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The books in this review are kind of warnings that will help, if not to change the world, at least to try to improve it.
In any case, his heroes have gone through a path that should definitely inspire them to make important decisions in their own lives.
Chris Wallace, Mitch Weiss.
Countdown to 1945: The Atomic Bomb and 116 Days That Changed the World.
- Kh.: Family Leisure Club, 2022
The story of one of the most fateful decisions in American history is told in this non-fiction thriller, which will serve as an important warning in our difficult times.
It is worth recalling that on August 6, 1945, an atomic bomb was dropped on Hiroshima - an event that in one moment dragged the world into a new age - the age of weapons endowed with such destructive power that nothing can stand against them.
However, this would never have happened without the will of the people who authorized, developed and prepared atomic weapons for use.
Telling about this, the authors of the book look behind the scenes of the creation of the bomb, introduce those who in one way or another participated in the history of the bomb, reveal their motivation, doubts and moral conflicts.
This is the story of Julius Robert Oppenheimer and his team of scientists at Los Alamos, the new president of the United States, Harry Truman, a military pilot,
Colonel Paul Tibbets and his subordinates.
However, it is also the story of a girl named Hideko Tamura from Hiroshima, whose life will soon change beyond recognition due to the appearance of a previously unseen weapon.
However, something completely different could have changed before that.
For example, the president's decision.
"At the age of seventy-seven, Stimson was a legendary figure who served five presidents, - we learn the details of the case. - Truman was to become the sixth. Sitting face to face with him, Stimson said that the conversation would be short. Her topic is complex , the details will be discussed later. And now it is simply necessary to inform the president about "a grandiose project under development" designed to produce "a new explosive of incredible destructive power." And what did the president do? Did he act like the French king, who during the capture of the Bastille in the diary: "
July 14.
Nothing?" "That day," Truman later said, "the whole world collapsed on me," the authors note. "I decided it would be best to go home, have a good rest and listen to music," he wrote in his diary. .
Eddie Yaku.
The happiest person on earth.
Memoirs of a man who survived the Holocaust.
- Kh.: Vivat, 2022
This book is also a warning about how to never lose hope for a better future.
Especially when it comes to such a terrible experience as that of the author of this confession named Abraham Yakubovych, who was beaten and taken to Buchenwald on November 10, 1938, at the age of eighteen, after the Jewish pogroms of the Kristallnacht in Germany.
He did not know about Auschwitz at that time.
A "death march" awaited ahead, during which 15,000 prisoners died.
Our hero was tempted to run away.
"My friends used to call me Adi for short," he says. stories of humanity: the horrors of concentration camps, the efforts of the Nazis to mutilate my life and the lives of people dear to me.
But now I consider myself the happiest in the world.
All these years I have learned one thing: life can be beautiful if you make it beautiful.
I will tell you my story.
Sometimes it is sad, there is a lot of gloom and a lot of grief in it.
However, in the end it is a happy story, because happiness is our choice.
Choose for you.
I'll tell you how."
Rachel Clarke.
Love my life.
- L.: Stary Lev Publishing House, 2022
"We are the only species of all animals who know that they will die, and yet continue to take bank loans, squander their time, that is, behave as if we have an eternity ahead of us," says one of the heroes of this book, and precisely these words inspire its author in her work.
After all, she is a specialist in palliative medicine, who introduces readers to the place of her work, which most people consider too tragic and prefer not to think about it.
Every day, the heroine of the book worries and comforts people who are nearing the end of their life journey, helps to suppress pain and accept their mortality.
The author also talks about her personal experience.
In 2017, her father was diagnosed with an incurable form of cancer, and then she realized that nothing - not even the best palliative care - could dull the pain of losing a loved one.
And yet, she claims,
there is more love, strength, kindness, joy, tenderness, gratitude and compassion in hospice than you can imagine.
People who know they are dying are aware that their time is running out.
Instead, everyone else lives as if they have an eternity ahead of them.
Anastasia Pica.
The latest case of journalist Kronina.
- K.: Bookraine Publishing House, 2022
The story of a young Ukrainian journalist in this novel could actually change the world, because the heroine herself - at least in terms of her life - definitely succeeded.
"Like many writers, I don't want to be associated with the main character of this novel," the author urges. have you ever had a friend or girlfriend who wanted to change the world (or maybe it was you?)."
To be honest, it would be surprising if something happened differently with the heroine of the novel - in this "polyphonic" story about thirty-seven cases of an employee of the capital editorial office, which ranges from humorous to tragic.
After all, at the very beginning, the girl gets a job at the strictly censored and completely controlled pro-Russian sponsor Kyiv editorial office, and already during the Euromaidan she understands that she can no longer be a detached witness of events and wants to fight Kremlin propaganda and tell people the truth.
In the course of her activities, described in the novel as a real adventure on various cultural and not only fronts, our heroine will build a brilliant career: an IT journalist, an employee of the parliament, an MI6 intelligence agent - and will try to thwart the Russian invasion of Ukraine on February 24, 2022.
Vera Kuriko.
Reform of a healthy person.
- K.: Laboratory, 2022
The book of the famous Ukrainian reporter is not a boring instruction or even a practical guide to the implementation of reforms, but a real warning that can affect the most important thing in our lives, that is, health and its protection.
This is an inspiring story about people who, despite the obstacles, managed to do the almost impossible - to cure Ukrainian medicine.
The author tells about the team that not only entered the ministry, sometimes unwillingly, and undermined the system from the inside, but also laid the irreversible foundation of the new medical system in Ukraine.
The book tells the story of the work on the medical reform from the first hand step by step.
Its heroes are a team headed by former acting
Minister of Health Ulyana Suprun, who became not just the face of changes, but also took on the most difficult task - to completely reformat the system.
It was a real struggle of values with bureaucracy, distrust, behind-the-scenes manipulations and lack of support.
But it was she who became the irreversible point of change in Ukrainian medicine.
Each chapter is preceded by a short reference about the events of that time in Ukraine, thanks to which the story is perceived inseparable from the general social historical context, and a short chronicle of the reform is also presented.
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