Books similar like A History of Violence: Living and Dying in Central America

Enrique's Journey

A true story from award-winning journalist Sonia Nazario recounting the odyssey of a Honduran boy who braves hardship and peril to reach his mother in the United States.

In this astonishing true story,…

Buy this book on Amazon

Central America's Forgotten History: Revolution, Violence, and the Roots of Migration

Restores the region's fraught history of repression and resistance to popular consciousness and connects the United States' interventions and influence to the influx of refugees seeking asylum today.

A…

Buy this book on Amazon

The President

Buy this book on Amazon

The Dope: The Real History of the Mexican Drug Trade

The Mexican drug trade has inspired prejudiced narratives of a war between north and south, white and brown; between noble cops and vicious kingpins, corrupt politicians and powerful cartels. In this …

Buy this book on Amazon

No Good Men Among the Living: America, the Taliban, and the War through Afghan Eyes

Gopal’s dramatic narrative, full of vivid personal detail, follows three Afghans through years of U.S. missteps: a Taliban commander, a U.S.-backed warlord, and a housewife trapped in the middle of th…

Buy this book on Amazon

Marching Powder: A True Story of Friendship, Cocaine, and South America's Strangest Jail

Rusty Young was backpacking in South America when he heard about Thomas McFadden, a convicted English drug trafficker who ran tours inside Bolivia's notorious San Pedro prison. Intrigued, the young Au…

Buy this book on Amazon

The Korean War

Buy this book on Amazon

Kill Anything That Moves: The Real American War in Vietnam (American Empire Project)

Based on classified documents and first-person interviews, a startling history of the American war on Vietnamese civilians

Americans have long been taught that events such as the notorious My Lai massa…

Buy this book on Amazon

Dear Leader: Poet, Spy, Escapee - A Look Inside North Korea

Buy this book on Amazon

A Rumor of War: The Classic Vietnam Memoir

The 40th-anniversary edition of the classic Vietnam memoir—featured in the PBS documentary series The Vietnam War by Ken Burns and Lynn Novick—with a new foreword by Kevin Powers.

In March of 1965, Lie…

Buy this book on Amazon

Thirst for Love

Buy this book on Amazon

The Thief

Buy this book on Amazon

Citizen 13660 (Classics of Asian American Literature)

Miné Okubo was one of more than a hundred thousand people of Japanese descent - nearly two-thirds of whom were American citizens - who were forced into "protective custody" shortly after the bombing o…

Buy this book on Amazon

Monsters

The year is 1964. Bobby Bailey doesn’t realize he is about to fulfill his tragic destiny when he walks into a US Army recruitment office to join up. Close-mouthed, damaged, innocent, trying to forget …

Buy this book on Amazon

The Box: How the Shipping Container Made the World Smaller and the World Economy Bigger

In April 1956, a refitted oil tanker carried fifty-eight shipping containers from Newark to Houston. From that modest beginning, container shipping developed into a huge industry that made the boom in…

Buy this book on Amazon

Question 7

By way of H. G. Wells and Rebecca West’s affair through 1930s nuclear physics to Flanagan's father working as a slave labourer near Hiroshima when the atom bomb is dropped, this genre-defying daisy ch…

Buy this book on Amazon

Our Migrant Souls: A Meditation on Race and the Meanings and Myths of “Latino”

A new book by the Pulitzer Prize – winning writer about the twenty-first-century Latino experience and identity.

In Our Migrant Souls , the Pulitzer Prize–winning writer Héctor Tobar delivers a definit…

Buy this book on Amazon

In the Land of the Long White Cloud

Buy this book on Amazon

I, Rigoberta Menchú: An Indian Woman in Guatemala

Buy this book on Amazon

Dispatches

Written on the front lines in Vietnam, Dispatches became an immediate classic of war reportage when it was published in 1977.

From its terrifying opening pages to its final eloquent words, Dispatches m…

Buy this book on Amazon

A History of Violence: Living and Dying in Central America

Similar books (20)

Central America's Forgotten History: Revolution, Violence, and the Roots of Migration