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By Charles Osborne. 1985
By John Nadler. 2003
When Gjorg returns to his home in Kosovo, he finds that many people are missing and rumoured to be murdered.…
His girlfriend is also torn away from him because he is Albanian and she is Serbian. When Gjorg meets John Nadler, he asks for help in finding his lost love. Some descriptions for violence. 2003.By Elma Softic, Nada Conic. 1995
When Serbian forces began bombing Sarajevo in the spring of 1992, Elma Softic was forced out of the comfort of…
a cosmopolitan lifestyle, and plunged into war. To escape the siege around her, and to try to understand what was happening, she kept a diary and began writing open letters to friends in Zagreb. These letters reached a growing public in Croatia and eventually Europe. This book is a collection of Elma's diaries and letters, from April 1992 to June 1995. 1995.By Stephan Talty. 2018
The untold story of the most important rescue mission not just of the Vietnam War, but the entire Cold War:…
one American aviator, who knew our most important secrets, crashed behind enemy lines and was sought by the entire North Vietnamese and Russian military machines. One Navy SEAL and his Vietnamese partner had to sneak past them all to save him. At the height of the Vietnam War, few American airmen are more valuable than Lt. Colonel Gene Hambleton. His memory is filled with highly classified information, and he knows secrets about cutting-edge missile technology that the Soviets and North Vietnamese badly want. When Hambleton is shot down behind enemy lines in the midst of North Vietnam's Easter Offensive, US forces place the entire war on hold to save a single man hiding amongst 30,000 enemy troops and tanks. Airborne rescue missions fail, killing eleven Americans. Finally, Navy SEAL Thomas Norris and his Vietnamese guide, Nguyen Van Kiet, volunteer to go after him on foot. Gliding past hundreds of enemy soldiers, it takes them days to reach a starving Hambleton, who, guided toward his rescuers via improvised radio code, is barely alive, starved, and hallucinating after eleven days on the run. In this deeply-researched, untold story, award-winning author Stephan Talty describes the extraordinary mission that led Hambleton to safety. Drawing from dozens of interviews and access to unpublished papers, Saving Bravo is the riveting story of one of the greatest rescue missions in the history of the Special Forces. 2018.By Zlatko Dizdarevic. 1993
The editor of Sarajevo's sole daily newspaper in the mid-1990s has drawn together nearly sixty of his previously published columns…
to form a journal of events in the besieged city. The author, who is Muslim and continues to live there with his Serbian wife and their family, chronicles the gradual destruction of the city, the actions of those in power, the daily carnage known as "ethnic cleansing," and the determination of those who choose not to leave. 1993. Uniform title: Journal de guerre.By Michael Petrou, Veronique Dassas, Colette St-Hilaire. 2015
Entre 1936 et 1939, près de 1 700 Canadiens ont défié la politique étrangère de leur gouvernement et se sont…
engagés comme volontaires dans la guerre civile espagnole. En faisant ce choix, ils quittaient la misère des camps de secours, des mines et des grandes villes pour aller combattre le fascisme dans un pays qui leur était inconnu. Ils furent plus de 400 à y perdre la vie. S'appuyant sur des archives de l'Internationale communiste rendues publiques récemment et sur les témoignages de vétérans qu'il a interviewés, Petrou raconte l'histoire de ces hommes. 2015. Titre uniforme: Renegades.By Andrew Loog Oldham, Nikola Acin. 2006
Manager des Rolling Stones de 1963 à 1967, l'auteur retrace les débuts du groupe de rock : rencontre dans la…
petite boîte londonienne du Crawdaddy, création de l'image de voyous sexy du groupe, premières compositions originales, succès de la chanson '(I can't get no) Satisfaction'. Descriptions explicites de nature sexuelle, beaucoup de langage grossier, et quelques descriptions de violence. 2006. Titre uniforme: Stoned/2 Stoned.By David Evanier. 2004
By age 8 Bobby Darin knew he was doomed to die young. So he set out to become a showbiz…
legend by age 25. From his Grammy-winning smash hit "Mack the Knife" to his Oscar-nominated supporting role in Captain Newman, M.D., Darin left his mark on every aspect of show business that he touched. Now, 32 years after his death at age 37, we finally have a written, multilayered portrait of this brash, gifted artist. 2004.By David Stafford. 1999
Explores the relationship between the United States president Franklin Roosevelt and the British prime minister Winston Churchill before and during…
the Second World War. Explains how the two leaders shared intelligence secrets, bribed Spain to remain neutral, and trusted each other despite conflicting postwar national interests. 1999.Hertig asserts that both the American and Canadian governments are intentionally misleading their citizens about the Pentagon's unprecedented plans to…
