Historical genre books (728)
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Povȩsti de seară pentru fete rebele : 100 de viȩti de femei extraordinare by Elena Favilli, Francesca Cavallo EN
ItalyDescription:
A fost odată… o prințesă? Ei bine, nu! A fost odată o fetiță care voia să ajungă pe Marte. A fost o alta care a devenit cea mai bună tenismenă din lume, dar și o alta matematician și filosof. De la Elisabeta I la Malala Yousafzai, de la Amelia Earhart la Frida Kahlo, de la Marie Curie la Coco Chanel, 100 de femei extraordinare sunt portretizate în această carte de către 60 de ilustratoare din toată lumea. Regine, inventatoare, pictorițe, scriitoare, partizane, femei astronaut sau prim-ministru… modele de curaj, de perseverență și de generozitate pentru toți aceia care vor s... continue
Finland393.
Purge by Sofi Oksanen EN
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A blowfly. Unusually large, loud, and eager to lay its eggs. It was lying in wait to get into the kitchen, rubbing its wings and feet against the curtain as if preparing to feast. It was after meat, nothing else but meat. Deep in an overgrown Estonian forest, two women, one young, one old, are hiding. Zara, a murderer and a victim of sex-trafficking, is on the run from brutal captors. Aliide, a communist sympathizer and a blood traitor, has endured a life of abuse and the country's brutal Soviet years. Their survival now depends on exposing the one thing that kept them hidden... the truth.
China395.
Reclaiming the Salient : Resurrecting the Great War Battlegrounds of Flanders Fields by Roger Steward EN
EnglandDescription:
The end of the First World War saw the fields of Flanders contaminated by incalculable amounts of unexploded munitions and thousands of rotting corpses still exposed on the old battlefields. This is the story of how the battlefields of Belgium were, and still are, being cleared of the legacy of the Great War.
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Records of the Historian; Chapters from the Shih Chi by Sima Qian EN
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"To 18 chapters and a brief excerpt dealing with the Han dynasty and published earlier in Records of the Grand Historian of China (2 vols., 1961) are here added five chapters pertaining to the preceding Chou and Ch'in dynasties. The purpose of the selection is to suggest to the reader something of the form and content of the first great Chinese historical work, to indicate the type of material Ssu-ma Ch'ien presents and his methods of presentation, and to allow the reader to enjoy some of the more famous and highly praised passages in a book dear to many generations of Chinese readers."--Publi... continue
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Red Notice : A True Story of High Finance, Murder, and One Man’s Fight for Justice by Bill Browder EN
Country: North America / 
United States of America
United States of America
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A true story of high finance, murder, and one man's fight for justice.
398.
Red Scarf Girl : A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution by Ji-li Jiang EN
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In 1966 Ji-li Jiang turned twelve. An outstanding student and leader, she had everything: brains, the admiration of her peers, and a bright future in China′s Communist Party. But that year China′s leader, Mao Ze-dong, launched the Cultural Revolution, and everything changed. Over the next few years Ji-li and her family were humiliated and scorned by former friends, neighbors, and co-workers. They lived in constant terror of arrest. Finally, with the detention of her father, Ji-li faced the most difficult choice of her life. Told with simplicity and grace, this is the true story of one family′s... continue
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Spain400.
Renia's Diary : A Holocaust Journal by Renia Spiegel EN
UkraineDescription:
The long-hidden diary of a young Polish woman's life during the Holocaust, translated for the first time into English Renia Spiegel was born in 1924 to an upper-middle class Jewish family living in southeastern Poland, near what was at that time the border with Romania. At the start of 1939 Renia began a diary. “I just want a friend. I want somebody to talk to about my everyday worries and joys. Somebody who would feel what I feel, who would believe me, who would never reveal my secrets. A human being can never be such a friend and that’s why I have decided to look for a confidant in the form ... continue