Title : The Man Who Became God - Gerald Messadié - Book Summary : See photos EAN: Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Spartacus - The Slave Revolt The Romans - Max Gallo - Book Summary : Spartacus: this name has survived through the millennia. Max Gallo brings it back to life by following the fate of this Thracian who rejects Roman domination. She enslaves him and makes him a gladiator. He flees with a few companions doomed, like him, to death in the arena. Spartacus defeats the legions sent in pursuit. Thousands of slaves join him. A breath of freedom ignites, from Vesuvius to the Po, the entire Italian peninsula. The Roman Republic trembles. Max Gallo paints a fresco of this "servile" war. On one side, the order of the legions, the power and wealth of Rome, its tribunes, its consuls, Caesar, Crassus, Pompey. On the other, the thirst for freedom, the savagery, the anarchy of men who have broken their chains and who pillage, pillage, following Spartacus without obeying him. A whole cruel era comes to life under the pen of Max Gallo. History becomes palpitating flesh, faces, tears and passions, voices that tell their stories. Everyone wants to leave their mark. "Those who are remembered do not die," said Spartacus. "We were defeated, but we lived as free men." The six thousand crosses erected by the proconsul Crassus along the Via Appia to torture the rebellious slaves and terrorize future generations will not erase the memory of Spartacus. EAN: 9782213627533 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : The Great Emperor and his automatons - Jean Lévi - Book Summary : Here is the novel of absolute order, as desired by Ts'in Che-houang ti, First August Emperor, over the entire Chinese Empire, in the 3rd century BC. After stopping History by establishing the reign of pure necessity and enclosing space within a great wall, the August Emperor wants to abolish time. He ends his reign surrounded by hydraulic automatons and believes he thus has control over beings. Already, he dreams of directing men as one directs machines. But he himself is perhaps only a puppet in the hands of his prime minister. He dies while traveling and, preserved in ice, people continue to serve him meals and take his orders as if he were alive... Playing with the multiple mirrors of Chinese civilization, cruel and refined, voluptuous and conquering, this novel reveals the astonishing figure of this First Emperor and thus paints the portrait of a China that is both ancestral and modern. EAN: 9782226021038 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : The Great Dates in the History of France - Eric Bournazel - Book Summary : See photos EAN: 9782037010214 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Europe in the Middle Ages - Georges Duby - Book Summary : This book aims to demonstrate the significance of art in medieval Europe and its relationship to society and culture as a whole. Almost only the masterpieces of medieval artistic creation have survived. Their refinement overshadowed a dense mass of brutality, terror, and misery. Lest this be forgotten, texts revealing this tragic aspect are placed as a counterpoint to a general discourse on the monastery, the cathedral, and the palace. EAN: 9782081265608 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Crimes and Criminals - Juliette Benzoni - Book Summary : Famous or anonymous, Juliette Benzoni helps us rediscover the story of some crimes and criminals who have left their mark on history. The ghastly, the brigands, the criminals of all kinds dance through history a sinister, bloody and sometimes picturesque round, where classes, sexes and ages mingle. From France to the United States, from the high nobility to legendary – and yet very real – bandits, passing by the bourgeoisie, the common people and children; from a Marquis de Ganges, governor of Villeneuve-lès-Avignon, to Compère Guilleri, from Madame Lafarge to the witches of Salem and the red inn of Peyrebeille, here are some of the circles of Hell... Juliette Benzoni, whose work reaches a vast, loyal and diverse audience, recently published with Perrin: Aurora, The Queen Has Been Killed!, The King's Chamber, In the King's Bed, In the Queen's Bed And The Romance of the Castles of France. EAN: 9782262041984 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : From the Red Terror to the Terrorist State - Russian Secret Services Conquer the World - Yuri Felshtinsky, Vladimir Popov - Book Summary : This is the secret chronicle of the occult power of agents who, from Lenin to Putin, via Stalin, reveal the hidden face of the Kremlin and a century of alliance between terror and crime. What is the secret link between Lenin, Stalin, and Putin? Between the old nomenklatura and the new oligarchy? Between the past massacres of opponents by the Bolsheviks and the current assassinations of dissidents by the siloviki? Between the crushing of Eastern Europe yesterday and the destruction of Ukraine today? This link is the one that unites over a century the Cheka, the GPU, the NKVD, the GRU, the KGB, the FSB, the organs of terror that were at the heart of the rise of the USSR and that conquered all the powers in Russia after its fall. It is the underground history of this struggle for world conquest that this stunningly revelatory book reveals. It recounts the original pact between agents and mafiosi, their rivalries with politicians, their final victory over ideologues, their complete domination of the state, transformed into a kleptomaniac, repressive, and warmongering tool. From the poisonings in the Kremlin to the machinations of the Cold War and the