Thế kỷ 20

Thế kỷ 20 đầy biến động đã sinh ra những tư tưởng cách mạng và các phong trào nghệ thuật cấp tiến, mãi mãi thay đổi cách chúng ta nhìn nhận bản thân và xã hội. Giữa hai cuộc chiến tranh thế giới và những biến động xã hội, các nhà văn đã vật lộn với chủ nghĩa hiện sinh, dòng ý thức và bóng tối ngày càng lan rộng của chủ nghĩa toàn trị qua những tác phẩm đột phá định hình nền văn học hiện đại.

Thế kỷ 20 Tóm tắt sách

The Rise and Fall of Adolf Hitler

của William L. Shirer • 1984

Failed artist, vagrant, demagogue: the step-by-step dismantling of a democracy that sparked WWII.

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2.000+

📜 Nazi Germany 🎖️ Wwii Biography 🎭 Political Manipulation 📈 Rise Of Fascism ⛓️ Authoritarian Regimes

The Rise and Fall of Adolf Hitler

Failed artist, vagrant, demagogue: the step-by-step dismantling of a democracy that sparked WWII.

của William L. Shirer 1984 188 trang

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2.000+ đánh giá

📜 Nazi Germany 🎖️ Wwii Biography 🎭 Political Manipulation 📈 Rise Of Fascism ⛓️ Authoritarian Regimes

The Master of Disguise

của Antonio J. Mendez • 1999

How the CIA disguise chief spirited 150 agents out of hostile territory without a single loss.

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🕵️ Cold War Espionage 🔧 Tradecraft 🚁 Agent Exfiltration 🇺🇸 Cia History 🏛️ Agency Memoirs

The Master of Disguise

How the CIA disguise chief spirited 150 agents out of hostile territory without a single loss.

của Antonio J. Mendez 1999 384 trang

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3.000+ đánh giá

🕵️ Cold War Espionage 🔧 Tradecraft 🚁 Agent Exfiltration 🇺🇸 Cia History 🏛️ Agency Memoirs

The Body Project

của Joan Jacobs Brumberg • 1997

How a century made American girls' bodies into a consumer project, from menarche to first diet.

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👧 Adolescent Girlhood 💄 Beauty Standards 🥗 Dieting Culture 🎯 Marketing To Girls 🕰️ Body Image History

The Body Project

How a century made American girls' bodies into a consumer project, from menarche to first diet.

của Joan Jacobs Brumberg 1997 214 trang

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3.000+ đánh giá

👧 Adolescent Girlhood 💄 Beauty Standards 🥗 Dieting Culture 🎯 Marketing To Girls 🕰️ Body Image History

Los hornos de Hitler

của Olga Lengyel • 1947

A Hungarian doctor's wife keeps her family together all the way to the gates of Birkenau.

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🕯️ Holocaust Memoir 🏚️ Auschwitz Survivor 🏥 Camp Infirmary ⚔️ Underground Resistance 💔 Survivor Guilt

Los hornos de Hitler

A Hungarian doctor's wife keeps her family together all the way to the gates of Birkenau.

của Olga Lengyel 1947 263 trang

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🕯️ Holocaust Memoir 🏚️ Auschwitz Survivor 🏥 Camp Infirmary ⚔️ Underground Resistance 💔 Survivor Guilt

Case Closed

của Gerald Posner • 1993

One mail-order rifle, three shots, and the case against conspiracy in the JFK assassination.

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🔫 Presidential Assassinations ❄️ Cold War America 🔍 Conspiracy Debunking 🕵️ Forensic History 💥 Political Violence

Case Closed

One mail-order rifle, three shots, and the case against conspiracy in the JFK assassination.

của Gerald Posner 1993 640 trang

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2.000+ đánh giá

🔫 Presidential Assassinations ❄️ Cold War America 🔍 Conspiracy Debunking 🕵️ Forensic History 💥 Political Violence

This Strange Eventful History

của Claire Messud • 2024

Exiled from Algeria, a pied-noir family chases home across four continents for seventy years.

