Book Events for nancykric

17th century

• Orlando by Virginia Woolf (1600s)

1810s

• Persuasion (Oxford World's Classics) by Jane Austen

1948 Palestinian Exodus

• The Question of Palestine by Edward W. Said

1960s

• Just kids by Patti Smith

1970s

• Just kids by Patti Smith

19th century

• Mansfield Park (Penguin Classics) by Jane Austen
• Persuasion (Oxford World's Classics) by Jane Austen
• War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy

African-American Civil Rights Movement

• Ella Baker & the Black freedom movement a radical democratic vision by Barbara Ransby

AIDS epidemic

• Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic by Alison Bechdel

Alan Berg assassination

• Bring the war home : the white power movement and paramilitary America by Kathleen Belew ( 1984-06-18)

Aryan Nations World Congress

• Bring the war home : the white power movement and paramilitary America by Kathleen Belew (1983-07)

Atomic Bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki

• Barefoot Gen, Vol. 1: A Cartoon Story of Hiroshima by Keiji Nakazawa (1945)

Battle of Borodino

• War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy

Battle of Crete

• The Cretan Runner: His story of the German Occupation by George Psychoundakis (1941)

Beat Generation

• On the road by Jack Kerouac

Belle Époque

• Une saison en enfer & Le bateau ivre A season in hell & The drunken boat by Arthur Rimbaud (1871-1914)

The Blitz

• The Heat of the Day by Elizabeth Bowen (1941)

Bob Mathews' death on Whidbey Island by federal agents

• Bring the war home : the white power movement and paramilitary America by Kathleen Belew (1984-12)

Branch Davidian siege, Mount Carmel, Waco, USA

• Bring the war home : the white power movement and paramilitary America by Kathleen Belew (1993-04)

Brexit

• Spring by Ali Smith
• Winter by Ali Smith

Christmas

• Zealot by Reza Aslan

Clutter family murder

• In cold blood : a true account of a multiple murder and its consequences by Truman Capote (1959-11-15)

Dakota Access Pipeline protests

• Our history is the future : Standing Rock versus the Dakota Access Pipeline, and the long tradition of Indigenous resistance by Nick Estes

Deir Yassin Massacre

• The Question of Palestine by Edward W. Said

Easter

• Zealot by Reza Aslan

English Renaissance

• Orlando by Virginia Woolf

Establishment of Israel

• The chosen by Chaim Potok

Federal agents storm CSA compound

• Bring the war home : the white power movement and paramilitary America by Kathleen Belew (1985-04-19)

First Chimurenga

• Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight: An African Childhood by Alexandra Fuller ([1896, 1897])

First Intifada

• The Question of Palestine by Edward W. Said

French Resistance

• And There Was Light: Autobiography of Jacques Lusseyran, Blind Hero of the French Resistance by Jacques Lusseyran

Gallipoli Campaign

• Moons A Balloon by David Niven (1915)

Georgian Era

• Persuasion (Oxford World's Classics) by Jane Austen

Great Frost

• Orlando by Virginia Woolf (1709)

Holocaust

• Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil by Hannah Arendt
• Maus a Survivors Tale: My Father Bleeds History by Art Spiegelman
• Maus: A Survivor's Tale by Art Spiegelman
• The Road: Stories, Journalism, and Essays (New York Review Books Classics) by Vasily Grossman

Industrial Revolution

• Hard Times: for These Times (English Library) by Charles Dickens

Israeli-Palestinian Conflict

• Oreet Ashery & Larissa Sansour: The Novel of Nonel and Vovel by S0ren Lind

Kafr Qasim Massacre

• The Question of Palestine by Edward W. Said

Kidnapping of Heinrich Kreipe

• The Cretan Runner: His story of the German Occupation by George Psychoundakis

Kidnapping of Patty Hearst

• Just kids by Patti Smith (1973-04-15)

