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The Battle for Gaulby Julius Caesar, Anne Wiseman, Peter WisemanISBN 0879235616 (0-87923-561-6)
Softcover, David R Godine Pub
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Battle for Gaul'Book summary:Julius Caesar was for a few years the undisputed master of the Roman world -- devoted to expanding Roman supremacy and his own fame. THE BATTLE FOR GAUL contains seven books of Caesar's Commentaries on his campaign in Gaul from 58 to 50 B.C. in their original narrative sequence.
These unparalleled accounts of war in Western Europe in the closing years of the Roman republic are clear and exciting. We feel the immediacy of the moment as we listen to Caesar's dramatic story of his daring expedition into Germany and unprecedented bridging of the Rhine, the decimation of two Roman legions in a forest ambush, and the heroic last defense of 80,000 Gauls in central France. [via]
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A Bright Shining Lie: John Paul Vann and America in Vietnamby Neil SheehanISBN 0679724141 (0-679-72414-1)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'A Bright Shining Lie: John Paul Vann and America in Vietnam'Book summary:This passionate, epic account of the Vietnam War centers on Lt. Col. John Paul Vann, whose story illuminates America's failures and disillusionment in Southeast Asia. Vann was a field adviser to the army when American involvement was just beginning. He quickly became appalled at the corruption of the South Vietnamese regime, their incompetence in fighting the Communists, and their brutal alienation of their own people. Finding his superiors too blinded by political lies to understand that the war was being thrown away, he secretly briefed reporters on what was really happening. One of those reporters was Neil Sheehan. This definitive expose on why America lost the war won the Pulitzer Prize for nonfiction in 1989. [via]
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- A Bright and Shining Lie: John Paul Vann and American in Vietnam: ISBN 051705597X (0-517-05597-X)
Softcover, Random House Value Pub - A Bright Shining Lie: John Paul Vann and America in Vietnam: ISBN 0394484479 (0-394-48447-9)
Hardcover, Random House Publishing Group - A Bright Shining Lie: John Paul Vann and America in Vietnam: ISBN 0679724141 (0-679-72414-1)
Softcover, Random House Inc
- A Bright and Shining Lie: John Paul Vann and American in Vietnam: ISBN 051705597X (0-517-05597-X)
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Caesar: The Conquest Of Gaulby CaesarISBN 0140444335 (0-14-044433-5)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Caesar: The Conquest Of Gaul'Book summary:Gallia est omnis divisa in partes tres... It is, perhaps, the most famous opening line of any memoir in Western civilization. What Caesar and the Romans called "Gaul," although we usually think of it as France, also comprised Belgium, the German lands west of the Rhine, southern Holland, and much of Switzerland. This is the only military campaign of the ancient world for which we have a chronicle written by the general who conducted it, and Julius Caesar is an insightful historian, with a keen eye for detail, as in this scene from the repulsion of the forces of the German king Ariovistus:
Caesar placed each of his five generals ahead of a legion and detailed his quaestor to command the remaining legion, so that every soldier might know that there was a high officer in a position to observe the courage with which he conducted himself, and then led the right wing first into action, because he had noticed that the enemy's line was weakest on that side.
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Caesar: The Conquest Of Gaulby S. A. Handford, CaesarISBN 0140440216 (0-14-044021-6)
Hardcover, Penguin Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Caesar: The Conquest Of Gaul'Book summary:Gallia est omnis divisa in partes tres... It is, perhaps, the most famous opening line of any memoir in Western civilization. What Caesar and the Romans called "Gaul," although we usually think of it as France, also comprised Belgium, the German lands west of the Rhine, southern Holland, and much of Switzerland. This is the only military campaign of the ancient world for which we have a chronicle written by the general who conducted it, and Julius Caesar is an insightful historian, with a keen eye for detail, as in this scene from the repulsion of the forces of the German king Ariovistus:
Caesar placed each of his five generals ahead of a legion and detailed his quaestor to command the remaining legion, so that every soldier might know that there was a high officer in a position to observe the courage with which he conducted himself, and then led the right wing first into action, because he had noticed that the enemy's line was weakest on that side.
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Caesar: The Gallic Warby Julius Caesar, H. J. EdwardsISBN 1430447508 (1-4304-4750-8)
Softcover, Kessinger Pub Co
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Caesar: The Gallic War'Book summary:Caesar (C. Iulius, 10244 BCE), statesman and soldier, defied the dictator Sulla; served in the Mithridatic wars and in Spain; pushed his way in Roman politics as a 'democrat' against the senatorial government; was the real leader of the coalition with Pompey and Crassus; conquered all Gaul for Rome; attacked Britain twice; was forced into civil war; became master of the Roman world; and achieved wide-reaching reforms until his murder. We have his books of Commentarii (notes): eight on his wars in Gaul, 5852 BC, including the two expeditions to Britain 5554, and three on the civil war of 4948. They are records of his own campaigns (with occasional digressions) in vigorous, direct, clear, unemotional style and in the third person, the account of the civil war being somewhat more impassioned. There is no rhetoric.
The Loeb Classical Library edition of Caesar is in three volumes. Volume II is his Civil Wars. The Alexandrian War, the African War, and the Spanish War, commonly ascribed to Caesar by our manuscripts but of uncertain authorship, are collected in Volume III.