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🏠 Multi-Generational Saga 💔 Inherited Trauma 🧭 Search For Home 🔐 Family Secrets 🕯️ Elegiac

This Strange Eventful History

Exiled from Algeria, a pied-noir family chases home across four continents for seventy years.

của Claire Messud 2024 448 trang

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🏠 Multi-Generational Saga 💔 Inherited Trauma 🧭 Search For Home 🔐 Family Secrets 🕯️ Elegiac

Bài ca Solomon

của Toni Morrison • 1977

Trapped by wealth and expectation, a Black heir travels South and finds an ancestor who flew.

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👪 Family Saga 🌳 Lineage Quest 🕊️ Black Folklore ⚖️ Racial Violence 💔 Love And Obsession

Bài ca Solomon

Trapped by wealth and expectation, a Black heir travels South and finds an ancestor who flew.

của Toni Morrison 1977 338 trang

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100.000+ đánh giá

👪 Family Saga 🌳 Lineage Quest 🕊️ Black Folklore ⚖️ Racial Violence 💔 Love And Obsession

Spies in the Family

của Eva Dillon • 2017

A Soviet general spied for the U.S. for two decades. His handler's daughter reveals why.

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📡 Cold War Espionage 🕵️ CIA History 🏳️ Soviet Defectors 🔍 Mole Hunts 🤝 Handler-Agent Bonds

Spies in the Family

A Soviet general spied for the U.S. for two decades. His handler's daughter reveals why.

của Eva Dillon 2017 352 trang

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📡 Cold War Espionage 🕵️ CIA History 🏳️ Soviet Defectors 🔍 Mole Hunts 🤝 Handler-Agent Bonds

Mount Analogue

của René Daumal • 2005

Eight seekers sail toward an invisible mountain where the only map is sincerity.

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📜 Philosophical Allegory 🔮 Esoteric Quest 🚪 Hidden World 🧙 Master And Disciples ✨ Mystical Adventure

Mount Analogue

Eight seekers sail toward an invisible mountain where the only map is sincerity.

của René Daumal 2005 120 trang

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📜 Philosophical Allegory 🔮 Esoteric Quest 🚪 Hidden World 🧙 Master And Disciples ✨ Mystical Adventure

Enemy of the People

của Marvin Kalb • 2018

Trump's war on the press follows a 1950s script. The democracy-saving ending is not guaranteed.

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🇺🇸 American Democracy 📰 Press Freedom 🕵️ Mccarthyism 📡 Media Manipulation 🧠 Disinformation

Enemy of the People

Trump's war on the press follows a 1950s script. The democracy-saving ending is not guaranteed.

của Marvin Kalb 2018 200 trang

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137 đánh giá

🇺🇸 American Democracy 📰 Press Freedom 🕵️ Mccarthyism 📡 Media Manipulation 🧠 Disinformation

Realpolitik

của John Bew • 2015

Realpolitik was a liberal reformer's idea before Bismarck hijacked it. What was lost.

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🏛️ Political Realism 📚 Intellectual History ♟️ Statecraft And Strategy 🌍 Geopolitical Thought 🇩🇪 German Political Thought

Realpolitik

Realpolitik was a liberal reformer's idea before Bismarck hijacked it. What was lost.

của John Bew 2015 408 trang

3.94

161 đánh giá

🏛️ Political Realism 📚 Intellectual History ♟️ Statecraft And Strategy 🌍 Geopolitical Thought 🇩🇪 German Political Thought

Wright Brothers, Wrong Story

của William Elliott azelgrove • 2018

Wilbur Wright solved flight alone. Orville Wright spent decades burying that fact.

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130

🛩️ Aviation History 🔍 Revisionist Biography 🔧 Inventor Biography ⚖️ Patent Wars 🌟 Unsung Genius

Wright Brothers, Wrong Story

Wilbur Wright solved flight alone. Orville Wright spent decades burying that fact.

của William Elliott azelgrove 2018 288 trang

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130 đánh giá

🛩️ Aviation History 🔍 Revisionist Biography 🔧 Inventor Biography ⚖️ Patent Wars 🌟 Unsung Genius

You Can't Be Neutral on a Moving Train

của Howard Zinn • 1994

History never stops, and silence is a political act: a memoir of war, racism, and radicalization.

