The ​Bosnia List A ​Memoir of War, Exile, and Return

Anthony Swofford - Jarhead
Each ​generation fights its war, Each generation tells its soldiiers's story. This is what it was like to fight in the Gulf. Anthony Swofford's grandfather fought in WWII; his father fought in Vietnam; and he - a directionless, testosterone-battered teenager - became a scout/sniper in the marines and fought in the Gulf War. His account of that time is also part of a lineage - after Wilfred Owen, Norman Mailer, Michael Herr and Tim O'Brien, it brings the raw and searing tradition of soldiers' stories up to date. A harrowing yet inspiring portrait of a tormented consciousness struggling for reconciliation and peace, JARHEAD is authentic, revelatory and brilliantly crafted.

Malala Yousafzai - Christina Lamb - I ​Am Malala
When ​the Taliban took control of the Swat Valley in Pakistan, one girl spoke out. Malala Yousafzai refused to be silenced and fought for her right to an education. On Tuesday, October 9, 2012, when she was fifteen, she almost paid the ultimate price. She was shot in the head at point-blank range while riding the bus home from school, and few expected her to survive. Instead, Malala's miraculous recovery has taken her on an extraordinary journey from a remote valley in northern Pakistan to the halls of the United Nations in New York. At sixteen, she has become a global symbol of peaceful protest and the youngest nominee ever for the Nobel Peace Prize. I AM MALALA is the remarkable tale of a family uprooted by global terrorism, of the fight for girls' education, of a father who, himself a school owner, championed and encouraged his daughter to write and attend school, and of brave parents who have a fierce love for their daughter in a society that prizes sons. I AM MALALA will make you believe in the power of one person's voice to inspire change in the world.

George Saunders - Lincoln ​in the Bardo
The ​long-awaited first novel from the author of Tenth of December: a moving and original father-son story featuring none other than Abraham Lincoln, as well as an unforgettable cast of supporting characters, living and dead, historical and invented February 1862. The Civil War is less than one year old. The fighting has begun in earnest, and the nation has begun to realize it is in for a long, bloody struggle. Meanwhile, President Lincoln’s beloved eleven-year-old son, Willie, lies upstairs in the White House, gravely ill. In a matter of days, despite predictions of a recovery, Willie dies and is laid to rest in a Georgetown cemetery. “My poor boy, he was too good for this earth,” the president says at the time. “God has called him home.” Newspapers report that a grief-stricken Lincoln returns, alone, to the crypt several times to hold his boy’s body. From that seed of historical truth, George Saunders spins an unforgettable story of familial love and loss that breaks free of its realistic, historical framework into a supernatural realm both hilarious and terrifying. Willie Lincoln finds himself in a strange purgatory where ghosts mingle, gripe, commiserate, quarrel, and enact bizarre acts of penance. Within this transitional state—called, in the Tibetan tradition, the bardo—a monumental struggle erupts over young Willie’s soul. Lincoln in the Bardo is an astonishing feat of imagination and a bold step forward from one of the most important and influential writers of his generation. Formally daring, generous in spirit, deeply concerned with matters of the heart, it is a testament to fiction’s ability to speak honestly and powerfully to the things that really matter to us. Saunders has invented a thrilling new form that deploys a kaleidoscopic, theatrical panorama of voices to ask a timeless, profound question: How do we live and love when we know that everything we love must end?

Faruk Šehić - Az ​Una hullámai
A ​háborúval nem lehet szembenézni. Aki túléli, az ezzel kínlódik. E regény szerzője a kilencvenes évek boszniai háborújának katonái és túlélői közé tartozik. Számtalanszor eleshetett volna valamelyik isten háta mögötti fronton, puskával a kezében. Számtalanszor meg is bolondulhatott volna a háború után. Irodalomból, fényszavakkal alakította ki a pajzsát, így védekezett, vallja. Írt háborús novellákat is, első regényében azonban a háborút a fonákjáról dolgozta fel: azt írta meg, hogy mi veszett oda. Gyermekkorát a gyönyörű Una folyó partján, azokat az időket, amikor együtt lélegzett a természettel, és amikor még senki sem sejtette, hogy mi készül az emberi lelkekben és fejekben. Számára fontosabbá váltak ezek a régi, egy egészen más világból való élmények, mint azok a szilánkok, amelyeket a háborúról őriz és bunkerez be az emlékezetében. Az emlékezet küzd ebben a regényben azért, hogy egy hadviselt fiatalember ép és egészséges férfi lehessen a hatalmas, de korántsem fenséges veszteségtörténet után. Nagy itt a szép szó tétje: az élet.

