Jacques The Frenchman

Author : Jacques Rossi
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
ISBN 13 : 1487524064
Total Pages : 365 pages
Book Rating : 4.67/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Jacques the Frenchman written by Jacques Rossi and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2020 with total page 365 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : Professors World Peace Academy
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 632 pages
Book Rating : 4.15/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Gulag Handbook written by Jacques Rossi and published by Professors World Peace Academy. This book was released on 1989 with total page 632 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Maureen Edgecomb
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780971860421
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.24/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Gigi and Jacques' Adventures in Paris written by Maureen Edgecomb and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gigi's Paris is chic. Jacques' is artistic. Each lives in a very different Paris. On a beautiful spring day in the city park, all of that would change as Gigi and Jacques embark on a grand adventure. Join Gigi and Jacques as they travel to the many famous sights of one of the most beautiful cities in the world, Paris, the City of Light.

Author : Jacques Lusseyran
Publisher : New World Library
ISBN 13 : 1608682706
Total Pages : 306 pages
Book Rating : 4.06/5 ( download)

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Download or read book And There Was Light written by Jacques Lusseyran and published by New World Library. This book was released on 2014-02-15 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : Jack Beaumont
Publisher : Blackstone Publishing
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 318 pages
Book Rating : 4.23/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Frenchman written by Jack Beaumont and published by Blackstone Publishing. This book was released on 2023-02-28 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : Andreï Makine
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1611454832
Total Pages : 173 pages
Book Rating : 4.33/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Earth and Sky of Jacques Dorme written by Andreï Makine and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2013-07-01 with total page 173 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With this novel, Andreï Makine, whose work has been compared to that of Balzac, Chekhov, Pasternak, and Proust, brings to a stunning conclusion his epic trilogy that began with Dreams of My Russian Summers and continued with Requiem for a Lost Empire. The novel opens in 1942, in a burning, gutted Stalingrad, where the German and Russian armies are locked in a struggle to the death. Amid these ruins, a French pilot and a nurse, also French, are engaged in a passionate affair that each knows will be hopelessly brief. The pilot, Jacques Dorme, was shot down two years earlier. Imprisoned and sent east to a German POW camp, Dorme made a daring escape and crossed Germany stealthily by night until he arrived in an already devastated Russia, where, having proved his mettle as a pilot, he joined a Russian squadron stationed near Stalingrad. But during the brief time they have together there, the love between Dorme and Alexandra builds and blossoms into a relationship they both know comes but once in a lifetime. Several decades later, the narrator—a Russian exiled in France, a war orphan haunted by his dark childhood and obsessively searching for his roots—travels back to his native land, where in the icy and treacherous wastelands of Siberia he attempts to discover how his life and that of Jacques Dorme are inextricably intertwined.

Author : Jacques-Louis Ménétra
Publisher : Columbia University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780231061292
Total Pages : 394 pages
Book Rating : 4.93/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Journal of My Life written by Jacques-Louis Ménétra and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 1986 with total page 394 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jaques-Louis Menetra's journal reads like a historian's dream come true. It conveys his understanding of what it meant to grow up in Paris, where he was born in 1738; to tramp around provincial shops on a journeyman's tour de France; to settle down as a Parisian master with a shop and family of his own; and to live through the great events of the Revolution as a militant in his local Section.

Author : Louisa Stuart Costello
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 464 pages
Book Rating : 4.26/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Jacques Cœur written by Louisa Stuart Costello and published by . This book was released on 1847 with total page 464 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Ross Kay
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 258 pages
Book Rating : 4.53/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Fighting in France written by Ross Kay and published by . This book was released on 1916 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : William A. Hoisington, Jr.
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134268424
Total Pages : 163 pages
Book Rating : 4.29/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Assassination of Jacques Lemaigre Dubreuil written by William A. Hoisington, Jr. and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2004-11-10 with total page 163 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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?