bombings of Chechnya, from the executioners of the Gulag to the tankers of Prague and the manipulators of Cyber, from the GEBists of Dzerzhinsky, Yezhov, Beria, Andropov to the Wagners of Prigozhin, here, episode after episode, actor after actor, are all the keys to this rise that illuminates the hidden side of current events and dismantles the mechanisms of a third world conflict. An essential decryption. A monumental and vivid fresco. A tragically true thriller. EAN: 9782204161978 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : I was a doctor in the trenches: August 2, 1914 - July 14, 1919 - Maufrais Louis, Martine Veillet - Book Summary : August 1914. Louis Maufrais, a medical student, is thinking of presenting his internship when war breaks out. The young man joins the front, discovers the trenches. He will stay there for four years. Four years during which he brushes with death, his feet in the mud and his hands in blood, buried day and night in the depths of aid stations shaken by the blast of shells. When he has a moment of rest, he takes notes, photographs, to recount the suffering, that of his comrades, his own, but also friendship, the burlesque, the absurd... "This is a mind-blowing text. The work of a doctor who fought in the trenches throughout the Great War, it is unpublished to this day, published for the first time on this 90th anniversary of the Armistice. "Maufrais was everywhere: first in Argonne and Champagne in 1915, at Verdun and on the Somme in 1916, again at Verdun in 1917, finally as a surgeon in an ambulance from April 1918 to January 1919. Not only was he on all the fronts of the war, in France, but in action four years out of four. In this, his testimony is unique. It is also unique in that his activity as an auxiliary doctor led him to take notes for the follow-up of his wounded. "It was his notebooks and photographs, saved, that allowed him, sixty years later, to dictate fragments of unparalleled precision: information and memories intact, as if frozen." Marc Ferro EAN: 9782221109182 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : The Little Mazarines - Pierre Combescot - book Summary : Master of France during the minority of Louis XIV, a political genius and diplomat, ambitious, seductive, cunning, and greedy, Cardinal Mazarin was keen to share his extraordinary rise with his large family. It is the story of four of his nieces, brought by him to the French court, that the author of Les Filles du Calvaire (Goncourt Prize 1991) tells us here, with as much erudition as gaiety. If history has remembered the name of Marie, Louis XIV's first love who had to part with her for a political marriage, who remembers Marianne, Hortense, and Olympe? Yet their lives are prodigious novels. Adventurers, lovers, scandalous, they led their lives with great ambitions. Two of them almost became queens. Two were compromised in the Affair of the Poisons. Their fame was spectacular, their fall as well. They take us on a sparkling journey to the heart of the century of Louis XIV. EAN: 9782253149828 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : The Heartbeats of History - André Castelot - book Summary : A for Alfred de Musset, B for Benjamin Constant, C for Christine of Sweden, D for Diane de Poitiers... This alphabet is that of the famous loves that André Castelot tells us about. Passing cheerfully from one century to another, crossing borders, we take an indiscreet look deep into alcoves and secret drawers, we listen at doors, we leaf through personal diaries. Legitimate or clandestine loves, star-crossed lovers, faithful spouses, princely marriages that make and unmake Europe, disgraces and intrigues behind these fifty-one comical or tragic stories, we discover that Love is the sinews of war and the fabric of History. EAN: 9782277216209 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : The Political Condition - Marcel Gauchet - book Summary : There is nothing more difficult to think about than politics. Its obviousness deceives us. What exactly is its place in the functioning of our societies? In this regard, we live under an illusion that the Marxist prophecy of the withering away of the State has only brought to its ultimate consequences. Society is destined to be self-sufficient by shedding the shackles of politics. Marxism is dead as a revolutionary theory, but its prophecy is gaining ground in people's minds. Are we not told every day that in the age of globalization and the landless economy, nation-states have had their day and are doomed, if not to disappear, at least to marginalization? Postmodernity claims to be post-political. In opposition to this new common sense, this book argues for the idea that politics continues to be what it has always been: what holds societies together. It has been, simply, in very different ways and by very different means. These are the fundamental configurations that the studies gathered here explore, from the initial repression of politics by religion to its modern and ultra-modern transformations under the influence of the orientation toward the future and the dynamics of society and history. Measuring this diversity allows us to better appreciate the hidden role it fulfills today. The eclipse of politics is at the heart of the current disorientation of democracies. They will not emerge from it without freeing themselves from the chimera of its transcendence. What we need most to orient ourselves in the midst of this disarray is a renewed understanding of our political condition. Please note that some pages have been highlighted with highlighter or pencil, but this does not interfere