Political Historical Fiction

In the fall of 2020, COVID-19 continues to kill. Most blame China and it seems war is inevitable. America is about to pick a president to lead the country through the conflict with China. You must choose the president to lead through War 19! This is a two book political thriller series, one if Biden wins and one if Trumps wins reelection. One book is sure to thrill you and one book will make you want to burn it! Full of suspense, mystery, political satire, and humor, this "Biden Wins" version of historical fiction answers the questions you have been dying to know!

Europa, 1949: Die neu gegründete DDR umfasst nach einem unglaublichen Coup das gesamte deutsche Staatsgebiet, mit Ausnahme des westlichen Teils von Berlin. Gegenwart: Die DDR ist führende europäische Macht - ein hochmoderner Überwachungsstaat mit einem glücklichen Volk. So scheint es. Während internationale Agentenorganisationen im autonomen West-Berlin ihre Pläne schmieden, wird die DDR von einem furchtbaren Vorfall erschüttert: Über den Platz der Akademie zieht eine Giftgaswolke und fordert zahlreiche Tote. Ein Unfall? Ein Anschlag?

When David Pritchard is hired to teach political science at a remote women’s college in 1969, he anticipates a quiet year before moving on to bigger things. However, it soon becomes apparent that all is not well at Traymore College. President Barton and his administration curtail basic academic freedoms, harass tenured professors, and impose tight constraints on students’ personal lives.

Veracruz, México. Hércules Guzmán Fox, uno de los inves-tigadores más importantes del mundo, tiene que resolver la extraña muerte de un senador norteamericano en el barco en el que viajan hacia los Estados Unidos. Durante la travesía descubrirá que los culpables son un extraño grupo que se creía desaparecido hacía siglos. Las pistas de una antigua reliquia lo llevarán, junto a George Lincoln y Alicia Mantorella, sus inseparables amigos, a Washington, donde se encuentra la clave de un asombroso misterio, asociado a uno de los objetos más poderosos de la historia.

Rosa and Esther march through downtown Detroit in August 1968 to protest the war in Vietnam. When a bloodied teenager reports that mounted police are beating protesters a few blocks away, the young women hurry to offer assistance. They try to stop the violence, but an officer is injured and the sisters are arrested. Rosa sees an opportunity to protest the war in court. Esther has an infant daughter and wants to avoid prison, which means accepting a plea bargain and testifying against her sister.

American Ambassador Maxwell Gordon Amberley has a reputation as a tough negotiator. Yet when he is sent to Vietnam, the dilemma he faces throws him into self-doubt. He is made arbiter of his nation’s fate on the one hand and of the life and death of the ruling house of Vietnam on the other. Out of every international crisis comes at least one great story.

East Berlin, 1961. Kirstin Beck is determined to escape to the West. She watches from her townhouse window as the border with West Berlin is closed and a barbed wire fence strung through the cemetery behind her house. With a grandmother in West Berlin who needs her, Kirstin knows she has to go. Tony Marino is an American writer living in West Berlin.

As Japan expands its empire in China and unemployment ravages the economy, Police Inspector Kenji Aizawa receives an anonymous call about the imminent assassination of a leading statesman. The secret informant is Reiko Watanabe, geisha mistress to the plot’s mastermind. Headstrong and outspoken, Reiko prefers a “modern” life to being a geisha and is horrified that her lover, the American-educated descendant of samurai, Masaru Ryusaki, has become a fascist firebrand. Torn between honor and duty, Reiko and Inspector Aizawa must forge an unlikely alliance.

M.J. Rose and Fiona Davis' Stories from Suffragette City is a collection of short stories from a chorus of best-selling writers all set on the same day, October 23, 1915, in which over a million women marched for the right to vote in New York City - featuring an introduction by Kristin Hannah....

A life of peace and seclusion as the unknown Miss Denison. It's what Grace longed for even before her father banished her from Washington, DC. She just may have found it in Lordsburg, New Mexico - the small railroad town where people hide until the world stops looking. A place to send black sheep, skeletons in the closet, rebellious sons...and wayward daughters whose secrets could ruin a father's precious political career.

