Rosemary Sullivan

THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER 'Hums with living history, human warmth and indignation' New York Times Less a mystery unsolved than a secret well kept The mystery has haunted generations since the Second World War: Who betrayed Anne Frank and her family? And why? Now, thanks to radical new technology and the obsession of a retired FBI agent, this book offers an answer. Rosemary Sullivan unfolds the story in a gripping, moving narrative. Over thirty million people have read The Diary of a Young Girl, the journal teenaged Anne Frank kept while living in an attic with her family and four other people in Amsterdam during World War II, until the Nazis arrested them and sent them to a concentration camp.

Quem traiu Anne Frank? A investigação que revela o segredo jamais contado é a história cativante desta missão. Rosemary Sullivan apresenta-nos os investigadores, explica o comportamento tanto dos cat

Un apasionante episodio de la II Guerra Mundial: el rescate de miles de artistas e intelectuales atrapados en la Francia colaboracionista de Vichy.El editor norteamericano Varian Fry llega a París en 1940 con la mision de salvar a la elite intelectual y artistica de Europa. La caida de Francia y la instauracion de un gobierno colaboracionista han dejado a muchos en una situacion critica, sobre todo a aquellos que estaban en las listas negras de los nazis. Desde Villa Air-Bel, una casa a las afueras de Marsella, y con el unico apoyo ocasional de Eleanor Roosevelt y unos cuantos amigos en Nueva York, Fry se convierte en el salvador de personajes tan relevantes como Andre Breton, Marcel Duchamp o Peggy Guggenheim.

«Sabíamos que no iba a ser fácil. El caso teníamás de setenta y cinco años. El delator y la mayoría delos testigos inmediatos habían muerto, probablemente.Y la cuestión no era tanto el quién, sino el

Lenquete qui leve le voile sur larrestation dAnne FrankPlus de trente millions de personnes ont lu le Journal dAnne Frank, cette jeune fille de treize ans qui se cacha avec sa famille a Amsterdam durant la Seconde guerre mondiale avant detre denoncee et deportee dans les camps de la mort.Les hypotheses sur lidentite de linformateur ou de linformatrice qui revela sa cachette aux SS ont ete aussi nombreuses que peu concluantes y compris celles emises par les deux enquetes policieres consacrees a laffaire, en 1947 puis en 1963. Soixante-dix ans apres les faits, une equipe internationale sest donne pour mission de decouvrir la verite. Scientifiques, historiens, policiers ont reconstitue, minute par minute, les semaines precedant larrestation des Frank, a laide de milliers de pages darchives, de lintelligence artificielle, de tests ADN et dinterviews de temoins directs ou indirects. Dune trentaine de scenarios possibles, ils nen retiendront finalement quun seul, sans precedent.Au-dela de la restitution dun travail analytique et historique titanesque, Rosemary Sullivan brosse le portrait saisissant dun Amsterdam au cur de lOccupation.Traduit de langlais (Canada) par Samuel Todd et Carole Delporte. Rosemary Sullivan est lautrice dune quinzaine douvrages, dont La fille de Staline, traduit en vingt-trois langues, qui a remporte le prestigieux prix Plutarque de la meilleure biographie en 2016 et La villa Air-Bel, recompense par la Societe canadienne Yad Vashem pour lHistoire de lHolocauste.

International award-winning and best-selling author, Canadian cultural icon, feminist role model, "man-hater," wife, mother, private citizen and household name -- who is Margaret Atwood? Rosemary Sullivan, award-winning literary biographer, has penned The Red Shoes: Margaret Atwood Starting Out, the first portrait of Canadas most famous novelist, focusing on her childhood and formative years as a writer and the generation she grew up in.When Margaret Atwood was a little girl in 1949, she saw a movie called The Red Shoes. It is the story of a beautiful young woman who becomes a famous ballerina, but commits suicide when she cannot satisfy one man, who wants her to devote her entire life to her art, and another who loves her, but subjugates her to become his muse and inspiration. She struggles to choose art, but the choice eventually destroys her.Margaret Atwood remembers being devastated by this movie but unlike many young girls of her time, she escaped its underlying message. Always sustained by a strong sense of self, Atwood would achieve a meteoric literary career. Yet a nurturing sense of self-confidence is just one fascinating side of our most famous literary figure, as examined in Rosemary Sullivans latest biography. The Red Shoes is not a simple biography but a portrait of a complex, intriguing woman and her generation.The seventies in Canada was the decade of fierce nationalist debate, a period during which Canadas social imagination was creating a new tradition. Suddenly everyone, from Robertson Davies to Margaret Laurence was talking, and writing, about a Canadian cultural identity. Margaret Atwood was no exception.For despite her tremendous success that transcends the literary community, catapulting into the realm of a "household name," Margaret Atwood has remained very much a private person with a public persona.Rosemary Sullivan reveals the discrepancy between Atwoods cool, acerbic, public image and the down-to-earth, straight-dealing and generous woman who actually writes the books. Throughout, she weaves the issues of female creativity, authority and autonomy set against the backdrop of a generation of women coming of age during one of the most radically shifting times in contemporary history.

