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Memoir of a Debulked Woman: Enduring Ovarian Cancer
by Susan GubarA 2012 New York Times Book Review Notable Book "Staggering, searing...Ms. Gubar deserves the highest admiration for her bravery and honesty."--New York Times Diagnosed with ovarian cancer in 2008, Susan Gubar underwent radical debulking surgery, an attempt to excise the cancer by removing part or all of many organs in the lower abdomen. Her memoir mines the deepest levels of anguish and devotion as she struggles to come to terms with her body's betrayal and the frightful protocols of contemporary medicine. She finds solace in the abiding love of her husband, children, and friends while she searches for understanding in works of literature, visual art, and the testimonies of others who suffer with various forms of cancer. Ovarian cancer remains an incurable disease for most of those diagnosed, even those lucky enough to find caring and skilled physicians. Memoir of a Debulked Woman is both a polemic against the ineffectual and injurious medical responses to which thousands of women are subjected and a meditation on the gifts of companionship, art, and literature that sustain people in need.
Memoir of a Gulag Actress (NIU Series in Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies)
by Tamara PetkevichIn an abridged translation that retains the grace and passion of the original, Klots and Ufberg present the stunning memoir of a young woman who became an actress in the Gulag. Tamara Petkevich had a relatively privileged childhood in the beautiful, impoverished Petrograd of the Soviet regimeÆs early years, but when her father—a fervent believer in the Communist ideal—was arrested, 17-year- old Tamara was branded a \u201cdaughter of the enemy of the people.\u201d She kept up a search for her father while struggling to support her mother and two sisters, finish school, and enter university. Shortly before the Russian outbreak of World War II, Petkevich was forced to quit school and, against her better judgment, she married an exiled man whom she had met in the lines at the information bureau of the NKVD (PeopleÆs Commissariat of Internal Affairs). Her mother and one sister perished in the Nazi siege of Leningrad, and Petkevich was herself arrested. With cinematic detail, Petkevich relates her attempts to defend herself against absurd charges of having a connection to the Leningrad terrorist center, counter-revolutionary propaganda, and anti-Semitism that resulted in a sentence of seven yearsÆ hard labor in the Gulag.While Petkevich became a professional actress in her own right years after her release from the Gulag, she learned her craft on the stages of the camps scattered across the northern Komi Republic. The existence of prisoner theaters and troupes of political prisoners such as the one Petkevich joined is a little-known fact of Gulag life. PetkevichÆs depiction not only provides a unique firsthand account of this world-within-a-world but also testifies to the power of art to literally save lives. As Petkevich moves from one form of hardship to another she retains her desire to live and her ability to love.More than a firsthand record of atrocities committed in Stalinist Russia, Memoir of a Gulag Actress is an invaluable source of information on the daily life and culture of the Soviet Union at the time. Russian literature about the Gulag remains vastly under-represented in the United States, and PetkevichÆs unforgettable memoir will go a long way toward filling this gap. Supplemented with photographs from the authorÆs personal archive, PetkevichÆs story will be of great interest to general readers, while providing an important resource for historians, political scientists, and students of Russian culture and history.
Memoir of a Milk Carton Kid: The Tanya Nicole Kach Story
by Tanya Nicole Kach Lawrence FisherMemoir of a Milk Carton Kid is the haunting story of a girl, lost in the cracks of the system, forced to spend more than ten years as the prisoner of her school's security guard. From her troubled childhood, through her captivity at the hands of a manipulative captor, and ultimately on her road to recovery, Tanya's story is one of pain but ultimately triumph. Her story is told by her advocate and confidant, Lawrence Fisher. For more than five years his impassioned advocacy has helped Tanya as she has reintegrated into society. He successfully blends Tanya's story with his own insight into the legal issues surrounding the controversial case that followed Tanya's release. This multipronged approach gives the reader insight into Tanya's emotional state and the state of a criminal justice system that allowed her ordeal to happen.
