2013, ISBN: 9780307269621

318pp + 8pp de photos, préface du Vice-Amiral d'Escadre Lemonnier, cartes, annexes. L'auteur, né en 1898, historien de la Marine, Commandant des torpilleurs "Trombe" et "Tempête" (1938-19… Mehr…

318pp + 8pp de photos, préface du Vice-Amiral d'Escadre Lemonnier, cartes, annexes. L'auteur, né en 1898, historien de la Marine, Commandant des torpilleurs "Trombe" et "Tempête" (1938-1944) et, à partir de mars 1943, Commandant de la 6ème Division de Torpilleurs et Chef responsable de 40 convois entre Alger et Ajaccio, fut après la guerre Commandant du croiseur "Montcalm" (1945-1946), Major-Général du port de Brest (1952-1954) et membre de la section militaire de l'Académie de Marine à partir de 1956. L'histoire de la Seconde Guerre Mondiale en Corse, à partir de 1939, l'accent étant donné sur sa Libération en 1943 mais aussi sur la lutte de guérilla qui y fut menée, la Libération de l'Ile d'Elbe, le Débarquement en Provence et enfin le rôle de la Flank Force, force navale interalliée constituée essentiellement de bâtiments français dont la zone d'opérations s'étendait jusque Gênes., France-Empire, 1951, 3, Editions Fayard à Paris,2010, in 8 (21,5 x 13,5 cm), 348 pages. Couverture souple illustrée. +++++++ Collectif recueillant les témoignages des ces adolescents de 1940. Depuis soixante-dix ans, ces enfants du désastre se taisaient. En six mois, pourtant, ils ont connu la défaite de leurs pères, le désarroi des familles, l’inquiétude de leurs mères, le désordre général, la débâcle. Ils sont partis vers l’aventure forcée dans toutes sortes d’équipages, parfois apeurés, le plus souvent excités, désorientés par la dilution soudaine de toutes les autorités mais cherchant à sauver leurs études : où passer le brevet et le bachot ? Au fil de leurs pérégrinations, ils vont découvrir les ponts coupés, l’ennemi qui tombe du ciel en les mitraillant, mais aussi l’aventure, la campagne profonde. La voix chevrotante de Pétain leur annonce la fin de leur France, de leur enfance. Leurs parents leur avaient parlé des Boches, ils voient arriver les Panzerdivisions de Hitler. A la rentrée, ces adolescents font connaissance avec les restrictions et on les appelle les J3, en référence à leur carte d’alimentation. En zone dite « libre », ils doivent sans cesse saluer le drapeau tricolore, défiler, chanter la gloire du Maréchal. En zone occupée, tout est interdit, le drapeau, la Marseillaise, s’assembler à plus de trois, courir dans la rue … Mais ce sont eux, les lycéens, qui vont organiser à Paris la première manifestation de résistance, le 11 novembre 1940 à Paris - Très bon état.., Editions Fayard à Paris, 2010, 0, Molfetta: Edizioni La Meridiana, 2013. Molfetta, 2013; ril., pp. 272, cm 13x21. (Paceinsieme.. alle radici dell'erba). (Paceinsieme. alle radici dell'erba). (Paceinsieme. alle radici dell'erba). "La criminalità organizzata pugliese nata negli anni '80 come 'filiazione della camorra', ha ereditato alcuni caratteri 'arcaici' delle mafie in un'ottica d'innovazione e autonomia, favorita anche dall'affermarsi all'epoca delle politiche neoliberiste, dall'espansione dei mercati (e del corrispettivo allargarsi delle zone grigie tra il legale e l'illegale) e, più in generale, da quell'ideologia del profitto che avrebbe mutato non solo i volti delle città ma i costumi dei cittadini. Nisio Palmieri racconta l'insediarsi e l'espandersi di questa piaga criminale in una terra da sempre crocevia di civiltà e di scambi, fertile di ricchezza umana e sociale, capace di lasciare segni profondi nei più diversi ambiti, dall'associazionismo alla cultura, dall'imprenditoria all'accoglienza. Ciò che mi preme sottolineare è come l'analisi della