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Ivo Vichev
I was born in Varna, Bulgaria, on the edge of the Black Sea – a place where history is never really "past". Growing up between old empires and new borders, I was surrounded by stories of wars, occu...voir plusI was born in Varna, Bulgaria, on the edge of the Black Sea – a place where history is never really "past". Growing up between old empires and new borders, I was surrounded by stories of wars, occupations, disappearances and sudden changes of flag.
Later I moved to Warsaw, Poland, where I studied history and public relations at the Polish Academy of Sciences (PAN). Warsaw is a city built on ruins and memories, and it forced me to ask one question over and over again:
Why is so much of our most important history told in the most boring way possible? From dry facts to living stories
Like every history student, I spent endless hours buried in heavy academic books – dates, treaties, footnotes stacked on footnotes. I respected the work, but I often felt like the life had been drained out of the events themselves.
That changed when I discovered Ryszard Kapuściński. His books had that rare tone I'd been searching for: history and politics told through people, scenes and atmosphere. It was factual, but it breathed.
From that moment I knew what I wanted to do: take serious history and tell it with the clarity and tension of a documentary – so future generations don't have to suffer through dead, lifeless books to understand the past. What I write about
My books focus on the places where power is most visible – and most hidden:
Wars and battles
Espionage and cyber conflict
Country histories
Some books are big, sweeping national histories. Others zoom in on a single battle, uprising or covert operation. All of them try to answer the same question: What really happened here, and what does it mean for the people who had to live through it? How I tell history
If you read my books, you can expect narrative, scene-by-scene storytelling – not just lists of dates. Serious research from archives, memoirs, official reports and investigative journalism. Clear explanations of complex events like cyberattacks and proxy wars. And a refusal to simplify messy, uncomfortable truths.
I don't write official history. I don't write propaganda. I write stories that are honest, human and readable – the kind of books I was always looking for as a student and rarely found.
If you care about how we got from trenches and partitions to cyberwar and drone strikes – and you don't want to fall asleep over another textbook – I wrote these books for you.voir moins
Livres par Ivo Vichev
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