Livres les plus populaires en France●Historique

The wise, life-changing, ground-breaking book from writer and activist Munroe Bergdorf. Transitioning is an alignment of the invisible and the physical. It is truth rising to the surface. It is one of the most fundamental aspects of the human condition—a part of our experience as a conscious being, no matter who we are. As time goes on, we all develop as people. None of us ever becomes someone else entirely—regardless of how we identify—but nor do we stay the same forever. We all transitio...

Date de sortie: 2023-02-21 Genre:Biographies et mémoires 10,99 €

Read the fascinating story of one of the greatest unsung figures of the nature conservation movement, founder of the RSPB and icon of early animal rights activism, Etta Lemon. A heroine for our times, Etta Lemon   campaigned for fifty years against the worldwide slaughter of birds for extravagantly feathered hats. Her legacy is the RSPB , grown from an all-female pressure group of 1889 with the splendidly simple pledge: Wear No Feathers. Etta’s long battle against ‘murderous millin...

Date de sortie: 2018-06-05 Genre:Biographies et mémoires 10,99 €

An intimate, powerful, and inspiring memoir; 17 million copies sold worldwide THE NO. 1 BESTSELLER BRITISH BOOK AWARDS, NON-FICTION BOOK OF THE YEAR THE SUNDAY TIMES, MEMOIR OF THE YEAR BOOKS OF THE YEAR: THE TIMES , OBSERVER , GUARDIAN , EVENING STANDARD _______________________________ In a life filled with meaning and accomplishment, Michelle Obama has emerged as one of the most iconic and compelling women of our era. As First Lady of the United States of America - the first African-American t...

Date de sortie: 2018-11-13 Genre:Biographies et mémoires 17,99 €

L'histoire oubliée du plus grand réseau d'espionnes de la Première Guerre mondiale. Un an après le début de la Grande Guerre, Eve Gardiner brûle de prendre part à la lutte contre les Allemands et est recrutée comme espionne. Envoyée dans la France occupée, elle est formée par Lili, nom de code : Alice, qui dirige un vaste réseau d'agents secrets pour lutter contre l'ennemi. Trente ans plus tard, hantée par la trahison qui a provoqué le démantèlement du réseau Alice, Eve, devenue...

Date de sortie: 2021-04-07 5,99 €

THE #1 SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER A riveting, deeply personal account of history in the making-from the president who inspired us to believe in the power of democracy. 'Gorgeously written, humorous, compelling, life affirming' Justin Webb, Mail on Sunday In the stirring, highly anticipated first volume of his presidential memoirs, Barack Obama tells the story of his improbable odyssey from young man searching for his identity to leader of the free world, describing in strikingly personal detail bot...

Date de sortie: 2020-11-17 Genre:Biographies et mémoires 19,99 €

Découvrez ou redécouvrez les périples de Marco Polo à travers l'empire du milieu. La mise en page soignée et graphique de ce livre numérique vous permettra de vous immerger totalement dans ces contrées lointaines dépeintes par le voyageur vénitien.

Date de sortie: 2015-01-01 0,99 €

The Sunday Times top ten bestseller. Edward Snowden, the man who risked everything to expose the US government’s system of mass surveillance, reveals for the first time the story of his life, including how he helped to build that system and what motivated him to try to bring it down. In 2013, twenty-nine-year-old Edward Snowden shocked the world when he broke with the American intelligence establishment and revealed that the United States government was secretly pursuing the means to collect e...

Date de sortie: 2019-09-17 Genre:Biographies et mémoires 5,99 €

Découvrez ou redécouvrez les périples de Marco Polo à travers l'empire du milieu. Dans ce second ouvrage, Marco Polo nous décrit plus précisément les us et coutumes de Koubilaï Khan. La mise en page soignée et graphique de ce livre numérique vous permettra de vous immerger totalement dans ces contrées lointaines dépeintes par le voyageur vénitien.

Date de sortie: 2015-01-15 0,99 €

*Winner of the 2014 Nobel Peace Prize* 'Malala is an inspiration to girls and women all over the world' J K Rowling 'Inspirational and powerful' GRAZIA 'For sheer inspiration read I Am Malala' SUNDAY TIMES 'A tale of immense courage and conviction' INDEPENDENT 'She has the heart and courage of a lioness and is a true inspiration' Lorraine Kelly, THE SUN When the Taliban took control of the Swat Valley, one girl fought for her right to an education. On Tuesday, 9 October 2012, she almost paid the...

