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20세기 도서 요약

The Waves

저자: Virginia Woolf • 1931

Six friends speak their separate selves: one day, six decades, and the sea that outlasts them.

4.14

55,000+

🌊 Stream Of Consciousness ✨ Lyrical Prose 👥 Lifelong Friends 💔 Queer Longing 🖤 Grief And Mourning

The Waves

Six friends speak their separate selves: one day, six decades, and the sea that outlasts them.

저자: Virginia Woolf 1931 297 페이지

4.14

55,000+ 개의 평점

🌊 Stream Of Consciousness ✨ Lyrical Prose 👥 Lifelong Friends 💔 Queer Longing 🖤 Grief And Mourning

The Atomic City Girls

저자: Janet Beard • 2018

Young women monitor machines in a secret city, never told they're building the atomic bomb.

3.54

26,000+

🏭 Home Front WWII 💔 Secret Romance 👥 Multiple Perspectives 🤝 Found Family 🎭 Social Climbing

The Atomic City Girls

Young women monitor machines in a secret city, never told they're building the atomic bomb.

저자: Janet Beard 2018 353 페이지

3.54

26,000+ 개의 평점

🏭 Home Front WWII 💔 Secret Romance 👥 Multiple Perspectives 🤝 Found Family 🎭 Social Climbing

Facial Justice

저자: L.P. Hartley • 1960

Postwar England mandates identical faces to stamp out envy. One woman refuses to give hers up.

3.40

355

🎭 Dystopian Satire 🫥 Enforced Conformity ✊ Reluctant Revolutionary 💔 Forbidden Romance 🌫️ Bleak Atmosphere

Facial Justice

Postwar England mandates identical faces to stamp out envy. One woman refuses to give hers up.

저자: L.P. Hartley 1960 263 페이지

3.40

355 개의 평점

🎭 Dystopian Satire 🫥 Enforced Conformity ✊ Reluctant Revolutionary 💔 Forbidden Romance 🌫️ Bleak Atmosphere

L'eco del boato

저자: Mirco Dondi • 2015

Italy's worst bombings were blamed on the left, but the real bombers wore state uniforms.

4.02

🇮🇹 Postwar Italy 🕵️ State Secrecy 💥 False Flag Attacks 🔥 Far-Right Terrorism 📰 Media Manipulation

L'eco del boato

Italy's worst bombings were blamed on the left, but the real bombers wore state uniforms.

저자: Mirco Dondi 2015 414 페이지

4.02

49 개의 평점

🇮🇹 Postwar Italy 🕵️ State Secrecy 💥 False Flag Attacks 🔥 Far-Right Terrorism 📰 Media Manipulation

The Night Watchman

저자: Louise Erdrich • 2020

A Chippewa night watchman learns Congress intends to dissolve his tribe and rallies his community.

4.08

97,000+

🏛️ Tribal Sovereignty 🏠 Reservation Life 🔍 Missing Indigenous Women 🏫 Boarding School Trauma 👩‍👧 Mothers And Daughters

The Night Watchman

A Chippewa night watchman learns Congress intends to dissolve his tribe and rallies his community.

저자: Louise Erdrich 2020 464 페이지

4.08

97,000+ 개의 평점

🏛️ Tribal Sovereignty 🏠 Reservation Life 🔍 Missing Indigenous Women 🏫 Boarding School Trauma 👩‍👧 Mothers And Daughters

Storia dell'Italia contemporanea 1943-2019

저자: Umberto Gentiloni Silveri • 2019

Moro, Mafia bombs, Tangentopoli: Italy's republic keeps dying but never gets buried.

3.09

📜 Italian History 🇪🇺 Postwar Europe 🌐 Cold War Politics 💸 Economic Booms 🔴 Anni Di Piombo

Storia dell'Italia contemporanea 1943-2019

Moro, Mafia bombs, Tangentopoli: Italy's republic keeps dying but never gets buried.

