Hugh Sebag-Montefiore aborde l'histoire avec l'œil perspicace d'un journaliste et la précision d'un avocat. Son œuvre explore des moments cruciaux des entreprises militaires britanniques, révélant non seulement les manœuvres stratégiques, mais aussi les histoires humaines en leur cœur. Sebag-Montefiore possède une capacité unique à relier de grands événements historiques à des liens familiaux personnels, conférant à ses récits une profonde résonance. Son style est à la fois informatif et captivant, offrant aux lecteurs de nouvelles perspectives sur des batailles historiques importantes et leur impact durable.
In Who Am I? A Book of Riddles author Charlotte Sebag-Montefiore has produced a delightful child's bestiary in verse form. Designed to be read aloud, there are thirty-five poems of five verses each, in which different characters of land, sea and air are depicted, by turns humorous and quirky. In a sixth verse, which is refrain, the young listener is invited to guess the identity of each.
Orphaned Pip lives a humble life with his sister and her husband, until a fateful encounter on the marsh causes his life to change irrevocably. Will his great expectations be fulfilled, or can this new life only lead to disaster? Specially rewritten as part of the Usborne Young Reading Programme, aimed at children growing in reading confidence.
The classic story by Charles Dickens retold as part of the Usborne Young Reading Programme for children ready to tackle longer and more complex stories. Set during the French Revolution, the lives of Charles Darnay and his family are changed forever as the drama unfolds.
Fight to the Last Man
Sebag-Montefiore has created a bold and powerful account of the small group of men who fended off the German army so that hundreds of thousands of their comrades could exit this doomed land.
A re-telling of the beloved Louisa May-Alcott story for younger children. The inspirational story follows the fortunes of the March sisters as they struggle through the American Civil War and learn the importance of love, family and following their dreams. Usborne Young Reading Series 3 is for confident readers.
Lorsqu'en 1850 il publie David Copperfield Charles Dickens offre à ses lecteurs le premier roman qu'il ait écrit à la première personne, et derrière l'histoire de son jeune héros, c'est aussi parfois la sienne qu'on peut lire. Mais ce que dessinent surtout les douloureuses premières années, le dur apprentissage de la vie dans une fabrique, puis la fuite et l'errance picaresque du jeune Copperfield, c'est un roman de formation où le personnage se fait son propre biographe. Il arrive alors qu'on ne sache pas si le réel évoqué est celui que l'enfant vécut au présent ou celui que l'adulte revisite au passé. Car, d'épreuve en épreuve, c'est une nouvelle image de soi que le narrateur peu à peu reconstruit, avant de devenir lui-même à la fin du livre un écrivain semblable à celui qui, dès le début, a pris la plume pour raconter sa vie - et nous offrir ce qui est encore aujourd'hui le plus grand roman anglais du XIXe siècle. Cette édition du texte intégral, dans la traduction établie sous la direction de P. Lorain et revue par Laurent Bury et Jean-Pierre Naugrette, comprend également : une préface de Jean-Pierre Naugrette, des notes de Laurent Bury, une chronologie, une bibliographie.
Suitable for children whose reading ability and confidence allows them to tackle longer and complex stories, this title tells the doomed love story of Cathy and Heathcliffe as seen through the eyes of a neighbor, Mr Lockwood, and the old nurse, Nelly Dean.
The classic story of Amy Dorrit, who lives much of her life at the Marshalsea prison where her father is imprisoned for debt, earning meager wages at jobs outside the prison walls, including seamstress work for Mrs. Clennam, whose son Arthur takes an interest in her plight.
An extraordinary and fresh account of the most famous battle in World War One. No conflict better encapsulates all that went wrong on the Western Front than the Battle of the Somme in 1916. The tragic loss of life and stoic endurance by troops who walked towards their death is an iconic image which will be hard to ignore during the centennial year. Despite this, this book shows the extent to which the Allied armies were in fact able repeatedly to break through the German front lines. By focusing on the first-hand experiences of both Allied and enemy soldiers, the author weaves a remarkable portrait of life at the Front.
Breaking the German Enigma codes was not only about brilliant mathematicians and professors at Bletchley Park. There is another aspect of the story which it is only now possible to tell. It takes in the exploits of spies, naval officers and ordinary British seamen who risked, and in some cases lost their lives snatching the vital Enigma codebooks from under the noses of Nazi officials and from sinking German ships and submarines. This book will tell the whole Enigma story: the original invention and use by German forces and how it was the Poles who first cracked, and passed on to the British - the key to the German airforce Enigma. The more complicated German Navy Enigma appeared to them to be unbreakable.