Date de sortie: 2013-10-08 Genre:Biographies et mémoires 5,49 €

These memoirs from one of the great leaders of our time are 'essential reading for anyone who wants to understand history - and then go out and change it' Barack Obama The riveting memoirs of the outstanding moral and political leader of our time, Long Walk to Freedom brilliantly re-creates the drama of the experiences that helped shape Nelson Mandela's destiny. Emotive, compelling and uplifting, Long Walk to Freedom is the exhilarating story of an epic life; a story of hardship, resilience and ...

Date de sortie: 2013-04-25 Genre:Biographies et mémoires 7,49 €

'A compelling tale... a narrative that makes such a brave effort to see history as it evolves and not as it becomes.' SPECTATOR Suffused with the tense atmosphere of the times, and with brilliant portraits of Hitler, Goebbels, Goering and Himmler amongst others, Erik Larson's new book sheds unique light on events as they unfold, resulting in an unforgettable, addictively readable work of narrative history. Berlin,1933. William E. Dodd, a mild-mannered academic from Chicago, has to his own and ev...

Date de sortie: 2011-08-31 Genre:Biographies et mémoires 9,49 €

Découvrez ou redécouvrez les périples de Marco Polo à travers l'empire du milieu. Dans ce dernier ouvrage, Marco Polo nous décrit plus précisément le territoire des Indes. La mise en page soignée et graphique de ce livre numérique vous permettra de vous immerger totalement dans ces contrées lointaines dépeintes par le voyageur vénitien.

Date de sortie: 2015-03-24 0,99 €

An international bestseller which has sold over a million copies in the UK, Dreams From My Father is a refreshing, revealing portrait of a young man asking big questions about identity and belonging. The son of a Black African father and a white American mother, Barack Obama recounts an emotional odyssey, retracing the migration of his mother's family from Kansas to Hawai'i, then to his childhood home in Indonesia. Finally he travels to Kenya, where he confronts the bitter truth of his father's ...

Date de sortie: 2007-06-03 Genre:Biographies et mémoires 8,99 €

THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER A SUNDAY TIMES, THE TIMES, ECONOMIST, DAILY TELEGRAPH, EVENING STANDARD, OBSERVER BOOK OF THE YEAR 'Undoubtedly the best single-volume life of Churchill ever written' Dominic Sandbrook, Sunday Times A magnificently fresh and unexpected biography of Churchill, by one of Britain's most acclaimed historians Winston Churchill towers over every other figure in twentieth-century British history. By the time of his death at the age of 90 in 1965, many thought him to be the ...

Date de sortie: 2018-10-04 Genre:Biographies et mémoires 11,99 €

The inspiration for The Comey Rule , the Showtime limited series starring Jeff Daniels premiering September 2020 The sensational Sunday Times #1 Bestseller about taking on the mafia, the Clintons and Trump. 'An urgent clarion call.' - The Financial Times In A Higher Loyalty, his massive Number One bestselling memoir, former FBI director James Comey shares his never-before-told experiences from some of the highest-stakes situations of his career in the past two decades of American government, exp...

Date de sortie: 2018-04-17 Genre:Biographies et mémoires 5,99 €

The inspiration behind the HBO series THE PACIFIC This was a brutish, primitive hatred, as characteristic of the horror of war in the Pacific as the palm trees and the islands... Landing on the beach at Peleliu in 1944 as a twenty-year-old new recruit to the US Marines, Eugene Sledge can only try desperately to survive. At Peleliu and Okinawa - two of the fiercest and filthiest Pacific battles of WWII - he witnesses the dehumanising brutality displayed by both sides and the animal hatred that ea...

Date de sortie: 2010-07-07 Genre:Biographies et mémoires 10,99 €

L’ouvrage propose trois documents dont les auteurs ne sont autres que des SS en fonction au camp d’extermination d’Auschwitz. Le premier est une partie des mémoires de Rudolf Höss, commandant du camp, mémoires qu’il rédigea en prison en attendant d’être jugé à Nuremberg et qui constituent le témoignage le plus complet sur le fonctionnement du camp d’Auschwitz et son système d’extermination décrit avec une minutie insoutenable... vu par un haut responsable nazi. Vient ensu...

