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" Ne dis pas forcément les choses comme elles se sont passées, mais transforme-les en légendes et trouve le ton de voix qu''il faut pour les raconter " : c''est ainsi que Romain Gary, dans La nuit sera calme, s''expliquait sur l''extraordinaire aventure de sa vie. Ne en Lituanie, dans une famille juive de Wilno, Romain Kacew emigre sur la Cote d''Azur a l''age de quatorze ans. En juillet 1940, rejoignant au peril de sa vie Londres et le general de Gaulle, il combat en heros dans les forces aeriennes de la France libre. Sur ses origines juives, sa jeunesse et ses exploits au cours de la guerre, Gary ne cessera de reinventer une realite-fiction qui est a la source de son oeuvre. A mesure qu''il cree sa propre legende, devenant un ecrivain celebre avec Education europeenne et Les Racines du ciel, Gary cherche a echapper a son propre personnage en usant de pseudonymes. Multiplier les masques, telle est alors l''obsession de ce seducteur aux mille visages, consul de France a Los Angeles et mari de l''ecrivain Lesley Blanch puis de l''actrice Jean Seberg. Poussant jusqu''au bout ce desir de s''auto-engendrer, Gary invente Emile Ajar, un ecrivain fictif " personnifie " par son cousin Paul Pavlowitch et obtient une deuxieme fois le prix Goncourt en 1975 pour La Vie devant soi. Apres cette ultime mystification, Romain Gary se suicide en 1980. Explorer la vie reelle d''un personnage aussi doue pour l''affabulation creatrice, tel fut le pari de Myriam Anissimov. C''est en se fondant sur de nombreux temoignages, entretiens et documents inedits a Wilno, Londres, Paris et New York, en depouillant les archives personnelles de l''ecrivain et de ses proches, qu''elle a mene a bien cette enquete magistrale sur l''un des grands ecrivains du XXe siecle.

Durante muchos años la gente ha tratado de persuadir al lider de la Revolución Cubana para que contara su propia historia. Finalmente, Ignacio Ramonet lo ha conseguido. Por primera vez, en una serie de entrevistas, Fidel Castro describe su vida, desde sus inicios en los años 50 hasta nuestros dias. Habla de sus padres, de sus primeras influencias, de los comienzos de la revolucion, su relacion con Che Guevara, los años de Carter y la inmigracion cubana a Estados Unidos.

The wife of the former Shah of Iran writes about her life and her husband, defending him against charges of repression, encouragement of fanaticism, and unhealthy collaboration with the CIA. She discusses her involvement with cultural and social programs, the family''s exit from Iran, their asylum in Egypt, Mexico, and the United States, and her husband''s battle with cancer, which was kept secret from the Iranian people until after the Shah and his family left the country.

From the former prime minister of New Zealand then the world s youngest female head of government and just the second to give birth in office comes a deeply personal memoir chronicling her extraordinary rise and offering inspiration to a new generation of leaders What if we could redefine leadership What if kindness came first Jacinda Ardern grew up the daughter of a police officer in small town New Zealand but as the 40th Prime Minister of her country she commanded global respect for her empathetic leadership that put people first This is the remarkable story of how a Mormon girl plagued by self doubt made political history and changed our assumptions of what a global leader can be When Jacinda Ardern became Prime Minister at age thirty seven the world took notice But it was her compassionate yet powerful response to the 2019 Christchurch mosque attacks resulting in swift and sweeping gun control laws that demonstrated her remarkable leadership She guided her country through unprecedented challenges a volcanic eruption a major biosecurity incursion and a global pandemic while advancing visionary new polices to address climate change reduce child poverty and secure historic international trade deals She did all this while juggling first time motherho

Truth is always stranger than fiction A stunning riveting and extraordinary real life story of life in the shadows 1 International Bestselling Author Don Winslow

A magical tender revealing rude honest very funny and very vulnerable book will be read and talked about for a long time BILL BUFORD Engrossing fearless and ultimately very moving JAY McINERNEY Moving and poignant ANNA WINTOUR The entertaining irreverent and surprisingly moving memoir by the visionary restaurateur behind such iconic New York institutions as Balthazar and Pastis A memoir by the legendary proprietor of Balthazar Pastis Minetta Tavern and Morandi taking us from his gritty London childhood to his serendipitous arrival in New York where he founded the era defining establishments Odeon Cafe Luxembourg and Nell s Eloquent and opinionated Keith McNally writes about his stint as a child actor his travels along the hippie trail his wives and children his devastating stroke and his Instagram notoriety An incredible life recounted with wit humility and a surprising amount of vulnerability PADMA LAKSHMI In this heartfelt memoir he does his best to atone for his misdeeds while recounting remarkable tales of romance adventure and survival GRIFFIN DUNNE