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🚩 American Leftism ✊ Civil Disobedience ☮️ Anti-War Activism 🌱 Grassroots Organizing 🏭 Class Consciousness

You Can't Be Neutral on a Moving Train

History never stops, and silence is a political act: a memoir of war, racism, and radicalization.

của Howard Zinn 1994 214 trang

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3.000+ đánh giá

🚩 American Leftism ✊ Civil Disobedience ☮️ Anti-War Activism 🌱 Grassroots Organizing 🏭 Class Consciousness

The Beautiful and Damned

của F. Scott Fitzgerald • 1922

Parties, gin, and the long wait for an inheritance hollow out a golden Jazz Age couple.

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🗽 Jazz Age Novel 💔 Doomed Love 💰 Idle Rich 🥀 Fading Beauty ⚖️ Inheritance Plot

The Beautiful and Damned

Parties, gin, and the long wait for an inheritance hollow out a golden Jazz Age couple.

của F. Scott Fitzgerald 1922 422 trang

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🗽 Jazz Age Novel 💔 Doomed Love 💰 Idle Rich 🥀 Fading Beauty ⚖️ Inheritance Plot

The Money Kings

của Daniel Schulman • 2023

From peddler carts to Wall Street: Jewish dynasties that bankrolled America's rise.

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🏦 Banking Dynasties 🗽 Jewish Immigrants 📈 Wall Street History 🎩 Gilded Age 🔄 Assimilation

The Money Kings

From peddler carts to Wall Street: Jewish dynasties that bankrolled America's rise.

của Daniel Schulman 2023 592 trang

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500+ đánh giá

🏦 Banking Dynasties 🗽 Jewish Immigrants 📈 Wall Street History 🎩 Gilded Age 🔄 Assimilation

The Lavender Garden

của Lucinda Riley • 2012

A lonely heiress inherits a crumbling château in Provence and uncovers its wartime secrets.

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⏳ Dual Timeline Narrative 🪖 French Resistance 🎭 Hidden Identity 💔 Forbidden Love 🔐 Family Secrets

The Lavender Garden

A lonely heiress inherits a crumbling château in Provence and uncovers its wartime secrets.

của Lucinda Riley 2012 403 trang

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37.000+ đánh giá

⏳ Dual Timeline Narrative 🪖 French Resistance 🎭 Hidden Identity 💔 Forbidden Love 🔐 Family Secrets

Another Country

của James Baldwin • 1962

When a Black drummer leaps from a bridge, his bohemian circle fractures along the color line.

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🏙️ Bohemian New York 💔 Interracial Romance 🎭 Artists And Lovers 🖤 Self-Destruction 🗽 1950s New York

Another Country

When a Black drummer leaps from a bridge, his bohemian circle fractures along the color line.

của James Baldwin 1962 448 trang

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🏙️ Bohemian New York 💔 Interracial Romance 🎭 Artists And Lovers 🖤 Self-Destruction 🗽 1950s New York

Roman by Polanski

của Roman Polański • 2007

He watched propaganda films through barbed wire. Then he made Chinatown and Rosemary's Baby.

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🎬 Filmmaking Memoir 🎥 Director Biographies 🕯️ Holocaust Survival 🧳 Exile And Displacement 🎭 Tragedy And Art

Roman by Polanski

He watched propaganda films through barbed wire. Then he made Chinatown and Rosemary's Baby.

của Roman Polański 2007 448 trang

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500+ đánh giá

🎬 Filmmaking Memoir 🎥 Director Biographies 🕯️ Holocaust Survival 🧳 Exile And Displacement 🎭 Tragedy And Art

Goliath

của Matt Stoller • 2019

A century ago, America broke the trusts. An intellectual counterrevolution brought them back.