Date de sortie: 2020-04-28 Genre:Biographies et mémoires 12,99 €

Marie-Antoinette est une biographie de la reine Marie-Antoinette d'Autriche, écrite par Stefan Zweig et publiée en 1932 dans l'édition originale en allemand, puis en 1933 dans la traduction en français due à Alzir Hella. S'appuyant sur les archives de l'Empire autrichien et sur la correspondance du comte Axel de Fersen, qu'il fut le premier à pouvoir consulter intégralement, Stefan Zweig retrace la vie de cette reine, ni sainte du royalisme, ni prostituée de la Révolution mais une femme...

Date de sortie: 2022-10-20 Genre:Biographies et mémoires 0,99 €

Conversations With Myself is a moving collection of letters, diary entries and other writing that provides a rare chance to see the other side of Nelson Mandela's life, in his own voice: direct, clear, private. An international bestseller, Conversations With Myself is an intensely personal book that complements his autobiography Long Walk to Freedom . In his foreword to Nelson Mandela's book, President Barack Obama writes: ' Conversations With Myself does the world an extraordinary service in gi...

Date de sortie: 2010-10-12 Genre:Biographies et mémoires 8,99 €

A SUNDAY TIMES , THE TIMES, DAILY TELEGRAPH, NEW STATESMAN, SPECTATOR, FINANCIAL TIMES, TLS BOOK OF THE YEAR 'Masterly ... awesome reading ... an outstanding biography' Max Hastings, Sunday Times The definitive biography of the greatest French statesman of modern times In six weeks in the early summer of 1940, France was over-run by German troops and quickly surrendered. The French government of Marshal Pétain sued for peace and signed an armistice. One little-known junior French general, refus...

Date de sortie: 2018-06-18 Genre:Biographies et mémoires 12,99 €

Few books have had such an impact as Wild Swans: a popular bestseller which has sold more than 13 million copies and a critically acclaimed history of China; a tragic tale of nightmarish cruelty and an uplifting story of bravery and survival. Through the story of three generations of women in her own family – the grandmother given to the warlord as a concubine, the Communist mother and the daughter herself – Jung Chang reveals the epic history of China's twentieth century. Breathtaking in it...

Date de sortie: 2011-10-27 Genre:Biographies et mémoires 0,99 €

Make a new start in 2023 with positive daily habits for a healthy mind, from the incredible No. 1 New York Times bestseller THE INCREDIBLE NO. 1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER 'SUPERB, SMART, AND SUCCINCT' FORBES ______ Struggling to find structure? Finding yourself lacking motivation? Start by making your bed. Maintaining routine and structure is more important than ever in the age of home working, flexi-time and the general chaos of life. In Make Your Bed , Admiral William H. McRaven shares 10 life...

Date de sortie: 2017-06-15 Genre:Biographies et mémoires 9,49 €

______________________________ THE NUMBER ONE BESTSELLER FROM THE 45th PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES 'I like thinking big. I always have. To me it's very simple: If you're going to be thinking anyway, you might as well think big.' – Donald J. Trump Here is Trump in action – how he runs his business and how he runs his life – as he meets the people he needs to meet, chats with family and friends, clashes with enemies, and changes the face of the New York City skyline. But even a maverick p...

Date de sortie: 2016-11-17 Genre:Biographies et mémoires 9,49 €

A new edition of Primo Levi's classic memoir of the Holocaust, with an introduction by David Baddiel, author of Jews Don't Count 'With the moral stamina and intellectual poise of a twentieth-century Titan, this slightly built, dutiful, unassuming chemist set out systematically to remember the German hell on earth, steadfastly to think it through, and then to render it comprehensible in lucid, unpretentious prose... One of the greatest human testaments of the era' Philip Roth 'Levi's voice is esp...

Date de sortie: 2014-01-23 Genre:Biographies et mémoires 2,99 €

The inspiration behind the HBO series THE PACIFIC Here is one of the most riveting first-person accounts to ever come out of World War 2. Robert Leckie was 21 when he enlisted in the US Marine Corps in January 1942. In Helmet for My Pillow we follow his journey, from boot camp on Parris Island, South Carolina, all the way to the raging battles in the Pacific, where some of the war's fiercest fighting took place. Recounting his service with the 1st Marine Division and the brutal action on Guadalc...

Date de sortie: 2010-06-16 Genre:Biographies et mémoires 10,99 €

The Lost Child of Philomena Lee is the tale of a mother and a son whose lives were scarred by the forces of hypocrisy on both sides of the Atlantic and of the secrets they were forced to keep. A compelling narrative of human love and loss, Martin Sixsmith's moving account is both heartbreaking yet ultimately redemptive. When she fell pregnant as a teenager in Ireland in 1952, Philomena Lee was sent to the convent at Roscrea in Co. Tipperary to be looked after as a fallen woman. She cared for her...

