Gebeurtenissen in boeken voor lexrex1215

Abolition of polygamy in the United States

• The 19th Wife: A Novel door David Ebershoff

Aftreden van president Richard M. Nixon

• Memories of the Ford Administration door John Updike ([1974])

Black Sox Scandal

• The Great Gatsby door F. Scott Fitzgerald (1919)

Bloomsday

• Ulysses (Oxford World's Classics) door James Joyce (1904-06-14)

Cuba Crisis

• Underworld: A Novel door Don DeLillo (1962)

Dekolonisatie van India

• Midnight's Children: A Novel (Modern Library 100 Best Novels) door Salman Rushdie (1947-08-15)

Drooglegging in de VS

• The Great Gatsby door F. Scott Fitzgerald (1920 ∙ 1933)

Eerste Wereldoorlog

• The Radetzky March (Works of Joseph Roth) door Joseph Roth

Franse invasie in Rusland

• War and Peace (Vintage Classics) door Leo Tolstoy (1812)

Jazz Age

• The Great Gatsby door F. Scott Fitzgerald (1920 ∙ 1929)

Koude Oorlog

• The Honourable Schoolboy door John Le Carré
• Underworld: A Novel door Don DeLillo

Napoleontische Oorlogen

• War and Peace (Vintage Classics) door Leo Tolstoy

Praagse Lente

• The Unbearable Lightness of Being: A Novel (Harper Perennial Modern Classics) door Milan Kundera (1968)

Risorgimento

• Confessions of an Italian (Penguin Classics) door Ippolito Nievo (1815-1870)

Russische Revolutie

• A Gentleman in Moscow: A Novel door Amor Towles

Slag bij Borodino

• War and Peace (Vintage Classics) door Leo Tolstoy

Soviet occupation of Czechoslovakia

• The Unbearable Lightness of Being: A Novel (Harper Perennial Modern Classics) door Milan Kundera (1968)

Spaanse Burgeroorlog

• For Whom the Bell Tolls door Ernest Hemingway (1939)

Trojan War

• The Penelopiad: The Myth of Penelope and Odysseus door Margaret Atwood

Tweede Wereldoorlog

• The English Patient door Michael Ondaatje (1945)

Vietnam Oorlog

• The Things They Carried door Tim O'Brien

WO-I

• The Great Gatsby door F. Scott Fitzgerald (1914 ∙ 1918)

WO-II

• Life and Fate (New York Review Books Classics) door Vasily Grossman (1945)

World War I

• A Farewell to Arms door Ernest Hemingway ( introduction by Robert Penn Warren)