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Cliffsnotes Lord of the Fliesby D. M. CalandraISBN 0822007541 (0-8220-0754-1)
Softcover, John Wiley & Sons Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Cliffsnotes Lord of the Flies'Book summary:Great for writing a report for this particular book, and enhancing your understanding of the particulars of the book. It also describe the characters of the story and what they may represent whether within the story or within someone's life. [via]
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Commentariorvm: Libri VII De Bello Gallico Sum A. Hirti Supplementoby CaesarISBN 0198146027 (0-19-814602-7)
Hardcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Commentariorvm: Libri VII De Bello Gallico Sum A. Hirti Supplemento'Book summary:(Bellum Gallicum, cum A. Hirti supplemento.) Edited by R. L. A. Du Pontet. [via]
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D-Day June 6, 1944: The Climactic Battle of World War IIby Stephen E. AmbroseISBN 068480137X (0-684-80137-X)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster
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› Find signed collectible books: 'D-Day June 6, 1944: The Climactic Battle of World War II'Book summary:Published to mark the 50th anniversary of the invasion of Normandy, Stephen E. Ambrose's D-Day: June 6, 1944 relies on over 1,400 interviews with veterans, as well as prodigious research in military archives on both sides of the Atlantic. He provides a comprehensive history of the invasion which also eloquently testifies as to how common soldiers performed extraordinary feats. A major theme of the book, upon which Ambrose would later expand in Citizen Soldiers, is how the soldiers from the democratic Allied nations rose to the occasion and outperformed German troops thought to be invincible. The many small stories that Ambrose collected from paratroopers, sailors, infantrymen, and civilians make the excitement, confusion, and sheer terror of D-day come alive on the page. --Robert McNamara [via]
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D-Day, June Sixth, Nineteen Forty-Fourby Stephen AmbroseISBN 0613501268 (0-613-50126-8)
Hardcover, Bt Bound
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El Senor De Las Moscasby William GoldingISBN 8420634115 (84-206-3411-5)
Softcover, Alianza Editorial Sa
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› Find signed collectible books: 'El Senor De Las Moscas'Book summary:spanish fiction william golding novel [via]
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Ender's Shadowby Orson Scott CardISBN 0765342405 (0-7653-4240-5)
Softcover, Tor Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Ender's Shadow'Book summary:Ender's Shadow is being dubbed as a parallel novel to Orson Scott Card's Hugo and Nebula Award-winning Ender's Game. By "parallel," Card means that Shadow begins and ends at roughly the same time as Game, and it chronicles many of the same events. In fact, the two books tell an almost identical story of brilliant children being trained in the orbiting Battle School to lead humanity's fleets in the final war against alien invaders known as the Buggers. The most brilliant of these young recruits is Ender Wiggin, an unparalleled commander and tactician who can surely defeat the Buggers if only he can overcome his own inner turmoil.
Second among the children is Bean, who becomes Ender's lieutenant despite the fact that he is the smallest and youngest of the Battle School students. Bean is the central character of Shadow, and we pick up his story when he is just a 2-year-old starving on the streets of a future Rotterdam that has become a hell on earth. Bean is unnaturally intelligent for his age, which is the only thing that allows him to escape--though not unscathed--the streets and eventually end up in Battle School. Despite his brilliance, however, Bean is doomed to live his life as an also-ran to the more famous and in many ways more brilliant Ender. Nonetheless, Bean learns things that Ender cannot or will not understand, and it falls to this once pathetic street urchin to carry the weight of a terrible burden that Ender must not be allowed to know.
Although it may seem like Shadow is merely an attempt by Card to cash in on the success of his justly famous Ender's Game, that suspicion will dissipate once you turn the first few pages of this engrossing novel. It's clear that Bean has a story worth telling, and that Card (who started the project with a cowriter but later decided he wanted it all to himself) is driven to tell it. And though much of Ender's Game hinges on a surprise ending that Card fans are likely well acquainted with, Shadow manages to capitalize on that same surprise and even turn the table on readers. In the end, it seems a shame that Shadow, like Bean himself, will forever be eclipsed by the myth of Ender, because this is a novel that can easily stand on its own. Luckily for readers, Card has left plenty of room for a sequel, so we may well be seeing more of Bean in the near future. --Craig E. Engler [via]
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The Gallic Warby Julius Caesar, Carolyn Hammond, Aulus HirtiusISBN 0192835823 (0-19-283582-3)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Gallic War'Book summary:The Gallic War, published on the eve of the civil war which led to the end of the Roman Republic, is an autobiographical account written by one of the most famous figures of European history. This new translation reflects the purity of Caesar's Latin while preserving the pace and flow of his momentous narrative of the conquest of Gaul and the first Roman invasions of Britain and Germany. Detailed notes, maps, a table of dates, and glossary make this the most useful edition available. [via]
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Gates of Fireby Steven PressfieldISBN 055338368X (0-553-38368-X)
Softcover, Bantam Dell Pub Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Gates of Fire'Book summary:Go tell the Spartans, stranger passing by, that here obedient to their laws we lie.
Thus reads an ancient stone at Thermopylae in northern Greece, the site of one of the world's greatest battles for freedom. Here, in 480 B.C., on a narrow mountain pass above the crystalline Aegean, 300 Spartan knights and their allies faced the massive forces of Xerxes, King of Persia. From the start, there was no question but that the Spartans would perish. In Gates of Fire, however, Steven Pressfield makes their courageous defense--and eventual extinction--unbearably suspenseful.
