The story concerns an elderly Englishman, John Sidney Howard, who goes on a fishing holiday in France after the Second World War breaks out, but before the fall of France. Entrusted with the care of two British children, and overtaken by events, he attempts to return to England and safety. His journey is hampered by the unexpected speed of the Nazi invasion of France, and by th...(展开全部)

Amazon.co.uk Review In the post-war period, the CIA funded not just the right-wing bits of European intellectual life but also the centre, in order to detach intellectuals from the Left, and this book tells us how. It is touching on the career of Michael Josselson, the principal intellectual bagman who in 1950 became the Congress' Administrative Secretary, and his eventual betr...(展开全部)

Voici quelques portraits de femmes qui ont refusé le cynisme et la brutalité du monde. Telle Ujine, cette étudiante en première année de droit, qui choisit de garder l’enfant qu’elle porte contre l’avis de son amant Samuel, lâche et si peu responsable. Ou encore Fatou, dont le courage et la détermination lui permettront de sauver son amoureux Watson, et de le ramener sain et sa...(展开全部)