Historical books from United States of America
Recommended historical books (114)
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Cuentos de la Alhambra by Washington Irving ES
Country: North America / United States of America
United States of America
Description:
Tras su llegada a España, Washington Irving inicia un recorrido por tierras andaluzas. Durante su visita a Granada queda extasiado por la majestuosidad de la Alhambra en cuyas habitaciones tiene la fortuna de alojarse. Allí conoce a varios personajes que le acompañarán durante su estancia en tierras granadinas. De las conversaciones con estos y de las historias que escucha a su fiel criado y guía Mateo Jiménez, transcribirá leyendas y tradiciones transmitidas de padres a hijos durante generaciones. De esta forma, con sus Cuentos de la Alhambra, ... continue
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Dancing in the Glory of Monsters : The Collapse of the Congo and the Great War of Africa by Jason Stearns EN
Country: North America / United States of America
United States of America
Description:
At the heart of Africa is Congo, a country the size of Western Europe, bordering nine other nations, that since 1996 has been wracked by a brutal and unstaunchable war in which millions have died. And yet, despite its epic proportions, it has received little sustained media attention. In this deeply reported book, Jason Stearns vividly tells the story of this misunderstood conflict through the experiences of those who engineered and perpetrated it. He depicts village pastors who survived massacres, the child soldier assassin of President Kabila, a female Hutu activist who relives the hunting a... continue
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De Kaart van Zout en Sterren by Zeyn Joukhadar NL
Country: North America / United States of America
United States of America
Description:
Betoverend boek voor fans van ‘De zoon van de verhalenverteller’. Hartverscheurend verhaal van een hedendaags Syrisch meisje en een middeleeuwse avonturier, beide verhalen zijn sterk en meeslepend. ‘De kaart van zout en sterren’ van Jennifer Zeynab Joukhadar is een betoverend boek voor liefhebbers van ‘De zoon van de verhalenverteller’. Jennifer Zeynab Joukhadar vertelt het hartverscheurende verhaal van een hedendaags Syrisch meisje en een middeleeuwse avonturier, en beide verhaallijnen zijn even sterk en meeslepend. Wanneer Nours vader overlijdt, besluit haar moeder met haar drie dochters ter... continue
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Deep Down Dark : The Untold Stories of 33 Men Buried in a Chilean Mine, and the Miracle That Set Them Free by Héctor Tobar EN
Country: North America / United States of America
United States of America
Description:
Deep Down Dark is the novel that inspired the film The 33 starring Lou Diamond Phillips, Cote de Pablo and Antonio Banderas. When the San José mine collapsed outside of Copiapó, Chile, in August 2010, it trapped thirty-three miners beneath thousands of feet of rock for a record-breaking sixty-nine days. After the disaster, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Héctor Tobar received exclusive access to the miners and their tales, and in Deep Down Dark, he brings them to haunting, visceral life. We learn what it was like to be imprisoned inside a mountain, understand the horror of being slowly consu... continue
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El ejército y la política en la Argentina II, 1962-1973 : de la caída de Frondizi a la restauración peronista by Robert A. Potash ES
Country: North America / United States of America
United States of America
Description:
– Análisis minucioso del papel de los militares en la vida política argentina. Desde los últimos años del gobierno radical, y sobre todo desde 1928 hasta 1945, año de llegada de Perón al poder.
- Análisis de la evolución del Ejército como institución, la relación con los distintos gobiernos, su influencia en la vida política.
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El Salvador in the Aftermath of Peace : Crime, Uncertainty, and the Transition to Democracy by Ellen Moodie EN
Country: North America / United States of America
United States of America
Description:
El Salvador's civil war, which left at least 75,000 people dead and displaced more than a million, ended in 1992. The accord between the government and the Farabundo Martí National Liberation Front (FMLN) has been lauded as a model post-Cold War peace agreement. But after the conflict stopped, crime rates shot up. The number of murder victims surpassed wartime death tolls. Those who once feared the police and the state became frustrated by their lack of action. Peace was not what Salvadorans had hoped it would be. Citizens began saying to each other, "It's worse than the war." El Salvador in t... continue
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Everything Is Tuberculosis: The History and Persistence of Our Deadliest Infection by John Green EN
Country: North America / United States of America
United States of America
Description:
John Green, the #1 bestselling author of The Anthropocene Reviewed and a passionate advocate for global healthcare reform, tells a deeply human story illuminating the fight against the world’s deadliest infectious disease. Tuberculosis has been entwined with humanity for millennia. Once romanticized as a malady of poets, today tuberculosis is seen as a disease of poverty that walks the trails of injustice and inequity we blazed for it. In 2019, author John Green met Henry Reider, a young tuberculosis patient at Lakka Government Hospital in Sierra Leone. John became fast friends with Henry, a... continue
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Fever Year: The Killer Flu of 1918 by Don Brown EN
Country: North America / United States of America
United States of America
Description:
In graphic novel format looks at the 1918 worldwide flu epidemic.