6 Top world war ii books like A Village in the Third Reich by Julia Boyd

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A Village in the Third Reich

By: Julia Boyd

4.25

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

New from the author of Travellers in the Third Reich—the Sunday Times Top Three bestseller and Wate…

If you liked the world war ii plot in A Village in the Third Reich by Julia Boyd , here is a list of 6 books like this:

Cover of State of Emergency: The Way We Were: Britain, 1970-1974 by Dominic Sandbrook

1. State of Emergency: The Way We Were: Britain, 1970-1974

By: Dominic Sandbrook

4.34

Format: 768 pages, Hardcover

In the early 1970s, Britain seemed to be tottering on the brink of the abyss. Under Edward Heath, t… read more

Similar categories in Dominic Sandbrook's State of Emergency: The Way We Were: Britain, 1970-1974 book and Julia Boyd's A Village in the Third Reich

  • history
  • historical
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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2. Politics On the Edge: A Memoir From Within

By: Rory Stewart

4.36

Format: 434 pages, Kindle Edition

A searing insider's account of ten extraordinary years in Parliament from Rory Stewart, former Cabi… read more

Similar categories in Rory Stewart's Politics On the Edge: A Memoir From Within book and Julia Boyd's A Village in the Third Reich

  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"Proper searching could stop drugs being carried through the gates. In the US and Sweden, where there was proper searching, I had discovered, the drug rates were far lower. But when I shared these sug…"

-Rory Stewart, Politics On the Edge: A Memoir From Within

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3. Unruly: The Ridiculous History of England's Kings and Queens

By: David Mitchell

4.16

Format: 433 pages, ebook

A rollicking history of England's earliest kings and queens, a story of narcissists, excessive behe… read more

Similar categories in David Mitchell's Unruly: The Ridiculous History of England's Kings and Queens book and Julia Boyd's A Village in the Third Reich

  • history
  • historical
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"The defeat of the Armada in 1588 was Elizabeth's high point. Things went downhill after that. Militarily the triumph against Spain was rather undermined the following year when Elizabeth sent her own…"

-David Mitchell, Unruly: The Ridiculous History of England's Kings and Queens

"There were a couple of positives: in 1554, the Queen Regent's Prerogative Act was passed which made explicit, for the first time, that when a woman inherited the throne - became the sovereign, queen …"

-David Mitchell, Unruly: The Ridiculous History of England's Kings and Queens

"Standing jaggedly on Senlac Hill, where Harold Godwinson died, possibly as a result of having taken an arrow to the eye - though possibly more boringly than that, some historians have felt constraine…"

-David Mitchell, Unruly: The Ridiculous History of England's Kings and Queens

"Queen Mary was known as Bloody Mary because of the large number of people she killed. And also because of misogyny. She was the first properly crowned woman to rule as queen regnant, not just queen c…"

-David Mitchell, Unruly: The Ridiculous History of England's Kings and Queens

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4. The Savage Storm: The Battle for Italy 1943

By: James Holland

4.33

Format: 568 pages, Hardcover

Acclaimed WWII historian James Holland’s new book both recasts the controversial Italian Campaign a… read more

Similar categories in James Holland's The Savage Storm: The Battle for Italy 1943 book and Julia Boyd's A Village in the Third Reich

  • history
  • war
  • world war ii
  • nonfiction
  • european history
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5. The Restless Republic: Britain Without a Crown

By: Anna Keay

4.39

Format: 496 pages, Hardcover

‘The execution of the king took place on a bleak, bitterly cold afternoon in January. As the execut… read more

Similar categories in Anna Keay's The Restless Republic: Britain Without a Crown book and Julia Boyd's A Village in the Third Reich

  • history
  • historical
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • european history
  • audiobook
"This book was born of ignorance."

-Anna Keay, The Restless Republic: Britain Without a Crown

"... he was not one to let other people's feelings get in the way when he knew he was right."

-Anna Keay, The Restless Republic: Britain Without a Crown

"He warned his pious daughter Bridget of the dangers of self-criticism and the overwhelming importance of love."

-Anna Keay, The Restless Republic: Britain Without a Crown

"As in many parts of the country, people's desire for peace and prosperity was stronger than their loyalty to one regime or another."