David Autere - The ​Fury of the Tsar
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Ismet Prcic - Shards
Ismet ​Prcic’s brilliant, provocative, and propulsively energetic debut is about a young Bosnian, also named Ismet Prcic, who has fled his war-torn homeland and is now struggling to reconcile his past with his present life in California. He is advised that in order to make peace with the corrosive guilt he harbors over leaving behind his family behind, he must “write everything.” The result is a great rattlebag of memories, confessions, and fictions: sweetly humorous recollections of Ismet’s childhood in Tuzla appear alongside anguished letters to his mother about the challenges of life in this new world. As Ismet’s foothold in the present falls away, his writings are further complicated by stories from the point of view of another young man—real or imagined—named Mustafa, who joined a troop of elite soldiers and stayed in Bosnia to fight. When Mustafa’s story begins to overshadow Ismet’s new-world identity, the reader is charged with piecing together the fragments of a life that has become eerily unrecognizable, even to the one living it. Shards is a thrilling read—a harrowing war story, a stunningly inventive coming of age, and a heartbreaking saga of a splintered family.

Christine Arnothy - I ​am Fifteen and I Do Not Want to Die
The ​compelling and moving narrative of a young girl caught by the tides of marching armies during the siege of Budapest in 1945. Told with calm compulsive force, and with an intimacy and maturity that defies the author's youth, I am fifteen is a poignant coming-of-age memoir, and a remarkable tale of ordinary lives destroyed by war. Budapest in early 1945: the siege - which was to kill some 40,000 civilians - raged around Christine Arnothy, her family and the various inhabitants of their building. Hiding in cellars, venturing out in a desperate search for food and water only when the noise of battle momentarily receded, they wondered if the Germans from the West or the Russians from the East would be victorious and under which they would fare best. Praying she would survive, and mourning the loss of some of her fellow refugees, Christine found solace in her writing - in pencil on a small notepad in the cellar - and dreamt of becoming a writer at the end of the war. Her subsequent adventures include a dramatic escape over the frontier into Austria, to Vienna and freedom (or so she imagined); then the difficult decision to leave her parents in an Allied refugee camp, while she searched for a new life in Paris.

William Wharton - Srapnel
Lengyelül ​kiadott regényei közül először a Srapnelt foghatják kézbe a magyar olvasók. Wharton ebben saját háborús élményeit írja le néhol már-már sokkoló őszinteséggel, ám az egész művet most is áthatja a szerző finom humora. Hetvenöt évesen visszatekint élete meghatározó élményére, és végre rászánja magát, hogy elmesélje azokat a borzalmakat, amelyekről soha senkinek nem volt képes beszélni. Olyan elemi erővel ábrázolja a háború abszurditását, amellyel csak Az ötös számú vágóhíd vagy A 22-es csapdája versenyezhet. A Srapnel vitathatatlanul kiemelt helyet érdemel mind Wharton életművében, mind a második világháborús irodalomban.

Hiroo Onoda - No ​Surrender
In ​the spring of 1974, Second Lieutenant Hiroo Onoda of the Japanese Army made world headlines when he emerged from the Philippine jungle after a thirty-year ordeal. Hunted in turn by American troops, the Philippine police, hostile islanders, and successive Japanese search parties, Onoda had skillfully outmaneuvered all his pursuers, convinced that World War II was still being fought and that one day his fellow soldiers would return victorious. This account of those years is an epic tale of the will to survive that offers a rare glimpse of man's invincible spirit, resourcefulness, and ingenuity. A hero to his people, Onoda wrote down his experiences soon after his return to civilization. This book was translated into English the following year and has enjoyed an approving audience ever since.

