Historical genre books (728)
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Memoirs of a Wartime Interpreter: From the Battle for Moscow to Hitler's Bunker by Elena Rzhevskaya EN
BelarusDescription:
"By the will of fate I came to play a part in not letting Hitler achieve his final goal of disappearing and turning into a myth I managed to prevent Stalins dark and murky ambition from taking root his desire to hide from the world that we had found Hitlers corpse" - Elena Rzhevskaya"A telling reminder of the jealousy and rivalries that split the Allies even in their hour of victory, and foreshadowed the Cold War"- Tom Parfitt, The GuardianOn May 2,1945, Red Army soldiers broke into Hitlers bunker. Rzhevskaya, a young military interpreter, was with them. Almost accidentally the Soviet military... continue
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Memoriile unui antisemit by Gregor von Rezzori RO
AustriaDescription:
Clasic al literaturii moderne de limbă germană, Gregor von Rezzori a fost distins cu numeroase premii literare, printre care Theodor-Fontane-Preis, Premio Scanno, Premio Boccaccio, Premio Lorenzo il Magnifico.
Dacă volumul Zăpezile de altădată cuprinde cinci portrete de familie, Memoriile unui antisemit adună, sub un titlu autoironic, cinci episoade-cheie din viața autorului. Mergând din copilărie până la bătrânețe, aceste episoade se petrec în Bucovina românească, de după 1918, la București, în anii ’30, la Viena, în perioada premergătoare și... continue
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Mendelssohn is on the Roof by Jiri Weil EN
Country: Europe / 
Czech Republic
Czech Republic
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SS Officer Juliyus Schlesinger is ordered to remove the statue of the Jewish composer Mendelssohn from the roof of the Prague Academy of Music before an official concert. Unsure which of the statues is Mendelssohn, he tells his men to remove the one with the biggest nose. Unfortunately, this is the statue of Wagner.
South Korea325.
Middlemarch by George Eliot EN
EnglandDescription:
This is an analysis of the life of an English provincial town during the time of social unrest prior to the first Reform Bill of 1832. It is told through the lives of Dorothea Brooke and Dr Tertius Lydgate and includes a host of characters who illuminate the condition of English life in the mid 19th century.
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Midnight in Chernobyl : The Untold Story of the World's Greatest Nuclear Disaster by Adam Higginbotham EN
Description:
A New York Times Best Book of the Year A Time Best Book of the Year A Kirkus Reviews Best Nonfiction Book of the Year 2020 Andrew Carnegie Medals for Excellence Finalist One of NPR’s Best Books of 2019 Journalist Adam Higginbotham’s definitive, years-in-the-making account of the Chernobyl nuclear power plant disaster—and a powerful investigation into how propaganda, secrecy, and myth have obscured the true story of one of the twentieth century’s greatest disasters. Early in the morning of April 26, 1986, Reactor Number Four of the Chernobyl Atomic Energy Station exploded, triggering history’s ... continue
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Min fars hode by Elena Botchorichvili NO
GeorgiaDescription:
Frederik skal reise på bryllupsferie til farens hjemland Georgia, og vil der gjerne besøke sin bestefars grav. Faren skriver da et brev til sønnen om sin fortid der, og om Frederiks besteforeldre; taleskriveren og buktaleren. Minner fra ulike tidspunkt blandes sammen i et forsøk på å forstå og forklare hva som skjedde med Frederiks bestefar. Romanen gir oss et innblikk i hvordan det var å leve i Sovjetunionen, og i hvordan det er å leve uten. Forfatteren Jelena Botsjorisjvili er født i Georgia, og jobbet der som journalist i Sovjetunion før hun emigeret til Canada i 1992. Hennes seks romaner b... continue
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Min lengste reise by Oksana Zabuzhko NO
UkraineDescription:
Da Russland invaderte Ukraina 24. februar 2022, hadde forfatter Oksana Zabuzjko akkurat ankommet Polen for å promotere sin nyeste bok. Hun hadde pakket den lille reisevesken, for hun skulle bare være borte fra leilighet og ektemann i Kyiv i et par dager. Da ektemannen ringte for å fortelle hva som hadde skjedd, forandret alt seg. Reisen ble brått til et ufrivillig eksil - og nyhetene fra hjemlandet mer grusomme for hver dag. I «Min lengste reise» forteller Zabuzjko nært og gripende om sin egen opplevelse av invasjonen slik hendelsene utfoldet seg utover våren - men også skarpt analytisk om Rus... continue
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Miracle in the Andes by Nando Parrado EN
Country: South America / 
Uruguay
Uruguay
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In October 1972, Nando Parrado and his rugby club teammates were on a flight from Uruguay to Chile when their plane crashed into a mountain. Miraculously, many of the passengers survived but Nando's mother and sister died and he was unconscious for three days. Stranded more than 11,000 feet up in the wilderness of the Andes, the survivors soon heard that the search for them had been called off - and realise the only food for miles around was the bodies of their dead friends ... In a last desperate bid for safety, Nando and a teammate set off in search of help. They climbed 17,000-foot-high mou... continue
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Misbehaving at the Crossroads by Honorée Fanonne Jeffers EN
Country: North America / 
United States of America
United States of America
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The New York Times-bestselling, National Book Award-nominated author of The Love Songs of W.E.B. Du Bois and The Age of Phillis makes her nonfiction debut with this personal and thought-provoking work that explores the journeys and possibilities of Black women throughout American history and in contemporary times. Honorée Fanonne Jeffers is at a crossroads. Traditional African/Black American cultures present the crossroads as a place of simultaneous difficulty and possibility. In contemporary times, Kimberlé Crenshaw coined the phrase "intersectionality" to explain the unique position of Black... continue