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Аз още броя дните by Георги Бърдаров
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsХитовият първи роман на Георги Бърдаров „Аз още броя дните” в ново и допълнено издание с твърди корици, 2021 г. Разтърсваща любовна история на босненските Ромео и Жулиета на фона на драматичните събития по време на Босненската война и блокадата на Сараево... -
![An Officer and a Spy by Robert Harris]()
An Officer and a Spy by Robert Harris
Rated: 4.15 of 5 stars · 26 ratingsRobert Harris returns to the thrilling historical fiction he has so brilliantly made his own. This is the story of the infamous Dreyfus affair told as a chillingly dark, hard-edged novel of conspiracy and espionage. Paris in 1895... -
![A Few Good Men by Aaron Sorkin]()
A Few Good Men by Aaron Sorkin
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsThis Broadway hit about the trial of two Marines for complicity in the death of a fellow Marine at Guantanamo Bay sizzles on stage. The Navy lawyer, a callow young man more interested in softball games than the case, expects a plea bargain and a cover up of what really happened... -
![Javanese Gentry by Umar Kayam]()
Javanese Gentry by Umar Kayam
Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars · 14 ratings"In my mind rose a misty picture of a little girl in a floral dress. As for her face: nothing. I could only hope that she had been pretty. I sat overcome. What a procession of developments in one day! Only that morning I had left Madiun; at midday I was wobbling on a buggy past an ocean of rice fields; tonight, suddenly, I had been renamed by my parents and handed a wife... -
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![Cuckoo in the Nest by Michelle Magorian]()
Cuckoo in the Nest by Michelle Magorian
Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsAs an evacuee, Ralph received a good education, but after the war Ralph's working-class father resents his education and his ambition to be an actor, and is furious when Ralph is sacked from the paper mill. The story traces Ralph's struggle to reconcile the disparate strands of his life...Categorized as:
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![عن الرجال والبنادق by غسان كنفاني]()
عن الرجال والبنادق by غسان كنفاني
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsمجموعة قصصية يستلهم فيها كنفاني ككل إبداعه الأدبي مأساة شعب فلسطين الذي لم يكتب غسان كنفاني شيئا إلا عنه، ولم يستلهم قصصه إلا منه... -
![Hart's War by John Katzenbach]()
Hart's War by John Katzenbach
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsSecond Lieutenant Tommy Hart, a navigator whose B-25 was shot out of the sky in 1942, is burdened with guilt as the only surviving member of his crew. Now he is just another POW at the fiercely guarded Stalag Luft 13 in Bavaria... -
![Two Necklaces by Paulette Mahurin]()
Two Necklaces by Paulette Mahurin
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsIn the beginning of 1933 after Adolf Hitler is appointed chancellor of Germany, fourteen-year-old Christa Becker of Ravensburg, Germany, attends meetings of the League of German Girls, an organization established to create dedicated wives whose role was to give birth to superior Aryan children... -
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The Secret of Magic by Deborah Johnson
Rated: 3.79 of 5 stars · 14 ratings'[An] addictive tale of intrigue' - the IndependentIn 1946 Regina Robichard is a rarity. A young New York civil rights lawyer, working for Thurgood Marshall, Reggie stumbles across a letter asking her boss to investigate the case of a young black soldier whose body has been found floating in the river in Mississippi. It fires her zeal.For Reggie, justice is not the only draw to this case... -
![The Trial and Execution of the Traitor George Washington by Charles Rosenberg]()
The Trial and Execution of the Traitor George Washington by Charles Rosenberg
Rated: 3.61 of 5 stars · 11 ratingsA thought-provoking novel that imagines what would have happened if the British had succeeded in kidnapping General George Washington, for fans of alternate histories like The Plot Against America , The Guns of the South and The Man in the High Castle... -
![A Murky Business by Honoré de Balzac]()
A Murky Business by Honoré de Balzac
Rated: 3.50 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsCharacterized by amoral ruthlessness, the politics of A Murky Business would seem to bear out Balzac's questionable precept.Set earlier than most of Balzac's Comedie Humaine, the novel covers the years 1803-6, when Napolean was making himself first Consul and then Emperor. The inclusion of Napoleon himself, as well as figures like Talleyrand and Fouche, makes this a historical novel... -
![The Secret Guests by Benjamin Black, John Banville]()
The Secret Guests by Benjamin Black, John Banville
Rated: 3.06 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsAs London endures nightly German bombings, Britain's secret service whisks the princesses Elizabeth and Margaret from England, seeking safety for the young royals on an old estate in Ireland.Ahead of the German Blitz during World War II, English parents from every social class sent their children to the countryside for safety, displacing more than three million young offspring... -
