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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... -
![The Woman from Tantoura: A Palestinian Novel by Radwa Ashour]()
The Woman from Tantoura: A Palestinian Novel by Radwa Ashour
Rated: 4.35 of 5 stars · 26 ratingsPalestine. For most of us, the word brings to mind a series of confused images and disjointed associations-massacres, refugee camps, UN resolutions, settlements, terrorist attacks, war, occupation, checkered kouffiyehs and suicide bombers, a seemingly endless cycle of death and destruction... -
![Pereira Declares: A Testimony by Antonio Tabucchi]()
Pereira Declares: A Testimony by Antonio Tabucchi
Rated: 4.15 of 5 stars · 26 ratingsDr. Pereira is an aging, overweightjournalist who has failed to noticethe menacing cloud of fascism overSalazarist Portugal, until one day hemeets an aspiring young writer andanti-fascist. Breaking out of his apolitical torpor, Pereira reluctantly rises to heroism... -
![1921: The Great Novel of the Irish Civil War by Morgan Llywelyn]()
1921: The Great Novel of the Irish Civil War by Morgan Llywelyn
Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsThe Irish fight for independence is one of the most captivating tales of the twentieth century. Morgan Llywelyn, the acclaimed historical writer of books like Lion of Ireland, Bard and The Horse Goddess , is the writer born to bring this epic battle to life...Categorized as:
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![Sharpe's Battle by Bernard Cornwell, William Gaminara]()
Sharpe's Battle by Bernard Cornwell, William Gaminara
Rated: 4.18 of 5 stars · 32 ratingsThe thirteenth novel in the Sharpe series. Once more Sharpe's career is on the line, following a disastrous attack by an elite French unit. To save his honour Sharpe must lead his men to glory in one of the bitterest battles of the Peninsular War... -
![The Renegade: A Tale of Robert the Bruce by Jack Whyte]()
The Renegade: A Tale of Robert the Bruce by Jack Whyte
Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsThe Renegade is a blazing, brilliant, new historical adventure in Jack Whyte's Guardians series. Packed with action, heroism, and vibrant historical detail, The Renegade recounts the life of Scotland's greatest medieval king, Robert the Bruce... -
![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... -
![Inshallah by Oriana Fallaci]()
Inshallah by Oriana Fallaci
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsHailed upon its European publication as a masterpiece, Inshallah is Oriana Fallaci's great achievement, a twentieth-century epic about the catastrophic civil war in Lebanon. Writing in Italy's Il Giorno, Giancarlo Vigorelli has announced, "One must make room for Fallaci next to Hemingway and Malraux... -
![Byzantium Endures by Michael Moorcock]()
Byzantium Endures by Michael Moorcock
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThe first volume of the Pyat Quartet.Byzantium Endures, the first of the Pyat Quartet, introduces one of Michael Moorcock's most magnificent creations - Maxim Arturovitch Pyatnitski. Born in Kiev on the cusp of the twentieth century, he discovers the pleasures of sex and cocaine and glimpses a sophisticated world beyond his horizons before the storm of the October Revolution breaks... -
![A Call to Arms by Allan Mallinson]()
A Call to Arms by Allan Mallinson
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratings1817 and 1818 have not been good years for Matthew Hervey. His beloved wife Henrietta is dead and he is no longer in the Sixth regiment. Now he is kicking his heels in a corrupt and unruly England far removed from its once glorious past. 1819 sees Hervey in Rome with his sister Elizabeth where a chance meeting with man of letters Percy Bysshe Shelley leads him to rethink his future... -
![An Act of Courage by Allan Mallinson]()
An Act of Courage by Allan Mallinson
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsTHE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR Allan Mallinson brings us another compelling and deeply atmospheric adventure featuring Matthew Hervey. If you like Patrick O'Brian, Bernard Cornwell and CS Forester, you will love this! "Most impressive.. -
![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... -
![Victory at Yorktown by Newt Gingrich, William R. Forstchen]()
Victory at Yorktown by Newt Gingrich, William R. Forstchen
Rated: 4.07 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsNew York Times bestselling authors Newt Gingrich's and William R. Forstchen's George Washington series continues-a novel about faith, leadership, and the triumph of the American causeIt is 1781, and Washington and his army have spent three years in a bitter stalemate, engaging in near constant skirmishing against the British... -
![Conquered City by Victor Serge]()
Conquered City by Victor Serge
Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars · 6 ratings1919–1920: St. Petersburg, city of the czars, has fallen to the Revolution. Camped out in the splendid palaces of the former regime, the city’s new masters seek to cement their control, even as the counterrevolutionary White Army regroups... -
