Popular European Historical Books
Find historical books written by authors from Europe for the next part of the Read Around The World Challenge. (297)
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La vida y la época de Juana la Loca by José Luis Olaizola ES
SpainDescription:
Juana I la Loca (1479-1555), reina de Castilla de 1504 a 1555, era hija de los Reyes Católicos. De acuerdo con la política exterior de su padre, contrajo matrimonio con el archiduque Felipe el Hermoso, primogénito de Maximiliano I. En 1504 aparecieron los primeros síntomas de enajenación mental, que se acentuaron a la muerte de su esposo en 1506. Su vida estuvo llena de intrigas y luchas por el poder. Esta referencia, puramente histórica, no explica el extraordinario y dramático destino de esta reina, a quien el pueblo llano título <&l... continue
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Last Witnesses : Unchildlike Stories by Svetlana Alexievich EN
UkraineDescription:
Selected as a Book of the Year 2019 by The Times and Telegraph 'Astonishing. . . Like the great Russian novels, these testimonials ring with emotional truth' - Caroline Moorehead, Guardian Extraordinary stories about what it was like to be a Soviet child during the upheaval and horror of the Second World War, from Nobel Laureate Svetlana Alexievich What did it mean to grow up in the Soviet Union during the Second World War? In the late 1970s, Svetlana Alexievich started interviewing people who had experienced war as children, the generation that survived and had to live with the trauma that wo... continue
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Last Witnesses : Unchildlike Stories by Svetlana Alexievich EN
BelarusDescription:
Selected as a Book of the Year 2019 by The Times and Telegraph 'Astonishing. . . Like the great Russian novels, these testimonials ring with emotional truth' - Caroline Moorehead, Guardian Extraordinary stories about what it was like to be a Soviet child during the upheaval and horror of the Second World War, from Nobel Laureate Svetlana Alexievich What did it mean to grow up in the Soviet Union during the Second World War? In the late 1970s, Svetlana Alexievich started interviewing people who had experienced war as children, the generation that survived and had to live with the trauma that wo... continue
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Leii Siciliei by Stefania Auci RO
ItalyDescription:
O familie care a sfidat destinul. O familie care a învins. O familie care a ajuns legendară. CEL MAI BINE VÂNDUT ROMAN DIN ITALIA ÎN 2019. Romanul care a cucerit lumea în curs de traducere în 22 de țări. Din momentul în care ajunge la Palermo în 1799 familia Florio nu se mai uită înapoi și decide să ajungă deasupra tuturor cât mai bogată și cât mai puternică. Și reușește: în scurt timp ambițioși și motivați frații Paolo și Ignazio își transformă prăvălia de condimente în cea mai bună din oraș apoi încep să cumpere case și terenuri de la nobilii din Palermo și își pornesc propria companie de na... continue
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Les Miserables by Victor Hugo EN
FranceDescription:
A thrilling tale of narrow escapes, romance in the midst of a revolution, and heroism at Waterloo, this classic forms a parable of a morally empty state that values retribution rather than justice.
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Los amnésicos : Historia de una familia europea by Géraldine Schwarz ES
Description:
Una fascinante historia familiar entreverada con la historia reciente de Europa. Un apasionante documento sobre el auge de los populismos y los peligros de la desmemoria histórica. En la ciudad alemana de Mannheim, de donde es originario su padre, Géraldine Schwarz descubre que su abuelo Karl compró en 1938, a muy bajo precio, una empresa a sus propietarios judíos, los Löbmman, más tarde asesinados en Auschwitz. Tras la guerra, confrontado con un heredero que reclama una reparación, Karl Schwarz opta por la negación de sus responsabilidades como Mitläufer, es decir, aquellos que, como la mayor... continue
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Made in Sweden by Elisabeth ÅSBRINK EN
SwedenDescription:
What are the real Swedish Values? Who is the real Swedish Model? In recent times, we have come to favour all things Scandi — their food, furnishings, fiction, fashion, and general way of life. We seem to regard the Swedes and their Scandinavian neighbours as altogether more sophisticated, admirable, and evolved than us. We have all aspired to be Swedish, to live in their perfectly designed society from the future. But what if we have invested all our faith in a fantasy? What if Sweden has in fact never been as moderate, egalitarian, dignified, or tolerant as it would like to (have us) think? T... continue
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Madgermanes by Birgit Weyhe EN
GermanyDescription:
‘Madgermanes’ is what the Mozambican workers once contracted out to East Germany are called today. At the end of the 1970s, some 20,000 of them were sent from the People’s Republic of Mozambique to the GDR to labour for their socialist sister country. After the Berlin Wall fell, almost all of them lost their residency status. Decades later, they are still waiting for most of their wages to be paid.
Birgit Weyhe depicts their search for belonging and a place to call home, caught between two cultures and two states that no longer exist. Based on extensive interviews, she cre... continue
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Making Sense of the Troubles : A History of the Northern Ireland Conflict by David McKittrick, David McVea EN
IrelandDescription:
First published ten years ago, Making Sense of the Troubles is widely regarded as the most 'comprehensive, considered and compassionate' (Irish Times) history of the Troubles in Northern Ireland. Written by a distinguished journalist and a teacher of history in Northern Ireland, it surveys the roots of the problems from 1921 onwards, the descent into violence in the late 60s, and the three terrible decades that followed. McKittrick and McVea have now fully updated the book to take into account the momentous events of the last ten years, including the disbanding of the IRA, Ian Paisley's deal w... continue
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Man's Search For Meaning : The classic tribute to hope from the Holocaust by Viktor E. Frankl EN
AustriaDescription:
Over 16 million copies sold worldwide 'Every human being should read this book' Simon Sinek One of the outstanding classics to emerge from the Holocaust, Man's Search for Meaning is Viktor Frankl's story of his struggle for survival in Auschwitz and other Nazi concentration camps. Today, this remarkable tribute to hope offers us an avenue to finding greater meaning and purpose in our own lives.