The "terrible beauty" that is Ireland comes alive in this mighty epic that re-creates that Emerald's Isle's fierce struggle for independence. Trinity is a saga of glories and defeats, triumphs and tragedies, lived by a young Catholic...
Famines
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Author:Uris, LeonSummary: -
Author:Woodham Smith, CecilSummary:Tells the story of the Irish Potato Famine of the 1840s.
- Author:Parker-Chan, ShelleySummary:
Mulan meets The Song of Achilles in Shelley Parker-Chan's She Who Became the Sun, a bold, queer, and lyrical reimagining of the rise of the founding emperor of the Ming Dynasty from an amazing new voice in literary fantasy. To...
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Author:Applebaum, AnneSummary:From the author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning Gulag and the National Book Award finalist Iron Curtain, a revelatory history of one of Stalin's greatest crimes-the consequences of which still resonate today In 1929 Stalin launched...
- Author:Dikötter, FrankSummary:
Combining newly released documents from Chinese archives with stories from the disenfranchised masses of the time, Dikötter recounts how Mao sought to prove the power of Communism, but instead plunged his country into a hellish...