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⚖️ Antitrust Policy 🏢 Corporate Power 🔄 Neoliberalism 📜 New Deal Economics 🎓 Chicago School Economics

Goliath

A century ago, America broke the trusts. An intellectual counterrevolution brought them back.

của Matt Stoller 2019 605 trang

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1.000+ đánh giá

⚖️ Antitrust Policy 🏢 Corporate Power 🔄 Neoliberalism 📜 New Deal Economics 🎓 Chicago School Economics

The New Lombard Street

của Perry G. Mehrling • 2010

The Fed's 1873 playbook broke in 2008. The new role: dealer of last resort.

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🏦 Central Banking 📜 Monetary History 🔧 Financial Plumbing 🔄 Credit Cycles 🕶️ Shadow Banking

The New Lombard Street

The Fed's 1873 playbook broke in 2008. The new role: dealer of last resort.

của Perry G. Mehrling 2010 192 trang

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274 đánh giá

🏦 Central Banking 📜 Monetary History 🔧 Financial Plumbing 🔄 Credit Cycles 🕶️ Shadow Banking

The Hour of the Star

của Clarice Lispector • 1977

An invisible Rio typist wants to be noticed; a fortune-teller promises she will be.

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📚 Existential Fiction 🖋️ Narrator Intrusion 🌾 Overlooked Lives 🏙️ Urban Poverty ⏳ Fatalistic Fiction

The Hour of the Star

An invisible Rio typist wants to be noticed; a fortune-teller promises she will be.

của Clarice Lispector 1977 96 trang

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📚 Existential Fiction 🖋️ Narrator Intrusion 🌾 Overlooked Lives 🏙️ Urban Poverty ⏳ Fatalistic Fiction

Fighter Pilot

của Robin Olds • 2010

Married a Hollywood actress, then declared war on the U.S. Air Force’s bomber generals.

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🛩️ Fighter Pilot Memoirs ✈️ Military Aviation 🫡 Air Force Leadership 💥 Aerial Combat 🧑‍✈️ Fighter Pilot Ethos

Fighter Pilot

Married a Hollywood actress, then declared war on the U.S. Air Force’s bomber generals.

của Robin Olds 2010 416 trang

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🛩️ Fighter Pilot Memoirs ✈️ Military Aviation 🫡 Air Force Leadership 💥 Aerial Combat 🧑‍✈️ Fighter Pilot Ethos

Diplomacy

của Joseph M. Siracusa • 2010

How a handful of treaties, a flawed peace, and a napkin deal carved up the map.

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📜 Diplomatic History ⚖️ International Law 🤝 Alliance Politics 🌐 Globalization 🏛️ Power Politics

Diplomacy

How a handful of treaties, a flawed peace, and a napkin deal carved up the map.

của Joseph M. Siracusa 2010 160 trang

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245 đánh giá

📜 Diplomatic History ⚖️ International Law 🤝 Alliance Politics 🌐 Globalization 🏛️ Power Politics

The Boy from the Sea

của Garrett Carr • 2025

A baby washes ashore, a fishing family takes him in, two brothers wrestle over who belongs.

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🇮🇪 Irish Family Saga 🎣 Fishing Community ⚔️ Sibling Rivalry 👶 Foundling Child 🕯️ Elegiac Tone

The Boy from the Sea

A baby washes ashore, a fishing family takes him in, two brothers wrestle over who belongs.

của Garrett Carr 2025 336 trang

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8.000+ đánh giá

🇮🇪 Irish Family Saga 🎣 Fishing Community ⚔️ Sibling Rivalry 👶 Foundling Child 🕯️ Elegiac Tone

Vùng Chết

của Frederick Downs Jr. • 1978

A 23-year-old lieutenant lands in Vietnam. A mine takes his arm. The months between.

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🪖 Vietnam War 📖 War Memoirs 🫡 Platoon Leadership 🧠 Psychological Trauma 🥾 Infantry

Vùng Chết

A 23-year-old lieutenant lands in Vietnam. A mine takes his arm. The months between.

của Frederick Downs Jr. 1978 240 trang

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🪖 Vietnam War 📖 War Memoirs 🫡 Platoon Leadership 🧠 Psychological Trauma 🥾 Infantry

A Writer's Diary

của Virginia Woolf • 1953

Virginia Woolf's diary: 23 years of teaching herself to write the novels that changed fiction.