저자: Umberto Gentiloni Silveri 2019 405 페이지

3.09

46 개의 평점

📜 Italian History 🇪🇺 Postwar Europe 🌐 Cold War Politics 💸 Economic Booms 🔴 Anni Di Piombo

Frida

저자: Hayden Herrera • 1983

Two hundred self-portraits, one body in revolt. Frida Kahlo turned a lifetime of surgeries into art.

4.02

75,000+

📚 Artist Biographies 🎨 Mexican Modernism 🖼️ Self-Portraiture 🩺 Illness And Creativity 👩‍🎨 Female Artists

Frida

Two hundred self-portraits, one body in revolt. Frida Kahlo turned a lifetime of surgeries into art.

저자: Hayden Herrera 1983 528 페이지

4.02

75,000+ 개의 평점

📚 Artist Biographies 🎨 Mexican Modernism 🖼️ Self-Portraiture 🩺 Illness And Creativity 👩‍🎨 Female Artists

The Foundation Pit

저자: Andrei Platonov • 1994

A fired thinker digs a bottomless pit for a Soviet utopia that devours its builders.

3.78

6,000+

🏭 Soviet Dystopia 🌀 Absurdist Fiction ⛏️ Futile Labor 📋 Bureaucratic Nightmare 🥀 Doomed Innocence

The Foundation Pit

A fired thinker digs a bottomless pit for a Soviet utopia that devours its builders.

저자: Andrei Platonov 1994 141 페이지

3.78

6,000+ 개의 평점

🏭 Soviet Dystopia 🌀 Absurdist Fiction ⛏️ Futile Labor 📋 Bureaucratic Nightmare 🥀 Doomed Innocence

Nine Stories

저자: J.D. Salinger • 1948

Nine stories: children see what adults miss, the wounded self-destruct, and grace arrives uninvited.

4.18

100,000+

🪖 Post-War Fiction 📝 American Short Stories 🧒 Childhood Innocence 💔 Psychological Trauma 🧘 Zen Buddhism

Nine Stories

Nine stories: children see what adults miss, the wounded self-destruct, and grace arrives uninvited.

저자: J.D. Salinger 1948 302 페이지

4.18

100,000+ 개의 평점

🪖 Post-War Fiction 📝 American Short Stories 🧒 Childhood Innocence 💔 Psychological Trauma 🧘 Zen Buddhism

Globalists

저자: Quinn Slobodian • 2018

Neoliberalism never freed markets. It gave capital rights that no vote could take away.

4.16

1,000+

🧠 Intellectual History 💰 Political Economy 💼 Neoliberalism 🌐 Global Governance 📖 History Of Economic Thought

Globalists

Neoliberalism never freed markets. It gave capital rights that no vote could take away.

저자: Quinn Slobodian 2018 400 페이지

4.16

1,000+ 개의 평점

🧠 Intellectual History 💰 Political Economy 💼 Neoliberalism 🌐 Global Governance 📖 History Of Economic Thought

G-Man

저자: Beverly Gage • 2022

A bureaucratic genius built the FBI and used its secrets to hold the powerful hostage.

4.36

5,000+

📜 Political Biography 👁️ Domestic Surveillance 📁 Political Blackmail 📺 Media Manipulation 🕵️ Cold War Espionage

G-Man

A bureaucratic genius built the FBI and used its secrets to hold the powerful hostage.

저자: Beverly Gage 2022 837 페이지

4.36

5,000+ 개의 평점

📜 Political Biography 👁️ Domestic Surveillance 📁 Political Blackmail 📺 Media Manipulation 🕵️ Cold War Espionage

The Korean War

저자: Bruce Cumings • 2010

A civil war America mistook for a Cold War proxy, bombed into oblivion, and then forgot.