Date de sortie: 2010-07-02 Genre:Biographies et mémoires 4,99 €

The #1 New York Times bestselling memoir of U.S. Navy Seal Chris Kyle, and the source for Clint Eastwood’s blockbuster, Academy-Award nominated movie.  “An amazingly detailed account of fighting in Iraq--a humanizing, brave story that’s extremely readable.” — PATRICIA CORNWELL, New York Times Book Review "Jaw-dropping...Undeniably riveting." —RICHARD ROEPER, Chicago Sun-Times From 1999 to 2009, U.S. Navy SEAL Chris Kyle recorded the most career...

Date de sortie: 2012-01-03 Genre:Biographies et mémoires 5,99 €

Janvier 1942, Robert Leckie s’engage dans les marines. Quelques mois d’entrainement suffiront à lui faire rejoindre les rangs de la Première Division des Marines qui sera plongée, plus qu’aucune autre, dans l’enfer de la guerre du Pacifique duquel elle tirera sa légende. De l’effroyable solitude des nuits passées sur l’île de Guadalcanal aux pluies torrentielles du Cap Gloucester jusqu’à l’abominable bataille de Peleliu, Robert Leckie dresse un portrait purement humain dan...

Date de sortie: 2020-12-01 Genre:Biographies et mémoires 11,99 €

THE #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER ‘Every time Churchill took to the airwaves it was as if he were injecting adrenaline-soaked courage directly into the British people … Larson tells the story of how that feat was accomplished … Fresh, fast and deeply moving.’ New York Times A STARTLING, GRIPPING PORTRAIT OF WHAT IT WAS LIKE TO BE ALIVE IN BRITAIN DURING THE BLITZ, AND WHAT IT WAS LIKE TO BE AROUND CHURCHILL. On Winston Churchill’s first day as prime minister, Hitler invaded Holland and ...

Date de sortie: 2020-03-03 Genre:Biographies et mémoires 8,49 €

'A Napoleonic triumph of a book, irresistibly galloping with the momentum of a cavalry charge' Simon Sebag Montefiore 'Simply dynamite' Bernard Cornwell From Andrew Roberts, author of the bestsellers The Storm of War and Churchill: Walking with Destiny , this is the definitive modern biography of Napoleon. It has become all too common for Napoleon Bonaparte's biographers to approach him as a figure to be reviled, bent on world domination, practically a proto-Hitler. Here, after years of study ex...

Date de sortie: 2016-05-27 Genre:Biographies et mémoires 10,99 €

Ian Kershaw's HITLER allows us to come closer than ever before to a serious understanding of the man and of the catastrophic sequence of events which allowed a bizarre misfit to climb from a Viennese dosshouse to leadership of one of Europe's most sophisticated countries. With extraordinary skill and vividness, drawing on a huge range of sources, Kershaw recreates the world which first thwarted and then nurtured the young Hitler. As his seemingly pitiful fantasy of being Germany's saviour attrac...

Date de sortie: 2001-10-25 Genre:Biographies et mémoires 14,99 €

'The book that redefined travel writing' Guardian Bruce Chatwin sets off on a journey through South America in this wistful classic travel book With its unique, roving structure and beautiful descriptions, In Patagonia offers an original take on the age-old adventure tale. Bruce Chatwin’s journey to a remote country in search of a strange beast brings along with it a cast of fascinating characters. Their stories delay him on the road, but will have you tearing through to the book’s end. ‘I...

Date de sortie: 2012-10-31 Genre:Biographies et mémoires 9,99 €

WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE FOR BIOGRAPHY 2013 ‘Completely absorbing’ Amanda Foreman 'Enthralling’ Guardian ‘ The Three Musketeers ! The Count of Monte Cristo ! The stories of course are fiction. But here a prize-winning author shows us that the inspiration for the swashbuckling stories was, in fact, Dumas’s own father, Alex - the son of a marquis and a black slave... He achieved a giddy ascent from private in the Dragoons to the rank of general; an outsider who had grown up among sla...

Date de sortie: 2012-09-20 Genre:Biographies et mémoires 9,49 €

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER #1 WALL STREET JOURNAL BESTSELLER #1 PUBLISHER’S WEEKLY BESTSELLER #1 AMAZON BESTSELLER Jared Kushner was one of the most consequential presidential advisers in modern history. For the first time, he recounts what happened behind closed doors during the Trump presidency. Few White House advisors have had such an expansive portfolio or constant access to the president. From his office next to Trump, senior adviser Jared Kushner operated quietly behind the ...