In the tradition of Mary Renault, this historical novel unfolds in flashback. Xeo, the sole Spartan survivor of Thermopylae, has been captured by the Persians, and Xerxes himself presses his young captive to reveal how his tiny cohort kept more than 100,000 Persians at bay for a week. Xeo, however, begins at the beginning, when his childhood home in northern Greece was overrun and he escaped to Sparta. There he is drafted into the elite Spartan guard and rigorously schooled in the art of war--an education brutal enough to destroy half the students, but (oddly enough) not without humor: "The more miserable the conditions, the more convulsing the jokes became, or at least that's how it seems," Xeo recalls. His companions in arms are Alexandros, a gentle boy who turns out to be the most courageous of all, and Rooster, an angry, half-Messenian youth.
Pressfield's descriptions of war are breathtaking in their immediacy. They are also meticulously assembled out of physical detail and crisp, uncluttered metaphor:
The forerank of the enemy collapsed immediately as the first shock hit it; the body-length shields seemed to implode rearward, their anchoring spikes rooted slinging from the earth like tent pins in a gale. The forerank archers were literally bowled off their feet, their wall-like shields caving in upon them like fortress redoubts under the assault of the ram.... The valor of the individual Medes was beyond question, but their light hacking blades were harmless as toys; against the massed wall of Spartan armor, they might as well have been defending themselves with reeds or fennel stalks.
Alas, even this human barrier was bound to collapse, as we knew all along it would. "War is work, not mystery," Xeo laments. But Pressfield's epic seems to make the opposite argument: courage on this scale is not merely inspiring but ultimately mysterious. --Marianne Painter [via] -
The Great War for Civilisation: The Conquest of the Middle Eastby Robert FiskISBN 1400075173 (1-4000-7517-3)
Softcover, Vintage Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Great War for Civilisation: The Conquest of the Middle East'Book summary:During the thirty years that award-winning journalist Robert Fisk has been reporting on the Middle East, he has covered every major event in the region, from the Algerian Civil War to the Iranian Revolution, from the American hostage crisis in Beirut (as one of only two Western journalists in the city at the time) to the Iran-Iraq War, from the Russian invasion of Afghanistan to Israels invasions of Lebanon, from the Gulf War to the invasion and ongoing war in Iraq. Now he brings his knowledge, his firsthand experience and his intimate understanding of the Middle East to a book that addresses the full complexity of its political history and its current state of affairs.
Passionate in his concerns about the region and relentless in his pursuit of the truth, Fisk has been able to enter the world of the Middle East and the lives of its people as few other journalists have. The result is a work of stunning reportage. His unblinking eyewitness testimony to the horrors of war places him squarely in the tradition of the great frontline reporters of the Second World War. His searing descriptions of lives mangled in the chaos of battle and of the battles themselves are at once dreadful and heartrending.
This is also a book of lucid, incisive analysis. Reaching back into the long history of invasion, occupation and colonization in the region, Fisk sets forth this information in a way that makes clear how a history of injustice has condemned the Middle East to war. He lays open the role of the West in the seemingly endless strife and warfare in the region, traces the growth of the Wests involvement and influence there over the past one hundred years, and outlines the Wests record of support for some of the most ruthless leaders in the Middle East. He chronicles the ever-more-powerful military presence of the United States and tracks the consequent, increasingly virulent anti-Westernand particularly anti-Americansentiment among the regions Muslim populations.
Fisk interweaves this history with his own vividly rendered experiences in Iraq, Iran, Afghanistan, Algeria, Israel, Palestine and Lebanonon the front lines; behind the scenes; in the streets of cities and villages; and inside military headquarters, the hideouts of guerrillas, the homes of ordinary citizens. Here, too, are indelible portraits of Osama bin Laden, Ayatollah Khomeini and Yassir Arafat, among othersall of whom he has met face-to-facerevelatory in their apprehension of the individuals and the ideologies they represent.
Finally, The Great War for Civilisation is the story of journalists in war: of their attempts to report the first, impartial drafts of history, to monitor the centers of power, to challenge authority ( especially . . . when governments and politicians take us to war ) and to battle an increasingly partisan worldwide media in their determination to report the truth.
