Gebeurtenissen in boeken voor hooverman

11 september 2001

• Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close door Jonathan Safran Foer (Aanslagen op WTC)

Bombardement van Dresden

• Slaughterhouse-Five door Kurt Vonnegut (1945)

Cuba Crisis

• Underworld door Don DeLillo (1962)

Eerste Wereldoorlog

• The Good Soldier Svejk and His Fortunes in the World War (Penguin Modern Classics) door Jaroslav Hasek
• August 1914 door Aleksandr Isaevich Solzhenitsyn (1914)

Franse invasie in Rusland

• War and Peace (Wordsworth Classics of World Literature) door Leo Tolstoy (1812)

Holocaust

• Time's Arrow or the Nature of the Offence door Martin Amis

Iran-Contra Affaire

• A Prayer for Owen Meany door John Irving (1985 ∙ 1990)

Jodenvervolging

• Time's Arrow or the Nature of the Offence door Martin Amis

Koude Oorlog

• Underworld door Don DeLillo

Moord op John F. Kennedy

• Libra door Don Delillo
• A Prayer for Owen Meany door John Irving ([1963])

Napoleontische Oorlogen

• War and Peace (Wordsworth Classics of World Literature) door Leo Tolstoy

Praagse Lente

• The Unbearable Lightness of Being door Milan Kundera (1968)

Slag bij Borodino

• War and Peace (Wordsworth Classics of World Literature) door Leo Tolstoy

Soviet occupation of Czechoslovakia

• The Unbearable Lightness of Being door Milan Kundera (1968)

Tweede Wereldoorlog

• The Cowards door Josef Skvorecky
• Slaughterhouse-Five door Kurt Vonnegut
• Time's Arrow or the Nature of the Offence door Martin Amis
• The Unforgiving Years door Victor Serge
• The English Patient door Michael Ondaatje (1945)
• The Plot Against America door Philip Roth (1945)

Vietnamoorlog

• A Prayer for Owen Meany door John Irving (1959 ∙ 1975)

WO-II

• The Tin Drum (Vintage Classics) door Gunter Grass
• Life and Fate door Vasily Grossman (1945)