Terrific full of drama it has profoundly altered my understanding of the Second World War PATRICK BISHOP FROM THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF SKY WARRIORS AND SBS COMES AN EPIC HISTORY OF THE ALLIED VICTORY IN NORTH AFRICA DURING THE SECOND WORLD WAR

Judged by contemporaries to be a perfidious rogue Sir George Downing rose to prominence during the English Civil War as Oliver Cromwell s chief of military intelligence In the Interregnum he proved himself a double dealer who bribed and blackmailed his way to diplomatic success across Europe pioneering the practice of judicial kidnapping and starting two major wars in the process before spectacularly betraying his friends to horrifically violent deaths by defecting to Charles II s court Always at the centre of events Downing engaged with the most illustrious men and women of his times Samuel Pepys was his clerk John Milton prepared his letters and dispatches William of Orange was godfather to his son his next door neighbour was Queen Elizabeth of Bohemia and when Downing finally built his street his surveyor was Sir Christopher Wren Turncoat tells George Downing s story for the very first time following him from the asceticism of Puritan New England across English battlefields through courts chancelleries and parliaments to the heart of wealth and power in Restoration London

The extraordinary tale of Philip Augustus one of medieval Europe s greatest monarchs and the part he played in the downfall of four Plantagenet kings of England Philip II ruled France with an iron fist for over 40 years expanding its borders and increasing its power For his entire reign his counterpart on the English throne was a member of the Plantagenet dynasty and Philip took on them all Henry II Richard the Lionheart John and Henry III And yet we know so little about medieval England s greatest enemy Historian Catherine Hanley author of the critically acclaimed 1217 redresses this imbalance bringing Philip out of the shadows in this fascinating new history Delving into French medieval archives Nemesis explores Philip s motives for attacking England and in doing so we learn not only about him but discover so much more about England s most colourful and controversial of rulers the Plantagenets When Philip first succeeded to the throne in 1180 Henry II of England thanks to his Angevin and Norman ancestry as well as his wife s inheritance of Aquitaine ruled more of France than Philip himself By the end of Philip s reign in 1223 the pendulum of power had swung the other way Nemesis reveals how Philip exploited the constant familiar squabbles of

" Ne dis pas forcément les choses comme elles se sont passées, mais transforme-les en légendes et trouve le ton de voix qu''il faut pour les raconter " : c''est ainsi que Romain Gary, dans La nuit sera calme, s''expliquait sur l''extraordinaire aventure de sa vie. Ne en Lituanie, dans une famille juive de Wilno, Romain Kacew emigre sur la Cote d''Azur a l''age de quatorze ans. En juillet 1940, rejoignant au peril de sa vie Londres et le general de Gaulle, il combat en heros dans les forces aeriennes de la France libre. Sur ses origines juives, sa jeunesse et ses exploits au cours de la guerre, Gary ne cessera de reinventer une realite-fiction qui est a la source de son oeuvre. A mesure qu''il cree sa propre legende, devenant un ecrivain celebre avec Education europeenne et Les Racines du ciel, Gary cherche a echapper a son propre personnage en usant de pseudonymes. Multiplier les masques, telle est alors l''obsession de ce seducteur aux mille visages, consul de France a Los Angeles et mari de l''ecrivain Lesley Blanch puis de l''actrice Jean Seberg. Poussant jusqu''au bout ce desir de s''auto-engendrer, Gary invente Emile Ajar, un ecrivain fictif " personnifie " par son cousin Paul Pavlowitch et obtient une deuxieme fois le prix Goncourt en 1975 pour La Vie devant soi. Apres cette ultime mystification, Romain Gary se suicide en 1980. Explorer la vie reelle d''un personnage aussi doue pour l''affabulation creatrice, tel fut le pari de Myriam Anissimov. C''est en se fondant sur de nombreux temoignages, entretiens et documents inedits a Wilno, Londres, Paris et New York, en depouillant les archives personnelles de l''ecrivain et de ses proches, qu''elle a mene a bien cette enquete magistrale sur l''un des grands ecrivains du XXe siecle.

Durante muchos años la gente ha tratado de persuadir al lider de la Revolución Cubana para que contara su propia historia. Finalmente, Ignacio Ramonet lo ha conseguido. Por primera vez, en una serie de entrevistas, Fidel Castro describe su vida, desde sus inicios en los años 50 hasta nuestros dias. Habla de sus padres, de sus primeras influencias, de los comienzos de la revolucion, su relacion con Che Guevara, los años de Carter y la inmigracion cubana a Estados Unidos.