3.76

1,000+

🇰🇷 Korean History 🥶 Cold War Asia ⚔️ Civil War History 🏚️ Colonial Legacies ⚰️ Civilian Atrocities

The Korean War

A civil war America mistook for a Cold War proxy, bombed into oblivion, and then forgot.

저자: Bruce Cumings 2010 320 페이지

3.76

1,000+ 개의 평점

🇰🇷 Korean History 🥶 Cold War Asia ⚔️ Civil War History 🏚️ Colonial Legacies ⚰️ Civilian Atrocities

The Trials of Harry S. Truman

저자: Jeffrey Frank • 2022

Kept in the dark by FDR, an ordinary Missourian inherited the bomb, Stalin, and Korea.

3.99

500+

🏛️ Presidential Biography 🥶 Cold War Origins ☢️ Nuclear Age 🏗️ Postwar Reconstruction 🛡️ Containment Policy

The Trials of Harry S. Truman

Kept in the dark by FDR, an ordinary Missourian inherited the bomb, Stalin, and Korea.

저자: Jeffrey Frank 2022 576 페이지

3.99

500+ 개의 평점

🏛️ Presidential Biography 🥶 Cold War Origins ☢️ Nuclear Age 🏗️ Postwar Reconstruction 🛡️ Containment Policy

Conquering the maharajas

저자: Harrison Akins • 2023

Britain left India with 560 independent kingdoms. Absorbing them before the subcontinent fractured.

4.63

🏛️ South Asian History 🌍 Decolonization 👑 British Raj ✂️ Partition Of India 🏗️ State Formation

Conquering the maharajas

Britain left India with 560 independent kingdoms. Absorbing them before the subcontinent fractured.

저자: Harrison Akins 2023 281 페이지

4.63

8 개의 평점

🏛️ South Asian History 🌍 Decolonization 👑 British Raj ✂️ Partition Of India 🏗️ State Formation

Lila

저자: Marilynne Robinson • 2014

A stolen child, a wary drifter, walks into an Iowa church and a widowed preacher's life.

3.95

36,000+

🕊️ Theological Fiction 🌾 Midwestern Gothic 💛 Found Family 💍 Unlikely Marriage 🙏 Hard Won Grace

Lila

A stolen child, a wary drifter, walks into an Iowa church and a widowed preacher's life.

저자: Marilynne Robinson 2014 261 페이지

3.95

36,000+ 개의 평점

🕊️ Theological Fiction 🌾 Midwestern Gothic 💛 Found Family 💍 Unlikely Marriage 🙏 Hard Won Grace

War and the Iliad

저자: Simone Weil • 1940

The Iliad's hero is force: what turns a person into a corpse or a living thing.

4.09

500+

🏛️ Homeric Studies ⚔️ Philosophy Of Violence 🎭 Tragic Vision 🪨 Dehumanization 🕰️ Interwar Thought

War and the Iliad

The Iliad's hero is force: what turns a person into a corpse or a living thing.

저자: Simone Weil 1940 121 페이지

4.09

500+ 개의 평점

🏛️ Homeric Studies ⚔️ Philosophy Of Violence 🎭 Tragic Vision 🪨 Dehumanization 🕰️ Interwar Thought

The Power Elite and the State

저자: G. William Domhoff • 1990

Social Security and the IMF were built by the same corporate insiders they supposedly tamed.

3.83

🏛️ Elite Theory 💼 Corporate Influence 📊 Class Analysis 🧠 Think Tank Networks 🏥 Welfare State Origins

The Power Elite and the State

Social Security and the IMF were built by the same corporate insiders they supposedly tamed.

저자: G. William Domhoff 1990 315 페이지

3.83

6 개의 평점

🏛️ Elite Theory 💼 Corporate Influence 📊 Class Analysis 🧠 Think Tank Networks 🏥 Welfare State Origins

Time Regained

저자: Marcel Proust • 1927

Friends wear masks of age. A stumble on broken stone restores a writer's lost past.

