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Author : Jean-Pierre Alaux,Noël Balen
Publisher : Le French Book (NY)
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2014-05-29
Category : Bordeaux (Nouvelle-Aquitaine, France)
ISBN : 1939474264
Winemaker Banjamin Cooker sets out to discover if a grand cru wine estate has fallen into disrepair from negligence or sabotage.
Author : Gordon Daviot
Publisher : Alien Ebooks
Page : 151 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2024-01-19
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9781667630960
Gordon Daviot's 'Richard of Bordeaux' was a sensation when it was first produced in 1932. It ran for over a year in London and catapulted its star and producer, John Gielgud, into super-stardom. Audiences loved it for its accessible language, dramatic scenes and the sensitivity with which it dealt with Richard II's relationship with his Queen, Anne of Bohemia.
Author : Donald Kladstrup,Petie Kladstrup
Publisher : Crown
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2002-06-18
Category : History
ISBN : 9780767913256
The remarkable untold story of France’s courageous, clever vinters who protected and rescued the country’s most treasured commodity from German plunder during World War II. "To be a Frenchman means to fight for your country and its wine." –Claude Terrail, owner, Restaurant La Tour d’Argent In 1940, France fell to the Nazis and almost immediately the German army began a campaign of pillaging one of the assets the French hold most dear: their wine. Like others in the French Resistance, winemakers mobilized to oppose their occupiers, but the tale of their extraordinary efforts has remained largely unknown–until now. This is the thrilling and harrowing story of the French wine producers who undertook ingenious, daring measures to save their cherished crops and bottles as the Germans closed in on them. Wine and War illuminates a compelling, little-known chapter of history, and stands as a tribute to extraordinary individuals who waged a battle that, in a very real way, saved the spirit of France.
Author : Isabelle Saporta
Publisher : Open Road + Grove/Atlantic
Page : 175 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2015-11-10
Category : Cooking
ISBN : 9780802190888
“This sharp critique of French winemakers, and Bordeaux’s Saint Emilion region in particular, caused quite a stir when it was published in France in 2014” (Publishers Weekly). Already provoking debate and garnering significant attention across France and within the wine world, Vino Business is a “truly eye-opening exposé” of the dark side of French wine by acclaimed investigative journalist Isabelle Saporta (Booklist). In recent decades, Bordeaux has come under the influence of large-scale international investors. Unafraid to name names, Saporta sheds a harsh light on how this influence has corrupted the region’s centuries-old traditions of winemaking excellence. She uncovers how the classification system was manipulated in 2012 to ensure that the wines of Saint-Émilion—Bordeaux’s most prestigious appellation—were certified premier grand cru classé A. Giving extra points to a chateaux for the size of its parking lot, the quality of the wine itself counts for only thirty percent of that coveted rank. In other chapters, Saporta investigates issues of wine labeling and pesticides, and draws comparisons to Champagne, Burgundy, and the rest of the wine world. “This fast-paced, provocative read” is a cri de coeur for the lost values of traditional winemaking (Dave DeSimone, Pittsburgh Tribune Review).
Author : David Nicolson
Publisher : Pen and Sword
Page : 238 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 1994-07-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781473811881
This is the story of Roger Landes - "Aristide" of F Section, Special Operations Executive - who was born in Paris of British parents and came to London in 1938, to work in the LCC's Architects Department. After being trained as a wireless operator in the Royal Signals, he was recruited into SOE, where he trained with figures such as Claude de Baissac and Harry Pueleve. Although jinxed in his attempts to parachute into France, including being "shot down" by an owl, he eventually became wireless operator in Bordeaux for the "Scientist" circuit. Just as he took over command of the circuit, he was betrayed and forced to flee, and later returned to find only one contact alive and in place. By D-Day he commanded over 5000 armed, trained resisters who disrupted transport in the region by destroying 438 locomotives and numerous power-lines. By the Liberation, he commanded more than 7000 men and had organized the peaceful transition to French government in South-West France. Ordered out of the country by de Gaulle, Landes had a spell in hospital before being parachuted into Malaya to train the population to resist the Japanese, and was there at the surrender in August 1945. Following de Gaulle's resignation he was highly decorated by the French Government, and in 1992 was made an Officer of the Legion d'Honneur. He also holds the MC and Bar, and the Croix de Guerre.
Author : Voltaire
Publisher : Hyweb Technology Co. Ltd.
Page : 690 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2011-04-15
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 8210379456XXX
Author : Paddy Ashdown
Publisher : William Collins
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2017-05-22
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0008140847
A riveting three-way spy story set in occupied France. 'Game of Spies' tells the story of a lethal spy triangle between 1942 and 1944 in Bordeaux - and of France's greatest betrayal by aristocratic and right-wing Resistance leader Andre Grandclement. The story centres on three men: one British, one French and one German and the duel they fought out in an atmosphere of collaboration, betrayal and assassination, in which comrades sold fellow comrades, Allied agents and downed pilots to the Germans, as casually as they would a bottle of wine. It is a story of SOE, treachery, bed-hopping and executions in the city labelled 'la plus collaboratrice' in the whole of France.
Author : Oliver J. Thatcher,Edgar Holmes McNeal
Publisher : Good Press
Page : 512 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2019-11-22
Category : History
ISBN : EAN:4057664635907
A Source Book for Mediæval History is a scholarly piece by Oliver J. Thatcher. It covers all major historical events and leaders from the Germania of Tacitus in the 1st century to the decrees of the Hanseatic League in the 13th century.
Author : David Nicolle
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 98 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2012-02-20
Category : History
ISBN : 9781849086172
Despite the great English victories at Crécy, Poitiers and Agincourt, the French eventually triumphed in the Hundred Years War. This book examines the last campaign of the war, covering the great battles at Formigny in 1450 and Castillon in 1453, both of which hold an interesting place in military history. The battle of Fornigny saw French cavalry defeat English archers in a reverse of those earlier English victories, while Castillon became the first great success for gunpowder artillery in fixed positions. Finally, the book explains how the seemingly unmartial King Charles VII of France all but drove the English into the sea, succeeding where so many of his predecessors had failed.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 666 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 1869
Category : Electronic
ISBN : ONB:+Z229330909
Author : Thomas Duffus Hardy
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 694 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 1869
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BSB:BSB10280052
Author : Thomas Duffus Hardy
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 694 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 1869
Category : Great Britain
ISBN : KBNL:KBNL03000014693
Author : Great Britain. Public Record Office,Sir Thomas Duffus Hardy
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 698 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 1869
Category : Archives
ISBN : WISC:89102956877
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 662 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 1869
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UOM:39015013517241
Author : C.L.R. James
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 465 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2023-08-22
Category : History
ISBN : 9780593687338
A powerful and impassioned historical account of the largest successful revolt by enslaved people in history: the Haitian Revolution of 1791–1803 “One of the seminal texts about the history of slavery and abolition.... Provocative and empowering.” —The New York Times Book Review The Black Jacobins, by Trinidadian historian C. L. R. James, was the first major analysis of the uprising that began in the wake of the storming of the Bastille in France and became the model for liberation movements from Africa to Cuba. It is the story of the French colony of San Domingo, a place where the brutality of plantation owners toward enslaved people was horrifyingly severe. And it is the story of a charismatic and barely literate enslaved person named Toussaint L’Ouverture, who successfully led the Black people of San Domingo against successive invasions by overwhelming French, Spanish, and English forces—and in the process helped form the first independent post-colonial nation in the Caribbean. With a new introduction (2023) by Professor David Scott.
