The book focuses on events and battles in the Pacific region during World War II. This novel provides insight into the key battles, strategies and fates of soldiers on the shores of the Pacific.
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Widow Cesira and her daughter Rosetta flee bombed Rome to their native Ciociaria, where they experience hunger, fear and misery. Liberation brings tragedy: Rosetta is raped by Moroccan soldiers, destroying their faith in God and people.
Mown Fields (1933) represents the culmination and swan song of a life that ended too soon – the author finished the novel just five months before his death from tuberculosis, at the age of thirty-one.
The novel is a kaleidoscopic, polyphonic account of the life of Gerda Taro (née Gerda Pohorylle, 1910–1937), the first female war photographer to die on the battlefield. A must-read for fans of historical fiction about strong women and anti-fascism.
From the bestselling author of "Jimmy and the Rainbow," comes a novel that weaves a love story with the stirring events of the Bosnian war. This story, woven into the historical context, reminds us that sometimes the impossible dream is the only one worth
Armageddon (1964) by Leon Uris is a historical novel set in post-war Berlin during the 1948-1949 airlift, when the Allies supplied West Berlin amidst the Soviet blockade.
A moving and poignant chronicle of the siege and destruction of Vukovar in 1991 through 57 short "postcard" chapters. Pavličić does not write from the perspective of an "ordinary" Zagreb resident who spent the summer of 1991 in Vukovar, and then followed