Saša Stanišić - Hogy ​javítja a katona a gramofont
Aleksandar ​Višegradban, egy kis bosnyák faluban nő föl. Képességvarázsló, a horgászművészet főelvtársa és folyamszónok. Legnagyobb tehetsége azonban a történetek kitalálásához van. Eszébe sem jut, hogy leragadjon az iskolai fogalmazások témáinál, ugyanis dédszüleinél túlságosan őrült aratóünnepségeket lát, túlságosan lenyűgözőnek találja a megcsalt férjek ámokfutásait, és túlságosan hihetetlennek a Drina folyó vallomásait. Amikor a háború kegyetlen hengere Višegradra is rágördül, az Aleksandar által ismert világ nem képes ellenállni neki: a családnak menekülnie kell. A nyugati ország idegenségében Aleksandar mesélőkedve életfontosságúnak bizonyul: a Németország nevű fura helyen ugyanis így sikerül megtalálni a helyét, és hazát mesélni magának. A nagyapját egykor nem tudta életre mesélni, most azonban olyan varázspálcája lett, amely működik is: fantáziája visszahozza az elmúltakat. Amikor a felnőtt Aleksandar visszatér szülővárosába, akkor kell kiderülnie, vajon a háború utáni Bosznia valóságában is működik-e elbeszélő művészete. Saša Stanišić a Hogy javítja című könyvével túlhabzó, pazarló, burleszk, tragikomikus regényben örökítette meg rendkívüli körülmények között töltött, rendkívüli gyermekkorát; ez a regény arról szól, hogy miképpen zúzódik szét brutális körülmények között a meghittség, és miképpen marad meg az elbeszélésbe vetett rendíthetetlen bizalom.

Zombory-Moldován Béla - The ​Burning of the World
The ​budding young Hungarian artist Béla Zombory-Moldován was abroad on holiday when World War I broke out in August 1914. Called up by the army, he soon found himself hundreds of miles away, advancing on Russian lines—or perhaps on his own lines—and facing relentless rifle and artillery fire. Badly wounded, he returned to normal life, which now struck him as unspeakably strange. He had witnessed, he realized, the end of a way of life, of a whole world. Published here for the first time in any language, this extraordinary reminiscence is a deeply moving addition to the literature of the terrible war that defined the shape of the twentieth century.

Dick Winters - Beyond ​Band of Brothers
They ​were called Easy Company—but their mission was never easy. Immortalized as the Band of Brothers, they suffered 150% casualties while liberating Europe—an unparalleled record of bravery under fire. Dick Winters was their commander—"the best combat leader in World War II" to his men. This is his story—told in his own words for the first time. On D-Day, Dick Winters parachuted into France and assumed leadership of the Band of Brothers when their commander was killed. He led them through the Battle of the Bulge and into Germany, by which time each member had been wounded. They liberated an S.S. death camp from the horrors of the Holocaust and captured Berchtesgaden, Hitler's alpine retreat. After briefly serving during the Korean War, Winters was a highly successful businessman. Made famous by Stephen Ambrose's book Band of Brothers—and the subsequent award-winning HBO miniseries—he is the object of worldwide adulation. Beyond Band of Brothers is Winters's memoir—based on his wartime diary—but it also includes his comrades' untold stories. Virtually all this material is being released for the first time. Only Winters was present from the activation of Easy Company until the war's end. Winner of the Distinguished Service Cross, only he could pen this moving tribute to the human spirit.

