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" Les treize récits rassemblés dans La couleur de la guerre nous livrent une vision sans fard de la guerre en Tchétchénie. Les atrocités commises entre ennemis mais surtout le délabrement absolu de l'armée russe sont au centre de l'écriture d'Arkadi Babtchenko. Avec force et sobriété, il évoque les violences entre "camarades", l'alcoolisme, la faim, la saleté et, surtout, la corruption. Car tout le monde vend ce qui est vendable - y compris des armes et des munitions - à l'ennemi tchétchène, pour se procurer de la nourriture ou de l'alcool. L'armée russe rassemble des épaves humaines pataugeant dans la boue, couverts d'excréments et de poux, sans solidarité entre des individus qui ne savent plus pourquoi ils se battent. Les récits du jeune soldat Artiome, alter ego de l'auteur, sont à cet égard d'une noirceur absolue et soulignent en même temps l'étrange fascination qu'exercent les hommes cette descente aux enfers. Grâce à son talent littéraire, Arkadi Babtchenko nous offre bien plus qu'un témoignage : La couleur de la guerre est un tableau saisissant du désespoir et de la déshumanisation, un livre indispensable sur la condition humaine."

Tchétchénie (Russie) --- Récits personnels russes. --- Chechni︠a︡ (Russia) --- History

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"While we now have a great number of testimonials to the horrors of the Holocaust from survivors of that dark episode of twentieth-century history, rare are the accounts of what growing up in Nazi Germany was like for people who were reared to think of Adolf Hitler as the savior of his country, and rarer still are accounts written from a female perspective. Ursula Mahlendorf, born to a middle-class family in 1929, at the start of the Great Depression, was the daughter of a man who was a member of the SS at the time of his early death in 1935. For a long while during her childhood she was a true believer in Nazism and a leader in the Hitler Youth herself." "This is her vivid and unflinchingly honest account of her indoctrination into Nazism and of her gradual awakening to all the damage that Nazism had done to her country. It reveals why Nazism initially appealed to people from her station in life and how Nazi ideology was inculcated into young people. The book recounts the increasing hardships of life under Nazism as the war progressed and the chaos and turmoil that followed Germany's defeat." "In the first part of this absorbing narrative, we see the young Ursula as she becomes an enthusiastic member of the Hitler Youth and then goes on to a Nazi teacher-training school at fifteen. In the second part, which traces her growing disillusionment with and anger at the Nazi leadership, we follow her story as she flees from the Russian army's advance in the spring of 1945, works for a time in a hospital caring for the wounded, returns to Silesia when it is under Polish administration, and finally is evacuated to the West, where she begins a new life and pursues her dream of becoming a teacher." "In a moving Epilogue, Mahlendorf discloses the long trail she followed in learning how to accept and cope emotionally with the shame that haunted her from her childhood allegiance to Nazism and the self-doubts it generated. Writing from a psychoanalytically informed feminist perspective that is sensitive to issues of race, ethnicity, gender, and social class, she hopes that her story can help educate young people about the dangers of extreme ideologies so that a phenomenon like Nazism can he seen for what it is and avoided in the future."--BOOK JACKET.

World War, 1939-1945 --- 2ème guerre mondiale --- Personal narratives, German. --- Récits personnels allemands --- Mahlendorf, Ursula R.

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Retour sur une période sombre pour la Belgique, les années 1980, marquée par des crimes d'une violence extrême. Dans ce contexte, les noms de Robert Beijer et de son collègue, Madani Bouhouche, furent fréquemment cités. Soucieux de faire la part des choses, Robert Beijer raconte sa carrière controversée de gendarme puis ses années de cavale, suite parfois à des crimes commandités par l'Etat.

Affaire des tueurs du Brabant wallon (1982-1985) --- Bende van Nijvel (1982-1985) --- Brabant killers (1982-1985) --- Brabant wallon, Tueurs du (1982-1985) --- Nijvel [Bende van] (1982-1985) --- Nivelles gang --- Tueries du Brabant (1982-1985) --- Tueries du Brabant, Affaire des (1982-1985) --- Tueurs du Brabant wallon, Affaire des (1982-1985) --- Crimes et criminels Belgique 1945-.... Récits personnels --- Crimes et criminels Lutte contre Belgique 1945-.... Récits personnels --- Crimes et délits politiques Belgique 1945-.... Récits personnels --- policier --- Constables --- Belgium --- Anecdotes --- Police --- Personal narratives [Belgian ]

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Iraq War, 2003-2011 --- Iraq War, 2003-2011 --- Guerre en Irak, 2003-2011 --- Guerre en Irak, 2003-2011 --- Personal narratives, American --- Campaigns --- Récits personnels américains --- Campagnes et batailles

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Jews --- Sonderkommandos --- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) --- Gas chambers --- Juifs --- Kommandos spéciaux --- Holocauste, 1939-1945 --- Chambre à gaz (Exécution capitale) --- Biography --- Biography. --- Biographies --- Biographies --- Récits personnels --- Venezia, Shlomo, --- Interviews. --- Birkenau (Concentration camp) --- Auschwitz (Concentration camp)