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Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl

12,741 members

242 reviews

4.1

9 Members: SqueakyChu, roby72, thecoroner, elkiedee, cej1027, ahef1963, Peace2, FlorianKarpfinger, joudini

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by Vasily Grossman

3,450 members

89 reviews

½ 4.4

6 Members: roby72, thecoroner, elkiedee, raperper, FlorianKarpfinger, snoorlax

3

Hiroshima (Expanded edition)

1,971 members

37 reviews

4.1

6 Members: DaynaRT, kageeh, aulsmith, roby72, cej1027, FlorianKarpfinger,raperper

4

Suite Française

by Irène Némirovsky

9,952 members

346 reviews

4

7 Members: SqueakyChu, roby72, thecoroner, elkiedee, Dilara86, Luisali, ahef1963,raperper

5

If This Is a Man: Remembering Auschwitz

85 members

3 reviews

½ 4.5

5 Members: thorold, roby72, thecoroner, Dilara86, FlorianKarpfinger

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27,765 members

575 reviews

½ 4.3

6 Members: SqueakyChu, kageeh, dara85, lahochstetler, ahef1963, FlorianKarpfinger,raperper

7

Memoirs of the Second World War

by Winston S. Churchill

848 members

10 reviews

4.2

4 Members: roby72, thecoroner, raperper, FlorianKarpfinger

8

Eye of the Needle

5,369 members

93 reviews

4

6 Members: KimarieBee, Samantha_kathy, MDGentleReader, Luisali, ahef1963, FlorianKarpfinger,raperper

9

by Günter Grass

7,620 members

93 reviews

4

6 Members: thorold, roby72, thecoroner, Dilara86, Luisali, FlorianKarpfinger,raperper

10

26,588 members

629 reviews

3.9

5 Members: roby72, ahef1963, jeffza, Peace2, FlorianKarpfinger

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by Joseph Heller

40,149 members

528 reviews

4.1

5 Members: SqueakyChu, roby72, elkiedee, jeffza, FlorianKarpfinger

12

The Hiding Place

by Corrie ten Boom

10,263 members

146 reviews

½ 4.4

4 Members: dara85, bjappleg8, cej1027, ahef1963

13

Every Man Dies Alone

by Hans Fallada

3,624 members

159 reviews

4.2

5 Members: SqueakyChu, elkiedee, Dilara86, Luisali, FlorianKarpfinger,raperper

14

The Winds of War

3,338 members

55 reviews

4.2

4 Members: kageeh, Chatterbox, KimarieBee, FlorianKarpfinger,raperper

15

War and Remembrance

2,732 members

40 reviews

½ 4.3

4 Members: kageeh, Chatterbox, KimarieBee, FlorianKarpfinger,raperper

16

The Postmistress

3,409 members

247 reviews

½ 3.5

4 Members: lahochstetler, Samantha_kathy, elkiedee, ahef1963,raperper

17

Group Portrait With Lady

by Heinrich Böll

1,325 members

18 reviews

3.9

4 Members: thorold, roby72, thecoroner, FlorianKarpfinger

18

Slaughterhouse-Five

by Kurt Vonnegut

44,173 members

708 reviews

4.1

5 Members: SqueakyChu, roby72, Dilara86, ahef1963, FlorianKarpfinger,thecoroner

19

The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich: A History of Nazi Germany

by William L. Shirer

7,859 members

96 reviews

½ 4.3

3 Members: bjappleg8, Luisali, FlorianKarpfinger

20

The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society

by Mary Ann Shaffer

19,498 members

1,249 reviews

4.2

3 Members: ahef1963, StefanieGeeks, Peace2

21

The Naked and the Dead

by Norman Mailer

4,150 members

47 reviews

3.9

3 Members: roby72, thecoroner, FlorianKarpfinger

22

by Tatiana de Rosnay

11,136 members

657 reviews

4

3 Members: SqueakyChu, dara85, ahef1963

23

Farewell to Manzanar

by Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston

2,786 members

42 reviews

½ 3.7

2 Members: lahochstetler, cej1027

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Sophie's Choice

by William Styron

6,013 members

87 reviews

4.1

3 Members: roby72, thecoroner, FlorianKarpfinger

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by Elsa Morante

1,387 members

29 reviews

4.2

2 Members: roby72, thecoroner

26

Code Name Verity

by Elizabeth Wein

4,851 members

389 reviews

½ 4.3

2 Members: Luisali, StefanieGeeks

27

The Pianist: The Extraordinary True Story of One Man's Survival in Warsaw, 1939-1945