4.51

8,000+

📖 Modernist Novel 🧠 Sensory Memory ⏳ Lost Time 🎨 Artistic Awakening 🥂 Parisian Society

Time Regained

Friends wear masks of age. A stumble on broken stone restores a writer's lost past.

저자: Marcel Proust 1927 784 페이지

4.51

8,000+ 개의 평점

📖 Modernist Novel 🧠 Sensory Memory ⏳ Lost Time 🎨 Artistic Awakening 🥂 Parisian Society

Milkman

저자: Anna Burns • 2018

A young woman is stalked by a paramilitary man, and neighbors blame her for the attention.

3.53

72,000+

🕊️ The Troubles 🧠 Stream Of Consciousness 👀 Obsessive Stalker 🗣️ Toxic Gossip 🎭 Unnamed Narrator

Milkman

A young woman is stalked by a paramilitary man, and neighbors blame her for the attention.

저자: Anna Burns 2018 352 페이지

3.53

72,000+ 개의 평점

🕊️ The Troubles 🧠 Stream Of Consciousness 👀 Obsessive Stalker 🗣️ Toxic Gossip 🎭 Unnamed Narrator

The First World War

저자: John Keegan • 1999

A war launched by timetables, not intentions, that killed ten million before anyone could halt it.

4.05

16,000+

🌍 World War I ⚔️ Military History 🕳️ Trench Warfare 🩸 Attrition Warfare 🤝 Pre-War Diplomacy

The First World War

A war launched by timetables, not intentions, that killed ten million before anyone could halt it.

저자: John Keegan 1999 475 페이지

4.05

16,000+ 개의 평점

🌍 World War I ⚔️ Military History 🕳️ Trench Warfare 🩸 Attrition Warfare 🤝 Pre-War Diplomacy

The Shortest History of Germany

저자: James Hawes • 2017

Behind the 20th century’s disasters stands a hidden network of financiers and imperial idealists.

3.70

9,000+

🏛️ Western Civilization 🔄 Historical Cycles 💵 International Finance 🥸 Conspiracy Theory 🏭 Military Industrial Complex

The Shortest History of Germany

Behind the 20th century’s disasters stands a hidden network of financiers and imperial idealists.

저자: James Hawes 2017 226 페이지

3.70

9,000+ 개의 평점

🏛️ Western Civilization 🔄 Historical Cycles 💵 International Finance 🥸 Conspiracy Theory 🏭 Military Industrial Complex

America and Iran

저자: John Ghazvinian • 2020

The 300-year relationship America and Iran forgot: a story that begins with admiration, not hatred.

4.36

1,000+

🌍 Us-Iran Relations 📜 Diplomatic History 🛢️ Oil Politics ✊ Revolution 🌏 Postcolonial History

America and Iran

The 300-year relationship America and Iran forgot: a story that begins with admiration, not hatred.

저자: John Ghazvinian 2020 688 페이지

4.36

1,000+ 개의 평점

🌍 Us-Iran Relations 📜 Diplomatic History 🛢️ Oil Politics ✊ Revolution 🌏 Postcolonial History

Band of Brothers

저자: Stephen E. Ambrose • 1992

From Normandy to Hitler's mountain retreat, Easy Company fought for one reason: each other.

4.44

100,000+

🪂 Paratrooper History 🤝 Small-Unit Cohesion 🫡 Combat Leadership 📖 Narrative Military History ⚡ Elite Military Units

Band of Brothers

From Normandy to Hitler's mountain retreat, Easy Company fought for one reason: each other.

저자: Stephen E. Ambrose 1992 432 페이지

4.44

100,000+ 개의 평점

🪂 Paratrooper History 🤝 Small-Unit Cohesion 🫡 Combat Leadership 📖 Narrative Military History ⚡ Elite Military Units

All the Glimmering Stars

저자: Mark T. Sullivan • 2024

Two Ugandan children are kidnapped by a warlord's army and forced to become soldier and bride.