![Fall and Rise: The Story of 9/11 by Mitchell Zuckoff]()
Fall and Rise: The Story of 9/11 by Mitchell Zuckoff
Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsYears in the making, this spellbinding, heartbreaking, and ultimately uplifting narrative is an unforgettable portrait of 9/11.This is a 9/11 book like no other. Masterfully weaving together multiple strands of the events in New York; at the Pentagon; and in Shanksville, Pennsylvania, Fall and Rise is a mesmerizing, minute-by-minute account of that terrible day... -
![The War on Women by Sue Lloyd-Roberts]()
The War on Women by Sue Lloyd-Roberts
Rated: 4.71 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsSue Lloyd-Roberts joined ITN in 1973 as a news trainee, she went on to become the UK's first female video-journalist, reporting alone from the bleak outposts of the former Soviet Union and China. With a 30-year-long career in human-rights journalism, she has travelled the globe and witnessed the worst atrocities inflicted on women... -
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![Chasing the Scream: The First and Last Days of the War on Drugs by Johann Hari]()
Chasing the Scream: The First and Last Days of the War on Drugs by Johann Hari
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsNew York Times BestsellerIt is now one hundred years since drugs were first banned in the United States. On the eve of this centenary, journalist Johann Hari set off on an epic three-year, thirty-thousand-mile journey into the war on drugs. What he found is that more and more people all over the world have begun to recognize three startling truths: Drugs are not what we think they are... -
![The Holocaust: A New History by Laurence Rees]()
The Holocaust: A New History by Laurence Rees
Rated: 4.63 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsThis book answers two fundamental questions about the Holocaust. How, and why, did it happen?Laurence Rees' masterpiece is revealing in three ways. First, it is based not only on the latest academic research, but also on 25 years of interviewing survivors and perpetrators, often at the sites of the events, many of whom have never had their words published before... -
![Our Bodies, Their Battlefields: War Through the Lives of Women by Christina Lamb]()
Our Bodies, Their Battlefields: War Through the Lives of Women by Christina Lamb
Rated: 4.64 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsFrom Christina Lamb, the coauthor of the bestselling I Am Malala and an award-winning journalist—an essential, groundbreaking examination of how women experience war.In Our Bodies, Their Battlefields , longtime intrepid war correspondent Christina Lamb makes us witness to the lives of women in wartime... -
![Facing the Mountain: A True Story of Japanese American Heroes in World War II by Daniel James Brown, Louis Ozawa]()
Facing the Mountain: A True Story of Japanese American Heroes in World War II by Daniel James Brown, Louis Ozawa
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsA NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER "Masterly. An epic story of four Japanese-American families and their sons who volunteered for military service and displayed uncommon heroism... Propulsive and gripping, in part because of Mr. Brown's ability to make us care deeply about the fates of these individual soldiers...a page-turner... -
![East West Street: On the Origins of "Genocide" and "Crimes Against Humanity" by Philippe Sands]()
East West Street: On the Origins of "Genocide" and "Crimes Against Humanity" by Philippe Sands
Rated: 4.45 of 5 stars · 20 ratingsA profound and profoundly important book—a moving personal detective story, an uncovering of secret pasts, and a book that explores the creation and development of world-changing legal concepts that came about as a result of the unprecedented atrocities of Hitler’s Third Reich... -
![Prequel: An American Fight Against Fascism by Rachel Maddow]()
Prequel: An American Fight Against Fascism by Rachel Maddow
Rated: 4.45 of 5 stars · 20 ratingsRachel Maddow traces the fight to preserve American democracy back to World War II, when a handful of committed public servants and brave private citizens thwarted far-right plotters trying to steer our nation toward an alliance with the Nazis... -
![Outcry - Holocaust memoirs by Manny Steinberg]()
Outcry - Holocaust memoirs by Manny Steinberg
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsOutcry - Holocaust Memoirs, a Profoundly Moving AutobiographyMendel (Manny) Steinberg spent his teens in Nazi extermination camps in Germany and Poland, miraculously surviving while millions perished. This is his story.Born in 1925 in the Jewish ghetto in Radom (Poland), Manny soon realized that people of Jewish faith were increasingly being regarded as outsiders... -
![Indianapolis: The True Story of the Worst Sea Disaster in U.S. Naval History and the Fifty-Year Fight to Exonerate an Innocent Man by Lynn Vincent, Sara Vladic]()
Indianapolis: The True Story of the Worst Sea Disaster in U.S. Naval History and the Fifty-Year Fight to Exonerate an Innocent Man by Lynn Vincent, Sara Vladic
