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Everyone knows where they were when Ray Houghton outfoxed the Italian goalkeeper in the 1994 World Cup finals. Every television in the country was tuned in to the match, and The Heights Bar in Loughinisland, Co. Down was no exception. But two miles down the road, three men with no interest in Ireland's footballing progress were planning a deadly massacre. Shortly after half-time they burst through the door of the bar and opened fire, spraying bullets indiscriminately. As they fled the scene, six innocent men lay dead or dying.

On 13 November 2015, nine attackers wearing suicide bombs killed 130 people and left hundreds wounded at sites in and around Paris in the deadliest attack on French soil since the Second World War. V13 was the code name for the much-awaited trial of these attacks. In V13, Emmanuel Carrère follows this landmark trial from its first day to its last, taking us behind the scenes to the lawyers, survivors, family members and the defendants. He assembles, in painstaking and subtle detail, a human portrait of the crime – a study of good and evil, and the philosophical journey through the borderlands.

"Sono rimasti inchiodati a lungo nella mia mente, ognuno nella sua vicenda. Pezzi di storia che ci siamo voluti lasciare alle spalle per illuderci che si possa fare finta di niente. Poi un giorno, un giorno di ottobre, in cui il corso delle cose si è spezzato, me li sono trovati di fronte. Tutti in fila." Il 7 ottobre 2023 è un doloroso risveglio per l’Occidente. La ferocia dell’attacco di Hamas a Israele riporta in primo piano, nelle agende del mondo, la causa palestinese e i suoi spettri. Li avevamo rimossi e loro sono tornati.

On the morning of October 7, 2023, Israelis awoke to a harrowing reality. Not only were hundreds of rockets being launched from Gaza into Israeli population centers, but the security border had also been breached by several thousand Hamas terrorists. Carnage, not seen since the Second World War, ensued. Elkana Cohen, Captain of an Elite Commando Unit was called, along with thousands of other reservists, to prepare for war. One that will have to ensure nothing less than Israel's survival.