Memoir of an Imam: The Extraordinary Spiritual Journey of Moussa Kone
by Moussa Kone“One day I asked my father, a respected Imam, a question: ‘If, this evening, you or I died, would we go to heaven?’ He replied: ‘Son, I don’t know, and we cannot know before our deeds, good and evil, are weighed on the scale of deeds.’ Thus stirred by an ardent desire for certitude for the fate of my soul, I threw myself into a thorough study of both the Koran and the Bible, the results of which I recount in this book.” Follow Moussa as he relates the turbulent and supernatural events that led to his meeting with Almighty God. His inspiring journey testifies to the extraordinary manner in which the Creator reveals Himself to each and every person who searches for Him sincerely and with all their heart.
Memoir of an Independent Woman: An Unconventional Life Well Lived
by Tania Grossinger“A tale of a young woman battling the stereotype of women living and working in the ‘swinging sixties’ and a road map of how she kept sane and successful in the real world of ‘mad men.’” —Sharon Hazard, WomanAroundTown.com It takes a special kind of woman to have the courage to defy societal conventions. In an era when her female counterparts were still expected to marry early and have children, Tania Grossinger set out on her own. After spending her childhood at the famous Grossinger’s resort in the Catskills, Tania Grossinger was the publicist for the groundbreaking The Feminine Mystique (over three million copies sold), spent seven years as the director of broadcast promotion for Playboy Magazine and the Playboy Club, did PR for The $64,000 Question, escaped her first marriage, and went to live in Mexico— and that’s only the beginning. Rubbing shoulders with some of America's most famous figures, what Tania has to reveal about Ayn Rand (she has a sense of humor after all), Timothy Leary, Hugh Hefner, and the unsolved disappearance of a fellow travel writer in Jamaica will keep you up at night turning the pages of one of the most interesting women to put pen to paper in recent memory. As she reflects on her life now, Tania is single and one of “two million of us Americans who are childless by choice.” The memoir is addressed to Natasha, on whose absence the book hinges. But who is she? Smart, sensitive, and revealing, this is a must-read memoir for any woman who has ever strived for independence.
Memoir Of A Cashier: Korean Americans, Racism, And Riots
by Carol ParkAuthor Carol Park grew up in Los Angeles during the 1980s and 1990s, a time of ethnic strife. Now she seeks to give voice to the Korean American community both then and now. Memoir of a Cashier is more than just a description of young girl's life growing up while working in a bulletproof cashier's booth in Compton, California. Park tells the story of the Korean American experience leading up to and after the 1992 Los Angeles Riots. Intricately weaving the story of her mother into the text, she provides a bird's-eye view into the Korean American narrative from her own unique perspective. With candor and direct language, she recounts the racism and traumatic incidents she lived through. Park bore witness to shootings, robberies, and violence, all of which twisted her worldview and ultimately shaped her life. In this memoir, a Korean American woman recalls her experiences of Los Angeles during the 1992 riots and shares her journey of finding her identity.
Memoir of Col. Benjamin Tallmadge: Prepared By Himself, At The Request Of His Children (classic Reprint)
by Col. Benjamin TallmadgeThe Revolutionary War colonel—and leader of the famed Culper Spy Ring—tells his story in this fascinating historical autobiography. When British troops defeated the Continental Army on Long Island, General George Washington was forced to abandon New York in order to save the revolution. The British established their headquarters in New York City—beginning an occupation that would last the length of the war. Priceless intelligence flowed through the city&’s harbor, and Washington wanted to claim it as his own. To Benjamin Tallmadge, a young officer of the Continental Army, the general assigned an impossible mission: Infiltrate New York, establish a spy network, and report everything the British know. Throughout the war, Tallmadge and his spies collected intelligence on troop movements, sneak attacks, and the treachery of Benedict Arnold. Nearly two and a half centuries later, the heroic exploits of the Culper Spy Ring have served as the inspiration for the acclaimed TV series Turn: Washington&’s Spies and the video game Assassin&’s Creed III. In this lively and engaging memoir, the days of revolution are remembered by a patriot who fought in the shadows—and helped redefine the nature of espionage.This ebook has been professionally proofread to ensure accuracy and readability on all devices.
