Showing results for "World War II" in Short Stories

Este audiolibro reúne los mejores cuentos del escritor sueco Stig Dagerman. Los veinticinco relatos que componen este audiolibro reflejan los conflictos y angustias que definieron a toda una generación: la que fue testigo del último suspiro de una forma de vida eminentemente agrícola y que vivió los desastres de la II Guerra Mundial.

In 1943, the 20-year-old Polish poet Tadeusz Borowski was arrested and deported to Auschwitz as a political prisoner. What he experienced in the camp left him convinced that no one who survived Auschwitz was innocent.

Андрей Платонович Платонов (настоящая фамилия Климентов; 1899-1951) - выдающийся русский советский писатель: прозаик и публицист, драматург и поэт. В годы Великой Отечественной войны в звании капитана служил военкором газеты "Красная звезда".

Sur un paquebot entre New-York et Buenos-Aires, deux hommes s'affrontent sur un échiquier. D'un côté, Czentovic, champion du monde, à l'esprit apathique et au jeu méthodique ; de l'autre, monsieur B., un dilettante inconnu, aux combinaisons brillantes et subtiles.

Jack and Maggie Harris are adrift on ravaged streets during the London Blitz. Their home is gone. They have nowhere to go and nothing left to lose. With only the memories of their greatest loss - the death of their child during a Christmas years before - Jack and Maggie settle in a seemingly deserted mansion for the night.