Robert Capa - Slightly ​Out of Focus
In ​1942, a dashing young man who liked nothing so much as a heated game of poker, a good bottle of scotch, and the company of a pretty girl hopped a merchant ship to England. He was Robert Capa, the brilliant and daring photojournalist, and Collier's magazine had put him on assignment to photograph the war raging in Europe. In these pages, Capa recounts his terrifying journey through the darkest battles of World War II and shares his memories of the men and women of the Allied forces who befriended, amused, and captivated him along the way. His photographs are masterpieces -- John G. Morris, Magnum Photos' first executive editor, called Capa "the century's greatest battlefield photographer" -- and his writing is by turns riotously funny and deeply moving. From Sicily to London, Normandy to Algiers, Capa experienced some of the most trying conditions imaginable, yet his compassion and wit shine on every page of this book. Charming and profound, Slightly Out of Focus is a marvelous memoir told in words and pictures by an extraordinary man.

Arthur Golden - Memoirs ​of a Geisha
A ​seductive and evocative epic on an intimate scale, that tells the extraordinary story of a geisha girl. Summoning up more than twenty years of Japan's most dramatic history, it uncovers a hidden world of eroticism and enchantment, exploitation and degradation. From a small fishing village in 1929, the tale moves to the glamorous and decadent heart of Kyoto in the 1930s, where a young peasant girl is sold as servant and apprentice to a renowned geisha house. She tells her story many years later from the Waldorf Astoria in New York; it exquisitely evokes another culture, a different time and the details of an extraordinary way of life. It conjures up the perfection and the ugliness of life behind rice-paper screens, where young girls learn the arts of geisha - dancing and singing, how to wind the kimono, how to walk and pour tea, and how to beguile the most powerful men.

Chris Kyle - Scott McEwen - Jim DeFelice - American ​Sniper
He ​is the deadliest American sniper ever, called “the devil” by the enemies he hunted and “the legend” by his Navy SEAL brothers . . . From 1999 to 2009, U.S. Navy SEAL Chris Kyle recorded the most career sniper kills in United States military history. The Pentagon has officially confirmed more than 150 of Kyles kills (the previous American record was 109), but it has declined to verify the astonishing total number for this book. Iraqi insurgents feared Kyle so much they named him al-Shaitan (“the devil”) and placed a bounty on his head. Kyle earned legendary status among his fellow SEALs, Marines, and U.S. Army soldiers, whom he protected with deadly accuracy from rooftops and stealth positions. Gripping and unforgettable, Kyle’s masterful account of his extraordinary battlefield experiences ranks as one of the great war memoirs of all time. A native Texan who learned to shoot on childhood hunting trips with his father, Kyle was a champion saddle-bronc rider prior to joining the Navy. After 9/11, he was thrust onto the front lines of the War on Terror, and soon found his calling as a world-class sniper who performed best under fire. He recorded a personal-record 2,100-yard kill shot outside Baghdad; in Fallujah, Kyle braved heavy fire to rescue a group of Marines trapped on a street; in Ramadi, he stared down insurgents with his pistol in close combat. Kyle talks honestly about the pain of war—of twice being shot and experiencing the tragic deaths of two close friends. American Sniper also honors Kyles fellow warriors, who raised hell on and off the battlefield. And in moving first-person accounts throughout, Kyles wife, Taya, speaks openly about the strains of war on their marriage and children, as well as on Chris. Adrenaline-charged and deeply personal, American Sniper is a thrilling eyewitness account of war that only one man could tell.

