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La pétrifiante pandémie a fait des milliers de victimes dans le monde entier. Elle restera gravée dans nos mémoires comme un tournant de l'Histoire. Mais, pendant que le Coronavirus bouleversait la planète, d'autres virus, ceux de la solidarité, de la générosité et de la créativité en ont profité pour se propager simultanément. Pendant cette douloureuse épreuve, d'innombrables gestes de fraternité, d'humanité et de bonté ont réussi à irradier nos cœurs en peine en nous apportant du secours tendre, doux, souriant.

R. D. Hooker, Jr. was a combat soldier and leader in five wars. He then served as a senior Pentagon advisor and as a White House staff member in four different administrations. At the time of his retirement from the military in 2010, he was the most decorated colonel in the US Army. Beginning with his enlistment at eighteen in 1975, this memoir chronicles his experiences in the post-Vietnam Army as a young paratrooper, as a West Point cadet, and as a combatant in the many military conflicts which followed. 

The most eye-opening, and terrifying, story in Chip Reid's career as a journalist was the six weeks he spent with 3d Battalion, 5th Marines, during the invasion of Iraq in 2003, as a correspondent for NBC News. Traveling shoulder-to-shoulder with the young Marines, he had unparalleled access, witnessing them in combat, and interviewing as many as he could persuade his bosses to put on air, allowing them to tell their war stories in their own words.

Le vicende dei profughi salvati dalla nave Diciotti nel racconto di sei articoli di Repubblica: Lontani dal diritto, lontani dall'Europa, di Claudio Tito; Il Colle non darà alibi per sbloccare l'impasse, di Alberto D'argenio e Goffredo De Marchis; Il racconto di Amid: venduto sei volte, di Alessandra Ziniti; Diciotti, la nave della resistenza, di Francesco Merlo; Caso Diciotti, migranti come ostaggi: ecco le norme violate per ordine di Salvini, di Carlo Bonini e Salvo Palazzolo; Diciotti, un Paese trascinato nel ridicolo, di Andrea Bonanni.