4.59

23,000+

🔫 Child Soldiers 💔 Love In Wartime 🕊️ Forgiveness And Healing 🔗 Forced Marriage 🧠 Psychological Trauma

All the Glimmering Stars

Two Ugandan children are kidnapped by a warlord's army and forced to become soldier and bride.

저자: Mark T. Sullivan 2024 475 페이지

4.59

23,000+ 개의 평점

🔫 Child Soldiers 💔 Love In Wartime 🕊️ Forgiveness And Healing 🔗 Forced Marriage 🧠 Psychological Trauma

Nielegałowie. Jak szpieguje nas Rosja?

저자: Shaun Walker • 2025

A century of Russian spies next door: from Lenin's fugitives to the sleepers caught last week.

4.22

2,000+

🕵️ Soviet Intelligence 📜 Espionage History 🎭 Deep Cover Operations 🛌 Sleeper Agents ❄️ Cold War Espionage

Nielegałowie. Jak szpieguje nas Rosja?

A century of Russian spies next door: from Lenin's fugitives to the sleepers caught last week.

저자: Shaun Walker 2025 568 페이지

4.22

2,000+ 개의 평점

🕵️ Soviet Intelligence 📜 Espionage History 🎭 Deep Cover Operations 🛌 Sleeper Agents ❄️ Cold War Espionage

The Path Between the Seas

저자: David McCullough • 1977

Forty years, two nations, twenty-five thousand dead: the true cost of fifty miles of canal.

4.22

23,000+

🏗️ Engineering History 🇺🇸 American Imperialism 🦟 Tropical Medicine 📖 Narrative History 🌍 Geopolitical History

The Path Between the Seas

Forty years, two nations, twenty-five thousand dead: the true cost of fifty miles of canal.

저자: David McCullough 1977 698 페이지

4.22

23,000+ 개의 평점

🏗️ Engineering History 🇺🇸 American Imperialism 🦟 Tropical Medicine 📖 Narrative History 🌍 Geopolitical History

Hero City

저자: Prit Buttar • 2024

Germany designed a famine. Stalin designed a cover-up. Leningrad's siege between two tyrannies.

4.47

⚔️ Eastern Front 🪖 Soviet Military History 🏰 Siege Warfare 🌲 Partisan Warfare 🚫 Stalinist Repression

Hero City

Germany designed a famine. Stalin designed a cover-up. Leningrad's siege between two tyrannies.

저자: Prit Buttar 2024 464 페이지

4.47

34 개의 평점

⚔️ Eastern Front 🪖 Soviet Military History 🏰 Siege Warfare 🌲 Partisan Warfare 🚫 Stalinist Repression

Tragedy and Hope

저자: Carroll Quigley • 1966

Art turned ugly, stopped making sense, and became useless. That was its last honest act.

4.32

500+

🏫 Frankfurt School 🎨 Aesthetic Theory 🏛️ Art And Society 🖼️ Autonomy Of Art 🎭 Modernist Aesthetics

Tragedy and Hope

Art turned ugly, stopped making sense, and became useless. That was its last honest act.

저자: Carroll Quigley 1966 1348 페이지

4.32

500+ 개의 평점

🏫 Frankfurt School 🎨 Aesthetic Theory 🏛️ Art And Society 🖼️ Autonomy Of Art 🎭 Modernist Aesthetics

The Walnut Trees of Altenburg

저자: André Malraux • 1989

A prisoner in Chartres Cathedral traces his family through two wars to ask what remains human.

3.58

102

🧠 Philosophical Novel ⚔️ War Literature 📜 Multi-Generational Saga 🏛️ Intellectual Circle 🌳 Father-Son Legacy

The Walnut Trees of Altenburg

A prisoner in Chartres Cathedral traces his family through two wars to ask what remains human.

