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Cet ouvrage est une réédition numérique d'un livre paru au XXe siècle, désormais indisponible dans son format d'origine.

Une guerre dévastatrice vient d'éclater au cœur de l'Europe, qui ravive les pires traumatismes du passé ; des menaces de cataclysme nucléaire sont constamment agitées, alors qu'on les croyait définitivement écartées ; un bras de fer planétaire se déroule, opposant l'Occident à la Chine et à la Russie... Il est clair qu'un bouleversement majeur est en train de se produire, qui affecte déjà notre mode de vie, et qui remet en cause les fondements mêmes de notre civilisation.

New York Times bestseller — Named a Best Book of the Year by The New York Times — Time — The Economist — NPR — The New Yorker — The Smithsonian — Kirkus Reviews. A "thrilling and superbly crafted" (The Wall Street Journal) account of the most momentous voyage of the Age of Exploration, which culminated in Captain James Cook's death in Hawaii, and left a complex and controversial legacy still debated to this day. One of The New York Times Book Review's 10 Best Books of the Year.

Un vieux, un jeune – un conteur, un auditeur – des heures d'un travail routinier, propice aux histoires et aux réflexions. La table est mise pour ces courts essais anecdotiques. Que peut bien raconter le concierge d'un évêché, dans le Témiscamingue ontarien des années soixante?

Explores the murder of Mary Pinchot Meyer and her connection to President Kennedy. Ideal book for fans of The Devil's Chessboard by David Talbot, The Reporter Who Knew Too Much by Dorothy Kilgallen, Dr. Mary's Monkey by Edward T. Haslam, and other JFK conspiracy books. Updated edition of the true crime expose, including new evidence and government documents corroborating the conspiracy to assassinate JFK's trusted ally and final true love. The death of Mary Meyer left many Americans with questions. Who really killed her?

A new translation from the French by Marion Wiesel. Night is Elie Wiesel's masterpiece, a candid, horrific, and deeply poignant autobiographical account of his survival as a teenager in the Nazi death camps. This new translation by Marion Wiesel, Elie's wife and frequent translator, presents this seminal memoir in the language and spirit truest to the author's original intent.

The New York Times Bestseller by the author of A Man Called Intrepid. Ideal for fans of Nancy Wake, Virginia Hall, The Last Goodnight by Howard Blum, The Woman Who Smashed Codes, The Wolves at the Door by Judith Pearson, and similar works. Shares the story of Vera Atkins, legendary spy and holder of the Legion of Honor. Written by William Stevenson, the only person whom she trusted to write her biography. She was stunning. She was ruthless. She was brilliant and had a will of iron. Born Vera Maria Rosenberg in Bucharest, she became Vera Atkins.

One of the most influential books of the past fifty years, Team of Rivals is Pulitzer Prize–winning author and esteemed presidential historian Doris Kearns Goodwin's modern classic about the political genius of Abraham Lincoln, his unlikely presidency, and his cabinet of former political foes. Winner of the prestigious Lincoln Prize — and the inspiration for the Oscar Award–winning film Lincoln, starring Daniel Day-Lewis, directed by Steven Spielberg, and written by Tony Kushner. On May 18, 1860, William H. Seward, Salmon P.

This extraordinary New York Times bestseller reexamines a pivotal event of the civil rights movement—the 1955 lynching of Emmett Till—"and demands that we do the one vital thing we aren't often enough asked to do with history: learn from it" (The Atlantic). * A New York Times Notable Book * A Washington Post Notable Book * Longlisted for the National Book Award * Winner of the Robert F.

National Book Award winner Masha Gessen tells an important story for our era: How the American Dream went wrong for two immigrants, and the nightmare that resulted. On April 15, 2013, two homemade bombs exploded near the finish line of the Boston marathon, killing three people and wounding more than 264 others. In the ensuing manhunt, Tamerlan Tsarnaev died, and his younger brother, Dzhokhar, was captured and ultimately charged on thirty federal counts. Yet long after the bombings and the terror they sowed, after all the testimony and debate, what we still haven't learned is why.