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Jacques Rossi was one of the most astute observers of the Stalinist system, in addition to being one of its victims.
Author : Jacques Rossi
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 365 pages
File Size : 18,4 MB
Release : 2020
Category : Concentration camps
ISBN : 1487524064
Jacques Rossi was one of the most astute observers of the Stalinist system, in addition to being one of its victims.
Author : Jack Beaumont
Publisher : Blackstone Publishing
Page : 318 pages
File Size : 50,20 MB
Release : 2023-02-28
Category : Fiction
ISBN :
Based on the experiences of a real French spy, Jack Beaumont’s first-hand knowledge and experiences make this thriller plausible and frightening as you’re plunged into the very real world of terror, espionage, and danger. Alec de Payns is an undercover operative in the ultra-elusive French Y Division of the DGSE, a foreign intelligence service equivalent to the CIA or MI6. Code named Aguilar, de Payns is one of the division’s most accomplished agents working to neutralize international threats on a daily basis while simultaneously trying to balance his home life as a husband and father. When a routine mission to infiltrate a dangerous terrorist group unexpectedly goes belly up, Alec is faced with the unthinkable: that he may have been betrayed by someone in his close-knit team—and they may be trying to pin the blame on Alec himself. Back in Paris, Alec is assigned to investigate a secretive biological weapons facility in Pakistan which the DGSE believes to be producing a newly weaponized strain of bacteria, intended for release in France. As Alec works to uncover the facility’s secrets, he must also fight to clear his name and discover who the mole is before it’s too late. It’s not just his reputation that’s at stake—it’s the lives of his wife, two young children, and the entire population of Paris.
Author : Jacques Rossi
Publisher : Professors World Peace Academy
Page : 632 pages
File Size : 45,98 MB
Release : 1989
Category : Social Science
ISBN :
Author : Jacques Lusseyran
Publisher : New World Library
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 25,18 MB
Release : 2014-02-15
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1608682706
The book that helped inspire Anthony Doerr’s All the Light We Cannot See An updated edition of this classic World War II memoir, chosen as one of the 100 Best Spiritual Books of the Twentieth Century, with a new photo insert and restored passages from the original French edition When Jacques Lusseyran was an eight-year-old Parisian schoolboy, he was blinded in an accident. He finished his schooling determined to participate in the world around him. In 1941, when he was seventeen, that world was Nazi-occupied France. Lusseyran formed a resistance group with fifty-two boys and used his heightened senses to recruit the best. Eventually, Lusseyran was arrested and sent to the Buchenwald concentration camp in a transport of two thousand resistance fighters. He was one of only thirty from the transport to survive. His gripping story is one of the most powerful and insightful descriptions of living and thriving with blindness, or indeed any challenge, ever published.
Author : Heinrich Meier
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 363 pages
File Size : 28,86 MB
Release : 2016-04
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 022607403X
Contents -- Preface -- Preface to the American Edition -- Note on Citations -- Translator's Note and Acknowledgments -- First Book -- I. The Philosopher among Nonphilosophers -- II. Faith -- III. Nature -- IV. Beisichselbstsein -- V. Politics -- VI. Love -- VII. Self-Knowledge -- Second Book -- Rousseau and the Profession of Faith of the Savoyard Vicar -- Name Index
Author : Jacques Prévert
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 37,85 MB
Release : 2010
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9780981808826
The most comprehensive Jacques Prevert sampler, covering the full range of his poetic works, in a fully dual language (French -English) format. Wonderfully translated by Norman R. Shapiro who has caught the full range of Prevert's irony, puns, and word play that has enchanted French readers throughout the 20th century. Jacques Prevert (1900-1977) was a poet and screenwriter who actively participated in the Surrealist movement as well as the Rue du Chateau group with Raymond Queneau and Marcel Duchamp. His poetry is taught in schools in France and his works appear in countless anthologies throughout the world. This comprehensive anthology, drawing from all time periods of his work, is the first in English to present a picture of the whole of Prevert's poetic achievement.
Author : James Fleming Jones
Publisher : Librairie Droz
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 28,49 MB
Release : 1991
Category : Authors, French
ISBN : 9782600036726
Author : Max O'Rell
Publisher :
Page : 190 pages
File Size : 34,66 MB
Release : 1901
Category : France
ISBN :
Author : Lucy Wadham
Publisher : Faber & Faber
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 32,83 MB
Release : 2009-10-29
Category : Travel
ISBN : 0571252257
At the age of eighteen Lucy Wadham ran away from English boys and into the arms of a Frenchman. Twenty-five years later, having married in a French Catholic Church, put her children through the French educational system and divorced in a French court of law, Wadham is perfectly placed to explore the differences between Britain and France. Using both her personal experiences and the lessons of French history and culture, she examines every aspect of French life - from sex and adultery to money, happiness, race and politics - in this funny and engrossing account of our most intriguing neighbour.
Author : William A. Hoisington, Jr.
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 163 pages
File Size : 30,98 MB
Release : 2004-11-10
Category : History
ISBN : 1134268424
This is a political biography of the French industrialist and political activist Jacques Lemaigre Dubreuil (1894-1955), president of the Taxpayers' Federation in the 1930s, entrepreneur in wartime France and Africa, organizer of the 'Group of Five' in Algiers which prepared for the Allied landings in North Africa (November 1942), 'inventor' of General Henri Giraud as a candidate for the leadership of liberated North and West Africa, negotiator of the Murphy-Giraud Agreements and the Anfa Memorandum with President Roosevelt (1942 and 1943), political writer on the postwar future of France in Morocco and the owner of the liberal newspaper Maroc-Presse. He was assassinated in Casablanca by French counter-terrorists in June 1955, a 'turning point' event which pushed the French government to grant independence to Morroco. Was he a rabble-rouser, a demagogue, a betrayer of French interests at home and overseas or a reformer, a patriot, a hero of the anti-German resistance, and a champion of Franco-Moroccan solidarity?