저자: André Malraux 1989 221 페이지

3.58

102 개의 평점

🧠 Philosophical Novel ⚔️ War Literature 📜 Multi-Generational Saga 🏛️ Intellectual Circle 🌳 Father-Son Legacy

The Medicine Woman of Galveston

저자: Amanda Skenandore • 2024

A disgraced doctor joins a traveling medicine show to save her disabled son from the poorhouse.

4.03

27,000+

🎪 Traveling Medicine Show 👩‍⚕️ Women In Medicine 👨‍👩‍👧‍👦 Found Family ❤️‍🔥 Slow Burn Romance 🩹 Trauma Recovery

The Medicine Woman of Galveston

A disgraced doctor joins a traveling medicine show to save her disabled son from the poorhouse.

저자: Amanda Skenandore 2024 384 페이지

4.03

27,000+ 개의 평점

🎪 Traveling Medicine Show 👩‍⚕️ Women In Medicine 👨‍👩‍👧‍👦 Found Family ❤️‍🔥 Slow Burn Romance 🩹 Trauma Recovery

The Rational Public

저자: Benjamin I. Page • 1992

One voter's opinion is noise. Combine millions, and a different story about democracy emerges.

3.58

📊 Public Opinion Research 🗳️ Democratic Theory 🧠 Collective Intelligence 🏛️ Welfare State Politics 🌐 Foreign Policy Attitudes

The Rational Public

One voter's opinion is noise. Combine millions, and a different story about democracy emerges.

저자: Benjamin I. Page 1992 506 페이지

3.58

33 개의 평점

📊 Public Opinion Research 🗳️ Democratic Theory 🧠 Collective Intelligence 🏛️ Welfare State Politics 🌐 Foreign Policy Attitudes

España partida en dos

저자: Julián Casanova • 2026

A failed coup became Europe's longest civil war, then its longest surviving fascist dictatorship.

4.39

🛡️ Spanish Civil War 🌍 Interwar Europe 💥 Political Violence 🔨 Social Revolution 🌐 Proxy Wars

España partida en dos

A failed coup became Europe's longest civil war, then its longest surviving fascist dictatorship.

저자: Julián Casanova 2026 162 페이지

4.39

64 개의 평점

🛡️ Spanish Civil War 🌍 Interwar Europe 💥 Political Violence 🔨 Social Revolution 🌐 Proxy Wars

Operation Shylock

저자: Philip Roth • 1993

A novelist discovers his double in Jerusalem, preaching that Jews must leave Israel to survive.

3.78

5,000+

🎭 Autofiction 👥 DoppelgäNger 🔍 Unreliable Narrator ✡️ Jewish Identity 📚 Literary Thriller

Operation Shylock

A novelist discovers his double in Jerusalem, preaching that Jews must leave Israel to survive.

저자: Philip Roth 1993 400 페이지

3.78

5,000+ 개의 평점

🎭 Autofiction 👥 DoppelgäNger 🔍 Unreliable Narrator ✡️ Jewish Identity 📚 Literary Thriller

French Braid

저자: Anne Tyler • 2022

A mother drifts out of her marriage in small steps. Her family looks away.

3.63

57,000+

📜 Multi-Generational Saga 🏠 Domestic Realism 🤫 Family Secrets 🚪 Quiet Rebellion 👩‍👧 Mother-Daughter Bond

French Braid

A mother drifts out of her marriage in small steps. Her family looks away.

저자: Anne Tyler 2022 244 페이지

3.63

57,000+ 개의 평점

📜 Multi-Generational Saga 🏠 Domestic Realism 🤫 Family Secrets 🚪 Quiet Rebellion 👩‍👧 Mother-Daughter Bond

Cold Sassy Tree

저자: Olive Ann Burns • 1984

A Georgia patriarch's hasty remarriage scandalizes the town, forcing his grandson to grow up fast.