Rudolf Höss - Auschwitz ​parancsnoka voltam
"Elfogták ​a világtörténelem talán legnagyobb gyilkosát" - írta szalagcímében a New York Times 1946. március 17-én. S valóban, kevés olyan ember van, akinek kezéhez közel egymillió ártatlan ember, férfiak, nők és gyermekek vére tapadt. Rudolf Höss, a náci Németország által létrehozott legnagyobb és legtöbb áldozatot követelő koncentrációs és megsemmisítő tábor parancsnokaként, nagy kötelességtudattal és munkakedvvel, szenvtelenül működtette éveken keresztül az Auschwitz és Birkenau közelében felépített táborkomplexumot. A háború után, lengyel fogságban írt önéletrajzi feljegyzései egyedülálló betekintést engednek a parancsokat kérdések nélkül végrehajtó és végrehajtató tömeggyilkos belső fejlődéstörténetébe. Végigkövethetjük az életét a kora gyermekkortól az első világháborús katonalétig, az első politikai gyilkosság és többéves börtönfogságtól a dachaui koncentrációs táborban eltöltött formatív évekig. Részletesen megismerhetjük, hogy miként emelkedik először a sachsenhauseni védőőrizetes, majd az auschwitzi koncentrációs tábor parancsnokságáig, majd egészen a Koncentrációs Táborok Felügyelőségének hivatalvezetői posztjáig. 1944 kora nyarán újra Auschwitz élén áll, hogy levezényelje a megsemmisítő tábor legnagyobb szabású megsemmisítési projektjét, a vidéki magyar zsidók legyilkolását. Az ún. magyar akció (Ungarn-Aktion) keretében 437.000 magyarországi zsidó érkezik a táborba, akik közül 300.000-345.000 - köztük 100.000 gyerek - azonnal a gázkamrákba kerül. A magyar olvasóközönség által Robert Merle 1952-ben írt fiktív önéletrajzi regénye (Mesterségem a halál) által megismert Höss most saját szavaival mondja el élettörténetét. Egy olyan emberét, akit egyáltalán nem zaklatták fel a tömeggyilkosságok. "Senkit sem öltem meg személyesen, pusztán az auschwitzi megsemmisítési program vezetője voltam" - mondta, s egyszerűen nem értette azokat a kérdéseket, amelyek arra vonatkoztak, hogy a meggyilkoltak rászolgáltak-e a kegyetlen halálra. Már a feltevést is irreálisnak tartotta: "nem érti, kérem, hogy nekünk, SS-embereknek, nem az volt a dolgunk, hogy ilyesmiről gondolkodjunk; eszünkbe se jutott soha. Emellett az, hogy mindenről a zsidók tehetnek, természetes dolognak számított". Mint régi, fanatikus nemzetiszocialista tényként fogadta el az antiszemitizmust. "Olyan alapvető tételnek könyveltük el ezt, amiben kérdés nélkül hisz az ember; semmiféle kételyem nem volt ezzel kapcsolatban. Teljességgel meg voltam győződve arról, hogy a zsidók az ellenpólust képviselik a német néppel szemben, s előbb-utóbb bekövetkezik a végső leszámolás a nemzeti szocializmus és a világzsidóság között, még békeidőben is. E doktrínák alapján feltételeztem, hogy a többi nép előbb vagy utóbb ugyancsak meggyőződik a zsidó-veszélyről, s hozzánk hasonlóan állást foglal vele szemben". A Martin Broszat (1926-1989) német történész által közreadott és bevezető tanulmánnyal ellátott feljegyzéseket Kádár Gábor és Vági Zoltán történészeknek a Rudolf Höss és a magyar holokauszt kapcsolatát bemutató utószava zárja. A magyar kiadás elé Gellért Ádám írt bevezető tanulmányt.

Christina Lamb - Malala Yousafzai - Eu ​sînt Malala
Povestea ​fetei care a luptat pentru educatie si a fost impuscata de talibani M-am nascut intr-o tara care a luat fiinta la miezul noptii. Cind am fost atit de aproape de moarte, abia trecuse de miezul zilei. Cind talibanii au ocupat Valea Swat din Pakistan, printre foarte putinii care au indraznit sa protesteze a fost si o fata. Malala Yousafzai a refuzat sa taca si a luptat pentru dreptul ei la educatie. In ziua de marti, 9 octombrie 2012, la cincisprezece ani, Malala aproape ca a platit cu viata aceasta indrazneala. In timp ce se afla in autobuzul care o aducea acasa de la scoala, a fost impuscata in cap de la mica distanta. Desi aproape nimeni nu mai credea ca va trai, Malala s-a insanatosit, iar fetita nascuta intr-o regiune din nordul Pakistanului a ajuns sa tina discursuri in salile sediului ONU din New York. La saisprezece ani, Malala este un simbol al protestelor pasnice si cea mai tinara persoana nominalizata vreodata la Premiul Nobel pentru Pace. Eu sint Malala este povestea extraordinara a unei familii dezradacinate de terorismul global, o poveste despre lupta pentru dreptul fetelor la educatie, despre un tata care, infiintind el insusi o scoala, si-a incurajat permanent fiica sa se exprime liber si sa continue sa invete. Totodata, este marturia curajului unor parinti care isi iubesc cu ardoare fiica intr-o societate care pretuieste fiii. Eu sint Malala ne intareste credinta in puterea oamenilor de a schimba lumea.