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![The Third George (The Fifth Book In The Georgian Saga) by Jean Plaidy]()
The Third George (The Fifth Book In The Georgian Saga) by Jean Plaidy
Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsGeorge III was certain that the shadowy charm of Hannah, the vital beauty of Sarah, would cease to torment him once he was married to Charlotte. But Charlotte was unexciting, and he could not help his heart beating faster every time he saw a beautiful woman... -
![Mitla Pass by Leon Uris]()
Mitla Pass by Leon Uris
Rated: 3.88 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsFrom the Russian pogroms of the early 1900s to Israel's Sinai War in 1956, Mitla Pass is an extraordinary epic novel of love and war, violence and passion, and man's eternal quest for freedom, from the bestselling author of Battle Cry, The Haj and Mila 18... -
![Resurrection Day by Brendan DuBois]()
Resurrection Day by Brendan DuBois
Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsIn the aftermath of the Cuban missile crisis, the U.S. has been crippled into a second-rate power dependent upon European allies for survival. In the shadow of this devastating chaos, a reporter stumbles across a man with secrets of the great war's origins--and lies about Kennedy's death... -
![Zoo Station by David Downing]()
Zoo Station by David Downing
Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsBy 1939, Anglo-American journalist John Russell has spent fifteen years in Berlin, where his German-born son lives. He writes human-interest pieces for British and American papers, avoiding the investigative journalism that could get him deported. But as war approaches, he faces the prospect of having to leave his son and his longtime girlfriend... -
![Circumference of Darkness by Jack Henderson]()
Circumference of Darkness by Jack Henderson
Rated: 3.75 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsThis electrifying debut thriller delivers a gripping tale of Big Brother gone mad amid a modern world on the verge of endless war. Brimming with high-powered suspense, here is the brilliant, frighteningly believable story of three masterminds locked on a breathtaking collision cours—the outcome of which will determine the fate of the United States... -
![La donna dei fiori di carta by Donato Carrisi, Alberto Angrisano]()
La donna dei fiori di carta by Donato Carrisi, Alberto Angrisano
Rated: 3.75 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsIl monte Fumo è una cattedrale di ghiaccio, teatro di una battaglia decisiva. Ma l'eco dei combattimenti non varca l'entrata della caverna in cui avviene un confronto fra due uomini. Uno è un prigioniero che all'alba sarà fucilato, a meno che non riveli nome e grado... -
![Brave Enemies by Robert Morgan]()
Brave Enemies by Robert Morgan
Rated: 3.63 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsAs the War for Independence wore on into the 1780s, unrest ruled the Carolinas. Settlers who had cleared the land after the Cherokees withdrew were being mustered for battle as British forces pillaged their hard-won farms. Robert Morgan's stunning novel tells a story of two people caught in the chaos raging in the wilderness... -
![The Man Who Could Be King by John Ripin Miller]()
The Man Who Could Be King by John Ripin Miller
Rated: 3.71 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsWhen young Josiah Penn Stockbridge accepts the position as aide-de-camp to George Washington at the beginning of the Revolutionary War, he thinks only of the glory and romance of battle. He is unprepared for the reality of America’s bloody fight for independence... -
![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... -
![The Fox in the Attic by Richard Hughes]()
The Fox in the Attic by Richard Hughes
Rated: 3.50 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsThis, the first volume in Hughes's trilogy "The Human Predicament", takes rich young Augustine to Bavaria on the eve of Hitler's ill-fated 1923 Munich putsch and ends with the departure into a convent of Augustine's romantic first love, the blind Mitzi... -
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![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... -
![All that's Left to You: A Novella and Other Stories by Ghassan Kanafani]()
All that's Left to You: A Novella and Other Stories by Ghassan Kanafani
Rated: 3.56 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsIt should come as no surprise to learn that Palestinian writers themselves have been in the forefront of those who have addressed themselves to the tragedy of their own people, and in a variety of genres and styles… While all these writers display a sense of "commitment" to the cause of their people, there is one author who, in the words of the Egyptian writer, Yusuf Idris, has taken this cause... -
![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... -
![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... -
![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...
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