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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Eureka Street by Robert McLiam Wilson EN
Country: Europe / 
Northern Ireland
Northern Ireland
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In Eureka Street in Belfast wonen mensen die niet zo gewoon zijn als ze lijken.
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Every Man Dies Alone by Hans Fallada EN
GermanyDescription:
"Based on a true story, this sweeping saga tells the tale of a working class couple in Berlin who decide to take a stand against the Nazis. More than an edge-of-your-seat thriller, more than a moving romance, even more than literature of the highest order, it's a deeply moving story of two people who stand up for what's right, and for each other. Hans Fallada wrote Every Man Dies Alone in a feverish twenty-four days, soon after the end of World War II and his release from a Nazi insane asylum. He did not live to see his its publication"--Page 4 of cover.
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Fall of Civilizations : Stories of Greatness and Decline by Paul Cooper EN
EnglandDescription:
Based on the podcast with over 100 million downloads, Fall of Civilizations brilliantly explores how a range of ancient societies rose to power and sophistication, and how they tipped over into collapse.
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Femei, onoare şi păcat în Valahia secolului al XIX-lea : „deznădăjduită muiere n-au fost ca mine“ by Nicoleta Roman RO
RomaniaDescription:
Această carte recuperează din catagrafiile, condicile ecleziastice, actele cancelariilor domneşti şi actele de procedură ale tribunalelor din prima jumătate a secolului al XIX-lea istoria dureroasă şi discretă a femeilor muntene. De neam ales, ţărănci sau femei pripăşite la oraş, româncele se confruntă cu normele create şi impuse de bărbaţi. În faţa autorităţilor laice şi bisericeşti, când se despart de soţii cu care trăiesc rău, când se lasă răpite de iubiţii pe care familiile lor nu-i acceptă, când sunt judecate pentru infanticid, pentru adulter, pentru furtişag... continue
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Footnotes in Gaza by Joe Sacco EN
MaltaDescription:
"Sacco brings the conflict down to the most human level, allowing us to imagine our way inside it, to make the desperation he discovers, in some small way, our own."—Los Angeles Times Rafah, a town at the bottommost tip of the Gaza Strip, has long been a notorious flashpoint in the bitter Middle East conflict. Buried deep in the archives is one bloody incident, in 1956, that left 111 Palestinians shot dead by Israeli soldiers. Seemingly a footnote to a long history of killing, that day in Rafah—cold-blooded massacre or dreadful mistake—reveals the competing truths that have come to define an i... continue
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Forgiveness and Reparation, the Healing Journey by Mpho Tutu van Furth EN
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Forgiveness and Reparation, the Healing Journey is about reparations. We think of reparations as a remunerative act and as a punitive one. The colonial powers must pay back a significant percentage of what they stole from the colonized. To arrive at what would be a meaningful amount, we must tally up the cost of the human lives lost, the opportunities denied, the mineral wealth ravaged, and the ecosystems destroyed. How can we even begin to calculate the worth of even one of those categories? How can we rightly price even one human life? Furthermore, this approach assumes there is only one sid... continue
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Fuenteovejuna by Lope de Vega ES
SpainDescription:
b"Quien mato al comendador? b"Fuenteovejuna lo hizo.La frase que todos los habitantes de Fuenteovejuna responden, al unisono, trascendio el nombre de esa lejana aldea espanola y se convirtio en el grito de lucha de los pueblos oprimidos que hacen justicia
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Genius & Anxiety : How Jews Changed the World, 1847-1947 by Norman Lebrecht EN
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This lively chronicle of the years 1847–1947—the century when the Jewish people changed how we see the world—is “[a] thrilling and tragic history…especially good on the ironies and chain-reaction intimacies that make a people and a past” (The Wall Street Journal). In a hundred-year period, a handful of men and women changed the world. Many of them are well known—Marx, Freud, Proust, Einstein, Kafka. Others have vanished from collective memory despite their enduring importance in our daily lives. Without Karl Landsteiner, for instance, there would be no blood transfusions or major surgery. Wit... continue