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Un arc-en-ciel dans la nuit - Occasion

3 décembre 1984. L'ancestrale ville indienne de Bhopal est en fête. C'est la nuit des mariages. Padmini, l'héroïne des bidonvilles, va épouser Dilip. Mais, soudain, à minuit cinq, un foudroyant nuage de gaz toxique s'échappe d'une usine américaine de pesticides construite au cœur de la cité...

Il était minuit cinq à Bhopal

In this, the most sweeping, powerful and enthralling of their books, the authors of such worldwide best sellers as ls Paris Burning?, Or I'll Dress You in Mourning, and O Jerusalem! have re-created the majestic and tumultuous end of an era, when 400,000,000 people, one fifth of all humanity, claimed their freedom from the greatest empire history has ever known—only to find that the price of freedom was partition, war, riots and murder.Their subject is the eclipse of the British Raj and the birth of an independent India and Pakistan; the violent transformation of that fabled India—the land of maharajas with their palaces, vices, jewels and harems,-their gold-caparisoned elephants and their glittering private armies; the India of KipIing’s army, with its centuries of legendary heroism, its skirmishes along the Khyber Pass of the Northwest Frontier against the fiercest warriors on the globe, the Pathans, its young British officers commanding troops of a dozen races and religions and castes; the India of tiger hunts and pigsticking, of polo and memsahibs, of dazzling-balls and luxurious clubs; the India of astrologers and sadhus, holy men and strange customs; the India that was the heart and soul of an empire—into the new India of Gandhi and Nehru, precursor of the Third World.Their story begins in London on New Year's Day of 1947, when a black Austin brings to the door of 10 Downing Street the man Prime Minister Clement Attlee had selected for the task of cutting England's ties to her proudest possession, her Indian Raj. The choice could not have been more ironic. It fell -on Lord Louis Mountbatten, the great-grandson of Queen Victoria, the empress in whose name the empire had been assembled. The story ends just over a year later, at Allahabad, India, on February 12, 1948, as a man leans from a steam boat to pour into the Ganges the ashes of India's murdered liberator, Mahatma Gandhi. Between those dates the world had changed. An age, the Age of Imperialism, had passed and another had begun. An independent India had been born on a day cursed by the stars; the largest Moslem nation in the world, Pakistan, had come into existence; ten million people had been uprooted and perhaps a quarter of a miIIion killed in the greatest migration in history. At the center of their narrative are major figures of a drama: Nehru, the sensitive politician who prepared for greatness as India's prime minister in a British jail; Jinnah, a Moslem who drank, ate pork and rarely entered a mosque, yet who led 45 million Moslems to nationhood, proclaiming “We shall have lndia divided or lndia destroyed"; Mountbatten drawing up the plans for India's division, predicting as he did so that one day the Indians would “bitterly regret the decision they are about to take”; Gandhi, the gentle prophet of a revolution, who stirred the masses of the most populous area on earth without raising his voice, and humbled the British empire by refusing all nourishment except water and bicarbonate of soda.Weaving together the lives of people great and small, of statesmen, revolutionaries, politicians, ordinary men and women caught up in the triumph and tragedy of a world in upheaval, Collins and Lapierre have illuminated one of the great dramas of our time. Theirs is a book that brims over with pathos, human tragedy, heroism, excitement, conveying the fever pitch of those hot, terrible, dusty days when an age ended and the soul of a nation found utterance at last. They take the reader from the frenzied debates in the imperial grandeur of the Viceroy’s palace to villages destroyed by massacres and riots; from the sordid slums of Calcutta to the funeral ghats of the Holy City of Benares; from the palaces of bewildered maharajas to the baking roads on which millions of refugees sought a new destiny; from the garden in which Gandhi pledged a fast unto death to bring his countrymen back to reason to the bazaars in which his assassins searched for the weapons with which to kill him; from Delhi's jubilant celebrations of independence to the cruel awakening of a divided subcontinent. . . .

