Born in London, painter Eric Ravilious raised in Sussex. Served as WWII war artist. His plane crashed off Iceland in 1942, first artist killed on duty. Archives, letters narrate his story through his words with Estate's backing.

Intimate and moving stories of loss and remembrance are told by friends and relatives of those killed in some of the major conflicts of the 20th century, from the First World War to the Falklands.

Desmond Hawkins finds local features in the south and south west of England that can be identified in Thomas Hardy's novels, as well as reminders of the author's own life.

The Munns, father John and sons Chris and Tim, recede to the woods of rural Georgia. Their life together is forever changed with the arrival of Uncle Deel, though the tragedy that follows forces troubled Chris to become a man.

À travers la date symbolique du 11 novembre, cet ouvrage propose une relecture de la " der des der " et, surtout, une formidable enquête politique, économique et sociale sur sa postérité. Du 11 novembre 1919 après la signature du traité de Versailles, au 11 novembre 2018 qui commémore les cent ans du conflit mondial, en passant notamment par le 11 novembre 1938 au lendemain de la nuit de Cristal, Jean-Michel Steg nous montre que, en définitive, c'est bien l'ensemble des belligérants européens qui a perdu la Première Guerre mondiale.

After her fiancee admits to infidelity while on a business trip in France, a woman attempts to get her lover back and marry him by traveling to Paris despite her crippling fear of flying. On the way she unwittingly smuggles something of value that has a charming crook chasing her across France as she chases after her future husband.

A locally born and bred S.W.A.T. lieutenant is torn between loyalty to the streets and duty to his fellow officers when he's tasked to run a highly-trained unit that's the last stop for solving crimes in Los Angeles.

Cette anthologie se propose d'aller au-delà de ces " phrases choc " en resituant ces différents discours dans leur époque. Chacun de ces textes est précédé d'une introduction qui le contextualise dans le moment historique et permet d'en mesurer l'impact international. Des renvois permettent au lecteur de suivre l'évolution d'une même problématique à travers le temps : guerre froide, décolonisation, détente, dénucléarisation, etc.

Jean Jaurès, Rosa Luxemburg, Léon Blum, Hitler, Gandhi, Franklin D. Roosevelt… Derrière ces grandes fi ures du XXe siècle, autant de prises de parole inspirées qui ont changé l'Histoire. Ce fl orilège restitue ces diff érents discours, en les replaçant dans leur époque.