Nenad Veličković - Szarajevói ​Capriccio
Nenad ​Veličković bosnyák szerző első regénye a szarajevói ostrom idején játszódik. Az allegorikus naplóregény vagy regénynapló egy tizenéves lány szemszögéből mutatja be egy múzeumban meghúzódó család és kis közösség tagjainak hősies küzdelmét a kizökkent hétköznapok gondjaival. "Davornak jelentkeznie kell a Fegyveres Erőknél. Amikor valami olyasmit motyogott anyu előtt, hogy ő a hibás, mert elutasította a munkát, anyu meglepődött: Mit utasított el? Hogy csináljon dokumentumjátékot a városi felkelők vezéréről. Ő nem Walter Scott, és erős a gyanúja, hogy az a felkelő sem Robin Hood, mint mesélik róla. Ő nem akar ódaköltő lenni. Azaz nem fog ódákat írni azokhoz, akik a várost védik, hogy aztán nyugodtabban kifoszthassák. Látta-e Davor. Mit? Hogy a várost fosztogatják. Nap mint nap ezt nézi. És úgy gondolja, hogy nagyobb bűn a várost fosztogatni, mint egyenlővé tenni a földdel? Kérdezne valamit anyutól: kevésbé gyűlölné-e önmagát, ha nem hagyja el az első férje?"

Mark Owen - Kevin Maurer - No ​Easy Day
For ​the first time anywhere, the first-person account of the planning and execution of the Bin Laden raid from a Navy Seal who confronted the terrorist mastermind and witnessed his final moment From the streets of Iraq to the rescue of Captain Richard Phillips in the Indian Ocean, and from the mountaintops of Afghanistan to the third floor of Osama Bin Laden’s compound, operator Mark Owen of the U.S. Naval Special Warfare Development Group — commonly known as SEAL Team Six — has been a part of some of the most memorable special operations in history, as well as countless missions that never made headlines. No Easy Day puts readers alongside Owen and the other handpicked members of the twenty-four-man team as they train for the biggest mission of their lives. The blow-by-blow narrative of the assault, beginning with the helicopter crash that could have ended Owen’s life straight through to the radio call confirming Bin Laden’s death, is an essential piece of modern history. In No Easy Day, Owen also takes readers onto the field of battle in America’s ongoing War on Terror and details the selection and training process for one of the most elite units in the military. Owen’s story draws on his youth in Alaska and describes the SEALs’ quest to challenge themselves at the highest levels of physical and mental endurance. With boots-on-the-ground detail, Owen describes numerous previously unreported missions that illustrate the life and work of a SEAL and the evolution of the team after the events of September 11. In telling the true story of the SEALs whose talents, skills, experiences, and exceptional sacrifices led to one of the greatest victories in the War on Terror, Mark Owen honors the men who risk everything for our country, and he leaves readers with a deep understanding of the warriors who keep America safe.

Charles Farkas - Vanished ​by the Danube
Germany's ​invasion of Hungary in 1944 marked the end of a culture that had dominated Central Europe from the nineteenth century to the middle of the twentieth. In this poignant memoir, Charles Farkas offers a testament to this vanished way of life--its society, morality, personal integrity, wealth, traditions, and chivalry--as well as an eyewitness account of its destruction, begun at the hands of the Nazis and then completed under the heel of Soviet Communism. Farkas' recollections of growing up in Budapest, a city whose grandeur embraced--indeed spanned--the Danube River; his vivid descriptions of everyday life in Hungary before, during, and after World War II; and his ultimate flight to freedom in the United States remind us that behind the larger historical events of the past century are the stories of the individual men and women who endured and, ultimately, survived them.