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Paroles d'enfants dans la guerre: journaux intimes d'enfants et de jeunes gens, 1914-2004
By Zlata Filipovic, Melanie Challenger. 2006
Tous les jours, nous voyons les ravages de la guerre à la télévision. Nous voyons, mais nous ne voulons pas…
vraiment savoir. Ces enfants, eux, ont vécu la guerre. Leurs journaux sont bouleversants. Ces "Paroles d'enfants dans la guerre" constituent un témoignage exceptionnel. De l'Allemagne de 1914 à l'Irak de 2004, la douleur et la force qui émanent des journaux sont les mêmes. Dans la violence de la guerre, les enfants sont égaux. Et notre impuissance à empêcher leur souffrance devient, devant ces voix d'enfants qui s'élèvent, un renoncement insupportable. Quelques descriptions de violence. Pour les lecteurs d'école secondaire et plus. 2006.During WWI, the battle for the tiny Belgium town of Passchendaele was one of the most significant tests of Canadian…
courage and expertise. General Haig ordered a headlong attack into the heavily fortified German entrenchments, to capture the town and drive toward the coast to destroy German submarine bases. General Currie's Canadian Corps, known as unstoppable 'storm troopers', was called to the front. For junior high and older readers. 2008.Paths to freedom
By Bob Kellow. 1992
In 1943, RAF officer Bob Kellow had to bail out over northern Holland and then had to escape through Belgium…
and France to Spain. He was back in England 12 weeks after he landed in Holland. This is the story of people in the Underground Movement who assisted Kellow and other soldiers to escape. 1992.Paralympian: my autobiography
By Stephen Miller. 2008
Stephen Miller is one of Britain's most successful athletes. Record-breaking Stephen, who has Cerebral Palsy, has won three Paralympic gold…
medals, plus dozens of other international accolades in the club and discus events, and will endeavour to win more at Beijing 2008 and London 2012. A writer and poet, Stephen's inspirational autobiography tells of his struggles and triumphs. Strong language. 2008.Patton's ghost corps: cracking the Siegfried Line
By Nathan Prefer. 1998
Account of troops in the 94th Infantry Division of the XX Corps who were left to defend the entire front…
line while the Battle of the Bulge raged north of their position. Describes how the new recruits faced seasoned veterans of the Third Reich, as well as freezing snow, ice, and fog. 1998.Patton's gap: an account of the Battle of Normandy 1944 (Canadian)
By Richard Rohmer. 1982
Rohmer's account of one of World War II's most famous battles presents a new theory which maintains that British General…
Montgomery failed to have American General Patton close the Falaise Gap through which the German army escaped. 1982.Parachutées en terre ennemie: Portraits D'espionnes
By Amélie De Maupeou, Monika Siedentopf. 2008
1942 : Winston Churchill autorise le recrutement de femmes, plus adaptées à certaines missions délicates que lance le Special Operations…
Executive (SOE), une organisation secrète destinée à soutenir la résistance européenne à l'ennemi nazi. On les veut vives, intelligentes, courageuses, audacieuses, et séduisantes si possible ! C'est ainsi que les trente-neuf candidates de la section F viennent d'horizons multiples à l'image même de leurs motivations. Leur histoire pleine de rebondissements et, pour treize d'entre elles, terriblement dramatique est étrangement méconnue en France. 2008.Overlord: D-Day and the battle for Normandy
By Max Hastings. 1984
On 6 June 1944, the British and American armies staged the greatest amphibious landing in history to begin operation Overland,…
the battle for the liberation of Europe. Forty years later with the wealth of untapped sources and documents now available, Max Hastings offers a new study of D-Day and the Battle of Normandy which overturns a host of traditional legends. 1984.Marqués du triangle rose
By Ken Setterington, Daoud Najm. 2018
Avant les années 1930, l'Allemagne, et en particulier sa capitale, Berlin, était l'un des endroits les plus tolérants envers les…
homosexuels. Des militants comme Thomas Mann et Albert Einstein ont ouvertement milité pour les droits des gais. Mais tout cela change quand le Parti nazi arrive au pouvoir. La vie des homosexuels devient alors rapidement un enfer : raids, arrestations, emprisonnement et expulsions deviennent monnaie courante. Lorsque les camps de concentration sont construits, les homosexuels sont emprisonnés en même temps que les autres groupes que les nazis veulent supprimer. Le triangle rose, cousu sur les uniformes des camps, devient ainsi le symbole de la persécution des homosexuels, une persécution qui continuera pendant de nombreuses années après la guerre. 2018. Titre uniforme: Branded by the pink triangle.Otages, de Beyrouth à Bagdad: journal d'un correspondant de guerre
By Roger Auque. 2005
Journaliste depuis 25 ans, ex-otage français au Liban, détenu pendant un an par les intégristes musulmans, Roger Auque est depuis…
