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C'est une histoire authentique. Celle d'un jeune étudiant en théologie qui résista au nazisme et à la mainmise d'Hitler sur l'Église luthérienne. Témoignage romancé, roman témoignage, Jour sans retour nous conte l'héroïsme d'un refus obstiné et met en lumière la prétention du nazisme à dépasser l'idéologie pour se faire religion.

An Los Angeles Times Best Book 2003. A chilling, beautifully written narrative of African war. Sierra Leone is the world’s most war-ravaged country. There, in a West African landscape of spectacular beauty, rampaging soldiers—many not yet in their teens—have made a custom of hacking off the hands of their victims, then letting them live as the ultimate emblem of terror. The country is so anarchic and so desperate that, forty years after independence, its people long to be recolonized. And the West wants to save it.

From the author of Europe Central, winner of the National Book Award, a journalistic tour de force along the Mexican-American border—a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award. For generations of migrant workers, Imperial Country has held the promise of paradise and the reality of hell. It sprawls across a stirring accidental sea, across the deserts, date groves, and labor camps of Southeastern California, right across the border into Mexico. In this eye-opening book, William T.

For years, a small unit of France's national police known as 'The Office in Charge of the Fight Against Crimes Against Humanity' has been discreetly chasing down war criminals. As the head of the thirty-person team, Colonel Eric Emeraux has investigated mass killings, summary executions, torture, and other abuses against civilian populations in Bosnia, Rwanda, Liberia, Syria, and other troubled lands.

Going beyond even the expertise of archaeologists and historians, world-class engineer Craig B. Smith explores the planning and engineering behind the incredible Great Pyramid of Giza. How would the ancient Egyptians have developed their building plans, devised work schedules, managed laborers, solved specific design and engineering problems, or even improvised on the job? The answers are here, along with dazzling, one-of-a-kind color photographs and beautiful hand-drawn illustrations of tools, materials, and building techniques the ancient masters used.

A gripping tale of 150 years of scientific adventure, research, and discovery at the Yale Peabody Museum. This fascinating book tells the story of how one museum changed ideas about dinosaurs, dynasties, and even the story of life on earth. The Yale Peabody Museum of Natural History, now celebrating its 150th anniversary, has remade the way we see the world. Delving into the museum’s storied and colorful past, award-winning author Richard Conniff introduces a cast of bold explorers, roughneck bone hunters, and visionary scientists.

How migrants became the scapegoats of contemporary mainstream politics. From the 1960s, the UK's immigration policy—introduced by both Labour and Tory governments—has been a toxic combination of racism and xenophobia. Maya Goodfellow tracks this history through to the present day, looking at both legislation and rhetoric, to show that distinct forms of racism and dehumanization have produced a confused and draconian immigration system. She examines the arguments made against immigration in order to dismantle and challenge them.

Hollywood Confidential is the first truly in-depth look at the sexy, humorous, violent, and tragic history of the mob in Hollywood from the 1920s, when Joe Kennedy decided to buy a motion picture company, to the 1980s when the last vestiges of mob influence were revealed through investigations of former Screen Actors Guild President Ronald Reagan and his union backers. The revelations continue into the 1980s when the major studios were no longer important, the independents were on the rise, and it was no longer possible to buy, bribe, or blackmail in a meaningful way.

Kagerō Nikki, translated here as The Gossamer Years, belongs to the same period as the celebrated Tale of Genji by Murasaki Shikibu. This remarkably frank autobiographical diary and personal confession attempts to describe a difficult relationship as it reveals two tempestuous decades of the author's unhappy marriage and her growing indignation at rival wives and mistresses.

The last president of the Soviet Union discusses Communism, the Cold War, and bringing democracy to Russia in this sweeping political memoir. Drawing on his own experience and rich archival material, Mikhail Gorbachev shares his illuminating perspective on Russia’s past, present, and future place in the world. Beginning with the October Revolution of 1917, he notes how much Vladimir Lenin and the Bolshevik Party did to modernize Russia.