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Scorched by Wajdi Mouawad
Rated: 4.39 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsTwin children Jeanne and Simon want to solve the mystery of their origins. In retracing the bitter history of their mother, who is about to die, other characters come into the story—witnesses or key players able to assist in the investigation. Carried aloft by poetic language, the inquiry pursued by Jeanne and Simon unfolds in a dreamlike atmosphere... -
![Поезия. Публицистика by Hristo Botev]()
Поезия. Публицистика by Hristo Botev
Rated: 4.43 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsСветът на Ботевата поезия е монолитен, с вътрешно сцепление на заряда и внушенията на всяко от стихотворенията му под знака на единни нагласи и цели... -
![Selected Poems by Anna Akhmatova]()
Selected Poems by Anna Akhmatova
Rated: 4.31 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsBrings together all D.M. Thomas' acclaimed translations of Akhmatova's poems. This volume includes "Requiem", her poem of the Stalinist Terror and "Poem Without a Hero"... -
![A Gracious Enemy by Michael G. Kramer]()
A Gracious Enemy by Michael G. Kramer
Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsThe full story of the three Indochina wars, told from both sides and including the plight of civilians caught up in the fighting. Of necessity, the politics of Australia, New Zealand, Britain, France, and the USA towards the push for independence and freedom by Vietnam and Laos are examined. The region known as Indochina is made up of the countries of Cambodia, Laos and Vietnam... -
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![Избранные произведения. На Западном фронте без перемен. Возвращение. Три товарища by Erich Maria Remarque]()
Избранные произведения. На Западном фронте без перемен. Возвращение. Три товарища by Erich Maria Remarque
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![Through the Storm by Maureen Lee]()
Through the Storm by Maureen Lee
Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsThe third novel in bestseller Maureen Lee's outstanding Liverpool sequence about family life during World War IITwo years of war have taken a terrible toll on Pearl Street, Liverpool. German bombs have reduced some houses to rubble and most of the inhabitants have lost friends and family... -
![The White Road by Cynthia Harrod-Eagles]()
The White Road by Cynthia Harrod-Eagles
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsAugust 1914 The whole country is thrilled by the declaration of war. The British Expeditionary Force goes off to France to defend gallant little Belgium, and thousands more young men rush to volunteer, hoping to see action before the war ends at Christmas. At home everyone competes to be doing the most for the war effort... -
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Company K by William March
Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsStemming directly from the author's experiences with the US Marines in France during World War I, this book consists of 113 sketches, or chapters, tracing the fictional Company K's war exploits and providing an emotional history of the men of the company that extends beyond the boundaries of the war itself... -
![Life is Beautiful/La Vita è Bella: A Screenplay by Roberto Benigni, Vincenzo Cerami]()
Life is Beautiful/La Vita è Bella: A Screenplay by Roberto Benigni, Vincenzo Cerami
Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsThis romantic, hilarious, and astonishingly moving story, winner of the Grand Jury prize at the 1998 Cannes Film Festival, explores the power of the imagination, set against the stark reality of World War II Europe. The companion screenplay to the Miramax film presents the profound yet tender story that has touched the hearts of so many... -
![Kingdom's End: Selected Stories by Saadat Hasan Manto]()
Kingdom's End: Selected Stories by Saadat Hasan Manto
Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsThe most widely read and the most translated writer in Urdu. Saadat Hasan Manto (1912-1955) is also the most controversial: he was tried for obscenity no less than six times, both before and after the departure of the British from India in 1947... -
![Love of Finished Years by Gregory Erich Phillips]()
Love of Finished Years by Gregory Erich Phillips
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsThis moving debut novel by Gregory Erich Phillips won the Grand Prize for best book of the year in the Chanticleer Reviews International writing Competition.Pre WWI, Elsa came to America with her eyes wide open, realizing it was up to her to make a lifefor herself. Surviving a sweatshop in lower Manhattan, a chance job with a Long Island elitefamily opens up her world... -
![If You Go Away by Adele Parks]()
If You Go Away by Adele Parks