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📝 Writers On Writing 🎨 Creative Practice 📚 Modernist Literature 📓 Writer's Journals ✍️ Fiction Craft

A Writer's Diary

Virginia Woolf's diary: 23 years of teaching herself to write the novels that changed fiction.

của Virginia Woolf 1953 355 trang

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6.000+ đánh giá

📝 Writers On Writing 🎨 Creative Practice 📚 Modernist Literature 📓 Writer's Journals ✍️ Fiction Craft

High Financier

của Niall Ferguson • 2010

A German exile predicted globalization. Then he built the London bank to finance it.

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251

🏦 Investment Banking 👪 Family Dynasties 📜 Financial History 🏛️ City Of London 🧳 Exile And Identity

High Financier

A German exile predicted globalization. Then he built the London bank to finance it.

của Niall Ferguson 2010 576 trang

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251 đánh giá

🏦 Investment Banking 👪 Family Dynasties 📜 Financial History 🏛️ City Of London 🧳 Exile And Identity

Forrest Gump

của Winston Groom • 1986

An Alabama innocent with a low IQ runs from bullies into football, war, and an unrequited love.

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🎭 Picaresque Satire 👶 Innocent Protagonist 💔 Unrequited Love 🪖 Vietnam War Fiction 🫂 War Buddy Friendship

Forrest Gump

An Alabama innocent with a low IQ runs from bullies into football, war, and an unrequited love.

của Winston Groom 1986 248 trang

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🎭 Picaresque Satire 👶 Innocent Protagonist 💔 Unrequited Love 🪖 Vietnam War Fiction 🫂 War Buddy Friendship

The Art of Rest

của Claudia Hammond • 2019

Before the genocide, there was a homeless painter, a spellbinding voice, and a prison cell.

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👹 Nazi Germany 👑 Dictator Biographies 📈 Rise To Power 🧠 Political Psychology 📣 Propaganda Analysis

The Art of Rest

Before the genocide, there was a homeless painter, a spellbinding voice, and a prison cell.

của Claudia Hammond 2019 304 trang

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2.000+ đánh giá

👹 Nazi Germany 👑 Dictator Biographies 📈 Rise To Power 🧠 Political Psychology 📣 Propaganda Analysis

The Man Without Content

của Giorgio Agamben • 1970

Plato banished poets for their power. Aesthetics made art safe, and the artist empty.

4.15

383

🎨 Aesthetic Theory 📚 Continental Aesthetics 🌲 Heideggerian Thought 🏙️ Art And Modernity ⏳ Historical Ontology

The Man Without Content

Plato banished poets for their power. Aesthetics made art safe, and the artist empty.

của Giorgio Agamben 1970 144 trang

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383 đánh giá

🎨 Aesthetic Theory 📚 Continental Aesthetics 🌲 Heideggerian Thought 🏙️ Art And Modernity ⏳ Historical Ontology

The Rape of Nanking

của Iris Chang • 1997

The Japanese army turned Nanking into a mass grave, then the government erased the crime.

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⚔️ Japanese Militarism 🌏 Sino-Japanese War ⚖️ War Crimes 🗣️ Survivor Testimony 🚺 Rape As Weapon Of War

The Rape of Nanking

The Japanese army turned Nanking into a mass grave, then the government erased the crime.

của Iris Chang 1997 290 trang

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55.000+ đánh giá

⚔️ Japanese Militarism 🌏 Sino-Japanese War ⚖️ War Crimes 🗣️ Survivor Testimony 🚺 Rape As Weapon Of War

Chúng tôi muốn thông báo rằng ngày mai chúng tôi sẽ bị giết cùng gia đình

của Philip Gourevitch • 1998

Seven pastors warned they would die tomorrow. The world read their letter and did nothing.

