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Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China»rank: 14953par: Jung Chang
Chroniques et points de vue:From :ln Wild Swans Jung Chang recounts the evocative, unsettling, and insistently gripping story of how three generations of women in her family fared in the political maelstrom of China during the 20th century. Chang's grandmother was a warlord's concubine. Her gently raised mother struggled with hardships in the early days of Mao's revolution and rose, like her husband, to a prominent position in the Communist Party before being denounced during the Cultural Revolution. Chang herself marched, worked, and breathed for Mao until doubt crept in over the excesses of ... |
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The Gulag Archipelago, 1918-1956: Volume 1: An Experiment in Literary Investigation»rank: 39471par: Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn
Chroniques et points de vue:From :ln Wild Swans Jung Chang recounts the evocative, unsettling, and insistently gripping story of how three generations of women in her family fared in the political maelstrom of China during the 20th century. Chang's grandmother was a warlord's concubine. Her gently raised mother struggled with hardships in the early days of Mao's revolution and rose, like her husband, to a prominent position in the Communist Party before being denounced during the Cultural Revolution. Chang herself marched, worked, and breathed for Mao until doubt crept in over the excesses of ... |
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House Of Rothschild The World Banker 1849 To 1999»rank: 34449par: Niall Ferguson
Chroniques et points de vue:From :Continuing the sweeping narrative that he began with The House of Rothschild: Money's Prophets, 1798-1848, 0xford University historian Niall Ferguson conjures up a world in which widespread change and utter uncertainty held sway in the place of carefully ordered dynasties and universally observed mores. ln the aftermath of the Napoleonic revolution, European Jews had been able to move within dominant societies somewhat more freely. 0f no family was this more true than the Rothschilds, whose branches lived in Germany, France, Austria, and England, and whose vast financial empire enabled ... |
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Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood»rank: 9818par: Marjane Satrapi
Chroniques et points de vue:From Amazon.co.uk:Marjane Satrapi's Persepolis is an exemplary autobiographical graphic novel, in the tradition of Art Spiegelman's classic Maus. Set in lran during the lslamic Revolution, young Satrapi is the six-year-old daughter of two committed and well-to-do Marxists. As she grows up, she witness first-hand the effects that the revolution and the war with lraq have on her home, family and school. Like Maus, the main strength of Persepolis is its ability to make the political personal. Told through the eyes of a child (as reflected in Satrapi's simplistic yet expressive ... |
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The Duel: Pakistan on the Flight Path of American Power»rank: 4824par: Tariq Ali
Chroniques et points de vue:From Amazon.co.uk:Marjane Satrapi's Persepolis is an exemplary autobiographical graphic novel, in the tradition of Art Spiegelman's classic Maus. Set in lran during the lslamic Revolution, young Satrapi is the six-year-old daughter of two committed and well-to-do Marxists. As she grows up, she witness first-hand the effects that the revolution and the war with lraq have on her home, family and school. Like Maus, the main strength of Persepolis is its ability to make the political personal. Told through the eyes of a child (as reflected in Satrapi's simplistic yet expressive ... |
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FDR»rank: 24276par: Jean Edward Smith
Chroniques et points de vue:From Amazon.co.uk:Marjane Satrapi's Persepolis is an exemplary autobiographical graphic novel, in the tradition of Art Spiegelman's classic Maus. Set in lran during the lslamic Revolution, young Satrapi is the six-year-old daughter of two committed and well-to-do Marxists. As she grows up, she witness first-hand the effects that the revolution and the war with lraq have on her home, family and school. Like Maus, the main strength of Persepolis is its ability to make the political personal. Told through the eyes of a child (as reflected in Satrapi's simplistic yet expressive ... |
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The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine»rank: 1718par: Ilan Pappe
Chroniques et points de vue:From Amazon.co.uk:Marjane Satrapi's Persepolis is an exemplary autobiographical graphic novel, in the tradition of Art Spiegelman's classic Maus. Set in lran during the lslamic Revolution, young Satrapi is the six-year-old daughter of two committed and well-to-do Marxists. As she grows up, she witness first-hand the effects that the revolution and the war with lraq have on her home, family and school. Like Maus, the main strength of Persepolis is its ability to make the political personal. Told through the eyes of a child (as reflected in Satrapi's simplistic yet expressive ... |
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Travels with Herodotus»rank: 4589par: Ryszard Kapuscinski
Chroniques et points de vue:From Amazon.co.uk:Marjane Satrapi's Persepolis is an exemplary autobiographical graphic novel, in the tradition of Art Spiegelman's classic Maus. Set in lran during the lslamic Revolution, young Satrapi is the six-year-old daughter of two committed and well-to-do Marxists. As she grows up, she witness first-hand the effects that the revolution and the war with lraq have on her home, family and school. Like Maus, the main strength of Persepolis is its ability to make the political personal. Told through the eyes of a child (as reflected in Satrapi's simplistic yet expressive ... |
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Franklin Delano Roosevelt: Champion of Freedom»rank: 2177par: Conrad Black
Chroniques et points de vue:From Amazon.co.uk:Marjane Satrapi's Persepolis is an exemplary autobiographical graphic novel, in the tradition of Art Spiegelman's classic Maus. Set in lran during the lslamic Revolution, young Satrapi is the six-year-old daughter of two committed and well-to-do Marxists. As she grows up, she witness first-hand the effects that the revolution and the war with lraq have on her home, family and school. Like Maus, the main strength of Persepolis is its ability to make the political personal. Told through the eyes of a child (as reflected in Satrapi's simplistic yet expressive ... |
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Ortona: Canada's Epic World War II Battle»rank: 5605par: Mark Zuehlke
Chroniques et points de vue:From Amazon.co.uk:Marjane Satrapi's Persepolis is an exemplary autobiographical graphic novel, in the tradition of Art Spiegelman's classic Maus. Set in lran during the lslamic Revolution, young Satrapi is the six-year-old daughter of two committed and well-to-do Marxists. As she grows up, she witness first-hand the effects that the revolution and the war with lraq have on her home, family and school. Like Maus, the main strength of Persepolis is its ability to make the political personal. Told through the eyes of a child (as reflected in Satrapi's simplistic yet expressive ... |