by Władysław Szpilman

2,278 members

39 reviews

½ 4.3

2 Members: SqueakyChu, roby72

28

History of the Second World War

by B. H. Liddell Hart

869 members

5 reviews

3.9

2 Members: raperper, FlorianKarpfinger

29

My Enemy's Cradle

by Sara Pennypacker

479 members

23 reviews

3.9

2 Members: dara85, Samantha_kathy,raperper

30

Explaining Hitler: The Search for the Origins of His Evil

by Ron Rosenbaum

708 members

15 reviews

4

2 Members: aulsmith, FlorianKarpfinger

31

Johnny the Partisan

by Beppe Fenoglio

350 members

5 reviews

4

2 Members: roby72, thecoroner

32

The Good War: An Oral History of World War II

by Studs Terkel

1,701 members

19 reviews

4.2

2 Members: elkiedee, StefanieGeeks

33

by Jan Struther

641 members

29 reviews

3.9

2 Members: thecoroner, MDGentleReader

34

Hitler: 1889-1936: Hubris

1,653 members

23 reviews

½ 4.3

2 Members: Chatterbox, FlorianKarpfinger

35

The Balkan Trilogy

by Olivia Manning

1,112 members

31 reviews

4.1

2 Members: thorold, elkiedee

36

Warlord: A Life of Winston Churchill at War, 1874-1945

by Carlo D'Este

346 members

8 reviews

4.1

2 Members: aulsmith, FlorianKarpfinger

37

A Train in Winter: An Extraordinary Story of Women, Friendship, and Resistance in Occupied France

by Caroline Moorehead

1,012 members

55 reviews

3.9

2 Members: Chatterbox, Luisali

38

Hitler: 1936-1945: Nemesis

1,530 members

22 reviews

½ 4.3

2 Members: Chatterbox, FlorianKarpfinger

39

Hitler's Empire: How the Nazis Ruled Europe

by Mark Mazower

676 members

13 reviews

4.1

2 Members: aulsmith, FlorianKarpfinger

40

The Shanghai Moon

302 members

14 reviews

3.8

2 Members: elkiedee, FlorianKarpfinger

41

The Coming of the Third Reich

by Richard J. Evans

2,129 members

47 reviews

½ 4.3

2 Members: Chatterbox, FlorianKarpfinger

42

The Third Reich in Power

by Richard J. Evans

1,527 members

22 reviews

½ 4.3

2 Members: Chatterbox, FlorianKarpfinger

43

Empire of the Sun

by J. G. Ballard

3,749 members

71 reviews

4

2 Members: roby72, thecoroner

44

The Third Reich at War

by Richard J. Evans

1,324 members

28 reviews

½ 4.3

2 Members: Chatterbox, FlorianKarpfinger

45

Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption

by Laura Hillenbrand

12,315 members

595 reviews

½ 4.4

Member: SqueakyChu

46

City of Thieves

by David Benioff

5,366 members

316 reviews

4.2

Member: StefanieGeeks

47

Ordinary Men: Reserve Police Battalion 101 and the Final Solution in Poland

by Christopher R. Browning

2,359 members

35 reviews

4.1

Member: Luisali

48

Berlin at War. Life and Death in Hitler's Capital, 1939-45

by Roger Moorhouse

276 members

5 reviews

4.2

2 Members: elkiedee, Luisali,raperper

49

In My Hands: Memories of a Holocaust Rescuer

by Irene Gut Opdyke

1,050 members

20 reviews

½ 4.3

Member: Peace2

50

I Am Fifteen--and I Don't Want To Die

by Christine Arnothy

396 members

6 reviews

½ 3.6

Member: dara85

51

The Dream of Scipio

2,208 members

54 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: Luisali

52

The Invisible Bridge

by Julie Orringer

2,120 members

138 reviews

4.2

Member: dara85

53

Pegasus Bridge: June 6, 1944

by Stephen E. Ambrose

1,244 members

22 reviews

3.9

Member: Peace2

54

Their Finest Hour and a Half

240 members

10 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: elkiedee

55

Henrietta Sees It Through: More News from the Home Front 1942-1945

by Joyce Dennys

172 members

32 reviews

4

Member: MDGentleReader

56

A Dance to the Music of Time: Third Movement, Autumn

by Anthony Powell

895 members

16 reviews

4.2

Member: thorold

57

The Baker's Daughter

667 members

47 reviews

3.9

Member: dara85

58

A Life in Secrets: Vera Atkins and the Missing Agents of WWII

444 members

21 reviews

4.1

Member: Chatterbox

59

World War II Behind Closed Doors: Stalin, the Nazis and the West

by Laurence Rees

258 members

5 reviews

4.2

Member: raperper

60

Miss Ranskill Comes Home

by Barbara Euphan Todd

196 members

9 reviews

4.2

Member: elkiedee

61

by Günter Grass

1,162 members

11 reviews

3.8

Member: thorold

62

The Other Side of the Hill: Germany's Generals, Their Rise and Fall, with Their Own Account of Military Events, 1939-1945

