Le succès obtenu par les premières éditions de leur Histoire de l'Afrique a incité les auteurs à insister davantage sur le XX' siècle, en divisant leur ouvrage en 2 volumes. Dans ce premier volume, qui s'arrête à la deuxième guerre...
World War (1939-1945)
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Author:Cornevin, RobertSummary: - Author:Watada, TerrySummary:
During the 15 Year War fought between Japan and China, the eldest daughter of the Akamatsu family buried a bag of money in the back garden of her home in Hiroshima. The money had been given to her by her brother who was off to fight in...
- Author:Conroy, RobertSummary:
In the days after the Allies' landing at Normandy, Adolf Hitler is removed from his position atop the Third Reich, and SS chief Heinrich Himmler assumes control. Meanwhile, the Allies begin grappling with competing solutions for...
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Author:Kacer, KathySummary:The remarkable true story of a young girl named Edith and the French village of Moissac that helped her and many other children during the Holocaust. The town's mayor and citizens concealed the presence of hundreds of Jewish children...
- Author:Kacer, KathySummary:
Irene grew up traveling around Germany with her family's circus, surrounded by her loved ones and thrilling the crowds with her performance on the high wire... until one day, the audience boos. The Lorch family is Jewish, and the...
- Author:Swartz, Sarah SilbersteinSummary:
Discover nine ordinary women who took extraordinary measures to save lives during the Holocaust, resisting terror and torture while undercover or in hiding, in concentration camps, in forests, and in exile.
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Author:Schwartz, EllenSummary:Ten-year-old Kenny (Kenji in Japanese) worships his older brother, Mickey (Mitsuo), a baseball hero whose outstanding performance on the Asahi baseball team has given him fame and popularity. Despite Kenny's suspected heart condition,...
- Author:Mootoo, ShaniSummary:
Set on the fictional Caribbean island of Guanagaspar around the time of the Second World War, and in modern-day Vancouver, He Drown She in the Sea, fulfills the promise of Shani Mootoo’s internationally acclaimed debut novel, ...
- Author:SCLATER, WilliamSummary:
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Author:Shaffer, Mary AnnSummary:It's a book club born as a spur-of-the-moment alibi when its members are discovered breaking curfew by the Germans occupying their island. Juliet Ashton, a London writer, converses in letters with the Society's members, learning about...
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Author:Clark, KathySummary:Based on the true story of two sisters sheltered from the Nazis by a group of Catholic nuns during World War II. Mama had always told twelve-year-old Susan that there was no safe place for a Jew, especially in German-occupied Hungary in...
- Author:Unkefer, DuaneSummary:
German Luftwaffe pilots plan to recreate a dogfight that happened during World War II. It's thirty-one years later, but this dogfight will take place in the skies over the United States.
- Author:Magorian, MichelleSummary:
A battered child learns to embrace life when he is adopted by an old man in the English countryside during the Second World War.
- Author:Urrea, Luis AlbertoSummary:
This New York Times bestselling novel tells an exhilarating World War II epic that chronicles an extraordinary young woman's heroic frontline service in the Red Cross. "Urrea's touch is sure, his exuberance carries you...
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Author:Reid, CharlesSummary:Thirteen-year-old Johnny Anders is something of a misfit, with no friends and a poor school record, but all this begins to change when he is awakened one night to find a soldier-ghost in his bedroom. Johnny is taken back to meet a...
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Author:Michaels, AnneSummary:In 1940 a Jewish boy in Poland escapes the Nazi soldiers who killed his family and is rescued by a Greek geologist. This story follows the boy across two continents as we witness his transformation from a half-wild casualty of the...
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Author:Sakamoto, MarkSummary:The heart-rending true story of two families on either side of the Second World War—and a moving tribute to the nature of forgiveness. When the Second World War broke out, Ralph MacLean traded his quiet yet troubled life on the...
- Author:Whitson, Stephanie GraceSummary:
It is World War II, and Nazi soldiers have been brought fo Fort Robinson as prisoners of war. The town, already heartworn from the loss of so many men, is divided in their feelings about the prisoners. CJ, now all grown up and running a...
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Author:North, SuzanneSummary:In 1939, Kay Jeynes goes to work for the only Japanese businessman in town, the elderly Mr. Miyashita. Despite differences in their age, race, and class, a friendship develops between them in the peaceful vacuum of Mr. Miyashita's...
- Author:Lukins, SheilahSummary:
Errol the adventurous little mouse takes to the sky when he meets a young girl, Natasha, playing with a toy airplane. Later, when Errol is left alone, he decides to fly Natasha's toy plane and begins a magical journey that takes him...
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