Winner of the Hilary Weston Writers Trust Prize for Non-FictionA New York Times Notable Book of 2015 A painstakingly researched, revelatory biography of Svetlana Stalin, a woman fated to live her life in the shadow of one of historys most monstrous dictators her father, Josef Stalin. Born in the early years of the Soviet Union, Svetlana Stalin spent her youth inside the walls of the Kremlin. Communist Party privilege protected her from the mass starvation and purges that haunted Russia, but she did not escape tragedy the loss of everyone she loved, including her mother, two brothers, aunts and uncles, and a lover twice her age, deliberately exiled to Siberia by her father. As she gradually learned about the extent of her fathers brutality after his death, Svetlana could no longer keep quiet and in 1967 shocked the world by defecting to the United States leaving her two children behind. But although she was never a part of her fathers regime, she could not escape his legacy. Her life in America was fractured; she moved frequently, married disastrously, shunned other Russian exiles, and ultimately died in poverty in Spring Green, Wisconsin. With access to KGB, CIA, and Soviet government archives, as well as the close cooperation of Svetlanas daughter, Rosemary Sullivan pieces together Svetlanas incredible life in a masterful account of unprecedented intimacy. Epic in scope, its a revolutionary biography of a woman doomed to be a political prisoner of her fathers name. Sullivan explores a complicated character in her broader context without ever losing sight of her powerfully human story, in the process opening a closed, brutal world that continues to fascinate us.

THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER Hums with living history, human warmth and indignation New York Times Less a mystery unsolved than a secret well kept The mystery has haunted generations since the Second World War: Who betrayed Anne Frank and her family? And why?Now, thanks to radical new technology and the obsession of a retired FBI agent, this book offers an answer. Rosemary Sullivan unfolds the story in a gripping, moving narrative. Over thirty million people have read The Diary of a Young Girl, the journal teenaged Anne Frank kept while living in an attic with her family and four other people in Amsterdam during World War II, until the Nazis arrested them and sent them to a concentration camp. But despite the many works journalism, books, plays and novels devoted to Annes story, none has ever conclusively explained how these eight people managed to live in hiding undetected for over two years and who or what finally brought the Nazis to their door. With painstaking care, retired FBI agent Vincent Pankoke and a team of indefatigable investigators pored over tens of thousands of pages of documents some never before seen and interviewed scores of descendants of people familiar with the Franks. Utilising methods developed by the FBI, the Cold Case Team painstakingly pieced together the months leading to the infamous arrest and came to a shocking conclusion. The Betrayal of Anne Frank: A Cold Case Investigation is the riveting story of their mission. Rosemary Sullivan introduces us to the investigators, explains the behaviour of both the captives and their captors and profiles a group of suspects. All the while, she vividly brings to life wartime Amsterdam: a place where no matter how wealthy, educated, or careful you were, you never knew whom you could trust.

A New York Times BestsellerLess a mystery unsolved than a secret well kept...Using new technology, recently discovered documents and sophisticated investigative techniques, an international teamled by an obsessed retired FBI agenthas finally solved the historical mystery that has haunted generations since World War II: Who betrayed Anne Frank and her family? And why?Over thirty million people have read The Diary of a Young Girl, the journal teen-aged Anne Frank kept while living in an attic with her family and four other people in Amsterdam during World War II, until the Nazis arrested them and sent them to a concentration camp. But despite the many worksjournalism, books, plays and novelsdevoted to Annes story, none has ever conclusively explained how these eight people managed to live in hiding undetected for over two yearsand who or what finally brought the Nazis to their door.With painstaking care, retired FBI agent Vincent Pankoke and a team of indefatigable investigators pored over tens of thousands of pages of documentssome never before seenand interviewed scores of descendants of people familiar with the Franks. Utilizing methods developed by the FBI, the Cold Case Team painstakingly pieced together the months leading to the infamous arrestand came to a shocking conclusion. The Betrayal of Anne Frank: A Cold Case Investigation is the riveting story of their mission. Rosemary Sullivan introduces us to the investigators, explains the behavior of both the captives and their captors and profiles a group of suspects. All the while, she vividly brings to life wartime Amsterdam: a place where no matter how wealthy, educated, or careful you were, you never knew whom you could trust. This riveting work of investigative journalism finally provides answers.A Groundbreaking Investigation: See how a dedicated cold case team, led by a retired FBI agent, applied modern techniques to a decades-old historical mystery, analyzing thousands of documents to uncover the truth. Life in Hiding: Go inside the secret annex to understand the day-to-day reality for the eight people hidden away, and the constant threat they faced in wartime Amsterdam. A Shocking Conclusion: Follow the trail of evidence that profiles a group of suspects and leads to a definitive, carefully reasoned conclusion about the betrayal. The Human Element: Meet the investigators, captives, and captors through meticulous research that explains their motivations and behaviors during a time of unimaginable pressure.