Rated: 4.44 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsInstant New York Times Bestseller A human drama unlike any other—the riveting and definitive full story of the worst sea disaster in United States naval history. “GRIPPING…THIS YARN HAS IT ALL.” —USA TODAY • “A WONDERFUL BOOK.” —Christian Science Monitor • “ENTHRALLING.” —Kirkus Reviews (starred review) • “A MUST-READ... -
![The Operator: Firing the Shots that Killed Osama bin Laden and My Years as a SEAL Team Warrior by Robert O'Neill]()
The Operator: Firing the Shots that Killed Osama bin Laden and My Years as a SEAL Team Warrior by Robert O'Neill
Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars · 20 ratingsStirringly evocative, thought-provoking, and often jaw-dropping, The Operator ranges across SEAL Team Operator Robert O’Neill’s awe-inspiring four-hundred-mission career that included his involvement in attempts to rescue “Lone Survivor” Marcus Luttrell and abducted-by-Somali-pirates Captain Richard Phillips and culminated in those famous three shots that dispatched the world’s most wanted... -
![Kent State: Four Dead in Ohio by Derf Backderf]()
Kent State: Four Dead in Ohio by Derf Backderf
Rated: 4.44 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsFrom bestselling author Derf Backderf comes the untold story of the Kent State shootings—timed for the 50th anniversary On May 4, 1970, the Ohio National Guard gunned down unarmed college students protesting the Vietnam War at Kent State University. In a deadly barrage of 67 shots, 4 students were killed and 9 shot and wounded... -
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![Blowout: Corrupted Democracy, Rogue State Russia, and the Richest, Most Destructive Industry on Earth by Rachel Maddow]()
Blowout: Corrupted Democracy, Rogue State Russia, and the Richest, Most Destructive Industry on Earth by Rachel Maddow
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 24 ratings**THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER**A ground-breaking investigation into the oil and gas industry, international corruption and world politics.Oil.Corrupt? Yes.Unimaginably lucrative? Of course.But, the enemy of democracy?Blowout is the oil and gas industry as we've never seen it before, as told by America's most incisive political journalist, Rachel Maddow... -
![The Assassination of Fred Hampton: How the FBI and the Chicago Police Murdered a Black Panther by Jeffrey Haas]()
The Assassination of Fred Hampton: How the FBI and the Chicago Police Murdered a Black Panther by Jeffrey Haas
Rated: 4.43 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsIt’s around 7:00 A.M. on December 4, 1969, and attorney Jeff Haas is in a police lockup in Chicago, interviewing Fred Hampton’s fiancée. She is describing how the police pulled her from the room as Fred lay unconscious on their bed. She heard one officer say, “He’s still alive.” She then heard two shots. A second officer said, “He’s good and dead now... -
![Si c'est une femme : Vie et mort à Ravensbrück (Documents, Actualités, Société) by Sarah Helm]()
Si c'est une femme : Vie et mort à Ravensbrück (Documents, Actualités, Société) by Sarah Helm
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsA groundbreaking, masterful, and absorbing account of the last hidden atrocity of World War II—Ravensbrück—the largest female-only concentration camp, where more than 100,000 women consisting of more than twenty nationalities were imprisoned... -
![The Lincoln Conspiracy: The Secret Plot to Kill America's 16th President - And Why It Failed by Brad Meltzer, Josh Mensch]()
The Lincoln Conspiracy: The Secret Plot to Kill America's 16th President - And Why It Failed by Brad Meltzer, Josh Mensch
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsThe bestselling authors of The First Conspiracy, which covers the secret plot against George Washington, now turn their attention to a little-known, but true story about a failed assassination attempt on President LincolnEveryone knows the story of Abraham Lincoln's assassination in 1865, but few are aware of the original conspiracy to kill him four years earlier in 1861, literally on his way... -
![Guantanamo Voices: True Accounts from the World’s Most Infamous Prison by Sarah Mirk, Nomi Kane]()
Guantanamo Voices: True Accounts from the World’s Most Infamous Prison by Sarah Mirk, Nomi Kane
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsAn anthology of illustrated narratives about the prison and the lives it changed forever In January 2002, the United States sent a group of Muslim men they suspected of terrorism to a prison in Guantánamo Bay. They were the first of roughly 780 prisoners who would be held there—and 40 inmates still remain. Eighteen years later, very few of them have been ever charged with a crime... -
![Gaza Writes Back: Short Stories from Young Writers in Gaza, Palestine by Refaat Alareer]()
Gaza Writes Back: Short Stories from Young Writers in Gaza, Palestine by Refaat Alareer
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsGaza Writes Back: Short Stories from Young Writers in Gaza, Palestine, edited by Refaat Alareer is a compelling collection of short stories from fifteen young writers in Gaza, members of a generation that has suffered immensely under Israel’s siege and blockade...Categorized as:
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