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsGlamorous debutantes, heartbreak and discovering just what is worth fighting for in the new historical novel from Sunday Times bestseller Adele Parks.1914. Vivian, a young, impassioned debutante is hurried into a pedestrian marriage to cover a scandal. War breaks out on her wedding day -- domestically and across Europe... -
![Unravelled: Two Wars. Two Affairs. One Marriage. by M.K. Tod]()
Unravelled: Two Wars. Two Affairs. One Marriage. by M.K. Tod
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsIn October 1935, Edward Jamieson's memories of war and a passionate love affair resurface when an invitation to a WWI memorial ceremony arrives. Though reluctant to visit the scenes of horror he has spent years trying to forget, Edward succumbs to the unlikely possibility of discovering what happened to Helene Noisette, the woman he once pledged to marry... -
![Post voor mevrouw Bromley by Stefan Brijs]()
Post voor mevrouw Bromley by Stefan Brijs
Rated: 3.94 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsAugustus 1914. In Londen melden duizenden jongemannen zich aan om te gaan vechten tegen de Duitsers. Martin Bromley, zeventien en te jong voor het leger, probeert de twee jaar oudere John Patterson te overreden samen in dienst te gaan, maar die wil zijn droom om te gaan studeren niet opgeven... -
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![Burden of Desire by Robert MacNeil]()
Burden of Desire by Robert MacNeil
Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThe disastrous 1917 explosion of a munitions ship in Halifax Harbor, Nova Scotia, forms the backdrop to this “rich, abundantly humane love story” (Chicago Tribune)-”a powerful piece of work” (Washington Post Book World) that marks an “auspicious fiction debut for an already accomplished author and award-winning journalist” (Chicago Sun-Times)... -
![Seven Days in May by Kim Izzo]()
Seven Days in May by Kim Izzo
Rated: 3.86 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsFor readers of Kate Williams, Beatriz Williams and Jennifer Robson, a captivating novel of love and resilience during the Great War, inspired by the author’s family history.As the First World War rages in continental Europe, two New York heiresses, Sydney and Brooke Sinclair, are due to set sail for England... -
![Hero Over Here by Kathleen V. Kudlinski, Bert Dodson]()
Hero Over Here by Kathleen V. Kudlinski, Bert Dodson
Rated: 3.67 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsTheodore dreams of riding pintos on a ranch in Montana. Instead, he must face the harsh reality that his mother and sister are victims of the 1918 flu epidemic and may die. With his father and brother off fighting WWI in Europe, ten-year-old Theodore has to look over them--and himself--alone. Illustrated... -
![Laura by Vivian Schurfranz]()
Laura by Vivian Schurfranz
Rated: 3.67 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThere was a fierce war raging abroad, and another in her heart.While men are fighting overseas in World War I, lovely Laura Mitchell is caught up in the struggle for women's rights in the Washington, D. C. of 1918. Dismayed by her willingness to go to jail for her beliefs, Laura's mother and sister encourage her to pay more attention to her suitors... -
![The Great and Calamitous Tale of Johan Thoms by Ian Thornton]()
The Great and Calamitous Tale of Johan Thoms by Ian Thornton
Rated: 3.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsJohan Thoms (pronounced Yo-han Tomes) was born in Argona, a small town twenty-three miles south of Sarajevo, during the hellish depths of winter 1894.Little did he know that his inability to reverse a car would change the course of 20th Century History forever…Johan Thoms is poised for greatness... -
![The Ladybird Illustrated by D H Lawrence]()
The Ladybird Illustrated by D H Lawrence
Rated: 3.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThe Ladybird is a long tale or novella by D. H. Lawrence.It was first drafted in 1915 as a short story entitled The Thimble. Lawrence rewrote and extended it under a new title in December 1921 and sent the final version to his English agent on 9 January 1922... -
![Hero of Two Worlds: The Marquis de Lafayette in the Age of Revolution by Mike Duncan]()
Hero of Two Worlds: The Marquis de Lafayette in the Age of Revolution by Mike Duncan
Rated: 4.57 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsFrom the bestselling author of The Storm Before the Storm and host of the Revolutions podcast comes the thrilling story of the Marquis de Lafayette’s lifelong quest to defend the principles of liberty and equalityA NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER A #1 ABA INDEPENDENT BOOKSTORE BESTSELLER Few in history can match the revolutionary career of the Marquis de Lafayette... -
