Book Events for BenVerstrooid

1820s

• Middlemarch: a study of provincial life by George Eliot
• The Mill on the Floss (Konemann Classics) by George Eliot

1830s

• Middlemarch: a study of provincial life by George Eliot
• The Mill on the Floss (Konemann Classics) by George Eliot

18th century

• A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens

19th century

• Middlemarch: a study of provincial life by George Eliot
• The Mill on the Floss (Konemann Classics) by George Eliot

Age of Sail

• Captain Hornblower: Alle hens aan dek by C.S. Forester
• Captain Hornblower: De dans ontsprongen by C.S. Forester
• The Commodore by C. S. Forester
• HORNBLOWER AND THE "ATROPOS" by C.S. FORESTER

The assasination of President Olivero,

• The Green Child (Modern Classics) by Herbert Read (autumn, 1861)

Battle of Dunkirk

• The Snow Goose & The Small Miracle by Paul Gallico (1940-06-04)

Battle of Laverstoke

• Watership Down by Richard Adams

Battle of the Bulge

• Slachthuis vijf, of De kinderkruistocht : een verplichte dans met de dood : roman by Kurt Vonnegut (1945-01-25)

Bloomsday

• Ulysses (Modern Classics) by James Joyce

Bombing of Dresden

• Slachthuis vijf, of De kinderkruistocht : een verplichte dans met de dood : roman by Kurt Vonnegut

Bourbon Restoration

• Lord Hornblower by C.S. Forester

D-Day

• Longest Day: June 6th, 1944 by Cornelius Ryan (1944-06-06)

Death of King Georg IV

• Middlemarch: a study of provincial life by George Eliot

Destruction of Sandleford Warren

• Watership Down by Richard Adams

Dunkirk Evacuation

• The Snow Goose & The Small Miracle by Paul Gallico (1940-06-04)

Fall of France

• The Snow Goose & The Small Miracle by Paul Gallico (1940-06-22)

French Revolution

• A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens (1789)

Funeral of Admiral Lord Nelson

• HORNBLOWER AND THE "ATROPOS" by C.S. FORESTER (1806)

Jazz Age

• Great Gatsby, the (Modern Classics) by Francis Scott Fitzgerald

Middle Ages

• De warachtighe historie van Doctor Faustus : treurspel in twee delen by Christopher Marlowe

Napoleon's invasion of Russia

• The Commodore by C. S. Forester

Napoleon's One Hundred Days

• Lord Hornblower by C.S. Forester

Napoleonic Wars

• Captain Hornblower: Alle hens aan dek by C.S. Forester
• Captain Hornblower: De dans ontsprongen by C.S. Forester
• The Commodore by C. S. Forester
• Lord Hornblower by C.S. Forester
• Mr Midshipman Hornblower by C. S. Forester
• Captain Hornblower: Met verzegelde orders by C.S. Forester (1815)
• HORNBLOWER AND THE "ATROPOS" by C.S. FORESTER ( 1815)

The Noble Experiment

• Babbitt by Sinclair Lewis

Operation Overlord

• Longest Day: June 6th, 1944 by Cornelius Ryan (1944-08-30)

Oxford Movement

• Barchester Towers (Wordsworth Classics) by Anthony Trollope

Prohibition in the United States

• Babbitt by Sinclair Lewis

Reign of Hadrian

• Hadrianus' gedenkschriften by Marguerite Yourcenar (138-07-10)

Reign of Terror

• A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens

Roman Empire

• Asterix in Britain by René Goscinny

Seymour Glass's wedding

• Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters. Seymour, an introduction (Penguin Books. no. 2264.) by J. D. Salinger ([1942])

Siege of Watership Down

• Watership Down by Richard Adams

World War I

• Great Gatsby, the (Modern Classics) by Francis Scott Fitzgerald (1914 ∙ 1918)

World War II

• The Jacaranda Tree by H. E. Bates
• 1984 Nineteen Eighty-four (Penguin Modern Classics) by George Orwell ( 1945)
• Fair Stood the Wind for France by H. E. Bates (1945)
• Longest Day: June 6th, 1944 by Cornelius Ryan (1945)
• Slachthuis vijf, of De kinderkruistocht : een verplichte dans met de dood : roman by Kurt Vonnegut (1945)
• The Snow Goose & The Small Miracle by Paul Gallico (1945)

World War II, German Occupation of France

• Fair Stood the Wind for France by H. E. Bates (1944)

World War III

• 1984 Nineteen Eighty-four (Penguin Modern Classics) by George Orwell