Political Historical Fiction

"Stefan Heyms grandiose Abrechnung mit dem Stalinismus" (Hamburger Abendblatt) führt mitten hinein in das Jahr 1956. Illusionslos und doch voller Poesie erzählt Heym die Geschichte des Stararchitekten Arnold Sundstrom, der seine ästhetischen Ideale längst verraten hat und baut, was die Partei will. Doch die berühmte Geheimrede, in der Chruschtschow mit den Verbrechen Stalins abrechnet, bringt auch Sundstroms Lebenslügen zum Vorschein. Seine junge Frau Julia, überzeugte Sozialistin, begreift, dass ihr bewunderter Ehemann ihre Eltern in den Tod geschickt hat.

The United States conducted highly classified atomic testing in the Marshall Islands. One of the ships used in the mock up fleet was a captured Japanese Battleship, the Nagato. These ships were equipped with an array of equipment, from cameras to Geiger counters, as well as various farm animals. These tests were intended to determine "Fleet Survivability" in the face of a thermonuclear implosion. Unfortunately, no one fully understood, or could even begin to imagine, the utter devastation about to be unleashed...or the consequences!

Un condenado a muerte anónimo decide escribir en una especie de diario las últimas horas de su vida. La incertidumbre, la soledad, la angustia y el terror se suceden en un relato que finaliza justo cuando la ejecución va a producirse. A través del sufrimiento del narrador, conel que llega a identificarse el lector, la novela niega cualquier valor positivo a la pena de muerte: es injusta, inhumana y cruel, y la sociedad que la aplica es responsable de un crimen como cualquier otro.

John F. Kennedy said he needed sex every three days or he got a headache. In the White House, he never had a headache. Kennedy met Mary Pinchot in 1935, when he was eighteen and she was sixteen. Twenty years later, when she was living in Virginia and married to Cord Meyer, a high-ranking CIA official, she was Jack and Jackie Kennedy’s next-door neighbor. In 1962, she was an artist, divorced, living in Washington—and Kennedy’s first serious romance. Mary Pinchot Meyer was more than a bedmate. She was Kennedy’s beacon light: his sole female adviser.

In this novella, set in the French Revolution, Leonid Andreyev explores the behavior of a people as it prepares to exchange one form of public servitude for another. As with most of the works of Andreyev, the mood is somber and reflects the author's extreme disillusion with the fallout from the Russian revolution, which he had initially greeted with enthusiasm.

Winds of Change handelt davon, wie gewöhnliche Menschen auf politische Veränderung reagieren und damit zurechtkommen. Die Geschichte spielt in der ostdeutschen Stadt Chemnitz und folgt dem Leben von Dieter S., einem Stasi-Mitarbeiter, und Kai T., jenem Mann, den er während des DDR-Regimes ausspioniert. Beide stehen loyal zur DDR, wurde sie doch als Bollwerk gegen den Faschismus gegründet.

In this book, Neff reflects on history, politics, democratic theories, and principles in fictional dialogs allowing the Founding Fathers to express their theories on what truly makes America great, and what will provide the American people today with real freedom and prosperity.

It’s 1969, and Bobby’s just returned from Vietnam with a Purple Heart and the wrecked face and arm it honors. Unfortunately, the small town he’s returned to no longer welcomes folk who are maimed, deformed, diseased, or otherwise “disgusting”. In fact, there’s a push on to not just fine them, but actively round them up.

La década del 70 en la Argentina ha sido uno de sus períodos más terribles y violentos. Dos bandos en pugna desataron una serie de actos de violencia que amenazaron y dañaron la estructura básica de la sociedad argentina. Derechos y Humanos es una ficción dramática que recrea los acontecimientos desarrollados en la ESMA durante los años de la dictadura.

This dramatic fiction is based on the impressive story of Han van Meegeren in the 1930s and during the Second World War, who managed to forge and sell six Vermeers and two Franz Hals for an updated amount of 100 million dollars. One of the Vermeers was purchased by Herman Goering, second in the hierarchy of the Third Reich. At the end of World War II, van Meegeren had to face the accusation of being a traitor to the country and had to confess his forgery to save his life.

A new recruit is assigned to be Hitler's personal bodyguard.

The inspiring stories of six people who changed history. Contents: Gaius Julius Caesar, the powerful Roman leader; Queen Elizabeth I, who ruled England for 45 years; George Washington, the first president of the USA; King Louis XVI, the last king of France; Winston Churchill, who led Britain in the Second World War; Che Guevara, the Argentinian doctor who fought for revolution.