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Časni trgovci

Uzorana ledina

The novel is set in a Cossack community on the Don River during collectivization in the Soviet Union. The work, divided into two parts, follows the dramatic changes in the village of Gremyachi Log as the Bolsheviks introduce collective farms, which provok

Pile na ražnju

Jiří Šotola's quasi-historical novel Pile on a Spit depicts the absurdity of life through the story of the antihero – the puppeteer Matija Pile (Matěj Kuře), a puppeteer of history during the Napoleonic Wars. The novel criticizes totalitarianism through b

Truba za Bleiburg

Marino Zurl (1929–2006), a Croatian writer and publicist, writes in his novel Trumpet for Bleiburg about one of the most controversial and taboo topics in Croatian history – the Bleiburg Massacre and the Stations of the Cross in 1945.

Kleopatra: Egipatska kraljica

The novel tells the lavish story of the last Egyptian queen, a woman of exceptional intelligence and beauty, whose life, love affairs with Caesar and Antony, and tragic death symbolize the collision of power, passion, and fate.

Armageddon

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.