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En 1944, Louis Guilloux assiste en qualité d'interprète, au sein de tribunaux militaires, aux jugements de soldats américains accusés de délits, de meurtres ou de viols. Il constate bien vite que ces derniers sont traités différemment selon leur couleur de peau. En fin observateur, il relate avec bienveillance et humanité les brèves histoires de ces vies croisées.

A gripping inside account of African American soldiers wrongly accused of rape in France after D-Day, with a new introduction by bestselling author Éric Vuillard.“OK, Joe!” the American lieutenant calls out to his driver. He hops into his jeep and heads out through French countryside just liberated from the Nazis. With him is the narrator of this novel, Louis, a Frenchman engaged by the American Army as an interpreter. Louis serves a group of ...

Set during World War I, this monumental philosophical novel about human despair inspired Albert Camus' own writing and prefigured the greater existential movement.Blood Dark tells the story of a brilliant philosopher trapped in a provincial town and of his spiraling descent into self-destruction. Cripure, as his students call him-the name a mocking contraction of Critique of Pure Reason-despises his colleagues, despairs of his charges, and is ...

OK, Joe!" the American lieutenant calls out to his driver. He hops into his jeep and heads out through French countryside just liberated from the Nazis. With him is the narrator of this novel, Louis, a Frenchman engaged by the American Army as an interpreter. Louis serves a group of American officers charged with bringing gist to account for crimes--including rape and murder--against French citizens. The friendly banter of the American soldier...