deux ans un correspondant permanent à Bagdad pour la chaîne info LCI, la télévision francophone TV5, RMC Infos, mais aussi pour des radios et des télévisions canadiennes ou suisses. Présent à Bagdad depuis janvier 2003, il nous relate, vu de Bagdad, le feuilleton des négociations pour la libération des otages, sa perception des différents intervenants autour de l'ambassadeur de France, l'équipée du député Didier Julia, le rôle crucial de Charles Marchiani, et nous fait partager son émotion lors de leur libération. Un moment qui lui rappelle sa propre histoire, sa détention à Beyrouth, en 1988, les lourdes séquelles qu'il en a gardées et la dépression qui s'en est suivie. 2005.Bacque investigates the treatment received by German POWs following the end of World War II. Bacque alleges that hundreds of…
thousands of German prisoners were stripped of their rights under the Geneva Convention, and died of starvation and preventable diseases or were used as slave labour by the French. 1989.Le régiment de Maisonneuve vers la victoire, 1944-1945
By Gérard Marchand. 1980
Voici le récit des péripéties vécues par les soldats du Régiment de Maisonneuve durant la phase la plus meurtrière de…
la Seconde Guerre mondiale. Vous revivrez de l'intérieur les drames et les joies de ces combattants dont la vie ne tenait qu'à un fil. 1980.Ordinary men: Reserve Police Battalion 101 and the Final Solution in Poland
By Christopher R Browning. 2017
The true story of Reserve Police Battalion 101 of the German Order Police, which was responsible for mass shootings as…
well as round-ups of Jewish people for deportation to Nazi death camps in Poland in 1942. Browning argues that most of the men of RPB 101 were not fanatical Nazis but, rather, ordinary middle-aged, working-class men who committed these atrocities out of a mixture of motives, including the group dynamics of conformity, deference to authority, role adaptation, and the altering of moral norms to justify their actions. Very quickly three groups emerged within the battalion: a core of eager killers, a plurality who carried out their duties reliably but without initiative, and a small minority who evaded participation in the acts of killing without diminishing the murderous efficiency of the battalion whatsoever. 2017.Operation Paperclip: the secret intelligence program that brought Nazi scientists to America
By Annie Jacobsen. 2014
Annie Jacobsen pulls the curtain back on one of the most complex and nefarious government secrets of the twentieth century,…
when the US government secretly allowed some of the Third Reich's most brilliant scientific minds to work in this country without the public's knowledge. 2014.Operation Mincemeat: the true spy story that changed the course of World War II
By Ben Macintyre. 2010
Operation Mincemeat was the most successful wartime deception ever attempted, and certainly the strangest. It hoodwinked the Nazi espionage chiefs,…
sent German troops hurtling in the wrong direction, and saved thousands of lives by deploying a secret agent who was different, in one crucial respect, from any spy before or since: he was dead. Ben Macintyre weaves together private documents, photographs, memories, letters and diaries, as well as newly released material from the intelligence files of MI5 and Naval Intelligence, to tell for the first time the full story. 2010.Open your hearts: the story of the Jewish war orphans in Canada
By Fraidie Martz. 1996
From 1947 to 1949, the Canadian government reluctantly allowed 1,123 children, survivors of the Holocaust, into the country. Drawing on…
archival materials, memoirs, interviews and diaries, it describes how these young people, though traumatized by their war-time experiences, flourished in the care of their community and became productive citizens. Their stories also may hold lessons for current Canadian immigration policy.One woman's war: a Canadian reporter with the Free French
By Gladys Arnold. 1987
The author was the Paris correspondent for Canadian Press during the first part of World War II. She was the…
only Canadian reporter to experience the invasion of France by the Germans in 1940. She returned to Canada in 1941 to work for the cause of the Free French. 1987.Le crash et le défi, survivre (À vrai dire)
By Johanne De Montigny. 1985
29 mars, 1979. Un F-27 de Québécair quitte l'aéroport de L'Ancienne-Lorette à destination de Montréal. Une minute 48 seconds plus…
tard, c'est le crash. Bilan: 17 morts. Voici le récit bouleversant d'une des sept passagers qui ont eu la vie sauve. 1985.One day in August: the untold story behind Canada's tragedy at Dieppe
By David R O'Keefe. 2013
For seven decades, the objective for the Dieppe raid has been one of the most perplexing mysteries of World War…
II. After almost two decades of research, David O’Keefe skillfully pieces together the story like a jigsaw puzzle to reveal the prime reason behind the raid: a highly secret mission designed, in one of Britain’s darkest times, to redress the balance of the war. c2013.Ô Jérusalem: récit
By Dominique Lapierre. 1971
Les événements, qui vont de novembre 1947 à juillet 1948 à Jérusalem, qui marquent le départ des Anglais et le…
début du conflit israélo-arabe. Un formidable récit historique débordant d'aventures, de drames, d'amour, d'héroïsme et de secrets révélés. Un livre clé qui permet de comprendre la guerre entre les Juifs et Arabes. 1994, c1971.