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🖋️ Rwandan Genocide 🌍 African Politics 📜 Colonial Legacy ⚔️ State Violence 🏛️ International Failure

Chúng tôi muốn thông báo rằng ngày mai chúng tôi sẽ bị giết cùng gia đình

Seven pastors warned they would die tomorrow. The world read their letter and did nothing.

của Philip Gourevitch 1998 356 trang

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37.000+ đánh giá

🖋️ Rwandan Genocide 🌍 African Politics 📜 Colonial Legacy ⚔️ State Violence 🏛️ International Failure

The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid

của Bill Bryson • 2006

His superpower was vaporizing teachers. The decade was 1950s America at its richest, weirdest peak.

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🏛️ Mid-Century America 🧒 Childhood Memoir 😂 Humorous Memoir 💰 Postwar Prosperity 🏘️ Small-Town Life

The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid

His superpower was vaporizing teachers. The decade was 1950s America at its richest, weirdest peak.

của Bill Bryson 2006 288 trang

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68.000+ đánh giá

🏛️ Mid-Century America 🧒 Childhood Memoir 😂 Humorous Memoir 💰 Postwar Prosperity 🏘️ Small-Town Life

The Complete Memoirs

của Pablo Neruda • 1974

The Nobel poet who turned exile, love, and the Chilean forest into one continuous poem.

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🖋️ Literary Memoir 🌎 Latin American Literature 🎨 Art And Politics 🏃 Exile And Return ✈️ Travel And Identity

The Complete Memoirs

The Nobel poet who turned exile, love, and the Chilean forest into one continuous poem.

của Pablo Neruda 1974 498 trang

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🖋️ Literary Memoir 🌎 Latin American Literature 🎨 Art And Politics 🏃 Exile And Return ✈️ Travel And Identity

Prokleta avlija

của Ivo Andrić • 1954

In an Ottoman prison, a monk encounters a young man convinced he is a dead sultan.

4.24

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🪆 Nested Stories 🔗 Prison Narrative 📜 Historical Obsession ✝️ Monk Narrator 🔒 Prison Warden

Prokleta avlija

In an Ottoman prison, a monk encounters a young man convinced he is a dead sultan.

của Ivo Andrić 1954 120 trang

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🪆 Nested Stories 🔗 Prison Narrative 📜 Historical Obsession ✝️ Monk Narrator 🔒 Prison Warden

A World Undone

của G.J. Meyer • 2006

One assassination, a web of rigid plans, and leaders who couldn't stop what they started.

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💣 Trench Warfare 📜 Great War Origins 💢 Diplomatic Failures 🔫 Military History 🇪🇺 Pre-War Europe

A World Undone

One assassination, a web of rigid plans, and leaders who couldn't stop what they started.

của G.J. Meyer 2006 704 trang

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💣 Trench Warfare 📜 Great War Origins 💢 Diplomatic Failures 🔫 Military History 🇪🇺 Pre-War Europe

Orphan Bachelors

của Fae Myenne Ng • 2023

One family, one false name, and the century of silence the Chinese Exclusion Act demanded.

3.91

238

🧧 Immigration Memoir 🏮 Chinese American History 🔗 Intergenerational Trauma 👨‍👩‍👧‍👦 Immigrant Families 🖋️ Asian American Literature

Orphan Bachelors

One family, one false name, and the century of silence the Chinese Exclusion Act demanded.

của Fae Myenne Ng 2023 256 trang

3.91

238 đánh giá

🧧 Immigration Memoir 🏮 Chinese American History 🔗 Intergenerational Trauma 👨‍👩‍👧‍👦 Immigrant Families 🖋️ Asian American Literature

Public Enemies

của Bryan Burrough • 2004

The FBI built its legend chasing petty killers, beating suspects, and inventing the Ma Barker myth.

