Title : De Gaulle my father - Interviews with Michel Tauriac, volume 1 - Philippe de Gaulle - book Summary : If there is one statesman who has inspired biographers, it is Charles de Gaulle. But who can know him better than his own son, this privileged witness who experienced every stage of his epic journey up close? Who can better describe him with his family, with all the doors of the house closed, surrounded by his children and grandchildren, and lovingly watched over by his wife, listening to him when he speaks and does not want to be heard, translating the slightest inflection of his voice and his silences? Who can reach his heart even in the most secret moments, share his confidences on everything, as much on his private life as on History, on his arm wrestling with Churchill and Roosevelt, on his quarrels with Pétain or Giraud? On poetry and on the forest, as on the failure of Dakar, his relations with the resistance and his face to face with Stalin? If Philippe de Gaulle agreed for the first time to engage so deeply with Michel Tauriac's incisive questions, it was not only to answer the questions that continue to be asked about the author of his days, but also to destroy fabrications and abusive interpretations, set the record straight, and shed light on the mysteries that still hover over various affairs - such as the assassination of Darlan and the General's coup against the Allies to liberate Paris, retain Strasbourg, and cross the Rhine. More than a collection of interviews, this book is an unprecedented testimony that reads like a novel. EAN : 9782259197540 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Dancing on the Edge of the Abyss - Grégoire Delacourt - book Summary : “I believe in first sight, Mom. I believe in first impressions. I believe in the language of the flesh. In the language of the eyes. In vertigo. To lightning. —What you believe in, my little girl, leads to sorrow. There are the promises we make to ourselves at twenty, and the encounters that chance has in store for us. There is the happiness we thought we had, and the one we are chasing. There is the urgency to live. A great deal of subtlety and accuracy. A moving score about the dazzling effects and ravages of desire. Bernard Lehut, RTL. As the tragic story unfolds, it is as if Grégoire Delacourt himself were taking flight. Just for these flashes of brilliance, praises to indulgence and to life, Dancing on the edge of the abyss worth reading. Lou-Eve Popper, Read. EAN : 9782253071389 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : From the Dead Princess - Kenizé Mourad - book Summary : Elle Roman Readers' Prize 1988 "This is the story of my mother, Princess Selma, born in a palace in Istanbul..." This could be the beginning of a tale; it is a true story, which begins in 1918 at the court of the last sultan of the Ottoman Empire. Selma was seven years old when she witnessed the collapse of the Empire that had shaken Europe. Condemned to exile, the imperial family settled in Lebanon. Selma, who had lost both her country and her father, would become "the princess with mended stockings." It was in Beirut that she grew up and met her first love, a young Druze chief; a love that was soon shattered. Selma then agreed to marry an Indian rajah she had never seen. In India, she would experience the splendor of the maharajahs, the last days of the British Empire, and the struggle for independence led by Gandhi. But there, as in Lebanon, she remains "the outsider." Rejected by the people she had come to love, she fled to Paris. There she finally found true love. War separated her, and she died in poverty at the age of twenty-nine, after giving birth to a daughter: the author of this story. For the first time, the end of the Ottoman Empire is told from inside the palaces, while we discover Lebanon under the French Mandate through the great families of Beirut, and feudal India through the eyes of its peasants and princes. It is rare for a book to combine the heart and history in such an intimate way. "Later, much later, writes Kenizé Mourad, I wanted to understand who my mother was. Questioning those who had known her, consulting history books, newspapers of the time and the scattered family archives, I tried to reconstruct the various frameworks of her existence, today irremediably disrupted, and to relive what she had experienced. Finally, to get even closer to her, to find her again, I trusted my intuition and my imagination. Such is this book. Such is the story of Princess Selma, the most romantic of true stories. EAN : 9782221052181 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title: De Gaulle My Father - Volume 2 Interviews with Michel Tauriac - Philippe de Gaulle - 2004 - book EAN: 9782259200035 Used book at low prices Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title: The Magic Treehouse Volume 4 - Pirate Treasure - Mary Pope Osborne - book Summary : Tom and his sister Léa, thanks to their magic cabin, are propelled into the era of pirates and will have to be cunning to escape the cruel plunderers of the seas. EAN: 9782747018371 Used book at low prices The book matches the photo See the different states

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Title : The Resistance - No. 132 - The newspaper of France in the 1940s - Magazine review book Summary : See photos EAN: Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title: The Douai Notebooks - Arthur Rimbaud - 2023 - book EAN: 9791035826468 Used book at low prices The book matches the photo See the different states

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Title : Into the Dragon's Throat - Eliot Pattison - book Summary : In a forced labor camp in Tibet, the discovery of a decapitated body casts the shadow of a demon. When the terrified prisoners rise up, one of their own, Shan Tao Yun, is put in charge of the case. To save them from execution, he has no choice but to penetrate the heart of Chinese barbarism, right into the dragon's lair... "A political book, denouncing police brutality and the profiteering that is rife on the Roof of the World, In the Dragon's Throat is also a dizzying dive into the mysteries of Tibetan superstitions" L'Express EAN: 9782264036230 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : In the City of Intrepid Widows - James Canon - book Summary : 2008 First Foreign Novel Prize Since the day the guerrillas landed and requisitioned all the men in the village of Mariquita, the women have been left to their own devices. No matter! The submissive housewives and docile wives will establish a new social order. Thus, the very mustachioed Morales sisters decide to remedy their condition as frustrated spinsters by creating a traveling brothel; Francisca, the widow of a notorious money-grubber, leads the high life after discovering her husband's loot. And then there is the tenacious Rosalba, self-proclaimed mayor, and Padre Rafael, the only survivor of the male sex, volunteering to ensure the procreation of the new generation... Baroque, dazzling with fantasy, the tragic-burlesque chronicle of a lost village in the depths of Colombia. Cañón, a disciple of García Márquez and his magical realism, succeeds in creating an optimistic, tasty and naughty tale. Jacques Gantié, Nice Matin. EAN: 9782253126638 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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