The wife of the former Shah of Iran writes about her life and her husband, defending him against charges of repression, encouragement of fanaticism, and unhealthy collaboration with the CIA. She discusses her involvement with cultural and social programs, the family''s exit from Iran, their asylum in Egypt, Mexico, and the United States, and her husband''s battle with cancer, which was kept secret from the Iranian people until after the Shah and his family left the country.

From the former prime minister of New Zealand then the world s youngest female head of government and just the second to give birth in office comes a deeply personal memoir chronicling her extraordinary rise and offering inspiration to a new generation of leaders What if we could redefine leadership What if kindness came first Jacinda Ardern grew up the daughter of a police officer in small town New Zealand but as the 40th Prime Minister of her country she commanded global respect for her empathetic leadership that put people first This is the remarkable story of how a Mormon girl plagued by self doubt made political history and changed our assumptions of what a global leader can be When Jacinda Ardern became Prime Minister at age thirty seven the world took notice But it was her compassionate yet powerful response to the 2019 Christchurch mosque attacks resulting in swift and sweeping gun control laws that demonstrated her remarkable leadership She guided her country through unprecedented challenges a volcanic eruption a major biosecurity incursion and a global pandemic while advancing visionary new polices to address climate change reduce child poverty and secure historic international trade deals She did all this while juggling first time motherho

Terrific full of drama it has profoundly altered my understanding of the Second World War PATRICK BISHOP FROM THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF SKY WARRIORS AND SBS COMES AN EPIC HISTORY OF THE ALLIED VICTORY IN NORTH AFRICA DURING THE SECOND WORLD WAR

Truth is always stranger than fiction A stunning riveting and extraordinary real life story of life in the shadows 1 International Bestselling Author Don Winslow

The extraordinary tale of Philip Augustus one of medieval Europe s greatest monarchs and the part he played in the downfall of four Plantagenet kings of England Philip II ruled France with an iron fist for over 40 years expanding its borders and increasing its power For his entire reign his counterpart on the English throne was a member of the Plantagenet dynasty and Philip took on them all Henry II Richard the Lionheart John and Henry III And yet we know so little about medieval England s greatest enemy Historian Catherine Hanley author of the critically acclaimed 1217 redresses this imbalance bringing Philip out of the shadows in this fascinating new history Delving into French medieval archives Nemesis explores Philip s motives for attacking England and in doing so we learn not only about him but discover so much more about England s most colourful and controversial of rulers the Plantagenets When Philip first succeeded to the throne in 1180 Henry II of England thanks to his Angevin and Norman ancestry as well as his wife s inheritance of Aquitaine ruled more of France than Philip himself By the end of Philip s reign in 1223 the pendulum of power had swung the other way Nemesis reveals how Philip exploited the constant familiar squabbles of

A magical tender revealing rude honest very funny and very vulnerable book will be read and talked about for a long time BILL BUFORD Engrossing fearless and ultimately very moving JAY McINERNEY Moving and poignant ANNA WINTOUR The entertaining irreverent and surprisingly moving memoir by the visionary restaurateur behind such iconic New York institutions as Balthazar and Pastis A memoir by the legendary proprietor of Balthazar Pastis Minetta Tavern and Morandi taking us from his gritty London childhood to his serendipitous arrival in New York where he founded the era defining establishments Odeon Cafe Luxembourg and Nell s Eloquent and opinionated Keith McNally writes about his stint as a child actor his travels along the hippie trail his wives and children his devastating stroke and his Instagram notoriety An incredible life recounted with wit humility and a surprising amount of vulnerability PADMA LAKSHMI In this heartfelt memoir he does his best to atone for his misdeeds while recounting remarkable tales of romance adventure and survival GRIFFIN DUNNE

Judged by contemporaries to be a perfidious rogue Sir George Downing rose to prominence during the English Civil War as Oliver Cromwell s chief of military intelligence In the Interregnum he proved himself a double dealer who bribed and blackmailed his way to diplomatic success across Europe pioneering the practice of judicial kidnapping and starting two major wars in the process before spectacularly betraying his friends to horrifically violent deaths by defecting to Charles II s court Always at the centre of events Downing engaged with the most illustrious men and women of his times Samuel Pepys was his clerk John Milton prepared his letters and dispatches William of Orange was godfather to his son his next door neighbour was Queen Elizabeth of Bohemia and when Downing finally built his street his surveyor was Sir Christopher Wren Turncoat tells George Downing s story for the very first time following him from the asceticism of Puritan New England across English battlefields through courts chancelleries and parliaments to the heart of wealth and power in Restoration London