Historical genre books (728)


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Our Holocaust by Amir Gutfreund EN

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Country: Asia / Israel flag Israel
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Amir and Effi collected relatives. With Holocaust survivors for parents and few other "real" relatives alive, relationships operated under a "Law of Compression" in which tenuous connections turned friends into uncles, cousins, and grandparents. Life was framed by Grandpa Lolek, the parsimonious and eccentric old rogue who put his tea bags through Selektion, and Grandpa Yosef, the neighborhood saint, who knew everything about everything, but refused to talk of his own past. Amir and Effi also collected information about what happened Over There. This was more difficult than collecting relative... continue

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Our Island Story by H. E. Marshall EN

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Country: Europe / Scotland flag Scotland
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Presents a history of England, Scotland, and the collective British Empire, which includes areas of Canada, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, and India; and begins with the stories of Albion and Brutus and ends with the life of Queen Victoria.

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Our Lady of the Nile by Scholastique Mukasonga EN

Rating: 4 (7 votes)
Country: Africa / Rwanda flag Rwanda
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Introducing Scholastique Mukasonga to the UK: a major international author and her brilliant and award-winning first novel.

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Pachinko by Min Jin Lee EN

Rating: 4 (95 votes)
Country: Asia / South Korea flag South Korea
Description:
* The million-copy bestseller* * National Book Award finalist * * An instant New York Times Bestseller and one of their 10 Best Books of 2017 * * Selected for Emma Watson's Our Shared Shelf book club * 'This is a captivating book... Min Jin Lee's novel takes us through four generations and each character's search for identity and success. It's a powerful story about resilience and compassion' BARACK OBAMA. Yeongdo, Korea, 1911. Teenaged Sunja, the adored daughter of a fisherman, falls for a wealthy yakuza. He promises her the world, but when she discovers she is pregnant – and that her lover i... continue

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Pakistan in an Age of Turbulence by Masuma Hasan EN

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Country: Asia / India flag India
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A detailed and graphic personal and family history within a national and international context. It mirrors and brings to life the modern and contemporary history of the Indian sub-continent and of India and Pakistan, and the dramatic birth-struggles of both major nation states dominating South Asia. And the complex racial, religious and ethnic mix was central to turbulent politics and Islamic identity is a factor in international politics. The overshadowing influence of the British Indian Empire was a constant factor and sets the context. The huge upheaval and tragedy of Partition is at the he... continue

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Pale Rider : The Spanish Flu of 1918 and how it Changed the World by Laura Spinney EN

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Country: Europe / England flag England
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The author traces the pandemic that killed up to 100 million people, from India to Brazil, from Persia to Spain, and from South Africa to Ukraine. She demonstrates that the Spanish flu was a very significant event in creating the modern world.

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Palestine : A Four Thousand Year History by Nur Masalha EN

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Country: Asia / Israel flag Israel
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This rich and magisterial work traces Palestine's millennia-old heritage, uncovering cultures and societies of astounding depth and complexity that stretch back to the very beginnings of recorded history. Starting with the earliest references in Egyptian and Assyrian texts, Nur Masalha explores how Palestine and its Palestinian identity have evolved over thousands of years, from the Bronze Age to the present day. Drawing on a rich body of sources and the latest archaeological evidence, Masalha shows how Palestine's multicultural past has been distorted and mythologised by Biblical lore and the... continue

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Papaya Salad by Elisa Macellari EN

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Country: Europe / Italy flag Italy
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The debut graphic novel from Thai-Italian illustrator Elisa Macellari, Papaya Salad tells the story of her great-uncle Sompong who found himself in Europe on military scholarship on the eve of World War II. A gentle and resolute man in love with books and languages, in search of his place in the world, Sompong chronicles his life during the war and falling for his wife, finding humor and joy even as the world changes irrevocably around him This Winner of the 2019 Autori di Immagini Silver Medal in the Comics category tells the human story of the War, from a perspective not typically seen. "An ... continue

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Paperbacks from Hell by Grady Hendrix EN

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From the New York Times best-selling author of The Southern Book Club's Guide to Slaying Vampires comes a nostalgic and unflinchingly funny celebration of the horror fiction boom of the 1970s and ’80s. Take a tour through the horror paperback novels of two iconic decades . . . if you dare. Page through dozens and dozens of amazing book covers featuring well-dressed skeletons, evil dolls, and knife-wielding killer crabs! Read shocking plot summaries that invoke devil worship, satanic children, and haunted real estate! Horror author and vintage paperback book collector Grady Hendrix offers kille... continue

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Patimă şi desfătare

Patimă şi desfătare by Constanţa Vintilă-Ghiţulescu RO

Rating: 5 (1 vote)
Country: Europe / Romania flag Romania
Description:
Cartea Constanței Vintilă-Ghițulescu este o istorie a lucrurilor mărunte, revelată de lectura caleidoscopică a documentelor din arhivele secolelor al XVIII-lea și al XIX-lea. Cititorul este îndemnat de autoare să intre într-un joc inedit: beneficiarul unei cantități impresionante de informații istorice, poate să-și imagineze el însuși trecutul. De pildă, mirosurile care ieșeau din simigerii, din pitării și din cuhniile caselor boierești. Gustul bucatelor, aromele condimentelor, culorile zaharicalelor. Textura mătăsurilor din care se croiau veșmintele orientale. Larma și muzic... continue