Unflinching, provocative, brilliantly writtena work of major importance for todays world. [via]More editions of The Great War for Civilisation: The Conquest of the Middle East:
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Guns, Germs & Steel: The Fates of Human Societiesby Jared DiamondISBN 0393317552 (0-393-31755-2)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Guns, Germs & Steel: The Fates of Human Societies'Book summary:With a new chapter. The phenomenal bestseller; over 1.5 million copies sold; is now a major PBS special.Winner of the Pulitzer Prize, Guns, Germs, and Steel is a brilliant work answering the question of why the peoples of certain continents succeeded in invading other continents and conquering or displacing their peoples. This edition includes a new chapter on Japan and all-new illustrations drawn from the television series. Until around 11,000 BC, all peoples were still Stone Age hunter/gatherers. At that point, a great divide occurred in the rates that human societies evolved. In Eurasia, parts of the Americas, and Africa, farming became the prevailing mode of existence when indigenous wild plants and animals were domesticated by prehistoric planters and herders. As Jared Diamond vividly reveals, the very people who gained a head start in producing food would collide with preliterate cultures, shaping the modern world through conquest, displacement, and genocide.The paths that lead from scattered centers of food to broad bands of settlement had a great deal to do with climate and geography. But how did differences in societies arise? Why weren't native Australians, Americans, or Africans the ones to colonize Europe? Diamond dismantles pernicious racial theories tracing societal differences to biological differences. He assembles convincing evidence linking germs to domestication of animals, germs that Eurasians then spread in epidemic proportions in their voyages of discovery. In its sweep, Guns, Germs and Steel encompasses the rise of agriculture, technology, writing, government, and religion, providing a unifying theory of human history as intriguing as the histories of dinosaurs and glaciers. 32 illustrations [via]
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- Guns, Germs, And Steel: The Fates of Human Societies: ISBN 0393061310 (0-393-06131-0)
Hardcover, W W Norton & Co Inc - Guns, Germs & Steel: The Fates of Human Societies: ISBN 061318114X (0-613-18114-X)
Hardcover, Bt Bound - Guns, Germs, and Steel : The Fates of Human Societies: ISBN 0393038912 (0-393-03891-2)
Hardcover, Norton & Company, Incorporated, W. W. - Guns, Germs & Steel: The Fates of Human Societies: ISBN 0393973867 (0-393-97386-7)
Hardcover, W W Norton & Co Inc - Guns, Germs & Steel: The Fates of Human Societies: ISBN 0393317552 (0-393-31755-2)
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His Majesty's Dragonby Naomi NovikISBN 0345481283 (0-345-48128-3)
Softcover, Ballantine Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'His Majesty's Dragon'Book summary:Aerial combat brings a thrilling new dimension to the Napoleonic Wars as valiant warriors rise to Britain's defense by taking to the skies . . . not aboard aircraft but atop the mighty backs of fighting dragons.When HMS Reliant captures a French frigate and seizes its precious cargo, an unhatched dragon egg, fate sweeps Capt. Will Laurence from his seafaring life into an uncertain future-and an unexpected kinship with a most extraordinary creature. Thrust into the rarified world of the Aerial Corps as master of the dragon Temeraire, he will face a crash course in the daring tactics of airborne battle. For as France's own dragon-borne forces rally to breach British soil in Bonaparte's boldest gambit, Laurence and Temeraire must soar into their own baptism of fire. [via]
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The Home Storage Checklistby Allen K. LeclairISBN 0965307816 (0-9653078-1-6)
Hardcover, Griffin Pub
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Home Storage Checklist'Book summary:TRADE PAPERBACK BOOK [via]
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La Odisea / The Odysseyby HomeroISBN 968150058X (968-15-0058-X)
Softcover, Editores Mexicanos Unidos-Mex
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Literature Made Easy Lord of the Fliesby Tony Buzan, Mary HartleyISBN 0764108212 (0-7641-0821-2)
Softcover, Barrons Educational Series Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Literature Made Easy Lord of the Flies'Book summary:TheLiterature Made Easy Series is more than just plot summaries. Each book describes a classic novel and drama by explaining themes, elaborating on characters, and discussing each author's unique literary style, use of language, and point of view. Extensive illustrations and imaginative, enlightening use of graphics help to make each book in this series livelier, easier, and more fun to use than ordinary literature plot summaries. An unusual feature, "Mind Map" is a diagram that summarizes and interrelates the most important details that students need to understand about a given work. Appropriate for middle and high school students. [via]
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Lord of the Fliesby William Golding, E. M. ForsterISBN 1573226122 (1-57322-612-2)
Softcover, Riverhead Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Lord of the Flies'Book summary:William Golding's compelling story about a group of very ordinary small boys marooned on a coral island has become a modern classic. At first it seems as though it is all going to be great fun; but the fun before long becomes furious and life on the island turns into a nightmare of panic and death. As ordinary standards of behaviour collapse, the whole world the boys know collapses with them-the world of cricket and homework and adventure stories-and another world is revealed beneath, primitive and terrible. Lord of the Flies remains as provocative today as when it was first published in 1954, igniting passionate debate with its startling, brutal portrait of human nature. Though critically acclaimed, it was largely ignored upon its initial publication. Yet soon it became a cult favorite among both students and literary critics who compared it to J.D. Salinger's The Catcher in the Rye in its influence on modern thought and literature. Labeled a parable, an allegory, a myth, a morality tale, a parody, a political treatise, even a vision of the apocalypse, Lord of the Flies has established itself as a true classic. [via]
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- Lord of the Flies: ISBN 0140283331 (0-14-028333-1)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA - Lord of the Flies: ISBN 0140772863 (0-14-077286-3)
Softcover, Penguin Uk - Lord of the Flies: ISBN 0399501487 (0-399-50148-7)