Kristallnacht

• Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil by Hannah Arendt

Lebanese Civil War

• "mourir, partir, revenir ; le jeu des hirondelles" by Zeina Abirached
• Beirut Hellfire Society: A Novel by Rawi Hage

Lebanon War

• The Question of Palestine by Edward W. Said (1982)

Middle Ages

• Hamlet by William Shakespeare

Napoleon's invasion of Russia

• War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy (1812)

Napoleonic Wars

• Mansfield Park (Penguin Classics) by Jane Austen
• War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy
• Persuasion (Oxford World's Classics) by Jane Austen ( 1815)

Nuremberg War Crimes Trials

• Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil by Hannah Arendt

Peloponnesian War

• Men in the off hours by Anne Carson

Prague Spring

• The unbearable lightness of being by Milan Kundera (1968)

Racketeering & conspiracy conviction of 'Order' members

• Bring the war home : the white power movement and paramilitary America by Kathleen Belew (1985-12-30)

Rape/Birth

• Minor Detail by Adania Shibli (August 13, 1949)

Regency Era

• Persuasion (Oxford World's Classics) by Jane Austen

Renaissance

• Orlando by Virginia Woolf

Rhodesian Bush War

• Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight: An African Childhood by Alexandra Fuller ([1964, 1979])

Ruby Ridge standoff

• Bring the war home : the white power movement and paramilitary America by Kathleen Belew (1992-08)

Sabra & Shatila massacre 1982

• Sabra Zoo by Mischa Hiller

Second Chimurenga

• Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight: An African Childhood by Alexandra Fuller ([1966, 1980])

Soviet Invasion of Czechoslovakia

• The unbearable lightness of being by Milan Kundera (1968)

Trial of Adolf Eichmann

• Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil by Hannah Arendt

Troisième République

• Une saison en enfer & Le bateau ivre A season in hell & The drunken boat by Arthur Rimbaud (1870-1940)

Turner Diaries published

• Bring the war home : the white power movement and paramilitary America by Kathleen Belew ( 1978)

Victorian Era

• Une saison en enfer & Le bateau ivre A season in hell & The drunken boat by Arthur Rimbaud (1873)

Vietnam War

• The things they carried : a work of fiction by Tim O'Brien
• Bring the war home : the white power movement and paramilitary America by Kathleen Belew (1961-1975)

Watergate Scandal

• Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic by Alison Bechdel

Women's Suffrage

• Parade's End by Ford Madox Ford

World War I

• Parade's End by Ford Madox Ford
• The well of loneliness by Radclyffe Hall
• Good-Bye to All That: An Autobiography by Robert Graves (1918)

World War II

• The Road: Stories, Journalism, and Essays (New York Review Books Classics) by Vasily Grossman
• Separate Peace, A by John Knowles
• And There Was Light: Autobiography of Jacques Lusseyran, Blind Hero of the French Resistance by Jacques Lusseyran (1945)
• Barefoot Gen, Vol. 1: A Cartoon Story of Hiroshima by Keiji Nakazawa (1945)
• The Cretan Runner: His story of the German Occupation by George Psychoundakis ( 1945)
• Life and Fate by Vasily Grossman (1945)
• Maus a Survivors Tale: My Father Bleeds History by Art Spiegelman (1945)
• Maus: A Survivor's Tale by Art Spiegelman (1945)
• Moons A Balloon by David Niven (1945)
• A Writer at War: Vasily Grossman with the Red Army, 1941-1945 by Vasily Grossman (1945)

World War II, Eastern Front

• A Writer at War: Vasily Grossman with the Red Army, 1941-1945 by Vasily Grossman (1945-05-05)

World War II, German Occupation of France

• And There Was Light: Autobiography of Jacques Lusseyran, Blind Hero of the French Resistance by Jacques Lusseyran (1944)

World War II, Pacific Theater

• Barefoot Gen, Vol. 1: A Cartoon Story of Hiroshima by Keiji Nakazawa (1945-09-02)