Title : The Night of the Generals - Hans Hellmut Kirst - book Summary : Warsaw, 1942. Major Grau of the military police investigates the murder of a Polish prostitute. A witness claims the murderer was wearing a German general's uniform. Grau soon identifies three suspects, three generals. The first, cruel and fanatical, is totally devoted to the Führer. The second is an opportunistic aristocrat. The third belongs to the small group that will decide to assassinate Hitler during Operation Valkyrie. 1944. In Paris, where Grau has been transferred, while the failed assassination attempt on Hitler's life is causing unrest among the Nazis, a new murder of a woman is committed that bears a striking resemblance to the one in Warsaw. Dresden, 1956. A third assassination brings the three generals back into focus. Fourteen years after the investigation began, the net is finally closing in on the culprit. A dizzying plunge into the darkness of Nazism, The Night of the Generals was a huge international success upon its release in 1962 – as was the film it inspired, starring Peter O'Toole, Omar Sharif and Philippe Noiret. EAN : 9782380946413 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : The Rebels - CHABROL Jean-Pierre - book Summary : After a youth in the Cévennes that should have been crowned by brilliant studies, Jean-Pierre Chabrol finds himself gripped by History. A resistance fighter, a communist by circumstance then by conviction, a cartoonist and journalist before becoming a writer, Jean-Pierre Chabrol takes us on a thrilling, colorful, and also tragic life. This "novelist in History," whose life is shaped by the 20th century, is above all a champion of revolt. He says it himself: to outrage, to outrage, to go beyond, beyond, beyond measure... words that I love and that could sum me up entirely. Through the reading of the entirety of a work that remains largely unknown, Michel Boissard achieves the feat of restoring a life through its four seasons: that of the resistance fighter, founding; that of the Communard, a communist commitment that will clash with Stalinist crimes; that of the Camisard, which will cause Jean-Pierre Chabrol to miss out on the Goncourt prize due to a historical misunderstanding. The Cévnol season, encompassing all the others, reminds us, in the words of André Chamson, that the universal finds its source in the roots of each one. Jean-Pierre Chabrol defined his "country" thus: The Cévennes is a confidence. EAN : 9782917743362 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : I was born Greek - Melina Mercouri - book Summary : See photos EAN : 2221088794 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Death or is your victory - Daniel-Rops - book Summary : See photos EAN : 9787172598788 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : A Woman of Egypt - Jehan Sadat - book Summary : See photos EAN : 9782253051497 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : The Beggar - Jean-Pierre Chabrol - book Summary : See photos EAN : 9782530054005 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Signs and Wonders - Mallet-Joris Francoise - book Summary : Françoise Mallet-Joris is not one of those who write the same book over and over again. On the contrary, her work is striking in its diversity. The icy, classic novel, the novel close to Balzacian realism, the historical novel, the confession... in ten years, she seems to have tackled everything, with the confidence of a writer who easily masters her subject. Yet, throughout all her works, there is a constant current, a sort of subterranean disquiet, but constant and strong. With Signs and Prodigies, for the first time, Françoise Mallet-Joris "discovers" herself, as they say of wrestlers. She reveals some of her secrets: those of a tormented soul that perhaps resembles her own a little. Certainly, this new book is a novel, composed with the care of a goldsmith by an artist who knows her craft admirably; that is to say, it is read in one go, and we live with its characters, numerous, distinctive, close to us. But, beyond the novel itself, we ask ourselves questions. Why does Nicolas leave a comfortable situation to engage in a crazy story of hypothetical reporting? Why does he drag into his adventure a young woman he does not believe he loves? Why this bet with himself, this challenge? Is he fleeing a past that weighs on him? Does he obey only the taste for renewal, or for the unknown? Does he let himself be carried by the "prodigies" of chance, or does he respond, on the contrary, to some "sign" whose meaning he does not understand? Is it really he who is called, or is he only destined to serve as a "sign" for others? So many question marks that would remain unanswered if we did not guess here a necessity, behind the absurdity of appearances, of contradictions; if we did not recognize in this captivating and passionate book, the demands of a faith EAN : 9782246850496 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Prostitution file - Dallayrac Dominique - book Summary : The girls speak Where do they come from? Professional, semi-professional, occasional, how do they live? The prostitute-pimp-client complex Minors The white slave trade: legend and reality The venereal peril Police action and private action The shortcomings of justice The scandals A sociology of prostitution