Softcover, Perigee - Lord of the Flies: ISBN 0399529209 (0-399-52920-9)
Hardcover, Perigee - Lord of the Flies: ISBN 0881030317 (0-88103-031-7)
Hardcover, Bt Bound - Lord of the Flies: ISBN 0606001964 (0-606-00196-4)
Hardcover, Demco Media - Lord of the Flies: ISBN 0698102193 (0-698-10219-3)
Hardcover, Putnam Pub Group - Lord of the Flies: ISBN 1573226122 (1-57322-612-2)
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Lord Of The Flies, 50Th Anniversary Editionby William GoldingISBN 1417703938 (1-4177-0393-8)
Hardcover, Bt Bound
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Lord Of The Flies, 50Th Anniversary Edition'Book summary:Lord of the Flies , William Golding's classic tale about a group of English schoolboys who are plane-wrecked on a deserted island, is just as chilling and relevant today as when it was first published in 1954. At first, the stranded boys cooperate, attempting to gather food, make shelters, and maintain signal fires. Overseeing their efforts are Ralph, "the boy with fair hair," and Piggy, Ralph's chubby, wisdom-dispensing sidekick whose thick spectacles come in handy for lighting fires. Although Ralph tries to impose order and delegate responsibility, there are many in their number who would rather swim, play, or hunt the island's wild pig population. Soon Ralph's rules are being ignored or challenged outright. His fiercest antagonist is Jack, the redheaded leader of the pig hunters, who manages to lure away many of the boys to join his band of painted savages. The situation deteriorates as the trappings of civilization continue to fall away, until Ralph discovers that instead of being hunters, he and Piggy have become the hunted: "He forgot his words, his hunger and thirst, and became fear; hopeless fear on flying feet." Golding's gripping novel explores the boundary between human reason and animal instinct, all on the brutal playing field of adolescent competition. --Jennifer Hubert [via]
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The Lord of the Rings: Return of the King/Two Towers/Fellowship of the Ringby Alan Lee, J. R. R. TolkienISBN 0618260587 (0-618-26058-7)
Hardcover, Houghton Mifflin
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Lord of the Rings: Return of the King/Two Towers/Fellowship of the Ring'Book summary:Three-volume boxed set edition lavishly illustrated in full color by Alan Lee[via]
One Ring to rule them all, One Ring to find them, One Ring to bring them all and in the darkness bind them
In ancient times the Rings of Power were crafted by the Elven-smiths, and Sauron, The Dark Lord, forged the One Ring, filling it with his own power so that he could rule all others. But the One Ring was taken from him, and though he sought it throughout Middle-earth still it remained lost to him. After many ages it fell, by chance, into the hands of the hobbit, Bilbo Baggins.
From his fastness in the Dark Tower of Mordor, Sauron's power spread far and wide. He gathered all the Great Rings to him, but ever he searched far and wide for the One Ring that would complete his dominion.
On his eleventy-first birthday, Bilbo dissapeared bequeathing to his young cousin, Frodo, the Ruling Ring, and a perilous quest: to journey across Middle-earth, deep into the shadow of the Dark Lord and destroy the Ring by casting it into the Cracks of Doom.
The Lord of the Rings tells of the great quest undertaken by Frodo and the Fellowship of the Ring: Gandalf the wizard, the hobbits Merry, Pippin and Sam, Gimli the Dwarf, Legolas the Elf, Boromir of Gondor, and a tall, mysterious stranger called Strider.More editions of The Lord of the Rings: Return of the King/Two Towers/Fellowship of the Ring:
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M*A*S*Hby Richard HookerISBN 0671479989 (0-671-47998-9)
Softcover, Pocket Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'M*A*S*H'Book summary:Before the movie, this is the novel that gave life to Hawkeye Pierce, Trapper John, Hot Lips Houlihan, Frank Burns, Radar O'Reilly, and the rest of the gang that made the 4077th MASH like no other place in Korea or on earth.
The doctors who worked in the Mobile Army Surgical Hospitals (MASH) during the Korean War were well trained but, like most soldiers sent to fight a war, too young for the job. In the words of the author, "a few flipped their lids, but most of them just raised hell, in a variety of ways and degrees."
For fans of the movie and the series alike, here is the original version of that perfectly corrupt football game, those martini-laced mornings and sexual escapades, and that unforgettable foray into assisted if incompleted suicide--all as funny and poignant now as they were before they became a part of America's culture and heart. [via]
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Mashby Richard HookerISBN 0688149553 (0-688-14955-3)
Softcover, Harpercollins
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Mash'Book summary:Before the movie, this is the novel that gave life to Hawkeye Pierce, Trapper John, Hot Lips Houlihan, Frank Burns, Radar O'Reilly, and the rest of the gang that made the 4077th MASH like no other place in Korea or on earth.
The doctors who worked in the Mobile Army Surgical Hospitals (MASH) during the Korean War were well trained but, like most soldiers sent to fight a war, too young for the job. In the words of the author, "a few flipped their lids, but most of them just raised hell, in a variety of ways and degrees."
For fans of the movie and the series alike, here is the original version of that perfectly corrupt football game, those martini-laced mornings and sexual escapades, and that unforgettable foray into assisted if incompleted suicide--all as funny and poignant now as they were before they became a part of America's culture and heart. [via]
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Meriwether Lewis, Thomas Jefferson, and the Opening of the American West: The Climactic Battle of World War IIby Stephen E. AmbroseISBN 0671884034 (0-671-88403-4)
Hardcover, Simon & Schuster
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Safe Area Gorazdeby Joe SaccoISBN 1560974702 (1-56097-470-2)
Softcover, Fantagraphics Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Safe Area Gorazde'Book summary:Safe Area Gorazde is a harrowing documentary comic destined to become a classic of war reporting. In the waning days of the Bosnian war, Joe Sacco, the cartoonist behind the acclaimed Palestine, made several visits to Gorazde, a UN "safe area" that had been repeatedly attacked by Serb forces. He interviewed survivors of the Serb siege and assembled their recollections. Sacco depicts the atrocities of the war in simple, restrained panels, but his attention to detail is everywhere, from the accurate renderings of mortar scars on the landscape to the history lessons carefully embedded throughout the comic.