trentennale attività criminale proceda di pari passo con la denuncia delle sottovalutazioni, dei ritardi e non di rado delle collusioni in ambito politico, economico, amministrativo (il che non impedisce all'autore di riconoscere i meriti e l'impegno, ad esempio quelli di tanti magistrati ed esponenti delle forze di polizia). Conforta che uno studioso attento delle realtà criminali come Nisio Palmieri abbia a cuore questo aspetto da concludere la sua ricerca citando le parole di un grande scrittore siciliano, Gesualdo Bufalino, quando disse che a sconfiggere la mafia sarebbe stato un 'esercito di insegnanti'". (Dalla Prefazione di don Luigi Ciotti)., Edizioni La Meridiana, 2013, 0, New York: Alfred A. Knopf; A Borzoi Book, 2010. x, 299 pages; 25 cm. Tight, clean copy. Stated First Edition. Dust jacket protected in a mylar cover. A fine copy of the first printing. "The Pulitzer Prize-winning, best-selling author of Founding Brothers and His Excellency brings America's preeminent first couple to life in a moving and illuminating narrative that sweeps through the American Revolution and the republic's tenuous early years. John and Abigail Adams left an indelible and remarkably preserved portrait of their lives together in their personal correspondence: both Adamses were prolific letter writers (although John conceded that Abigail was clearly the more gifted of the two), and over the years they exchanged more than twelve hundred letters. Joseph J. Ellis distills this unprecedented and unsurpassed record to give us an account both intimate and panoramic; part biography, part political history, and part love story. Ellis describes the first meeting between the two as inauspicious-=-John was twenty-four, Abigail just fifteen, and each was entirely unimpressed with the other. But they soon began a passionate correspondence that resulted in their marriage five years later. Over the next decades, the couple were separated nearly as much as they were together. John's political career took him first to Philadelphia, where he became the boldest advocate for the measures that would lead to the Declaration of Independence. Yet in order to attend the Second Continental Congress, he left his wife and children in the middle of the war zone that had by then engulfed Massachusetts. Later he was sent to Paris, where he served as a minister to the court of France alongside Benjamin Franklin. These years apart stressed the Adamses' union almost beyond what it could bear: Abigail grew lonely, while the Adams children suffered from their father's absence. John was elected the nation's first vice president, but by the time of his reelection, Abigail's health prevented her from joining him in Philadelphia, the interim capital. She no doubt had further reservations about moving to the swamp on the Potomac when John became president, although this time he persuaded her. President Adams inherited a weak and bitterly divided country from George Washington. The political situation was perilous at best, and he needed his closest advisor by his side: 'I can do nothing,' John told Abigail after his election, 'without you.' In Ellis's rich and striking new history, John and Abigail's relationship unfolds in the context of America's birth as a nation. / Joseph J. Ellis won the Pulitzer Prize for Founding Brothers. His portrait of Thomas Jefferson, American Sphinx, won the National Book Award. He is the Ford Foundation Professor of History at Mount Holyoke College in Massachusetts, where he lives with his wife and their youngest son." - Publisher.. 1st. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 8vo. Collectible., Alfred A. Knopf; A Borzoi Book, 2010, 5<