Con acceso a los archivos del KGB, la CIA, y de los distintos gobiernos soviéticos, Rosemary Sullivan recompone las piezas de la increíble vida de Svetlana Alliluyeva, la hija mayor de Stalin, en una magistral biografia.Nacida durante los primeros años de la Union Sovietica, Svetlana crecio dentro de los muros del Kremlin. Los altos cargos del Partido Comunista la protegieron del exterior ocultandole la hambruna y las purgas que arrasaban su pais. Tras la muerte de su padre, y a medida que iba descubriendo la magnitud de la crueldad del regimen, Svetlana rompio su silencio y en 1967 conmociono al mundo huyendo a Estados Unidos.Profunda y ambiciosa, esta biografia pinta el insolito retrato de una mujer atormentada, utilizada como un peon en la Guerra Fria y, que a pesar de sus repetidos intentos por desvincularse del pasado, se vio siempre atrapada por la alargada sombra de su padre. Sullivan logra explorar un personaje complejo en un aun mas complejo contexto sin nunca perder de vista la poderosa historia humana, y reabriendo a lo largo del proceso, las puertas cerradas de la brutal Historia del corto siglo XX que tanto nos fascina.

Con acceso a los archivos del KGB, la CIA, y de los distintos gobiernos soviéticos, Rosemary Sullivan recompone las piezas de la increíble vida de Svetlana Alliluyeva, la hija mayor de Stalin, en una magistral biografia. Nacida durante los primeros años de la Union Sovietica, Svetlana crecio dentro de los muros del Kremlin. Los altos cargos del Partido Comunista la protegieron del exterior ocultandole la hambruna y las purgas que arrasaban su pais. Tras la muerte de su padre, y a medida que iba descubriendo la magnitud de la crueldad del regimen, Svetlana rompio su silencio y en 1967 conmociono al mundo huyendo a Estados Unidos. Profunda y ambiciosa, esta biografia pinta el insolito retrato de una mujer atormentada, utilizada como un peon en la Guerra Fria y, que a pesar de sus repetidos intentos por desvincularse del pasado, se vio siempre atrapada por la alargada sombra de su padre. Sullivan logra explorar un personaje complejo en un aun mas complejo contexto sin nunca perder de vista la poderosa historia humana, y reabriendo a lo largo del proceso, las puertas cerradas de la brutal Historia del corto siglo XX que tanto nos fascina.

Con acceso a los archivos del KGB, la CIA, y de los distintos gobiernos soviéticos, Rosemary Sullivan recompone las piezas de la increíble vida de Svetlana Alliluyeva, la hija mayor de Stalin, en una magistral biografia.Nacida durante los primeros años de la Union Sovietica, Svetlana crecio dentro de los muros del Kremlin. Los altos cargos del Partido Comunista la protegieron del exterior ocultandole la hambruna y las purgas que arrasaban su pais. Tras la muerte de su padre, y a medida que iba descubriendo la magnitud de la crueldad del regimen, Svetlana rompio su silencio y en 1967 conmociono al mundo huyendo a Estados Unidos.Profunda y ambiciosa, esta biografia pinta el insolito retrato de una mujer atormentada, utilizada como un peon en la Guerra Fria y, que a pesar de sus repetidos intentos por desvincularse del pasado, se vio siempre atrapada por la alargada sombra de su padre. Sullivan logra explorar un personaje complejo en un aun mas complejo contexto sin nunca perder de vista la poderosa historia humana, y reabriendo a lo largo del proceso, las puertas cerradas de la brutal Historia del corto siglo XX que tanto nos fascina.

«Sabíamos que no iba a ser fácil. El caso teníamás de setenta y cinco años. El delator y la mayoría delos testigos inmediatos habían muerto, probablemente.Y la cuestión no era tanto el quién, sino el

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