The Memoir of Ilse Seger: Wife, Mother, Hostage, Nazi Resister
by Ilse SegerElisabeth "Ilse" Seger was the wife of Gerhart Heinrich Seger, a German Social Democratic member of the Reichstag from 1930 to 1933. He was reelected for the last time on March 5, 1933, shortly after Hitler came to power. A week later, the Nazis arrested him and held him in "protective custody" for three months in a local prison in Dessau and then sent him to Oranienburg concentration camp for six months, until he escaped to Czechoslovakia. In The Memoir of Ilse Seger, Ilse tells Gerhart's story, but more importantly, she tells her own story: of her early resistance to the Nazi regime as a political opponent herself; of her solidarity with the Jews during the early years of Nazi persecution; of her defiance of expectations for women at the time; of her time as a hostage alongside her daughter, Renate, in Rosslau concentration camp and how they got out with help from members of Parliament; and, lastly, of her first years living in exile in France and Switzerland as her husband went on an anti-fascist speaking tour in the US. Ilse's story is an incredible contribution to our understanding of gendered political resistance, life in early German concentration camps, and Alltagsgeschichte, or the history of everyday life, by showing what everyday life was like for the wife of a political opponent in Nazi Germany.The Memoir of Ilse Seger is a gripping narrative of adventure and intrigue about the wartime life of an ordinary, decent woman.
A Memoir of Mary Ann The Dominican Nuns of Our Lady of Perpetual Help Home
by Dominican Nuns Flannery O'ConnorRecounts the surprisingly rich years a lively, wise child spent as a cancer patient in a home run by Dominican nuns.
A Memoir of Misfortune
by Xiaokang SuSu Xiaokang had faced calamity before: in 1989, after the Tiananmen Square massacre, he became the object of a government manhunt and was forced to flee China, leaving behind his wife and young son. Eventually his family was allowed to join him in exile in the United States, and he believed the worst was behind him. Then a terrible automobile accident left his wife, Fu Li, unable to move or speak.In this remarkably honest account, Su, who blamed himself for his family's disaster, writes wrenchingly of his inner torment and despair. He describes the pain of living in exile, his desperate search for a miracle cure for Fu Li, and his bemusement at his teenage son's increasing Americanization. Above all, Su's moving memoir invites us along on a deeply personal odyssey, as a man who had once been at the center of an international political drama dedicates himself to the far more demanding task of remaking an emotional world for his wife and son.From the Trade Paperback edition.
A Memoir of My Former Self: A Life in Writing
by Hilary Mantel'I breathed in stories, as soon as I breathed in air. Sometimes I think I wasn't born, but I just came out of an ink blot.''Mantel's idiosyncratic and magisterial voice comes through on every page, carrying readers across an astonishing array of subject matter with ease. This is a treasure' Publishers Weekly As well as her celebrated career as a novelist, Hilary Mantel long contributed to newspapers and journals, unspooling stories from her own life and illuminating the world as she found it. This strand of her writing was an integral part of how she thought of herself. 'Ink is a generative fluid,' she explains. 'If you don't mean your words to breed consequences, don't write at all.' A Memoir of My Former Self collects the finest of this writing over four decades. Mantel's subjects are wide-ranging. She discusses nationalism and her own sense of belonging; our dream life flopping into our conscious life; the mythic legacy of Princess Diana; the many themes that feed into her novels - revolutionary France, psychics, Tudor England - and other novelists, from Jane Austen to V. S. Naipaul. She writes about her father and the man who replaced him; she writes fiercely and heartbreakingly about the battles with her health she endured as a young woman, and the stifling years she found herself living in Saudi Arabia. Here, too, is a selection of her film reviews - from When Harry Met Sally to RoboCop - and, published for the first time, her stunning Reith Lectures, which explore the process of art bringing history and the dead back to life.From her unique childhood to her all-consuming fascination with Thomas Cromwell that grew into the Wolf Hall Trilogy, A Memoir of My Former Self reveals the shape of Hilary Mantel's life in her own dazzling words, 'messages from people I used to be.' Compelling, often very funny, always luminous, it is essential reading from one of our greatest writers.'A smart, deft, meticulous, thoughtful writer, with such a grasp of the dark and spidery corners of human nature' Margaret Atwood