2010, ISBN: 9780307269621

Salisbury, Rhodesia: Peter Dearlove. Bound in clean red cloth with bright gilt titles to spine, this dated 1973 hardcover First Edition is VG in VG dustjacket(unclipped). (X))/186pp+Summa… Mehr…

Salisbury, Rhodesia: Peter Dearlove. Bound in clean red cloth with bright gilt titles to spine, this dated 1973 hardcover First Edition is VG in VG dustjacket(unclipped). (X))/186pp+Summary of Constitutional Proposals as pull-out document at end. With Introduction, Political Challenges, Record of thev Major Issues, Rhodesian Opinion and Future Portents. Five Chapters plus Time Table of Major Events, 1962 to 1972. Footnotes and References. Condition VG . Very Good. Hardcover.. First Edition. 1973., Peter Dearlove, 1973, 3, New York, N.Y.: Alfred A. Knopf, 2010. First Edition [stated], presumed first printing. Hardcover. Very good/Very good. x, 299, [5] pages. Includes Preface, Acknowledgments, Notes, and Index. Includes seven chapters each addressing a sequential chronological period. Joseph John Ellis (born July 18, 1943) is an American historian whose work focuses on the lives and times of the founders of the United States of America. He entered the United States Army in August 1969 and spent three years teaching history at the United States Military Academy at West Point before being discharged a captain in 1972. Ellis later joined the faculty at Mount Holyoke College. In 1979 he was made full professor and later became the Ford Foundation Professor of History. American Sphinx: The Character of Thomas Jefferson won a National Book Award and Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation won the 2001 Pulitzer Prize for History. Both these books were bestsellers. Together with histories of the founding of the republic, since 1993 Ellis has written biographies about individual early presidents and, in 2010, a joint biography of John and Abigail Adams. Interested in how men shaped and were shaped by their times, he writes with an emphasis on character. Ellis is notable as a respected scholar whose work has also gained popular success. In 2004, the critic Jonathan Yardley wrote of him: "Ellis doubtless is now the most widely read scholar of the Revolutionary period, and thus probably the most influential as well." The Adamses were prolific letter writers, and over the years they exchanged more than twelve hundred letters. After their first meeting, when John was 24, and Abigail just 15, each was entirely unimpressed with the other. But they soon began a passionate correspondence that resulted in their marriage five years later. Over the next decades, the couple were separated nearly as much as they were together. The years apart stressed their union almost beyond they could bear. Abigail grew lonely, and their children suffered from their father's absence. John was elected the nation's first vice president, but by the time of his reelection, Abigail's health prevented her from joining him in Philadelphia, the interim capital. Derived from a Kirkus review: The Pulitzer Prize- and National Book Award-winning author presents a vivid and insightful portrait of John and Abigail Adams. A telling aspect of John's nature was his confidence in the fact that his life story would be an important part of the political history of the American Revolution. Because of this prescience, he and Abigail preserved a massive number of documents, including their own personal correspondence. Ellis makes good use of this archive, reconstructing a detailed chronology of the Adams marriage. From the beginning, Abigail was an intelligent and loyal partner, privy to every aspect of John's involvement in the nascent Revolution; the author describes Abigail as a vital "ballast" to John's excitability and mood swings. As his place in the new government strengthened, John was often called away from their Massachusetts home, a circumstance that brought much sadness to the couple but provides historians with intimate letters that the two sent each other throughout each separation. In these, John and Abigail discuss everything from domestic issues to politics to their relationship, displaying the unusually egalitarian and loving partnership they shared. John adored Abigail's confidence and intellect, and Abigail was proud to support and advise her famous husband as he navigated his remarkably productive political career. This special connection lasted for more than 50 years and survived a litany of domestic hardships amid the political successes. Ellis writes, "Abigail and John remained resolute, infinitely resilient, the invulnerable center that would always hold." The author's beautiful writing draws the reader wholly into this relationship, bringing new perspective to the historical importance of this enduring love story. An impeccable account of the politics, civics and devotion behind the Adams marriage., Alfred A. Knopf, 2010, 3<

2010, ISBN: 9780307269621

New York, N.Y.: Alfred A. Knopf, 2010. First Edition [stated], presumed first printing. Hardcover. Very good/Very good. x, 299, [5] pages. Includes Preface, Acknowledgments, Notes, and… Mehr…

