This is a powerful book and one that will stay with me for a very long time. A disturbing account of the atrocities that took place during WW2. A story about friendship, passion and survival. Women who were involved in the resistance movement of occupied France by the Germans; the steps they t...
If you are at all interested in social history in France, before, during and after the revolution you will find this book absolutely impossible to put down. Moorehead guides you through the dying days of ancien regime France and gives just enough political history - without becoming tedious - thr...
Born in Paris 1893, a precocious and tough Freya Stark spent her childhood wondering across Europe, speaking three languages by the time she was five. She became one of the twentieth-century’s most remarkable and inspirational women. Renowned for her flamboyant and unorthodox behaviour, Freya was...
Refugees and Asylum Seekers have become political footballs in recent years, this book traces the history of the UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) and follows the conditions of people seeking asylum in the world today. There are some personal, tragic and horrific accounts of the violence ...
Reserved rights.Raymonde Sergent and her daughter Gisèle (with the kind permission of Gisèle Sergent Jafredu)Marie and Simone Alizon (with the kind permission of Simone Alizon)Marie-Elisa Nordmann and France Bloch (by the kind permission of the FNDIRP)Aminthe and Yvette Guillon (with the kind per...
We are an island just off the south-east coast of Asia, and are part of the Oriental world. There our fate is set…. The decision we must make as Australians is this: are we going to look after our coloured future or our cultural future? … I could imagine a much finer race existing in Australia in...