3.98

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🏚️ Great Depression Era 🕵️ Fbi History 🔨 Myth Debunking 📖 Revisionist History 📰 Media And Crime

Public Enemies

The FBI built its legend chasing petty killers, beating suspects, and inventing the Ma Barker myth.

của Bryan Burrough 2004 640 trang

3.98

6.000+ đánh giá

🏚️ Great Depression Era 🕵️ Fbi History 🔨 Myth Debunking 📖 Revisionist History 📰 Media And Crime

Wealth and Power

của Orville Schell • 2013

Modern China's one obsession: reclaiming power after humiliation, even when freedom was the cost.

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🇨🇳 Modern Chinese History 🏛️ Chinese Political Thought 🏭 Authoritarian Development 🔄 National Rejuvenation 📚 Intellectual History

Wealth and Power

Modern China's one obsession: reclaiming power after humiliation, even when freedom was the cost.

của Orville Schell 2013 478 trang

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🇨🇳 Modern Chinese History 🏛️ Chinese Political Thought 🏭 Authoritarian Development 🔄 National Rejuvenation 📚 Intellectual History

Moon Over Manifest

của Clare Vanderpool • 2010

Sent to her father's Kansas town, a girl follows old letters into an unsolved spy mystery.

4.04

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🏘️ Small Town Secrets 📖 Story Within A Story 👨‍👩‍👧‍👦 Found Family 🔍 Child Sleuths 💔 Grief And Guilt

Moon Over Manifest

Sent to her father's Kansas town, a girl follows old letters into an unsolved spy mystery.

của Clare Vanderpool 2010 368 trang

4.04

36.000+ đánh giá

🏘️ Small Town Secrets 📖 Story Within A Story 👨‍👩‍👧‍👦 Found Family 🔍 Child Sleuths 💔 Grief And Guilt

Brothers

của Alex Van Halen • 2024

Alex Van Halen remembers Eddie: the immigrant brotherhood that built rock's most explosive band.

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🎸 Rock Music History 🎤 Band Memoirs 👥 Sibling Bands 🔥 Artistic Obsession 🛠️ Diy Music Scenes

Brothers

Alex Van Halen remembers Eddie: the immigrant brotherhood that built rock's most explosive band.

của Alex Van Halen 2024 240 trang

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9.000+ đánh giá

🎸 Rock Music History 🎤 Band Memoirs 👥 Sibling Bands 🔥 Artistic Obsession 🛠️ Diy Music Scenes

Below Stairs

của Margaret Powell • 1968

She cooked their banquets in early 1900s England, and they forgot she existed.

3.58

14.000+

🧹 Domestic Service 👷 Working Class Memoir 🇬🇧 British Social History 🕰️ Early 1900s Britain 🍳 Cooking Memoir

Below Stairs

She cooked their banquets in early 1900s England, and they forgot she existed.

của Margaret Powell 1968 288 trang

3.58

14.000+ đánh giá

🧹 Domestic Service 👷 Working Class Memoir 🇬🇧 British Social History 🕰️ Early 1900s Britain 🍳 Cooking Memoir

Eva Luna

của Isabel Allende • 1989

Born among mummies, an orphan girl learns that her stories can reshape a world in chaos.

4.01

60.000+

🖋️ Storyteller Heroine ✨ Mythic Storytelling 🪖 Revolutionary Backdrop 👨‍👩‍👧‍👦 Found Family 🧒 Orphan Protagonist

Eva Luna

Born among mummies, an orphan girl learns that her stories can reshape a world in chaos.

của Isabel Allende 1989 307 trang

4.01

60.000+ đánh giá

🖋️ Storyteller Heroine ✨ Mythic Storytelling 🪖 Revolutionary Backdrop 👨‍👩‍👧‍👦 Found Family 🧒 Orphan Protagonist

America's Bank

của Roger Lowenstein • 2015

In 1907, one elderly banker had to save the American financial system from his private library.

3.81

1.000+

🏦 Central Banking 💰 Monetary History 📉 Financial Panics 🎩 Gilded Age Banking 🗳️ Progressive Era

America's Bank

In 1907, one elderly banker had to save the American financial system from his private library.

của Roger Lowenstein 2015 368 trang

3.81

1.000+ đánh giá

🏦 Central Banking 💰 Monetary History 📉 Financial Panics 🎩 Gilded Age Banking 🗳️ Progressive Era

Lies of Silence

của Brian Moore • 1990

IRA gunmen hold his wife. Her ransom: a car bomb delivered to his own hotel.