New York, N.Y.: Alfred A. Knopf, 2010. First Edition [stated], presumed first printing. Hardcover. Very good/Very good. x, 299, [5] pages. Includes Preface, Acknowledgments, Notes, and Index. Includes seven chapters each addressing a sequential chronological period. Joseph John Ellis (born July 18, 1943) is an American historian whose work focuses on the lives and times of the founders of the United States of America. He entered the United States Army in August 1969 and spent three years teaching history at the United States Military Academy at West Point before being discharged a captain in 1972. Ellis later joined the faculty at Mount Holyoke College. In 1979 he was made full professor and later became the Ford Foundation Professor of History. American Sphinx: The Character of Thomas Jefferson won a National Book Award and Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation won the 2001 Pulitzer Prize for History. Both these books were bestsellers. Together with histories of the founding of the republic, since 1993 Ellis has written biographies about individual early presidents and, in 2010, a joint biography of John and Abigail Adams. Interested in how men shaped and were shaped by their times, he writes with an emphasis on character. Ellis is notable as a respected scholar whose work has also gained popular success. In 2004, the critic Jonathan Yardley wrote of him: "Ellis doubtless is now the most widely read scholar of the Revolutionary period, and thus probably the most influential as well." The Adamses were prolific letter writers, and over the years they exchanged more than twelve hundred letters. After their first meeting, when John was 24, and Abigail just 15, each was entirely unimpressed with the other. But they soon began a passionate correspondence that resulted in their marriage five years later. Over the next decades, the couple were separated nearly as much as they were together. The years apart stressed their union almost beyond they could bear. Abigail grew lonely, and their children suffered from their father's absence. John was elected the nation's first vice president, but by the time of his reelection, Abigail's health prevented her from joining him in Philadelphia, the interim capital. Derived from a Kirkus review: The Pulitzer Prize- and National Book Award-winning author presents a vivid and insightful portrait of John and Abigail Adams. A telling aspect of John's nature was his confidence in the fact that his life story would be an important part of the political history of the American Revolution. Because of this prescience, he and Abigail preserved a massive number of documents, including their own personal correspondence. Ellis makes good use of this archive, reconstructing a detailed chronology of the Adams marriage. From the beginning, Abigail was an intelligent and loyal partner, privy to every aspect of John's involvement in the nascent Revolution; the author describes Abigail as a vital "ballast" to John's excitability and mood swings. As his place in the new government strengthened, John was often called away from their Massachusetts home, a circumstance that brought much sadness to the couple but provides historians with intimate letters that the two sent each other throughout each separation. In these, John and Abigail discuss everything from domestic issues to politics to their relationship, displaying the unusually egalitarian and loving partnership they shared. John adored Abigail's confidence and intellect, and Abigail was proud to support and advise her famous husband as he navigated his remarkably productive political career. This special connection lasted for more than 50 years and survived a litany of domestic hardships amid the political successes. Ellis writes, "Abigail and John remained resolute, infinitely resilient, the invulnerable center that would always hold." The author's beautiful writing draws the reader wholly into this relationship, bringing new perspective to the historical importance of this enduring love story. An impeccable account of the politics, civics and devotion behind the Adams marriage., Alfred A. Knopf, 2010, 3<

2010, ISBN: 9780307269621

New York, N.Y.: Alfred A. Knopf, 2010. First Edition [stated], presumed first printing. Hardcover. Very good/Very good. x, 299, [5] pages. Includes Preface, Acknowledgments, Notes, and… Mehr…

New York, N.Y.: Alfred A. Knopf, 2010. First Edition [stated], presumed first printing. Hardcover. Very good/Very good. x, 299, [5] pages. Includes Preface, Acknowledgments, Notes, and Index. Includes seven chapters each addressing a sequential chronological period. Joseph John Ellis (born July 18, 1943) is an American historian whose work focuses on the lives and times of the founders of the United States of America. He entered the United States Army in August 1969 and spent three years teaching history at the United States Military Academy at West Point before being discharged a captain in 1972. Ellis later joined the faculty at Mount Holyoke College. In 1979 he was made full professor and later became the Ford Foundation Professor of History. American Sphinx: The Character of Thomas Jefferson won a National Book Award and Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation won the 2001 Pulitzer Prize for History. Both these books were bestsellers. Together with histories of the founding of the republic, since 1993 Ellis has written biographies about individual early presidents and, in 2010, a joint biography of John and Abigail Adams. Interested in how men shaped and were shaped by their times, he writes with an emphasis on character. Ellis is notable as a respected scholar whose work has also gained popular success. In 2004, the critic Jonathan Yardley wrote of him: "Ellis doubtless is now the most widely read scholar of the Revolutionary period, and thus probably the most influential as well." The Adamses were prolific letter writers, and over the years they exchanged more than twelve hundred letters. After their first meeting, when John was 24, and Abigail just 15, each was entirely unimpressed with the other. But they soon began a passionate correspondence that resulted in their marriage five years later. Over the next decades, the couple were separated nearly as much as they were together. The years apart stressed their union almost beyond they could bear. Abigail grew lonely, and their children suffered from their father's absence. John was elected the nation's first vice president, but by the time of his reelection, Abigail's health prevented her from joining him in Philadelphia, the interim capital. Derived from a Kirkus review: The Pulitzer Prize- and National Book Award-winning author presents a vivid and insightful portrait of John and Abigail Adams. A telling aspect of John's nature was his confidence in the fact that his life story would be an important part of the political history of the American Revolution. Because of this prescience, he and Abigail preserved a massive number of documents, including their own personal correspondence. Ellis makes good use of this archive, reconstructing a detailed chronology of the Adams marriage. From the beginning, Abigail was an intelligent and loyal partner, privy to every aspect of John's involvement in the nascent Revolution; the author describes Abigail as a vital "ballast" to John's excitability and mood swings. As his place in the new government strengthened, John was often called away from their Massachusetts home, a circumstance that brought much sadness to the couple but provides historians with intimate letters that the two sent each other throughout each separation. In these, John and Abigail discuss everything from domestic issues to politics to their relationship, displaying the unusually egalitarian and loving partnership they shared. John adored Abigail's confidence and intellect, and Abigail was proud to support and advise her famous husband as he navigated his remarkably productive political career. This special connection lasted for more than 50 years and survived a litany of domestic hardships amid the political successes. Ellis writes, "Abigail and John remained resolute, infinitely resilient, the invulnerable center that would always hold." The author's beautiful writing draws the reader wholly into this relationship, bringing new perspective to the historical importance of this enduring love story. An impeccable account of the politics, civics and devotion behind the Adams marriage., Alfred A. Knopf, 2010, 3<

