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Summary: 41 Events.

1947

• Exodus by Uris

1970s

• The Fortress of Solitude by Jonathan Lethem

American Civil War

• EAST OF EDEN by STEINBECK JOHN
• Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell (1865)

Battle of Laverstoke

• Watership Down (Puffin Books) by Richard Adams

Battle of the Atlantic

• The Cruel Sea (Classics of War) by Nicholas Monsarrat (1945)

Battle of the Hornburg

• The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien (fictitious)

Civil Rights Movement, USA

• Black Like Me by John Howard Griffin

The Council of Elrond

• The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien (fictitious)

Creation of the One Ring

• The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien

Creation of the world

• The Holy Bible King James Version: King James Version Economy

The Crowning of Aragorn

• The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien (fictitious)

Crucifixion of Jesus of Nazareth

• The Holy Bible King James Version: King James Version Economy

Destruction of Isengard

• The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien (fictitious)

Destruction of Sandleford Warren

• Watership Down (Puffin Books) by Richard Adams

The Dust Bowl

• The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck

End of the World

• The Time Machine by H.G. Wells

Fall of man

• The Holy Bible King James Version: King James Version Economy

French Revolution

• A Tale of Two Cities (Penguin Classics) by Charles Dickens (1789)

Girl tells her life story, badly; briefly meets James Bond.

• JAMES BOND: THE SPY WHO LOVED ME. by Ian. Flemming

Great Depression

• Cannery Row by John Steinbeck
• The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
• Of Mice and Men by Jon Steinbeck

Holocaust

• Survival In Auschwitz by Primo Levi

the Innsmouth raid

• The Shadow Over Innsmouth And Other Stories Of Horror by H. P. LOVECRAFT

Interbellum

• Murder on the Orient Express by Agatha Christie (1939)

Israeli war of independence

• Exodus by Uris

Kiwanjan freedom-fighters dispose dictator

• When All Goes Bright by Jess Mowry

Martian invasion of Earth

• The War of the Worlds (Modern Library Classics) by H. G. Wells

Mau Mau Uprising

• Something of Value by Robert Ruark

Mint 400

• Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas: Savage Journey to the Heart of the American Dream by Hunter S. Thompson

Napoleonic Wars

• The Idiot by Fyodor Dostoevsky

Noah's Flood

• The Holy Bible King James Version: King James Version Economy

Reconstruction Era of the United States

• Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell (1877)

Reign of Terror

• A Tale of Two Cities (Penguin Classics) by Charles Dickens

Siege of Watership Down

• Watership Down (Puffin Books) by Richard Adams

Sierra Leone Civil War

• A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier by Ishmael Beah

Son of Sam Killings

• The Fortress of Solitude by Jonathan Lethem (1976-1977)

Stalinism

• ONE DAY IN THE LIFE OF IVAN DENISOVICH ([1924, 1953])

War of the Ring

• The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien

World Series

• One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest by Ken Kesey

World War I

• EAST OF EDEN by STEINBECK JOHN

World War II

• 1984 by George Orwell
• King Rat by James Clavell
• The Tin Flute by Gabrielle Roy
• The Cruel Sea (Classics of War) by Nicholas Monsarrat (1945)
• Maus I: A Survivor's Tale: My Father Bleeds History by Art Spiegelman (1945)
• Maus II: A Survivor's Tale: And Here My Troubles Began by Art Spiegelman (1945)

World War III

• 1984 by George Orwell