- Army of Shadows - Joseph Kessel - Books

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  • Poignant and Essential  

    Army of Shadows (Paperback)
    This is a story of real events, although disguised, that took place in the heart of the Resistance during the Second World War. As in all the books, there is here the substance and form. The background is fascinating, disturbing, touching, often hard
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  • Sparkling men  

    Army of Shadows (Paperback)
    RESISTANCE: Action to resist; variable capacity to resist, to cancel or reduce the effect of a force, a sustained action. This object is not a book, it's a literary black hole. Not very thick, not very big but of incredible density. Gradually we are
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  • Praise of Resistance  

    Army of Shadows (Paperback)
    Joseph Kessel wrote the most painful book of his writing career. Resistant himself, he suffered his own suffering and shared the other: but how is he asks in the preface? Humility governs the narrative of great sobriety, so deep, the flayed emotion.
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  • An exceptional work of a former resistance  

    Army of Shadows (Paperback)
    This beautiful book traces the dark years of France under German occupation, or men chose resistance, this freedom in the shadow of a slave life, keep eyes filled with personal thoughts to universal thoughts, empty ... Joseph Kessel tells with great
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