4.02

100,000+

⏳ Early 1900s 🍑 Georgia Fiction 📖 Adolescent Narrator 🗣️ Small Town Gossip 💍 Age Gap Romance

Cold Sassy Tree

A Georgia patriarch's hasty remarriage scandalizes the town, forcing his grandson to grow up fast.

저자: Olive Ann Burns 1984 405 페이지

4.02

100,000+ 개의 평점

⏳ Early 1900s 🍑 Georgia Fiction 📖 Adolescent Narrator 🗣️ Small Town Gossip 💍 Age Gap Romance

J.B.

저자: Archibald MacLeish • 1958

A modern Job in verse: God thunders, but justice is absent. What persists is human.

3.75

1,000+

🎭 Verse Drama 🌩️ Modern Theodicy 📖 Biblical Retellings 🔥 Existential Resilience 💗 Redemptive Love

J.B.

A modern Job in verse: God thunders, but justice is absent. What persists is human.

저자: Archibald MacLeish 1958 153 페이지

3.75

1,000+ 개의 평점

🎭 Verse Drama 🌩️ Modern Theodicy 📖 Biblical Retellings 🔥 Existential Resilience 💗 Redemptive Love

A Kiss from Mr Fitzgerald

저자: Natasha Lester • 2016

She funds her medical degree by dancing on Broadway; the doctors won't let her in.

4.22

3,000+

👩‍⚕️ Women In Medicine 🤰 Obstetrics History 🕰️ 1920s America 🚺 Defying Gender Norms ⛓️ Systemic Sexism

A Kiss from Mr Fitzgerald

She funds her medical degree by dancing on Broadway; the doctors won't let her in.

저자: Natasha Lester 2016 400 페이지

4.22

3,000+ 개의 평점

👩‍⚕️ Women In Medicine 🤰 Obstetrics History 🕰️ 1920s America 🚺 Defying Gender Norms ⛓️ Systemic Sexism

Russia

저자: Antony Beevor • 2022

Revolution promised bread. It brought secret police, grain theft, and a famine that killed millions.

3.90

3,000+

🇷🇺 Russian Revolution 🚩 Bolshevism ⚔️ Civil War History 💣 Total War 🕵️ Political Terror

Russia

Revolution promised bread. It brought secret police, grain theft, and a famine that killed millions.

저자: Antony Beevor 2022 608 페이지

3.90

3,000+ 개의 평점

🇷🇺 Russian Revolution 🚩 Bolshevism ⚔️ Civil War History 💣 Total War 🕵️ Political Terror

Big Boys' Rules

저자: mark-urban • 1992

Britain's covert war on the IRA: informers, bugged weapons, ambushes the state called self-defense.

3.87

326

🇮🇪 The Troubles 🪖 Counterinsurgency 🕶️ Covert Warfare 📡 Intelligence Operations 🐀 Informer Networks

Big Boys' Rules

Britain's covert war on the IRA: informers, bugged weapons, ambushes the state called self-defense.

저자: mark-urban 1992 266 페이지

3.87

326 개의 평점

🇮🇪 The Troubles 🪖 Counterinsurgency 🕶️ Covert Warfare 📡 Intelligence Operations 🐀 Informer Networks

Ending Empire

저자: Hendrik Spruyt • 2005

International pressure didn't end empires. The veto players inside their governments did.

4.00

🏴 Decolonization 🔬 Comparative Politics 🔒 Institutional Gridlock 🗳️ Electoral Systems 🪖 Civil-Military Relations

Ending Empire

International pressure didn't end empires. The veto players inside their governments did.

저자: Hendrik Spruyt 2005 326 페이지

4.00

7 개의 평점

🏴 Decolonization 🔬 Comparative Politics 🔒 Institutional Gridlock 🗳️ Electoral Systems 🪖 Civil-Military Relations

We Burn Daylight

저자: Bret Anthony Johnston • 2024

Trapped inside a doomsday cult, she falls for the sheriff's son just as the siege begins.