A Memoir of My Former Self: A Life in Writing
by Hilary MantelTHE FINAL BOOK FROM ONE OF OUR GREATEST WRITERS In addition to her celebrated career as a novelist, Hilary Mantel contributed for years to newspapers and journals, unspooling stories from her own life and illuminating the world as she found it. “Ink is a generative fluid,” she explains. “If you don’t mean your words to breed consequences, don’t write at all.” A Memoir of My Former Self collects the finest of this writing over four decades.Her subjects are wide-ranging, sharply observed, and beautifully rendered. She discusses nationalism and her own sense of belonging; our dream life popping into our conscious life; the mythic legacy of Princess Diana; the many themes that feed into her novels—revolutionary France, psychics, Tudor England; and other novelists, from Jane Austen to V.S. Naipaul. She writes about her father and the man who replaced him; she writes fiercely and heartbreakingly about the battles with her health that she endured as a young woman, and the stifling years she found herself living in Saudi Arabia. Here, too, is her legendary essay “Royal Bodies,” on our endless fascination with the current royal family.From her unusual childhood to her all-consuming interest in Thomas Cromwell that grew into the Wolf Hall trilogy, A Memoir of My Former Self reveals the shape of Hilary Mantel’s life in her own luminous words, through “messages from people I used to be.” Filled with her singular wit and wisdom, it is essential reading from one of our greatest writers.
A Memoir of My Former Self: A Life in Writing
by Hilary MantelTHE FINAL BOOK FROM ONE OF OUR GREATEST WRITERSIn addition to her celebrated career as a novelist, Hilary Mantel contributed for years to newspapers and journals, unspooling stories from her own life and illuminating the world as she found it. “Ink is a generative fluid,” she explains. “If you don’t mean your words to breed consequences, don’t write at all.” A Memoir of My Former Self collects the finest of this writing over four decades. Her subjects are wide-ranging, sharply observed, and beautifully rendered. She discusses nationalism and her own sense of belonging; our dream life popping into our conscious life; the mythic legacy of Princess Diana; the many themes that feed into her novels—revolutionary France, psychics, Tudor England; and other novelists, from Jane Austen to V.S. Naipaul. She writes about her father and the man who replaced him; she writes fiercely and heartbreakingly about the battles with her health that she endured as a young woman, and the stifling years she found herself living in Saudi Arabia. Here, too, is her legendary essay “Royal Bodies,” on our endless fascination with the current royal family. From her unusual childhood to her all-consuming interest in Thomas Cromwell that grew into the Wolf Hall trilogy, A Memoir of My Former Self reveals the shape of Hilary Mantel’s life in her own luminous words, through “messages from people I used to be.” Filled with her singular wit and wisdom, it is essential reading from one of our greatest writers.
A Memoir of the Missile Age: One Man's Journey
by Vitaly Leonidovich KatayevVitaly Leonidovich Katayev was an eyewitness to history as he saw the arms race accelerating at an absurd and inexplicable pace, and he understood why. His perspective was from inside the Soviet system, in an office that was devoted to analysis of arms control and defense matters in the Central Committee of the Soviet Communist Party and later in an interdepartmental working group. Vitaly Katayev was a skilled designer and an acute observer. His recollections in this book, along with documents he deposited at the Hoover Institution Library and Archives, offer an extraordinary window into Soviet decisions and calculations. This monograph shows how Soviet leaders were often hobbled by a poor understanding of what was happening in the United States, but it also demonstrates that Americans, too, had a weak grasp of what was happening in Moscow, before and after Mikhail Gorbachev came to power. The misunderstandings on both sides were a symptom of the deepest chasm of the Cold War and A Memoir of the Missile Age provides a valuable key with which to open the Soviet black box.
