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1767, de vooravond van de Amerikaans burgeroorlog

• Drums of Autumn (Outlander) door Diana Gabaldon

1900 Galveston Orkaan

• Isaac's Storm: A Man, a Time, and the Deadliest Hurricane in History door Erik Larson

Abolition of polygamy in the United States

• The 19th Wife: A Novel door David Ebershoff

Black Sox Scandal

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

Bombardement van Dresden

• Slaughterhouse-five: or, The children's crusade: a duty-dance with death door Kurt Vonnegut (1945)

Drooglegging in de VS

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

Holocaust

• The Girl From the Train door Irma Joubert

Jazz Age

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

Operatie Market Garden

• A Bridge Too Far door Cornelius Ryan (1944-09-25)

Tweede Wereldoorlog

• The Book Thief, Exclusive Collector's Edition door Markus Zusak
• The Pianist: The Extraordinary True Story of One Man's Survival in Warsaw, 1939-1945 door Wladyslaw Szpilman
• The Reader door Bernhard Schlink
• Sarah's Key door Tatiana de Rosnay
• Slaughterhouse-five: or, The children's crusade: a duty-dance with death door Kurt Vonnegut
• The Librarian of Auschwitz door Antonio Iturbe (1945)
• Snow Falling On Cedars door David Guterson (1945)

Vietnam Oorlog

• The Things They Carried door Tim O'Brien

Wereld Oorlog 2

• A Bridge Too Far door Cornelius Ryan (1945)

WO-I

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

World War I

• Hemingway, Ernest: A Farewell to Arms door Ernest Hemingway

World War II

• The Boy in the Striped Pajamas (Deluxe Illustrated Edition) door John Boyne