by Basil H. Liddell Hart

443 members

4 reviews

½ 3.6

Member: raperper

63

by Noel Streatfeild

341 members

17 reviews

3.9

Member: elkiedee

64

Villa Air-Bel: World War II, Escape, and a House in Marseille

by Rosemary Sullivan

147 members

2 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: Chatterbox

65

The Road Back to Paris

by A. J. Liebling

75 members

½ 3.7

Member: aulsmith

66

The Sword of Honour Trilogy

by Evelyn Waugh

1,103 members

18 reviews

4.2

Member: thorold

67

Hitler's Black Victims: The Historical Experiences of European Blacks, Africans, and African Americans During the Nazi Era

by Clarence Lusane

42 members

1 review

4

Member: Dilara86

68

All the Light We Cannot See

by Anthony Doerr

18,899 members

886 reviews

½ 4.3

Member: dara85

69

Agent Zigzag: A True Story of Nazi Espionage, Love, and Betrayal

by Ben Macintyre

1,705 members

82 reviews

3.9

Member: aulsmith

70

by Laura Wilson

109 members

4 reviews

3.9

Member: elkiedee

71

Those Who Save Us

3,083 members

166 reviews

4

Member: dara85

72

The Sergeant in the Snow

by Mario Rigoni Stern

338 members

17 reviews

4.2

Member: roby72

73

by Laura Wilson

57 members

6 reviews

3.9

Member: elkiedee

74

The Alice Network

4,304 members

218 reviews

4.1

Member: dara85

75

The Bonfire of Berlin: A Lost Childhood in Wartime Germany

by Helga Schneider

154 members

8 reviews

½ 3.6

Member: thecoroner

76

Beneath a Scarlet Sky

by Mark Sullivan

2,605 members

118 reviews

4.1

Member: dara85

77

The Past Is Myself

by Christabel Bielenberg

442 members

8 reviews

3.9

Member: Chatterbox

78

Salt to the Sea

by Ruta Sepetys

3,473 members

194 reviews

½ 4.3

Member: dara85

79

How We Lived Then: A History of Everyday Life During the Second World War

by Norman Longmate

133 members

3 reviews

3.9

Member: Chatterbox

80

Between Shades of Gray

by Ruta Sepetys

5,038 members

351 reviews

½ 4.3

Member: dara85

81

The Rape of Europa : The Fate of Europe's Treasures in the Third Reich and the Second World War

by Lynn H. Nicholas

931 members

14 reviews

4.1

Member: Chatterbox

82

Cruel World: The Children of Europe in the Nazi Web

by Lynn H. Nicholas

107 members

½ 4.4

Member: Chatterbox

83

Between Silk and Cyanide

1,017 members

33 reviews

4.1

Member: Chatterbox

84

The Emperor of Lies

by Steve Sem-Sandberg

442 members

15 reviews

3.9

Member: Chatterbox,raperper

85

Roosevelt and Churchill, 1939-1941: The Partnership That Saved the West

by Joseph P. Lash

186 members

3.9

Member: MDGentleReader,raperper

86

Belzec, Sobibor, Treblinka: The Operation Reinhard Death Camps

by Yitzhak Arad

146 members

2 reviews

½ 4.3

Member: aulsmith,raperper

87

The Love-charm of Bombs: Restless Lives in the Second World War

121 members

6 reviews

3.9

Member: elkiedee

88

A Man Called Intrepid

by William Stevenson

1,177 members

13 reviews

4.2

Member: Chatterbox

89

Albert Speer: His Battle with Truth

by Gitta Sereny

942 members

21 reviews

4.1

Member: Chatterbox

90

I Will Bear Witness: A Diary of the Nazi Years 1933-1941

by Victor Klemperer

1,236 members

12 reviews

½ 4.3

Member: Chatterbox

91

I Will Bear Witness: A Diary of the Nazi Years 1942-1945

by Victor Klemperer

872 members

8 reviews

½ 4.4

Member: Chatterbox

92

Lisbon: War in the Shadows of the City of Light, 1939-45

by Neill Lochery

150 members

5 reviews

½ 3.6

Member: Chatterbox

93

The Envoy: The Epic Rescue of the Last Jews of Europe in the Desperate Closing Months of World War II

by Alex Kershaw

225 members

5 reviews

4.1

Member: Chatterbox

94

Operation Mincemeat

by Ben Macintyre

1,949 members

97 reviews

3.9

Member: Chatterbox

95

A Genius for Deception: How Cunning Helped the British Win Two World Wars

by Nicholas Rankin

363 members

3 reviews

½ 3.3

Member: Chatterbox

96

The Girls of Room 28: Friendship, Hope, and Survival in Theresienstadt

by Hannelore Brenner

194 members

7 reviews

3.8

Member: Chatterbox

97

by Helga Schneider

399 members

27 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: aulsmith,raperper

98

Henrietta's War: News from the Home Front, 1939-1942

by Joyce Dennys

351 members

21 reviews

4

Member: MDGentleReader,raperper

99

A Fine of Two Hundred Francs

by Elsa Triolet

145 members

2 reviews

½ 3.6

Member: lahochstetler,raperper

100

Double Cross : The True Story of the D-Day Spies

by Ben Macintyre

1,066 members

45 reviews

3.9

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