Memoir of the Sunday Brunch
by Julia PandlA “delicious” account of a midwestern family’s restaurant business, and the bond between a daughter and her food-loving father (Jacquelyn Mitchard). At age twelve, Julie Pandl was initiated into the rite of the Sunday brunch, a weekly madhouse at Pandl’s, the family-owned Milwaukee-based restaurant where she and her eight older siblings did mandatory service—and where her father “traded his sanity for a paper chef hat and a set of utility tongs.” Amid the controlled chaos, they learned the ropes of the business and, more importantly, life lessons that would shape them in the years to come. In this wry, “heartfelt” memoir, Pandl looks back on those formative years, a time not just of growing up but, ultimately, of becoming a source of strength and support, as the world her father knew began to change into a tougher, less welcoming place (Booklist). Part coming-of-age story à la The Tender Bar, and part window into the mysteries of the restaurant business à la Kitchen Confidential, Memoir of the Sunday Brunch is filled with tender wisdom about the bonds between fathers and daughters, and about the simple pleasures that lie in the daily ritual of breaking bread.
A Memoir of the Warsaw Uprising
by Madeline G. Levine Miron BialoszewskiOn August 1, 1944, Miron Białoszewski, later to gain renown as one of Poland's most innovative poets, went out to run an errand for his mother and ran into history. With Soviet forces on the outskirts of Warsaw, the Polish capital revolted against five years of Nazi occupation, an uprising that began in a spirit of heroic optimism. Sixty-three days later it came to a tragic end. The Nazis suppressed the insurgents ruthlessly, reducing Warsaw to rubble while slaughtering some 200,000 people, mostly through mass executions. The Red Army simply looked on.Białoszewski's blow-by-blow account of the uprising brings it alive in all its desperate urgency. Here we are in the shoes of a young man slipping back and forth under German fire, dodging sniper bullets, collapsing with exhaustion, rescuing the wounded, burying the dead. An indispensable and unforgettable act of witness, A Memoir of the Warsaw Uprising is also a major work of literature. Białoszewski writes in short, stabbing, splintered, breathless sentences attuned to "the glaring identity of 'now.'" His pages are full of a white-knuckled poetry that resists the very destruction it records.Madeline G. Levine has extensively revised her 1977 translation, and passages that were unpublishable in Communist Poland have been restored.the force of the inhuman Nazi machine could not--and cannot--obliterate.
Mémoires de l´Atlacatl: De la guerre à la Paix
by Dario VenturaL'auteur a étudié les Sciences de la Communication à l'Université Doctor Andrés Bello. Il a été professeur de Lettres Enseignant les matières de Cinématographie, Télévision, Relations Publiques. Il a été juge du processus de graduation et assesseur de thèse en Sciences de la Communication. Il a particpé à divers festivals de cinéma. En 2010 il a produit le documentaire Pan et Revolver qui fut la sélection nationale du festival Icaro. Il écrit des Récits d'Investagations historiques. De plus, il a fait des incursions dans l'écriture de Fiction. Il écrit aussi sur la motivation et le dépassement de soi pour inciter les jeunes à se proposer de grands idéaux. Il est passionné par l'écriture de la philosophie moraliste sur laquelle il écrit sur .
Mémoires du comte Belliard, lieutenant-général, pair de France écrits par lui-même (Mémoires du comte Belliard, lieutenant-général #1)
by Général de Division Comte Augustin-Daniel Belliard« Mémoires du comte Belliard, lieutenant-général, pair de France écrits par lui-même, recueillis et mis en ordre par M. Vinet, l'un de ses aides-de-camp. Paris, Berguet et Petion, 1842, 3 vol. in-8°.Publication décousue où des lettres de Murat à Belliard en 1812 suivent le récit de la bataille de Valmy. Les affaires d'Espagne, une conversation avec l'Empereur à Dresde, des lettres de Napoléon à Murat du 25 août au 13 octobre 1813, un récit de la capitulation de Paris, une lettre du capitaine Magnien sur la défection de Souham, l'entrevue à Fontainebleau en 1814 avec un illuminé qui veut annoncer à l'Empereur qu'il régnera encore mais que des malheures plus grand suivront, etc. en forment l'essential. » p 15/16 - Professeur Jean Tulard, Bibliographie Critique Des Mémoires Sur Le Consulat Et L'Empire, Droz, Genève, 1971TOME I seul.