Cette Nuit La Liberte

Le grand retour de Lapierre et Collins!
Trois ans après le 11 Septembre, des terroristes cachent une bombe atomique de vingt-cinq kilotonnes au coeur de New York. Si le président américain n'oblige pas les Israéliens à quitter toutes les colonies installées dans les territoires arabes occupés, la ville sera dévastée par une explosion nucléaire... Faut-il céder à ce chantage terroriste ? Des terroristes peuvent-ils se procurer une bombe atomique et l'introduire sur le sol américain? Y a-t-il, pour les forces de l'État le plus puissant de la planète, la moindre chance de la trouver et de la désamorcer? Peut-on évacuer New York? Le compte à rebours commence...Un éblouissant thriller policier, un extraordinaire roman de politique-fiction dont les héros s'appellent George Bush, Ariel Sharon, Oussama Ben Laden, Condoleezza Rice, ou Saddam Hussein..."New York brûle-t-il?", c'est deux ans d'enquête, plus de trois cents personnes interrogées aux États-Unis, en Israël, en Grande-Bretagne, en Inde, dans les centres les plus secrets de la guerre contre le terrorisme; une quantité impressionnante de documents examinés, dont beaucoup ultraconfidentiels - c'est aussi et surtout un suspense à vous couper le souffle.

New York brûle-t-il ?

All'inizio degli anni settanta Dominique Lapierre e Larry Collins attraversano il continente indiano per raccogliere interviste con testimoni, registrare vicende strabilianti, comporre la trama di un potente racconto corale: quello del popolo indiano in cammino verso la propria indipendenza. Dalla nomina di Lord Mountbatten a viceré delle Indie, il 1° gennaio 1947, all'assassinio di Gandhi, il 30 gennaio 1948, Stanotte la libertà ripercorre i tredici mesi che cambiarono per sempre il volto dell'Impero britannico e il destino di quattrocento milioni di indiani. Un viaggio serrato e appassionante tra i segreti di una terra incantevole, le miserie e gli splendori del suo popolo, il coraggio e la fede degli uomini che aprirono la via alla libertà. Su tutti, s'irradia la figura del Mahatma Gandhi, la Grande anima, il profeta dal fascino tuttora inesauribile. Quel viaggio segnerà la vita di Dominique Lapierre, che da allora, preso d'amore per la sua India, vi ritornerà per infiniti viaggi, memorabili incontri, nobili slanci umanitari.

Stanotte la libertà

Trois ans après le 11 Septembre, des terroristes cachent une bombe atomique au cœur de New York. Si le président américain n'oblige pas les Israéliens à quitter toutes les colonies des territoires arabes occupés, Manhattan sera rayée de la carte. Faut-il céder à ce chantage ? Des terroristes peuvent-ils vraiment se procurer une bombe atomique et l'introduire sur le territoire américain ? Y a-t-il, pour les forces de l'Etat le plus puissant de la planète, la moindre chance de la trouver et de la désamorcer ? Peut-on évacuer New York ? Le compte à rebours commence... Deux ans d'enquête, une quantité impressionnante de documents examinés, dont beaucoup ultra-confidentiels ; plus de trois cents personnes interrogées aux Etats-Unis, en Israël, en Grande-Bretagne, en Inde, dans les centres les plus secrets de la guerre contre le terrorisme... New York brûle-t-il ? Un thriller diabolique, un roman d'une force exceptionnelle au cœur de notre temps et de sa folie.

Le best-seller international qui fait revivre, heure par heure, les journées historiques quand Paris, menacé de mort par Hitler, brisait ses chaînes et retrouvait sa liberté.

Paris brûle-t-il ?

This book recounts, moment by moment, the process that gave birth to the state of Israel. Collins & Lapierre weave a tapestry of shattered hopes, valor & fierce pride as the Arabs, Jews & British collide in their fight for control of Jerusalem. O Jerusalem! meticulously recreates this historic struggle. It penetrates the battle from the inside, exploring each party's interests, intentions & concessions as the city of their dreams teeters on the brink of destruction. From the Jewish fighters & their heroic commanders to the Arab chieftain whose death in battle doomed his cause along with the Mufti of Jerusalem's support for Hitler and the extermination of the Jews, but inspired a generation of Palestinians, O Jerusalem! tells the 3-dimensional story of this high-stakes, emotional conflict.

Un arc-en-ciel dans la nuit - Occasion

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