Historical genre books (350)
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East of the West : A Country in Stories by Miroslav Penkov EN
BulgariaDescription:
Collects stories inspired by the author's native Bulgaria, including the tales of a grandson who tries to buy Lenin's corpse on eBay for his grandfather and a boy who meets a cousin every five years on the river that divides their village.
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El Andorrà : D'car Mo un Pastor d'Almeria Es Converteix en l'home Més Ric D'Andorra by Joaquín Abad CA
AndorraDescription:
Un jove pastor d'un poble serrà de la província d'Almeria fuig després d'apunyalar a l'alcalde, un milicià al qual va sorprendre violant a la seva neboda, i es va refugiar a Andorra, on es va unir als pastors que feien de guies als espanyols que creuaven cap a França, fugint de la guerra civil, i després als jueus procedents de França que escapaven de la persecució nazi. Es van fer molt rics a força d'abandonar a alguns adinerats a la neu, lligats amb filferros i descalços, quedant-se els béns que portaven. L'Antonio Lao, amb els anys, es va convertir en l'empresari més important d'Andorra, pr... continue
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El coronel no tiene quien le escriba by Gabriel García Márquez ES
Country: South America / 
Colombia
Colombia
Description:
"No One Writes to the Colonel" is a portrait of old age, that period when physical decay conflicts with still-alert mental pride. Gabriel Garca Mrquez was born in 1928 in the town of Aracatca, Columbia. Latin America's preeminent man of letters, he is considered by many to be one of the greatest writers of the 20th century.
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El Salvador in the Aftermath of Peace : Crime, Uncertainty, and the Transition to Democracy by Ellen Moodie EN
Country: North America / 
United States of America
United States of America
Description:
El Salvador's civil war, which left at least 75,000 people dead and displaced more than a million, ended in 1992. The accord between the government and the Farabundo Martí National Liberation Front (FMLN) has been lauded as a model post-Cold War peace agreement. But after the conflict stopped, crime rates shot up. The number of murder victims surpassed wartime death tolls. Those who once feared the police and the state became frustrated by their lack of action. Peace was not what Salvadorans had hoped it would be. Citizens began saying to each other, "It's worse than the war." El Salvador in t... continue
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Eureka Street by Robert McLiam Wilson EN
Country: Europe / 
United Kingdom
United Kingdom
Description:
In Eureka Street in Belfast wonen mensen die niet zo gewoon zijn als ze lijken.
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Eusebius' Ecclesiastical History : Complete and Unabridged by Eusebius Pamphilus EN
IsraelDescription:
All ten books of Eusebius' famous church history are presented here complete in a superb and authoritative translation. Eusebius' Ecclesiastical History is one of the first comprehensive, chronologically arranged histories ever written about the Christian church, and it is consulted by scholars and historians to this day. Eusebius authored his history as the Roman Empire's influence upon the European continent waned amid insurgencies and surrender of Roman lands to other peoples. This also a time in which Christianity's influence upon Europe's peoples burgeoned and grew. As one of a very few l... continue
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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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Facundo : Civilization and Barbarism by Domingo Faustino Sarmiento EN
Country: South America / 
Argentina
Argentina
Description:
An educator and writer, Sarmiento was President of Argentina from 1868 to 1874. His Facundo is a study of the Argentine character, a prescription for the modernization of Latin America, and a protest against the tyranny of the government of Juan Manuel de Rosas (1835-1852). The book brings nineteenth-century Latin American history to life even as it raises questions still being debated today--questions regarding the "civilized" city versus the "barbaric" countryside, the treatment of indigenous and African populations, and the classically liberal plan of modernization.