weaponize space, about the new Russian and Chinese nuclear missile build-ups, and about the destruction of important, long-standing arms control agreements. Other topics covered are why the so-called U.S. missile "defence" system is really about establishing a U.S. first-strike-from-space capability, why both Paul Martin and Stephen Harper want to join in George W. Bush's program, and how all these factors may be leading to a rapidly increasing danger of a nuclear apocalypse. 2004.By D. C. B Lieven. 2009
In the summer of 1812 after years of uneasy peace, Napoleon, the master of almost the whole continent, marched into…
Russia with the largest army ever assembled, confident that he would sweep everything before him. Less than two years later the Russian army was itself marching into Paris and Napoleon's empire lay in ruins. Using an array of new, rare and surprising sources, Dominic Lieven writes with great panache and insight to describe from the Russians' viewpoint how they went from retreat, defeat and the burning of Moscow to becoming the new liberators of Europe. 2009.By Eugene D Genovese. 1975
By François Bon. 2008
Plus fort que les Beatles, plus haut que les Stones. La décennie 70 est celle de Led Zep, dont le…
groupe anglais est l'exact marqueur : entre 1968 et 1980, deux musiciens de studio aguerris, deux amateurs d'à peine vingt ans et un producteur ancien catcheur dynamitent les canons de la pop music tout en brisant les derniers tabous d'une société déjà sens dessus dessous - sexe, drogue, alcool. Douze années, neuf albums, et le mystère à percer : que s'est-il joué alors pour que, quarante ans après, l'icône soit intacte ? Descriptions explicites de nature sexuelle, descriptions régulières de violence, et quelques passages où le langage est grossier. 2008.By Jon Swain. 1997
Account of the exodus in Vietnam and the fall of Cambodia to the Khmer Rouge, which Swain witnessed as a…
foreign correspondent in Indo-China from 1970-1975. Although shocked and horrified by the senseless killing around him, Swain admired and appreciated both the French colonists and native cultures he encountered. Descriptions of violence and some descriptions of sex. 1997.By Bernard-Henri Levy. 2001
Est-ce la fin ou le retour de l'Histoire? Qu'y a-t-il dans la tête d'un kamikaze? Pourquoi Hegel et Kojève croyaient-ils…
que le Mal n'a plus d'avenir? Qu'a confié le commandant Ma ssoud à l'auteur en 1981 puis en 1998? Que disent les ruines de Sarajevo et de Manhattan? Comment un Normalien, disciple d'Althusser, se retrouve-t-il, à 20 ans, dans les maquis du Pakistan Oriental? Michel Foucault est-il meilleur journaliste qu'Hemingway? Pourquoi la guerre est-elle si "jolie" pour Proust, Apollinaire et Cocteau? Quand le monde a-t-il basculé de la logique de Clausewitz à celle d'Oussama Ben Laden? A quoi peut bien servir la philosophie dans les faubourg de Bogota et de Bujumbura? Suffirait-il, pour arrêter le massacre, de tendre la main aux damnés du tiers monde? Que veulent les terroristes?By Jeff Dickey. 2018
The Civil War brought America to the brink of self-destruction, but it also created a new country from the ruins…
of the old one. Rich with despair and hope, this book tells the dramatic story of the Union's invasion of the Confederacy, and how this colossal struggle helped create a new nation from the embers of the Old South. 2018.By Norman Davies. 2004
Uses archives and interviews to chronicle the two-month rebellion by Polish Resistance against German occupation. Describes the nearby Soviet army's…
refusal to help and diplomatic disagreements among Poland's western Allies that led to the Poles' failure and Warsaw's destruction. Some descriptions of violence. 2004.By Fabrice D' Almeida. 2011
A partir des archives de la SS, l'historien étudie l'organisation du travail des gardiens de camps de concentration et d'extermination…
mise en place par Himmler et ses adjoints mais aussi la gestion de leurs loisirs pour éviter l'ennui et la démotivation. Prix Augustin-Thierry 2011.By Ian MacDonald. 1994
Never was the soaring optimism and drug-inspired introspection of the sixties more perfectly expressed than in the Beatles' music. Ian…
MacDonald discusses 186 recorded Beatles' songs within their historical context, outlining how the group influenced, and were influenced by the spirit of the decade, which, in retrospect, became an ideological battleground. 1994.By Cathleen Lewis. 2008
How can an 11-year old boy hear a Mozart fantasy for the first time and play it back perfectly, but…
struggle to navigate the familiar surroundings of his own home? Lewis shares the mystery of her son Rex, blind and autistic, and the highs, lows, hopes, dreams, joy, sorrows, and faith she has journeyed through with him. 2008.