Sacco never descends into sensationalism or exploitation of the war's victims, but instead adopts a subjective gaze that places readers in hiding spots from which they can only catch glimpses of the murders and rapes. Sacco leaves the particulars of these crimes up to the imagination of his readers, which is appropriate enough given the unthinkable nature of what took place in Gorazde.
The real impact of Safe Area lies in Sacco's immersion in the daily life of Gorazde. While other journalists left Gorazde as soon as they had the clips they needed, Sacco lived in the town for weeks at a time, becoming a vicarious resident. Although the conflict was largely over by this point, Gorazde was still surrounded and Sacco was an eyewitness to his friends' struggle not only to survive but also to maintain their sanity.
Safe Area is not just a catalogue of horrors and a condemnation of international indifference; it's also a moving portrayal of the human capacity to endure almost any hardship. Sacco refuses to fall into any clichés about the triumph of the human spirit here--the people of Gorazde themselves reject such notions--but he does offer up Safe Area as a testament to its survival. --Peter Darbyshire, Amazon.ca [via]
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Schindler's Listby Thomas KeneallyISBN 0582788943 (0-582-78894-3)
Softcover, Longman Cheshire Pty Ltd
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Schindler's List'Book summary:Oskar Schindler risks his life to save more than 1,000 Jews from certain death in the concentration camps of World War II. Based on a true story, the book was adapted by Steven Spielberg into one of the most important and powerful war films of all time. [via]
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- Schindler's List: ISBN 0671511718 (0-671-51171-8)
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Softcover, Touchstone Books - Schindler's List: ISBN 0671516884 (0-671-51688-4)
Hardcover, Simon & Schuster - Schindler's List: ISBN 0140067841 (0-14-006784-1)
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Hardcover, Simon and Schuster - Schindler's List: ISBN 0816138540 (0-8161-3854-0)
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Schindler's List Piano Solosby John WilliamsISBN 0793532779 (0-7935-3277-9)
Softcover, Hal Leonard Corp
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Schindler's List Piano Solos'Book summary:8 beautiful piano solos from the Oscar-winning movie. Pieces include: Theme from Schindler's List Give Me Your Names I Could Have Done More Stolen Memories and more. Features photos from the film. [via]
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Seven Commentaries on the Gallic War With an Eighth Commentary by Aulus Hirtiusby Julius Caesar, Carolyn Hammond, Aulus HirtiusISBN 0192831208 (0-19-283120-8)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Seven Commentaries on the Gallic War With an Eighth Commentary by Aulus Hirtius'Book summary:The Gallic War, published on the eve of the civil war which led to the end of the Roman Republic, is an autobiographical account written by one of the most famous figures of European history. This new translation reflects the purity of Caesar's Latin while preserving the pace and flow of his momentous narrative of the conquest of Gaul and the first Roman invasions of Britain and Germany. Detailed notes, maps, a table of dates, and glossary make this the most useful edition available. [via]
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Shadow Of The Giantby Orson Scott CardISBN 0312857586 (0-312-85758-6)
Hardcover, Tor Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Shadow Of The Giant'Book summary:Bean's past was a battle just to survive. He first appeared on the streets of Rotterdam, a tiny child with a mind leagues beyond anyone else. He knew he could not survive through strength; he used his tactical genius to gain acceptance into a children's gang, and then to help make that gang a template for success for all the others. He civilized them, and lived to grow older. Then he was discovered by the recruiters for the Battle School.[via]
For Earth was at war - a terrible war with an inscrutable alien enemy. A war that humanity was near to losing. But the long distances of interstellar space has given hope to the defenders of Earth - they had time to train military geniuses up from childhood, forging them into an irresistible force in the high-orbital facility called the Battle School. That story is told in two books, the beloved classic ENDER'S GAME, and its parallel, ENDER'S SHADOW.
Bean was the smallest student at the Battle School, but he became Ender Wiggins' right hand, Since then he has grown to be a power on Earth. He served the Hegemon as strategist and general in the terrible wars that followed Ender's defeat of the alien empire attacking Earth. Now he and his wife Petra yearn for a safe place to build a family - something he has never known - but there is nowhere on Earth that does not harbor his enemies - old enemies from the days in Ender's Jeesh, new enemies from the wars on Earth. To find security, Bean and Petra must once again follow in Ender's footsteps. They must leave Earth behind, in the control of the Hegemon, and look to the stars.More editions of Shadow Of The Giant:
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Six Days of War: June 1967 and the Making of the Modern Middle Eastby Michael OrenISBN 0345461924 (0-345-46192-4)
Softcover, Ballantine Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Six Days of War: June 1967 and the Making of the Modern Middle East'Book summary:In Israel and the West it is called the Six Day War. In the Arab world, it is known as the June War, or simply as "the Setback." Never has a conflict so short, unforeseen and largely unwanted by both sides so transformed the world. The Yom Kippur War, the war in Lebanon, the Camp David accords, the controversy over Jerusalem and Jewish settlements in West Bank, the intifada and the rise of Palestinian terror: all are part of the outcome of those six days of intense Arab-Israeli fighting in the summer of 1967.