Este audiolibro está narrado en castellano. El gran friso narrativo de los Episodios Nacionales sirvió de vehículo a Benito Pérez Galdós (1843-1920) para recrear en él, novelescamente engarzada, la totalidad de la compleja vida de los españoles - guerras, política, vida cotidiana, reacciones populares - a lo largo del agitado siglo XIX.

México mutilado es un grito de denuncia, de rabia, de impotencia. ¿Por qué los mexicanos hemos hablado tan escasamente de la guerra de 1846 contra Estados Unidos? ¿Por qué nos hemos negado a evaluar los alcances de la catastrófica derrota que tuvo como resultado, entre otros males, la pérdida de la mitad del territorio nacional? ¿Por qué no nos atrevemos a ver la herida agusanada por la que supuramos hasta la fecha?

En pleno siglo XV, un grupo de conspiradores intentaron matar a Lorenzo de Medici y a su hermano Giuliano en la catedral de Florencia. Los asesinos querían que los hermanos murieran a la vez para evitar cualquier tipo de represalias en el futuro. Los protagonistas de esta historian llevan por nombre Lorenzo de Medici, el duque de Urbino y Sixto IV, y los papeles secundarios son interpretados por Leonardo Da Vinci, Sandro Botticelli, Piero della Francesca y Angelo Poliziano.

En Lucus Augusti, la actual Lugo, hay dos pueblos galaicos enfrentados: las siete aldeas y los sureños de Gualmar. Las hijas del César llegan a aquellas tierras con una peligrosa misión, en la que tendrán que demostrar que están a la altura de su status como hijas del hombre más poderoso del imperio.

1915. Deux hommes que tout sépare vont se rencontrer sur les champs de bataille. Lorenzo, jeune et brillant officier de l'armée italienne, et Nino le Sicilien, qui s'enrôle pour échapper à la prison après avoir commis un crime d'honneur. La guerre va faire d'eux des compagnons d'armes, des frères, avant que le règne de Mussolini ne les transforme en ennemis.

Making connections between the Suez Canal War in 1949 and the current wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, this novel about a British couple's disastrous marriage is told by their daughter, who has discovered her mother's diary written at the end of World War II. Ailsa Roberts, the writer of the diary, shows herself to be a vivid and intelligent young Englishwoman who is sailing with her little daughter on the Empire Glory to join her husband, a Welsh RAF sergeant stationed in Egypt, where Britain still occupies the Suez Canal Zone.

Follow Dr. Carver Benton as he explores his only wish: to have the signers of the Constitution shore up the words that future legislators have manipulated away from their original intent. Is this possible? It is, for a team of scientists and historians when they bring a handful of our nation's builders to the year 2025 by secretly creating the world's most dangerous tool: time travel.

With more than 350,000 copies sold, the Report on the Investigation into Russian Interference in the 2016 Election has taken its place as the defining document of the Trump administration. Replete with some of the most infamous characters and outlandish schemes in modern American history, the underlying evidence in the Special Counsel's written testimony could have been plucked from the script of a blockbuster movie.

Durante o conturbado período da ditadura militar, dois adolescentes, amigos de escola, incorporam as contradições que marcaram os anos de chumbo: de um lado, a direita, tida como reacionária; de outro, a esquerda, que se autoproclamava progressista. Nesse embate, quase sempre maniqueísta, um deles se entregará à luta armada, da qual não sairá ileso emocional e socialmente; o outro, vindo da classe trabalhadora, almejará uma posição na elite abastada paulistana, à qual o primeiro pertence.

The cover of darkness was pulled back by the NODS scopes in their hands. The enemy had no idea what was about to befall them. With the rush of wings of dragons, the sounds of M-14s, M-870 shotguns, M-16s, and grenades spoke the finality of death. This gave the human pack mules a taste of what would continue to reign upon them in the House of the Dragon. North and South Vietnam were at war. Indeed, all of Southeast Asia was at war. Due to national commitments, the US military was drawn into the fray.