3.23

2.000+

⚔️ The Troubles 📚 Literary Thriller 🏠 Home Invasion 💔 Love Triangle ⚖️ Moral Ambiguity

Lies of Silence

IRA gunmen hold his wife. Her ransom: a car bomb delivered to his own hotel.

của Brian Moore 1990 192 trang

3.23

2.000+ đánh giá

⚔️ The Troubles 📚 Literary Thriller 🏠 Home Invasion 💔 Love Triangle ⚖️ Moral Ambiguity

Joseph Anton

của Salman Rushdie • 2012

A novelist with a bounty on his head. A decade in hiding. The books he wrote to survive.

3.65

9.000+

📖 Literary Memoir ✍️ Writers Under Threat 🗣️ Free Speech Advocacy 🕌 Religious Fundamentalism 🌍 Cultural Identity

Joseph Anton

A novelist with a bounty on his head. A decade in hiding. The books he wrote to survive.

của Salman Rushdie 2012 656 trang

3.65

9.000+ đánh giá

📖 Literary Memoir ✍️ Writers Under Threat 🗣️ Free Speech Advocacy 🕌 Religious Fundamentalism 🌍 Cultural Identity

The Invention of Russia

của Arkady Ostrovsky • 2015

Television became the new Kremlin: how post-Soviet Russia was built on air, not on law.

4.01

1.000+

🏚️ Post-Soviet Russia 🏛️ Russian Politics 📺 State Propaganda 📰 Media Manipulation 🏭 Manufacturing Consent

The Invention of Russia

Television became the new Kremlin: how post-Soviet Russia was built on air, not on law.

của Arkady Ostrovsky 2015 378 trang

4.01

1.000+ đánh giá

🏚️ Post-Soviet Russia 🏛️ Russian Politics 📺 State Propaganda 📰 Media Manipulation 🏭 Manufacturing Consent

Black Garden

của Thomas de Waal • 2003

One Soviet province started an ethnic war in 1988 by voting to secede. The stalemate remains.

4.25

500+

⚔️ Caucasus Conflicts 🔥 Post-Soviet Wars 💔 Ethnic Conflict 📜 Competing Histories ❄️ Frozen Conflicts

Black Garden

One Soviet province started an ethnic war in 1988 by voting to secede. The stalemate remains.

của Thomas de Waal 2003 400 trang

4.25

500+ đánh giá

⚔️ Caucasus Conflicts 🔥 Post-Soviet Wars 💔 Ethnic Conflict 📜 Competing Histories ❄️ Frozen Conflicts

Nelson Mandela

của Martin Meredith • 1997

They put him on trial to silence him. His dock statement made apartheid the defendant instead.

4.17

347

🇿🇦 South African History ✊ Anti-Apartheid Movement 🔗 Political Imprisonment ⛓️ Colonial Resistance 🗽 Freedom Fighters

Nelson Mandela

They put him on trial to silence him. His dock statement made apartheid the defendant instead.

của Martin Meredith 1997 596 trang

4.17

347 đánh giá

🇿🇦 South African History ✊ Anti-Apartheid Movement 🔗 Political Imprisonment ⛓️ Colonial Resistance 🗽 Freedom Fighters

Bruce Lee

của Bruce Lee • 2001

A basement jersey gave a boy superpowers. His mission: vaporize every adult who ruined the fun.

4.21

1.000+

🏙️ Midcentury America 🧒 American Childhood 📷 Nostalgia Memoir ☢️ Cold War Culture 🚬 Teenage Rebellion

Bruce Lee

A basement jersey gave a boy superpowers. His mission: vaporize every adult who ruined the fun.

của Bruce Lee 2001 288 trang

4.21

1.000+ đánh giá

🏙️ Midcentury America 🧒 American Childhood 📷 Nostalgia Memoir ☢️ Cold War Culture 🚬 Teenage Rebellion

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