3.83

2,000+

🏚️ Cult Fiction 💔 Star-Crossed Lovers 🩹 Cult Survivor 🫂 Survivor's Guilt 🔥 Slow Burn Tension

We Burn Daylight

Trapped inside a doomsday cult, she falls for the sheriff's son just as the siege begins.

저자: Bret Anthony Johnston 2024 352 페이지

3.83

2,000+ 개의 평점

🏚️ Cult Fiction 💔 Star-Crossed Lovers 🩹 Cult Survivor 🫂 Survivor's Guilt 🔥 Slow Burn Tension

Joy Goddess

저자: A'Lelia Bundles • 2025

A'Lelia Walker spent her fortune on parties. Those parties gave the Harlem Renaissance its stage.

3.84

380

🎨 Harlem Renaissance 👩🏿‍🦱 Black Women's History 👩‍👧 Mothers And Daughters 💄 Beauty Industry 📚 Literary Salons

Joy Goddess

A'Lelia Walker spent her fortune on parties. Those parties gave the Harlem Renaissance its stage.

저자: A'Lelia Bundles 2025 384 페이지

3.84

380 개의 평점

🎨 Harlem Renaissance 👩🏿‍🦱 Black Women's History 👩‍👧 Mothers And Daughters 💄 Beauty Industry 📚 Literary Salons

Rebel Hearts

저자: Kevin Toolis • 1995

Colonial wounds, British dirty war, family bonds: inside the IRA, violence was an inheritance.

4.10

500+

☘️ Irish Republicanism 💣 The Troubles ⚔️ Guerrilla Warfare 🗡️ Political Violence 🕵️ Covert Operations

Rebel Hearts

Colonial wounds, British dirty war, family bonds: inside the IRA, violence was an inheritance.

저자: Kevin Toolis 1995 400 페이지

4.10

500+ 개의 평점

☘️ Irish Republicanism 💣 The Troubles ⚔️ Guerrilla Warfare 🗡️ Political Violence 🕵️ Covert Operations

Generative Energy

저자: Raymond Peat • 1994

Seed oils age you faster than time does. Progesterone, thyroid, and red light reverse the damage.

4.38

255

🔬 Hormonal Health ⚡ Mitochondrial Health 🔋 Bioenergetic Medicine 💡 Light Therapy 🧬 Metabolic Medicine

Generative Energy

Seed oils age you faster than time does. Progesterone, thyroid, and red light reverse the damage.

저자: Raymond Peat 1994 151 페이지

4.38

255 개의 평점

🔬 Hormonal Health ⚡ Mitochondrial Health 🔋 Bioenergetic Medicine 💡 Light Therapy 🧬 Metabolic Medicine

The Prize

저자: Daniel Yergin • 1991

How a dark liquid wrote the rules of power, decided wars, and built the greatest fortunes.

4.44

12,000+

🛢️ Commodity History ⛽ Petroleum Industry 🌍 Energy Geopolitics 📖 Narrative History 🏭 Industrial Capitalism

The Prize

How a dark liquid wrote the rules of power, decided wars, and built the greatest fortunes.

저자: Daniel Yergin 1991 928 페이지

4.44

12,000+ 개의 평점

🛢️ Commodity History ⛽ Petroleum Industry 🌍 Energy Geopolitics 📖 Narrative History 🏭 Industrial Capitalism

The Picnic

저자: Matthew Longo • 2024

August 1989: a picnic on the Hungarian border. The gate opened, and hundreds ran.

4.22

500+

🔴 Cold War History 🏢 Eastern Bloc 🧱 Iron Curtain 🔍 Microhistory 🏃 Escape Stories

The Picnic

August 1989: a picnic on the Hungarian border. The gate opened, and hundreds ran.

저자: Matthew Longo 2024 320 페이지

4.22

500+ 개의 평점

🔴 Cold War History 🏢 Eastern Bloc 🧱 Iron Curtain 🔍 Microhistory 🏃 Escape Stories

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