Michael B. Oren's Six Days of War is the most comprehensive history ever published of this dramatic and pivotal event, the first to explore it both as a military struggle and as a critical episode in the global Cold War. Oren spotlights all the participants--Arab, Israeli, Soviet, and American--telling the story of how the war broke out and of the shocking ways it unfolded.
Drawing on thousands of top-secret documents, on rare papers in Russian and Arabic, and on exclusive personal interviews, Six Days of War recreates the regional and international context which, by the late 1960s, virtually assured an Arab-Israeli conflagration. Also examined are the domestic crises in each of the battling states, and the extraordinary personalities--Moshe Dayan and Gamal Abdul Nasser, Hafez al-Assad and Yitzhak Rabin, Lyndon Johnson and Alexei Kosygin--that precipitated this earthshaking clash. [via]More editions of Six Days of War: June 1967 and the Making of the Modern Middle East:
Suite Francaiseby Irene Nemirovsky, Sandra SmithISBN 1400096278 (1-4000-9627-8)
Softcover, Vintage Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Suite Francaise'Book summary:By the early l940s, when Ukrainian-born Irène Némirovsky began working on what would become Suite Françaisethe first two parts of a planned five-part novelshe was already a highly successful writer living in Paris. But she was also a Jew, and in 1942 she was arrested and deported to Auschwitz: a month later she was dead at the age of thirty-nine. Two years earlier, living in a small village in central Francewhere she, her husband, and their two small daughters had fled in a vain attempt to elude the Nazisshed begun her novel, a luminous portrayal of a human drama in which she herself would become a victim. When she was arrested, she had completed two parts of the epic, the handwritten manuscripts of which were hidden in a suitcase that her daughters would take with them into hiding and eventually into freedom. Sixty-four years later, at long last, we can read Némirovskys literary masterpiece
The first part, A Storm in June, opens in the chaos of the massive 1940 exodus from Paris on the eve of the Nazi invasion during which several families and individuals are thrown together under circumstances beyond their control. They share nothing but the harsh demands of survivalsome trying to maintain lives of privilege, others struggling simply to preserve their livesbut soon, all together, they will be forced to face the awful exigencies of physical and emotional displacement, and the annihilation of the world they know. In the second part, Dolce, we enter the increasingly complex life of a German-occupied provincial village. Coexisting uneasily with the soldiers billeted among them, the villagersfrom aristocrats to shopkeepers to peasantscope as best they can. Some choose resistance, others collaboration, and as their community is transformed by these acts, the lives of these these men and women reveal nothing less than the very essence of humanity.
Suite Française is a singularly piercing evocationat once subtle and severe, deeply compassionate and fiercely ironicof life and death in occupied France, and a brilliant, profoundly moving work of art. [via]More editions of Suite Francaise:
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Two Towersby J. R. R. TolkienISBN 141761840X (1-4176-1840-X)
Hardcover, Bt Bound
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Two Towers'Book summary:The prequel to The Lord of the Rings-The Hobbit-is now a major motion picture directed by Peter Jackson THE GREATEST FANTASY EPIC OF OUR TIME The Fellowship is scattered. Some are bracing hopelessly for war against the ancient evil of Sauron. Some are contending with the treachery of the wizard Saruman. Only Frodo and Sam are left to take the accursed One Ring, ruler of all the Rings of Power, to be destroyed in Mordor, the dark realm where Sauron is supreme. Their guide is Gollum, deceitful and lust-filled, slave to the corruption of the Ring. Thus continues the bestselling epic that began in The Fellowship of the Ring, and which reaches its magnificent climax in The Return of the King. [via]
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- Two Towers: ISBN 0345339711 (0-345-33971-1)
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Hardcover, Houghton Mifflin - Two Towers: ISBN 0618153993 (0-618-15399-3)
Hardcover, Houghton Mifflin - Two Towers: ISBN 0618260595 (0-618-26059-5)
Hardcover, Houghton Mifflin - Two Towers: ISBN 0786251751 (0-7862-5175-1)
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Softcover, Houghton Mifflin - Two Towers: ISBN 0618129081 (0-618-12908-1)
Softcover, Houghton Mifflin - Two Towers: ISBN 0618260277 (0-618-26027-7)
Softcover, Houghton Mifflin - Two Towers: ISBN 0395312663 (0-395-31266-3)
Hardcover, Houghton Mifflin - Two Towers: ISBN 0395647398 (0-395-64739-8)
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We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed With Our Families: Stories from Rwandaby Philip GourevitchISBN 0312243359 (0-312-24335-9)
Softcover, Picador USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed With Our Families: Stories from Rwanda'Book summary:"Hutus kill Tutsis, then Tutsis kill Hutus--if that's really all there is to it, then no wonder we can't be bothered with it," Philip Gourevitch writes, imagining the response of somebody in a country far from the ethnic strife and mass killings of Rwanda. But the situation is not so simple, and in this complex and wrenching book, he explains why the Rwandan genocide should not be written off as just another tribal dispute.
