An American Heroine in the French Resistance: The Diary and Memoir of Virginia d'Albert-Lake, Paperback - Judy Barrett Litoff

Reducere. This fascinating book tells the remarkable story of an ordinary American woman's heroism in the French Resistance. Virginia Roush fell in love with...

The remarkable and moving story of Jacques Lusseyran, a blind French resistance leader who was interned at Buchenwald.Publisher: Floris BooksAuthor...

Thrillingly tells the story of an Eastern European Jew's flight from the Holocaust and the years he spent fighting in the French underground." --US...

Carmen Pomi s' life is terrific life story, linking a fascinating individual to the events of the 20th century: two world wars, the advance of wome...

Reducere. The French Resistance has an iconic status in the struggle to liberate Nazi-occupied Europe, but its story is entangled in myths. Gaining a true un...

Peter Mayle may have spent a year in Provence, but Harriet Welty Rochefort writes from the wise perspective of one who has spent more than twenty y...

Reducere. The Resistance, 1940 illuminates the early phase of the French Resistance through first-hand accounts, describing how movements organized themselve...

Maine-born Dr. Sumner "Jack" Jackson joined the British Army as a volunteer physician during World War I. After the Battle of the Somme, he married...

The wartime adventures of the legendary SOE agent Harry Rée, told in his own words A school teacher at the start of the war, Harry Rée renounced hi...

Singer. Actress. Beauty. Spy. The incredible story of Josephine Baker and her Band of Brothers who Risked All for Freedom's CausePublisher: Quercus...

DescriptionWhen Hitler invaded Poland, Virginia Hall was traveling in Europe. Which was dangerous enough, but as fighting erupted, instead of retur...

Reducere. Stifled for two decades by an unloving husband, after his drowning death in 1980, Judy Welden helped her new husband set up his Chiropractic office...

Praised as an "unforgettable love story" by Heather Morris, New York Times bestselling author of The Tattooist of Auschwitz, this is the real-life,...

Original and compelling, an untold story of rare and captivating power - Philippe SandsThe hidden true story of Jewish women who inspired Poland's ...

Reducere. Dear Heroin: A Memoir of Goodbyes is a powerful book that tells the story of Linda, her son, and the fight to save him from his heroin addiction. L...

Reducere. A mother's search for the son she gave up uncovers terrifying secrets in a Minnesota town in this "masterfully depicted true-crime tale" (Publisher...

A TIMES AND SUNDAY TIMES BEST BOOK OF 2021 'Thrillingly and wrenchingly funny ... like Educated and Hillbilly Elegy' DAVID LIPSKYPublisher: HarperC...

'An unforgettable love story set in perilous times' Heather Morris, author of The Tattooist of AuschwitzThe greatest love blossoms in the darkest h...

Reducere. An invaluable guide to the art and mind of Virginia Woolf, drawn by her husband from the personal record she kept over a period of twenty-seven yea...

A gripping memoir written by a 96-year-old Jewish Holocaust survivor about his escape from Nazi-occupied Poland in the 1930's and his adventures wi...

Ada Gobetti's Partisan Diary is both diary and memoir. From the German entry into Turin on 10 September 1943 to the liberation of the city on 28 Ap...

Guidebook to a 5-day cycle tour of the Lake District, with 2 options each day up to a total of 186 miles and almost 5000m of ascent, and 15 tough d...

The Heroine of Cameron DamDecades ago, a vagabond searching through trash outside a Los Angeles publisher's office found a rejected 1929 manuscript...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Jon VreelandAfter three decades of living in the sandy beach suburbs of Huntington Beach, Jon Vreeland's heroin addiction h...

The incredible story of Jewish female resistance fighters who fought the Nazis - a tale virtually unknown.

A grandmother's lockdown diaryPublisher: The Conrad PressAuthor(s): Angela ListerNumber of pages: 316Publication date: 2021Dimensions: 129 x 197 x ...

DescriptionRussell Holbrook is from a good Baptist home, a traditional nuclear family, where he was raised with love and given every opportunity th...

Reducere. In October 1999 during a trip to Cairo, Cyrus Kadivar, an exiled Iranian living in London, visited the tomb of the last shah and opened a Pandora's...

Published to mark the 75th anniversary of VE Day, an unforgettable never-before-told first-person account of World War II: the true story of an Ame...

The nearly forgotten story of Soviet dissidentsIt has been nearly three decades since the collapse of the Soviet Union--enough time for the role th...

Reducere. Redescopera farmecul lecturii si alege-ti de pe elefant.ro carti in limba engleza scrise de autori consacrati. Iti punem la dispozitie sute de mii ...

Reducere. Virginia Woolf was fifty-four on January 25, 1936, some three weeks after this final volume of her diary opens. Its last page was written four days...

Reducere. In the early morning of September 8, 1755, a force of French Regulars, Canadians and Indians crouched unseen in a ravine south of Lake George. Unde...

The first book-length study to engage with the literary construction of whiteness in the francophone Caribbean, Fictions of Whiteness examines the ...

Publisher: AbramsAuthor(s): Salamishah TilletNumber of pages: 224Collection: Books About BooksPublication date: 2022Dimensions: 128 x 201 x 19Cover...

Reducere. As a young man from a loving, middle class family living in a small English village, Ben Rogers appeared to have it all....but then he found drugs....

Reducere. First published posthumously in 1987, Pauli Murray's Song in a Weary Throat was critically lauded, winning the Robert F. Kennedy Book Award and the...

Reducere. Redescopera farmecul lecturii si alege-ti de pe elefant.ro carti in limba engleza scrise de autori consacrati. Iti punem la dispozitie sute de mii ...

Contributor(s): Author: Tom ChaffinIn 1845, seven years after fleeing bondage in Maryland, Frederick Douglass was in his late twenties and already ...

DescriptionAphra Behn's spectacular farce, Emperor of the Moon (1687), so engaged audiences that it was restaged well into the eighteenth century. ...

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLCAuthor(s): Patrick MarnhamIllustration(s): 31 bw in 8pp platesNumber of pages: 320Publication date: 2022Dimensi...

Reducere. When the pastors and theologians who comprised the Synod of Dort met in 1618 and 1619 to frame a response to the rise of Arminian theology in Dutch...