Date de sortie: 2022-08-23 Genre:Biographies et mémoires 19,99 €

The story of America's elite military unit told by one of its founding members They are the U.S. Army's most élite top secret strike force. They dominate the modern battlefield, but you won't hear about their heroics on CNN. No headlines can reveal their top-secret missions; and no book has ever taken readers inside-until now. Here, a founding member of Delta Force takes us behind the veil of secrecy and into the action-to reveal the never-before-told story of 1st Special Forces Operational Det...

Date de sortie: 2010-05-25 Genre:Biographies et mémoires 6,49 €

Following the enormous success of HITLER: HUBRIS this book triumphantly completes one of the great modern biographies. No figure in twentieth century history more clearly demands a close biographical understanding than Adolf Hitler; and no period is more important than the Second World War. Beginning with Hitler's startling European successes in the aftermath of the Rhinelland occupation and ending nine years later with the suicide in the Berlin bunker, Kershaw allows us as never before to under...

Date de sortie: 2001-10-25 Genre:Biographies et mémoires 12,99 €

Repackaged in a new tie-in edition to coincide with the Netflix film produced and directed by Angelina Jolie, a moving story of war crimes and desperate actions, the unnerving strength of a small girl and her triumphant spirit as she survived the Cambodian genocide under Pol Pot’s brutal regime. Until the age of five, Loung Ung lived in Phnom Penh, one of seven children of a high-ranking government official. She was a precocious child who loved the open city markets, fried crickets, chicken fi...

Date de sortie: 2010-10-12 Genre:Biographies et mémoires 8,49 €

L'histoire d'un roi guerrier viking plonge dans le mystère entourant le guerrier viking qui a conquis les nations européennes et est devenu un roi à part entière. Plus de neuf siècles après la mort de ce grand guerrier, d'anciens poèmes, chansons et sagas à son sujet subsistent encore aujourd'hui. Ce livre examine les faits tels que nous les connaissons, les mythes attribués à Ragnar et la façon dont cet emblématique païen du nord continue d'avoir un impact sur la culture ...

Date de sortie: 2020-03-10 2,99 €

L'enfer de la prison de Tazmamart raconté... Sous ce titre, Abdelhak Serhane a rapporté les mémoires du capitaine Salah Hachad, pilote de chasse et chef des moyens opérationnels de la base militaire aérienne de Kenitra, de son épouse Aïda, de sa fille et d’un gardien du bagne de Tazmamart. « On me passe le téléphone. Deux voix me parlent au bout de la ligne. Je ne les avais jamais entendues. Les deux voix m’appellent “ Papa ”. J’écoute. Je pleure. Mes larmes ne veulent plus ...

Date de sortie: 2017-02-24 Genre:Biographies et mémoires 8,99 €

The instant New York Times Bestseller soon to be a major Apple TV series with Brie Larson. 'Reads as if a John le Carré character landed in Eat Pray Love' - New York Times ‘Best book of the year’ - Tom Marcus, author of Soldier, Spy Do you have what it takes to stand between us and the enemy? "I’m here to prevent a major and imminent attack. One that will kill children. I’m alone and operational in the country where my colleague was taken and beheaded, and every hour I’m delayed is an...

Date de sortie: 2019-10-17 Genre:Biographies et mémoires 9,49 €

Over forty years of service to the United Nations - the last ten as Secretary-General - Kofi Annan has been at the centre of the major geopolitical events of our time. As much a memoir as a guide to world order, THE ARC OF INTERVENTION provides a unique, behind-the-scenes view of global diplomacy during one of the most tumultuous periods in UN history. With eloquence and immediacy, Annan writes about the highs and lows of his years at the United Nations: from shuttle-diplomacy during crises such...

Date de sortie: 2012-10-04 Genre:Biographies et mémoires 9,49 €

Between 1970 and 1975 Jon Swain, the English journalist portrayed in David Puttnam's film, The Killing Fields , lived in the lands of the Mekong river. This is his account of those years, and the way in which the tumultuous events affected his perceptions of life and death as Europe never could. He also describes the beauty of the Mekong landscape - the villages along its banks, surrounded by mangoes, bananas and coconuts, and the exquisite women, the odours of opium, and the region's other face...