with reading. EAN: 9782070775767 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Universal History Volume 2 - Georges-Henri Dumont - book Summary : See phoros EAN: 9782501003698 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Universal History Volume 3 - Carl Grimberg - book Summary : See phoros EAN: 9782501003896 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Universal History Volume 1 - - book Summary : See photos EAN: 9782501003681 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : The Romance of Saint Petersburg - Loves on the Banks of the Neva - Vladimir Fédorovski - book Summary : On the occasion of the tercentenary of Saint Petersburg, Vladimir Fédorovski stages the great moments of the romantic history of this unusual city created by the sole will of Peter the Great on the banks of the Neva. Peter I and his peasant empress, Catherine II and her vigorous companion Prince Potemkin, Alexander I and his occult muse, but also the great Russian and Western artists and men of letters (Pushkin, Dostoevsky, the poets of the Silver Age, the Chevalier d'Éon, the Marquis de Custine, Balzac) are the characters of this true novel which invites us on a romantic stroll in the Venice of the North. An astonishing journey through time and space, in the sparkling palaces of Saint Petersburg of yesterday and the winding streets of Leningrad, in the footsteps of the men and women who fell in love there. This book draws on archives from confidential funds recently made accessible in Russia and on previously unpublished testimonies. Pages marked by mystery, escape, adventure, and challenge. EAN: 9782268044392 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : 1885: The Colonial Turning Point of the Republic - Gilles Manceron - book Summary : A new work that puts into perspective recent debates on France's colonial past, in light of the decisive debates that marked the beginnings of the Third Republic, and then the entire history of the 20th century. During the public debate in France in the 2000s on the colonial question, it was often forgotten that the Republic was never truly unanimous on this subject. Thus, in 1885, when some republicans took up the monarchical idea of ​​colonial conquests, this gave rise to heated clashes in the Chamber of Deputies, at the end of which the colonial project only narrowly prevailed. Hence the major interest in rereading today the formidable parliamentary debates of July and December 1885, during the vote on credits for the continuation of the conquest of Madagascar and Indochina. The historian Gilles Manceron offers here a reasoned selection, accompanied by a preface putting them into perspective. When Jules Ferry defends the idea of ​​a "republican colonization" in the name of the rights of "superior races vis-à-vis inferior races", Jules Maigne, an old republican of 1848, replies to him: "You dare to say that in the country where the rights of man were proclaimed!" And Georges Clemenceau: "I do not understand why we were not unanimous here in rising up with one leap to violently protest against your words!" The "colonial party" then did everything to make people forget this fundamental debate of 1885. It was on this concealment that a republican colonial policy was able to develop for three quarters of a century, ignoring human rights – and whose legacy is returning today. EAN : 9782707148339 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Foch - General Weygand De Mierry - book Summary : See photos EAN : Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : War Memoirs The Call 1940 1942 - Charles de Gaulle - book Summary : In 1939, when war broke out, a colonel had already been proclaiming in the desert for five years that it was already lost. The French army was too heavy, too weak in its offensive capabilities, its tanks were unsuited to the firepower of Nazi Germany: blinded by the trauma of 1914-18, France was heading for defeat. Urgently called to high ministerial responsibilities, de Gaulle witnessed the debacle, despite some personal feats of arms, in the East. Soon the government fled to Bordeaux, and the armistice was signed. An unbearable cowardice, unacceptable for a man who had always had "a certain idea of ​​France": he flew to London. While others accommodated themselves to Vichy, the General resounded from England with the voice of an irreducible, free, and standing France: the voice of eternal France. EAN : Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : White Paper on Defense 1994 - François Léotard - book Summary : See photos EAN : 9782264020499 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : War Memoirs The Call 1940 1942 - General de Gaulle - book Summary : In 1939, when war broke out, a colonel had already been proclaiming in the desert for five years that it was already lost. The French army was too heavy, too weak in its offensive capabilities, its tanks were unsuited to the firepower of Nazi Germany: blinded by the trauma of 1914-18, France was heading for defeat. Urgently called to high ministerial responsibilities, de Gaulle witnessed the debacle, despite some personal feats of arms, in the East. Soon the government fled to Bordeaux, and the armistice was signed. An unbearable cowardice, unacceptable for a man who had always had "a certain idea of ​​France": he flew to London. While others accommodated themselves to Vichy, the General resounded from England with the voice of an irreducible, free, and standing France: the voice of eternal France. EAN : 9782266205993 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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