This stunning historical account of the most stimulating period in 20th Century French history examines an epoch charged with powerful and conflicting emotions. Liberation was greeted with joy but marked by recriminations and the trauma of purges.
Artemis Cooper Knihy
Táto autorka skúma zložité ľudské vzťahy s prenikavou psychologickou hĺbkou. Jej štýl sa vyznačuje bystrým pozorovaním a elegantným, no zároveň prístupným jazykom. Svojimi dielami často reflektuje témy identity, pamäte a hľadania miesta vo svete. Jej próza nabáda čitateľov k zamysleniu sa nad vlastnou skúsenosťou a svetom okolo nich.
The authorized biography shortlisted for Waterstones Book of the Year, the National Book Awards and the Costa Biography Award
This is an account of life, attitudes and events in Cairo during World War II. It describes the historical background of the events of the Desert War, as well as stories and descriptions of personalities gleaned from the Ambassador's diaries and those of her grandparents, Duff and Diana Cooper.