![Scars and Stripes: An Unapologetically American Story of Fighting the Taliban, UFC Warriors, and Myself by Tim Kennedy, Nick Palmisciano]()
Scars and Stripes: An Unapologetically American Story of Fighting the Taliban, UFC Warriors, and Myself by Tim Kennedy, Nick Palmisciano
Rated: 4.57 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsINSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERFrom decorated Green Beret sniper, UFC headliner, and all around badass, Tim Kennedy, a rollicking, inspirational memoir offering lessons in how to embrace failure and weather storms, in order to unlock the strongest version of yourself.Tim Kennedy has a problem; he only feels alive right before he’s about to die... -
![Deutschland Erinnerungen Einer Nation by Neil MacGregor, Martin Daske]()
Deutschland Erinnerungen Einer Nation by Neil MacGregor, Martin Daske
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsA major new series from the makers of "A History of the World in 100 Objects," exploring the fascinating and complex history of Germany from the origins of the Holy Roman Empire right up to the present day. Written and presented by Neil MacGregor, it is produced by BBC Radio 4, in partnership with the British Museum... -
![No Sleep Till Shengal by Zerocalcare]()
No Sleep Till Shengal by Zerocalcare
Rated: 4.44 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsNella primavera del 2021 Zerocalcare si reca in Iraq, per far visita alla comunità ezida di Shengal, minacciata dalle tensioni internazionali e protetta dalle milizie curde, e documentarne le condizioni di vita e la lotta... -
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![El abismo del olvido by Paco Roca, Rodrigo Terrasa]()
El abismo del olvido by Paco Roca, Rodrigo Terrasa
Rated: 4.75 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsPaco Roca viaja a nuestro pasado con El abismo del olvido para recuperar junto al periodista Rodrigo Terrasa la historia real de Leoncio Badía —joven republicano obligado a trabajar de sepulturero—; de José Celda —fusilado y enterrado en una fosa común, ejemplo de las decenas de miles de españoles que fueron represaliados de forma salvaje por el régimen franquista—; y de Pepica Celda —hija de... -
![Like Eating a Stone: Surviving the Past in Bosnia by Wojciech Tochman]()
Like Eating a Stone: Surviving the Past in Bosnia by Wojciech Tochman
Rated: 4.43 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsDuring four years of war in Bosnia, over 100,000 people lost their lives. But it was months, even years, before the mass graves started to yield up their dead and the process of identification, burial, and mourning could begin... -
![Limitless: The Autobiography by Tim Peake]()
Limitless: The Autobiography by Tim Peake
Rated: 4.43 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsThe thrilling autobiography of the astronaut who inspired a generationThe #1 bestselling author of Hello, is this planet Earth? and Ask an Astronaut ‘I looked down below my feet and suddenly noticed Australia flashing by. The vertigo hit me then. My gloved hands gripped the handrail as tightly as I could. I had been on my spacewalk for over an hour. I had trained for this moment for years... -
![Pity the Nation: Lebanon at War by Robert Fisk]()
Pity the Nation: Lebanon at War by Robert Fisk
Rated: 4.43 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsAccount of war in the late-20th century both as historical document and as an eyewitness testament to human savagery. Written by one of Britain's foremost journalists, this book combines political analysis and war reporting: it is an epic account of the Lebanon conflict by an author who has personally witnessed the carnage of Beirut for over a decade... -
![The Last Punisher: A SEAL Team Three Sniper's True Account of the Battle of Ramadi by Kevin Lacz, Ethan E. Rocke]()
The Last Punisher: A SEAL Team Three Sniper's True Account of the Battle of Ramadi by Kevin Lacz, Ethan E. Rocke
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 16 ratings“One of the very best books to come out of the war in Iraq,” (Lt. Col. Dave Grossman, bestselling author of On Killing ), The Last Punisher is a gripping and intimate on-the-ground memoir from a Navy SEAL who was part of SEAL Team THREE with American Sniper Chris Kyle... -
![The Nazis Knew My Name: A Remarkable Story of Survival and Courage in Auschwitz-Birkenau by Magda Hellinger, Maya Lee]()
The Nazis Knew My Name: A Remarkable Story of Survival and Courage in Auschwitz-Birkenau by Magda Hellinger, Maya Lee
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsThe “thought-provoking…must-read” (Ariana Neumann, author of When Time Stopped) memoir by a Holocaust survivor who saved an untold number of lives at Auschwitz through everyday acts of courage and kindness—in the vein of A Bookshop in Berlin and The Nazi Officer’s Wife...
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