EAN : Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : A Summer in the West - Philippe Labro - book Summary : "Nothing prepares you for the West," says the narrator, Philippe Labro's foreign student, who went to work for a whole summer in the Colorado mountains. To reach this unreal and wild territory, he is first confronted by the people of the "road." He meets Amy, the Clarke girl, with wild hair, which exudes the scent of dried flowers - freedom itself. He will experience with her a great, dazzling love, the memory of which will never cease to haunt him. In the West, it is another world, that of men carrying mystery: Bill, an impenetrable colossus, sought by strange bikers; Dick, and his insane stuntman's gaze; Mack, who initiates him into the secrets of the forest. At the end of this initiatory adventure, what has become of the ignorant, frightened young man, thirsty for life and knowledge who called himself Frenchy? EAN : 9782070382583 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : The Uncontemporary - Alain Finkielkraut - book Summary : Why Péguy, now? What do we care about the torments of a peasant student at the École Normale Supérieure who was at once a Dreyfusard, a Catholic and a socialist, prophetic and desperate? Péguy had to be put on the agenda because it is an understatement to say that this work is relevant today: in truth, it awaits us. The time has come to hear in our present and for the future the bitter questions with which Péguy harassed his era. The time has come, if we want to understand our time, to lift the quarantine, to read Péguy, to reintegrate into the intellectual city the great poetic and critical thought that announces "a limitless panmuflerie" and sees the dawn of "a world that not only makes jokes, but that only makes jokes, and that makes all the jokes, that makes a joke of everything." Alain Finkielkraut. EAN : 9782070408672 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : The Economy of Japan - Maurice Moreau - book Summary : Some have suggested that the 21st century would be the century of Japan (H. Kahn), a convincing result of the Japanese challenge (H. Hedberg) and the Japanese miracle (H. Brochier). To explain the rise of the third great (R. Guillain), we must reconsider the modern history of this disconcerting country. "Copyright Electre" EAN : 9782130391838 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Mao Zedong - Michel Garder - book Summary : The example of the Russian Revolution and Lenin's theories made this former assistant librarian at Peking University a fierce fighter and a prodigious man of action. Having become, after a quarter of a century of revolutionary war, the absolute master of an empire of six hundred million inhabitants, Mao Zedong nonetheless continued the fight both within his country, where he strove to build a new order, and abroad, where he participated alongside the USSR in the propagation of the communist ideal. From the "Long March" to the "Great Leap Forward," he never ceased to be the protagonist of one of the most impressive epics of modern times. EAN : 9782710319269 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : The Exhibition - Nathalie Léger - book Summary : You can display anything: a few trinkets from the Second Empire, a collection of photographs, a boudoir from beyond the grave, a heroine famous for her beauty, her conceit, and her lamentable end. You can display anything: a woman in place of another, the fear of one's own body, a way of entering the scene, the intoxication of seduction, an abandonment, objects that reassure, a ruin. EAN : 9782846822664 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : The Clerk - Bernard Malamud - book Summary : For Morris, a Brooklyn grocer, life revolves around his shop. He fled Russia at a young age: at almost sixty, what remains of his great hopes? One evening, he is robbed and emerges deeply affected. Misfortune seems to leave him at peace when Frank, an Italian, offers his help. A moving fable, Malamud's second novel is, according to Time magazine, one of the "100 Books of the 20th Century." Malamud achieves a feat: transforming a neighborhood grocery store into a place of intense drama, where we question destiny and redemption. Bernard Malamud (1914-1986) is one of the masters of the American novel. He is notably the author of "The Man from kyiv," a masterpiece awarded the Pulitzer Prize and successfully republished by Éditions Rivages. EAN : 9782743643102 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Alexandria - Daniel Rondeau - book Summary : Alexandria is first and foremost a memory. That of the lighthouse, the Pharos, which tells us of a world-city drawn on the sands of Africa by Alexander, before he entered Asia like a cyclone with his escort of scholars and magi. The lighthouse tells us of a flame that shone between heaven and earth, of men and their navigations, of war, politics, knowledge and literature, of the disappearance of all things, that is to say, of destiny. More than two thousand years after Alexander, two passing novelists, Durrell and Forster, and a Greek poet who lived above a brothel, Constantin Cavafy, restored to this drifting city its imaginary grandeur. Daniel Rondeau paints a portrait of this capital of memory and knowledge, the hinge of the world between East and West, but