The "stories" in this book's subtitle are both the author's, as he repeatedly visits this tiny country in an attempt to make sense of what has happened, and those of the people he interviews. These include a Tutsi doctor who has seen much of her family killed over decades of Tutsi oppression, a Schindleresque hotel manager who hid hundreds of refugees from certain death, and a Rwandan bishop who has been accused of supporting the slaughter of Tutsi schoolchildren, and can only answer these charges by saying, "What could I do?" Gourevitch, a staff writer for the New Yorker, describes Rwanda's history with remarkable clarity and documents the experience of tragedy with a sober grace. The reader will ask along with the author: Why does this happen? And why don't we bother to stop it? --Maria Dolan [via]
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William Golding's Lord of the Fliesby William GoldingISBN 0399506438 (0-399-50643-8)
Softcover, Perigee
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› Find signed collectible books: 'William Golding's Lord of the Flies'Book summary:The classic tale of a group of English school boys who are left stranded on an unpopulated island, and who must confront not only the defects of their society but the defects of their own natures. [via]
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Zlata's Diary: A Child's Life in Sarajevoby Zlata Filipovic, Christina Pribichevich-Zoric, Janine Di GiovanniISBN 0143036874 (0-14-303687-4)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Zlata's Diary: A Child's Life in Sarajevo'Book summary:The experiences of Zlata Filipovic+a7 from 1991 through 1993 in Sarajevo reveal an innocent life of piano lessons and birthday parties horrifyingly transformed into days of food shortages, friends dying, and hiding out in a neighbor's cellar during bombings. Reprint. [via]
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1984by GEORGE ORWELISBN 9685270880 (968-5270-88-0)
Softcover, Ld Books Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: '1984'Book summary:En esta novela encontramos al lider unico cuya presencia es ante todo una abstraccion, la negacion del individuo, la sustraccion de la informacion: el Gran Hermano. Es, al mismo tiempo, una advertencia y un deseo. El autor ha construido una metafora del imaginario social del siglo XX, al describir un pais carcelario, vigilado por un lugar desde donde se ve a el y a todos. [via]
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La Gran Guerra Por La Civilizacion/the Great War of Civilizationby Robert FiskISBN 8423337871 (84-233-3787-1)
Hardcover, Planeta Pub Corp
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Odisea/odysseyby HomeroISBN 9872087415 (987-20874-1-5)
Softcover, Altamira Pr
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El Senor De Las Moscasby William GoldingISBN 0785795618 (0-7857-9561-8)
Hardcover, Bt Bound
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El Senor De Las Moscas/ Lord of the Fliesby William Golding, Carmen VergaraISBN 8420666572 (84-206-6657-2)
Hardcover, Alianza Editorial Sa
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› Find signed collectible books: 'El Senor De Las Moscas/ Lord of the Flies'Book summary:Urdida en torno a la situacion limite de una treintena de muchachos en una isla desierta, El Senor de las Moscas es una magnifica novela que admite lecturas diferentes e incluso opuestas. En efecto, si algunos pueden ver en esta indagacion de William Golding en la condicion humana la ilustracion de que la agresividad criminal se halla entre los instintos basicos del hombre, otros podran considerarla como una parabola que cuestiona un tipo de educacion represiva que no hace sino incubar explosiones de barbarie prestas a estallar en cuanto los controles se relajan. [via]
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Suite Francesaby Irene NemirovskyISBN 8478889825 (84-7888-982-5)
Softcover, Salamandra Publicacions Y Edicions
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De Bello Gallicoby Julius CaesarISBN 0862921775 (0-86292-177-5)
Softcover, Intl Pub Marketing Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'De Bello Gallico'Book summary:Book I of Caesar's Commentaries on the Gallic War starts with an account of Gaul and goes on to cover Caesar's defeat of first the Helvetians and then the Germans under Ariovistus. The Introduction to this edition of the Latin text, first published in 1957, gives background information on the Rome of Caesar's time, on Caesar himself and on the composition and reliability of his commentaries, on Gaul, and on the Roman Army. Useful maps are provided, along with Notes on the text, Index of names, and a Vocabulary.[via]More editions of De Bello Gallico:
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Suite Francaiseby Irene NemirovskyISBN 2207256456 (2-207-25645-6)
Hardcover, Denoel
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Suite Francaise'Book summary:434pages. in8. broché jaquette. Ecrit dans le feu de l'Histoire, Suite fran?se d?int presque en direct l'Exode de juin 1940, qui brassa dans un d?rdre tragique des familles fran?ses de toute sorte, des plus hupp? aux plus modestes. Avec bonheur, Ir? N?rovsky traque les innombrables petites l?et?et les fragiles ?ns de solidarit?'une population en d?ute. Cocottes largu? par leur amant, grands bourgeois d?? par la populace, bless?abandonn?dans des fermes engorgent les routes de France bombard? au hasard. Peu ?eu l'ennemi prend possession d'un pays inerte et apeur? Comme tant d'autres, le village de Bussy est pays alors contraint d'accueillir des troupes allemandes. Exacerb? par la pr?nce de l'occupant, les tensions sociales et frustrations des habitants se r?illent. Roman bouleversant, intimiste, implacable, d?ilant avec une extraordinaire lucidit?'? de chaque Fran?s pendant l'Occupation (enrichi des notes et de la correspondance d'Ir? N?rovsky), Suite fran?se ressuscite d'une plume brillante et intuitive un pan ?if de notre m?ire. [via]
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