Date de sortie: 2010-05-25 Genre:Biographies et mémoires 9,49 €

The explosive, shocking and honest account from an MI5 officer, revealing never-before-seen detail into MI5's operation 'I do it because it is all I know. I'm a hunter of people and I'm damn good at it.' Recruited after the 7/7 attacks on London, Tom quickly found himself immersed in the tense world of watching, following and infiltrating networks of terrorists, spies and foreign agents. It was a job that took over his life and cost him dear, taking him to the limit of physical and mental endura...

Date de sortie: 2016-10-06 Genre:Biographies et mémoires 6,99 €

WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE IN BIOGRAPHY WINNER OF THE RATHBONES FOLIO PRIZE SHORTLISTED FOR THE BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE FOR NON-FICTION SHORTLISTED FOR THE COSTA BIOGRAPHY AWARD SHORTLISTED FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD FOR AUTOBIOGRAPHY WINNER OF THE SLIGHTLY FOXED BEST FIRST BIOGRAPHY PRIZE ONE OF THE NEW YORK TIMES' TOP 10 BOOKS OF 2016 The Return is at once a universal and an intensely personal tale. It is an exquisite meditation on how history and politics can bear down on an i...

Date de sortie: 2016-06-30 Genre:Biographies et mémoires 9,49 €

Shortlisted for the William Hill Sports Book of the Year, this is the bestselling story about a rowing team's quest for Olympic gold in Nazi Germany. Cast aside by his family at an early age, abandoned and left to fend for himself in the woods of Washington State, young Joe Rantz turns to rowing as a way of escaping his past. What follows is an extraordinary journey, as Joe and eight other working-class boys exchange the sweat and dust of life in 1930s America for the promise of glory at the hea...

Date de sortie: 2013-06-06 Genre:Biographies et mémoires 5,99 €

When Barack Obama won the 2008 presidential election, he also won a long-running debate with his wife Michelle. Contrary to her fears, politics now seemed like a worthwhile, even noble pursuit. Together they planned a White House life that would be as normal and sane as possible. Then they moved in. In The Obamas , Jodi Kantor takes us deep inside the White House as they grapple with their new roles, change the country, raise children, maintain friendships, and figure out what it means to be Pre...

Date de sortie: 2012-01-10 Genre:Biographies et mémoires 9,49 €

Decision Points is the extraordinary memoir of America's 43rd president. Shattering the conventions of political autobiography, George W. Bush offers a strikingly candid journey through the defining decisions of his life. In gripping, never-before-heard detail, President George W. Bush brings readers inside the Texas Governor's Mansion on the night of the hotly contested 2000 election; aboard Air Force One on September 11, in the hours after America's most devastating attack since Pearl Harbour;...

Date de sortie: 2010-11-10 Genre:Biographies et mémoires 12,99 €

President Bill Clinton's My Life is the strikingly candid self-portrait of a world leader who decided in early life to devote his intellectual and political gifts, and his extraordinary capacity for hard work, to serving the people of America and the entire world population. It is the fullest, most concretely detailed, most nuanced account of a presidency ever written, and a testament to the positive impact that his work and his political ideals had on America and on the world. Here is the life ...

Date de sortie: 2010-06-30 Genre:Biographies et mémoires 17,99 €

Comment avons-nous vécu depuis la Libération jusqu’en Mai 68 ? Comment avons-nous pu survivre dans ce « lointain Moyen Âge » sans télévision, sans hypermarchés, sans surgelés, sans téléphones portables ? Construit à partir des souvenirs de l’auteur, ce livre propose une vingtaine de thèmes (la vie au quotidien, les vacances, la religion, le cinéma, etc.) qui se croisent et se répondent. Expériences vécues, observations ethnologiques et sociologiques, tissent une « trame de ...

Date de sortie: 2019-08-06 Genre:Biographies et mémoires 7,99 €

Les Sept Piliers de la sagesse (en anglais : Seven Pillars of Wisdom: A Triumph) est un récit autobiographique des aventures de Thomas Edward Lawrence (plus connu sous le nom de « Lawrence d'Arabie ») alors qu'il était officier de liaison britannique auprès des forces arabes lors de la révolte arabe de 1916-1918 contre l' Empire ottoman. Rédigé à partir de 1919, le texte a été remanié plusieurs fois et a bénéficié de la relecture de George Bernard Shaw, un ami de Lawre...

Date de sortie: 2019-06-03 Genre:Biographies et mémoires 9,99 €