. Known…
throughout the RAF as 'L-M', he commanded one of the two main Fighter Groups during the Battle of Britain. He later rose to be C-in-C Fighter Command and commanded the Allied air attack on Dieppe in 1942. 1992.By Diane Atkinson. 2009
Elsie Knocker, 30, a divorced mother of one, and Mairi Gooden-Chisholm, an upper-class Scottish teenager, found their calling in Pervyse,…
Belgium during World War I. They drove packed frontline ambulances and nursed wounded soldiers in the midst of shelling and gravely unhygienic conditions. The startling end of the women's friendship remains the subject of speculation. Some descriptions of violence. 2009.By Deborah Ellis. 2012
What has happened to Afghanistan's children since the fall of the Taliban in 2001? In 2011, Deborah Ellis went to…
Kabul to find out. She interviewed children who spoke about their lives now. They are still living in a country torn apart by war, and violence and oppression still exist, particularly affecting the lives of girls, but the kids are surviving with courage and optimism. Some descriptions of violence. Grades 4-7. 2012.By David L Bashow. 2000
More than 13, 000 Canadian men flew with the British flying services during the First World War and at least…
171 of them became ace scout or fighter pilots. Of the twenty-six Empire aces with thirty or more claims, ten were Canadian. They were the knights of the air. 2000.