2010, ISBN: 9780307269621

New York: Alfred A. Knopf; A Borzoi Book, 2010. x, 299 pages; 25 cm. Tight, clean copy. Stated First Edition. Dust jacket protected in a mylar cover. A fine copy of the first printing. &q… Mehr…

New York: Alfred A. Knopf; A Borzoi Book, 2010. x, 299 pages; 25 cm. Tight, clean copy. Stated First Edition. Dust jacket protected in a mylar cover. A fine copy of the first printing. "The Pulitzer Prize-winning, best-selling author of Founding Brothers and His Excellency brings America's preeminent first couple to life in a moving and illuminating narrative that sweeps through the American Revolution and the republic's tenuous early years. John and Abigail Adams left an indelible and remarkably preserved portrait of their lives together in their personal correspondence: both Adamses were prolific letter writers (although John conceded that Abigail was clearly the more gifted of the two), and over the years they exchanged more than twelve hundred letters. Joseph J. Ellis distills this unprecedented and unsurpassed record to give us an account both intimate and panoramic; part biography, part political history, and part love story. Ellis describes the first meeting between the two as inauspicious-=-John was twenty-four, Abigail just fifteen, and each was entirely unimpressed with the other. But they soon began a passionate correspondence that resulted in their marriage five years later. Over the next decades, the couple were separated nearly as much as they were together. John's political career took him first to Philadelphia, where he became the boldest advocate for the measures that would lead to the Declaration of Independence. Yet in order to attend the Second Continental Congress, he left his wife and children in the middle of the war zone that had by then engulfed Massachusetts. Later he was sent to Paris, where he served as a minister to the court of France alongside Benjamin Franklin. These years apart stressed the Adamses' union almost beyond what it could bear: Abigail grew lonely, while the Adams children suffered from their father's absence. John was elected the nation's first vice president, but by the time of his reelection, Abigail's health prevented her from joining him in Philadelphia, the interim capital. She no doubt had further reservations about moving to the swamp on the Potomac when John became president, although this time he persuaded her. President Adams inherited a weak and bitterly divided country from George Washington. The political situation was perilous at best, and he needed his closest advisor by his side: 'I can do nothing,' John told Abigail after his election, 'without you.' In Ellis's rich and striking new history, John and Abigail's relationship unfolds in the context of America's birth as a nation. / Joseph J. Ellis won the Pulitzer Prize for Founding Brothers. His portrait of Thomas Jefferson, American Sphinx, won the National Book Award. He is the Ford Foundation Professor of History at Mount Holyoke College in Massachusetts, where he lives with his wife and their youngest son." - Publisher.. 1st. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 8vo. Collectible., Alfred A. Knopf; A Borzoi Book, 2010, 5<