Mémoires Du Général Bigarré, Aide De Camp Du Roi Joseph
by Général Baron Auguste BigarréMémoires du général Bigarré, aide de camp du roi Joseph. Paris, Kolb, 1893, in-80, XV-320 p.« Ces souvenirs ont été écrits en 1830. Entré à la garde consulaire, Bigarré assiste au sacre puis à la bataille d'Austerlitz. Son régiment ayant perdu un drapeau à Austerlitz, il se cabre sous les reproches de Napoléon (pp. 180-183) et passe aide de camp de Joseph qu'il suit à Madrid (chapitres IX-XI), le récit s'arrête en 1812. Racontées naïvement les conquêtes galantes et les infortunes conjugales de Bigarré donnent à ses souvenirs un ton plaisant. Malheureusement, l'appareil critique fait défaut. » p 18 - Professeur Jean Tulard, Bibliographie Critique Des Mémoires Sur Le Consulat Et L'Empire, Droz, Genève, 1971.
Mémoires du général de Caulaincourt, duc de Vicence, grand écuyer de l’Empereur. Tome I (Mémoires du général de Caulaincourt, duc de Vicence, grand écuyer de l’Empereur. #1)
by Jean Hanoteau Général de Division Armand Augustin Louis de Caulaincourt, Duc de Vincence« Caulaincourt n'avait cessé sous l'Empire de prendre des notes chaque jour au bivouac ou dans le cabinet de Tuileries. Il se serait décidé à les mettre en forme entre 1822 et 1825. L'énorme documentation réunie quotiennement explique la valeur du témoignage du duc de Vicenze... le récit ne commence qu'à l'entrevue d'Erfurt. Il se poursuit avec la campagne de Russie et la retraite. C'est dans les chapitres VII-VIII et XI ( « En traîneau avec l'Empereur » ) souvent réédites que l'on dispose d'un document de premier ordre sur l'état d'esprit de Napoléon après le désastre de 1812. Quittant la Grande Armée, l'Empereur voyage en la seule compagnie de Caulaincourt de Smorgoni à Paris. Pendant ce long voyage, Napoléon se confie au Grand Ecuyer avec d'autant plus de franchise qu'il ignore que Caulaincourt prend des notes. « Puis Caulaincourt narre les péripéties de Congrès de Châtillon et y justifie son attitude. On notera d'importants développements sur l'entrée des Alliés à Paris, l'attitude de Napoléon, la défection de Marmont, l'abdication et la tentative de suicide de l'Empereur. Les mémoires s'arrêtent aux « Adieux de Fontainebleau » p 33 - Professeur Jean Tulard, Bibliographie Critique Sur Des Mémoires Sur Le Consulat Et L'Empire, Droz, Genève, 1971
Mémoires du général de Caulaincourt, duc de Vicence, grand écuyer de l’Empereur. Tome II (Mémoires du général de Caulaincourt, duc de Vicence, grand écuyer de l’Empereur. #2)
by Général de Division Armand Augustin Louis de Caulaincourt, Duc de Vincence« Caulaincourt n'avait cessé sous l'Empire de prendre des notes chaque jour au bivouac ou dans le cabinet de Tuileries. Il se serait décidé à les mettre en forme entre 1822 et 1825. L'énorme documentation réunie quotiennement explique la valeur du témoignage du duc de Vicence... le récit ne commence qu'à l'entrevue d'Erfurt. Il se poursuit avec la campagne de Russie et la retraite. C'est dans les chapitres VII-VIII et XI [ « En traîneau avec l'Empereur » ] souvent réédites que l'on dispose d'un document de premier ordre sur l'état d'esprit de Napoléon après le désastre de 1812. Quittant la Grande Armée, l'Empereur voyage en la seule compagnie de Caulaincourt de Smorgoni à Paris. Pendant ce long voyage, Napoléon se confie au Grand Ecuyer avec d'autant plus de franchise qu'il ignore que Caulaincourt prend des notes.« Puis Caulaincourt narre les péripéties de Congrès de Châtillon et y justifie son attitude. On notera d'importants développements sur l'entrée des Alliés à Paris, l'attitude de Napoléon, la défection de Marmont, l'abdication et la tentative de suicide de l'Empereur. Les mémoires s'arrêtent aux « Adieux de Fontainebleau » p 33 - Professeur Jean Tulard, Bibliographie Critique Des Mémoires Sur Le Consulat Et L'Empire, Droz, Genève, 1971Tome II - Moscou, La Retraite, En Traîneau Avec l'Empereur, L'Arrivée à Paris