which is also this spiritual city where men have always asked themselves the question of knowing if there was something or someone between them and the Most High. EAN : 9782070407491 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Black Boy - Richard Wright - book Summary : What's in him, Daddy? I asked. "A little white, a little red, and a little black." "Indian, white, and Negro?" "Yes." "Then what am I?" "When you grow up, they'll call you a colored man," she replied. Then, turning to me with a mocking smile, she asked, "Don't you mind, Mr. Wright?" EAN : 9782070369652 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : The Great Fire - Shirley Hazzard - book Summary : 1947: Peace has a strange taste. England is in ruins, China awaits Mao's victory, Japan is haunted by its war crimes and by Hiroshima. Between these three countries navigates Aldred Leith, sinologist, son of a famous novelist, hero wounded in combat. Like all his contemporaries, he oscillates between euphoria and disillusionment, thirst for life and fear of the void. And he asks himself a nagging question: what meaning can he give to this existence he almost lost? How can he justify having survived? And then, in the world of ambitions and intrigues of the occupying troops, he believes he has rediscovered a lost innocence, embodied by two cultured and fervent adolescents: a young man doomed to an imminent death and his sister, straight out of a fairy tale. Can this be enough to rebuild a world? Perhaps never before has the post-war climate been evoked with such precision, such carnal intensity. But Shirley Hazzard excels just as much at carving out the intimate against a backdrop of collective turmoil, giving these destinies a timeless and universal scope. With this unforgettable work combining poetic richness and accuracy of tone, subtle classical perfection and flashes of style, she establishes herself more than ever as a major novelist of our time, one we urgently need to discover. EAN : 9782070344536 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Beauty Annoys Me - Pierre Sansot - book Summary : What then is this so-called beauty before which so many of us kneel, while so many others strive to acquire it, even if it means torturing their bodies and withering their souls? Must one please at all costs to be loved, to increase the number of one's friends, to make a career in a company, in politics, to ensure, when one writes, the favors of the public? From there, some colorful portraits concerning the extras of appearance: the dragger, the dandy, the libertine, the new libertine. Stop asking yourself if you are attractive. Be surprised instead that the world is so kind. It deserves better from us than vain strutting. It is appropriate to greet it differently, with lightness and some gravity. By showing ourselves too attentive to our image, we would forget its magnificence. EAN : 9782743615345 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Tierra del Fuego - Francisco Coloane - book Summary : Gauchos condemned to solitude, sailors tied to the service of derelict boats, insurgents on the run, smugglers, seal hunters, these are the characters who populate the grandiose and desolate landscapes of Tierra del Fuego. Francisco Coloane thus restores, in all its power and fragility, the condition of the Chilean man and his daily renewed struggle to tame the cruel nature of this end of the world. EAN : 9782020226530 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : When the World Turns White - Kamila Shamsie - book Summary : In 1945, in Nagasaki, the world turns white... A survivor of the nuclear apocalypse, Hiroko forever carries in her flesh the burns of a destroyed life. From Karachi to New York, to Afghanistan, in a feverish and serious half-century where good and evil relentlessly clash, she sets out in search of a new beginning. And through the conflicts, she creates a moving hymn to humanity. "A monument of the novel genre. The characters are innumerable, the language inexhaustible, the era immense." The Independent EAN : 9782264053480 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : How to earn an honest living - Jean Rouaud - book Summary : "A poetic life? Let's say a life whose guiding thread is poetry. We embark with a heritage (pious values, a dead father, a rainy childhood), with a desire to write, a dream of love, and then, with our meager baggage on our backs, we cross a territory marked by events, here the shock wave of May 68. Which forces us to answer the question: what did the era do to me? It made me think that at twenty, for example, it was not conceivable to think seriously about working - which went well with the poetic idea - and even less honestly when, in the marginal circles who left the city to settle in communities in the countryside, we lived mainly on schemes and plunder. It made me think that, in this just refusal of the reign of money and consumerist mirages, there remained only small jobs to survive. And what should have been a carefree, free and joyful life transformed, over the years, from an investigation into a gentian aperitif to the door-to-door sale of a medical encyclopedia, into a feeling of waste." Jean Rouaud. EAN : 9782070448432 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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