Histoires Secrètes et Curieuses du Débarquement

Histoires Secrètes et Curieuses du Débarquement
Author: Frédéric Leterreux
Publisher: City Edition
Total Pages: 405
Release: 2019-05-09
Genre: History
ISBN: 2824632232

Savez-vous que le plus jeune participant au Débarquement avait tout juste douze ans ? Que parmi les parachutistes britanniques il y avait... un chien ? Que deux sous-marins guidèrent les Alliés avant qu’ils ne débarquent sur les plages ? Que des Indiens Comanches cryptaient et transmettaient des messages codés ? Savez-vous pourquoi les parachutistes américains criaient « Geronimo » avant de sauter ? Et pour quels faits de bravoure un pigeon prénommé Gustav a-t-il été décoré par les Anglais après la guerre ? Autant d’anecdotes inédites et de récits insolites qui ont, eux aussi, contribué à l’Histoire du 6 juin 1944. Des faits qui, pour la plupart étaient inconnus et sont révélés grâce à un important travail de recherche historique. Ce livre offre un autre regard sur « le jour le plus long » qui a changé le cours de l’Histoire de la France et du monde.

Dangerous Neighbors

Dangerous Neighbors
Author: James Alexander Dun
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Total Pages: 351
Release: 2016-06-22
Genre: History
ISBN: 0812292979

Dangerous Neighbors shows how the Haitian Revolution permeated early American print culture and had a profound impact on the young nation's domestic politics. Focusing on Philadelphia as both a representative and an influential vantage point, it follows contemporary American reactions to the events through which the French colony of Saint Domingue was destroyed and the independent nation of Haiti emerged. Philadelphians made sense of the news from Saint Domingue with local and national political developments in mind and with the French Revolution and British abolition debates ringing in their ears. In witnessing a French colony experience a revolution of African slaves, they made the colony serve as powerful and persuasive evidence in domestic discussions over the meaning of citizenship, equality of rights, and the fate of slavery. Through extensive use of manuscript sources, newspapers, and printed literature, Dun uncovers the wide range of opinion and debate about events in Saint Domingue in the early republic. By focusing on both the meanings Americans gave to those events and the uses they put them to, he reveals a fluid understanding of the American Revolution and the polity it had produced, one in which various groups were making sense of their new nation in relation to both its own past and a revolution unfolding before them. Zeroing in on Philadelphia—a revolutionary center and an enclave of antislavery activity—Dun collapses the supposed geographic and political boundaries that separated the American republic from the West Indies and Europe.

Documents and the History of the Early Islamic World

Documents and the History of the Early Islamic World
Author:
Publisher: BRILL
Total Pages: 327
Release: 2014-11-28
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 9004284346

Documents and the History of the Early Islamic World presents new Greek, Arabic and Coptic material from the seventh to the fifteenth centuries C.E. from Egypt and Palestine and explores its rich potential for historical analysis.

Simulacra and Simulation

Simulacra and Simulation
Author: Jean Baudrillard
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
Total Pages: 174
Release: 1994
Genre: Art
ISBN: 9780472065219

Develops a theory of contemporary culture that relies on displacing economic notions of cultural production with notions of cultural expenditure. This book represents an effort to rethink cultural theory from the perspective of a concept of cultural materialism, one that radically redefines postmodern formulations of the body.

Satori in Paris

Satori in Paris
Author: Jack Kerouac
Publisher: Grove Press
Total Pages: 98
Release: 2023-10-17
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0802161391

From the renowned Beat writer, Kerouac’s colorful and meandering search for his family history, now reissued following his centenary celebration Satori in Paris is the semi-autobiographical tale of Jack Kerouac’s trip to France in search of his heritage. Beginning in Paris and moving west to Brittany, Kerouac traces the paths of his ancestors and explores his own understanding of the Buddhism that came to define his beliefs. From his familiar milieu of strangers and all-night conversations in seedy bars, to a pivotal cab ride in which he experiences Buddhism’s satori—a feeling of sudden understanding—Kerouac’s affecting and revolutionary writing transports the reader. Published at the height of his fame and showcasing his mature talent, Satori in Paris is a lyrical, rollicking tale of philosophy, identity, and the power and strangeness of travel.

Intentions

Intentions
Author: Oscar Wilde
Publisher:
Total Pages: 284
Release: 1913
Genre: Art critics
ISBN:

From Glory to Disgrace

From Glory to Disgrace
Author: Prosper Avril
Publisher: Universal-Publishers
Total Pages: 420
Release: 1999
Genre: History
ISBN: 9781581128369

Former President of the Republic of Haiti, former Commander-in-Chief of the Haitian Army, former scholar at at the US Marine Corps Schools (Quantico, VA), and the United States Naval Intelligence School (Anacostia, VA), qualified in law, career officer during 30 years which coincided with a deeply tormented period of national history, Prosper Avril brings the opinions of a privileged witness, a meticulous observer, an inquisitive researchist, and a leading actor to the debate about a subject that concerns all Haitians and creates much interest with foreign researchers, historians and observers -- the recent dismantling of the Haitian Army. From Glory to Disgrace: The Haitian Army - 1804, 1994 is an in depth study of the Haitian military institution, the oldest of Haiti, not viewed as a disjointed member of the Haitian social body, but rather as an integral part of a society which is in constant change. By undertaking this work, the author proposes answers to two fundamental questions: does the Haitian Army deserve the fate of its radical and final dissolution? is the future of Haiti secure without an army dedicated to the defense of the integrity of its national territory? By the wealth of its documentation and its close analysis of the events in which the Haitian Army has been involved, this book will certainly help the Haitian or foreign reader make a reasoned and impartial judgment about this important matter. In this work, the author maintains a commitment to one noble ambition -- to begin a patriotic and objective debate on one of the most controversial issues for Haiti today.

The Athenian Trireme

The Athenian Trireme
Author: J. S. Morrison
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 356
Release: 2000-07-20
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780521564564

Second edition of the technical and historical background to the reconstruction of a Greek warship.

Indiana

Indiana
Author: George Sand
Publisher: DigiCat
Total Pages: 273
Release: 2023-11-24
Genre: Fiction
ISBN:

Indiana is the story's heroine, a young noblewoman descended from French colonial settlers from Île Bourbon who lives in France. Indiana is married to an older ex-army officer named Colonel Delmare and suffers from the lack of passion in her life. Indiana does not love Delmare and searches for someone who will love her passionately. Her cousin Ralph is in love with her, but she overlooks him and falls in love with their well-spoken neighbor, Raymon de Ramiere. Indiana escapes the house to faithfully present herself in Raymon's apartments in the middle of the night, but they don't get along and Colonel Delmare takes Indiana to Île Bourbon. Indiana returns to France on a perilous sea journey during the French Revolution of 1830, where she reconnects with Raymon, but also with Ralph, which further complicate matters. The novel is an exploration of nineteenth-century female desire complicated by class constraints and by social codes about infidelity.