Mémoires du général de Caulaincourt, duc de Vicence, grand écuyer de l’Empereur. Tome III (Mémoires du général de Caulaincourt, duc de Vicence, grand écuyer de l’Empereur. #3)
by Général de Division Armand Augustin Louis de Caulaincourt, Duc de Vincence« Caulaincourt n'avait cessé sous l'Empire de prendre des notes chaque jour au bivouac ou dans le cabinet de Tuileries. Il se serait décidé à les mettre en forme entre 1822 et 1825. L'énorme documentation réunie quotiennement explique la valeur du témoignage du duc de Vicence... le récit ne commence qu'à l'entrevue d'Erfurt. Il se poursuit avec la campagne de Russie et la retraite. C'est dans les chapitres VII-VIII et XI [ « En traîneau avec l'Empereur » ] souvent réédites que l'on dispose d'un document de premier ordre sur l'état d'esprit de Napoléon après le désastre de 1812. Quittant la Grande Armée, l'Empereur voyage en la seule compagnie de Caulaincourt de Smorgoni à Paris. Pendant ce long voyage, Napoléon se confie au Grand Ecuyer avec d'autant plus de franchise qu'il ignore que Caulaincourt prend des notes.« Puis Caulaincourt narre les péripéties de Congrès de Châtillon et y justifie son attitude. On notera d'importants développements sur l'entrée des Alliés à Paris, l'attitude de Napoléon, la défection de Marmont, l'abdication et la tentative de suicide de l'Empereur. Les mémoires s'arrêtent aux « Adieux de Fontainebleau » p 33 - Professeur Jean Tulard, Bibliographie Critique Des Mémoires Sur Le Consulat Et L'Empire, Droz, Genève, 1971Tome III - Le Congres de Châtillon, et L'Agonie de Fontainebleu.
Mémoires Militaires Du Général Baron Boulart Sur Les Guerres De La Republique Et La Empire.
by Général Baron Jean-François Boulart« L'Italie en 1800, le sacre, le siège Dantzig, le bataille de Friedland, le guerre d'Espagne, La campagne de Allemagne en 1809, La Russie, la chute de l'Empire constituent les principaux épisodes de ces utiles mémoires, dans l'ensemble assez exacts. » p 23 - Professeur Jean Tulard, Bibliographie Critique Sur Des Mémoires Sur Le Consulat Et L'Empire, Droz, Genève, 1971
Memoirs: Ten Years and Twenty Days
by Karl Doenitz&“A fascinating and detailed account of the German navy&’s war, mostly covering U-boat activities&” by the man who succeeded Hitler as Fuhrer (Damien Burke, author of TSR2: Britain&’s Lost Bomber). This is the story of the last world war, as told by Grand Admiral Karl Döenitz himself. His memoir covers his early career with submarines in the First World War and follows both his successes and failures through the Second World War, with great detail on the way the U-boat campaign was waged, as told by the man who invented U-boat tactics. Döenitz includes details of the U-boat campaigns during the Second World War as well as the opinions, ideas and commentary on the period. Of particular interest are the comments regarding British and American conduct during the war. This is an important social document and an invaluable source for any student of the last war. After becoming the last Fuhrer of Germany after Hitler&’s suicide in May 1945, Karl Döenitz spent ten years and twenty days in Spandau Prison having been convicted of war crimes following a trial at Nuremberg. &“A very interesting book looking at the war in the Atlantic from the German side . . . one of the best accounts of the Battle of the Atlantic.&”—UK Historian