-Anna Keay, The Restless Republic: Britain Without a Crown

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6. Blood and Iron: The Rise and Fall of the German Empire 1871–1918

By: Katja Hoyer

4.17

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

Before 1871, Germany was not a nation but an idea. Its founder, Otto von Bismarck, had a formidable… read more

Similar categories in Katja Hoyer's Blood and Iron: The Rise and Fall of the German Empire 1871–1918 book and Julia Boyd's A Village in the Third Reich

  • history
  • politics
  • germany
  • war
  • nonfiction
  • european history
  • audiobook
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7. The Making of the Modern Middle East: A Personal History

By: Jeremy Bowen

4.38

Format: 465 pages, Kindle Edition

A Sunday Times Paperback of the YearA Spectator and New Statesman Book of the Year‘An illuminating … read more

Similar categories in Jeremy Bowen's The Making of the Modern Middle East: A Personal History book and Julia Boyd's A Village in the Third Reich

  • history
  • politics
  • war
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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8. Empireworld: How British Imperialism Has Shaped the Globe

By: Sathnam Sanghera

4.04

Format: 464 pages, Hardcover

In his ground-breaking new book, Sathnam Sanghera traces the legacies of British empire around the … read more

Similar categories in Sathnam Sanghera's Empireworld: How British Imperialism Has Shaped the Globe book and Julia Boyd's A Village in the Third Reich

  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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9. Beyond the Wall: East Germany, 1949-1990

By: Katja Hoyer

4.23

Format: 496 pages, Hardcover

In 1990, a country disappeared. When the Iron Curtain fell, East Germany simply ceased to be. For o… read more

Similar categories in Katja Hoyer's Beyond the Wall: East Germany, 1949-1990 book and Julia Boyd's A Village in the Third Reich

  • history
  • historical
  • politics
  • germany
  • nonfiction
  • european history
  • audiobook
"Some of the “songs"

-Katja Hoyer, Beyond the Wall: East Germany, 1949-1990

"Anti-Fascist Protection Rampart,"

-Katja Hoyer, Beyond the Wall: East Germany, 1949-1990

"From 1971, the rates paid were means-tested, allowing working class families with children privileged access. A four-person household in West Germany spent around 21 percent of their net income on re…"

-Katja Hoyer, Beyond the Wall: East Germany, 1949-1990

"In other fields too, female ambition had become the norm. By 1988, over 90% of East German women fought their own battles in the workplace. The GDR had reached the highest rate of female employment i…"

-Katja Hoyer, Beyond the Wall: East Germany, 1949-1990

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10. There Will Be Fire: Margaret Thatcher, the IRA, and Two Minutes That Changed History

By: Rory Carroll

4.38

Format: 397 pages, Hardcover

Killing Thatcher is the gripping account of how the IRA came astonishingly close to killing Margar… read more

Similar categories in Rory Carroll's There Will Be Fire: Margaret Thatcher, the IRA, and Two Minutes That Changed History book and Julia Boyd's A Village in the Third Reich

  • history
  • historical
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • european history
  • audiobook
Cover of Fatherland: A Memoir of War, Conscience, and Family Secrets by Burkhard Bilger

11. Fatherland: A Memoir of War, Conscience, and Family Secrets

By: Burkhard Bilger

4.09

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

As a boy growing up in Oklahoma, Burkhard Bilger often heard his parents tell stories about the Ger… read more

Similar categories in Burkhard Bilger's Fatherland: A Memoir of War, Conscience, and Family Secrets book and Julia Boyd's A Village in the Third Reich

  • history
  • historical
  • germany
  • war
  • world war ii
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of Attack Warning Red! by Julie McDowall

12. Attack Warning Red!

By: Julie McDowall

4.12

Format: None pages, Hardcover

The first book to tell the story of day-to-day life on the nuclear home front - from the host of #1… read more

Similar categories in Julie McDowall's Attack Warning Red! book and Julia Boyd's A Village in the Third Reich

  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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13. A Village in the Third Reich

By: Julia Boyd

4.25

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

New from the author of Travellers in the Third Reich—the Sunday Times Top Three bestseller and Wate… read more

Similar categories in Julia Boyd's A Village in the Third Reich book and Julia Boyd's A Village in the Third Reich

  • history
  • historical
  • politics
  • germany
  • war
  • world war ii
  • nonfiction
  • european history
  • holocaust
  • audiobook
Cover of Why is this Lying Bastard Lying to Me?: Searching for the Truth on Political TV by Rob Burley

14. Why is this Lying Bastard Lying to Me?: Searching for the Truth on Political TV

By: Rob Burley

4.23

Format: 446 pages, Kindle Edition

A deliciously irreverent and humorous insider account of 25 years working at the very top of Britis… read more

Similar categories in Rob Burley's Why is this Lying Bastard Lying to Me?: Searching for the Truth on Political TV book and Julia Boyd's A Village in the Third Reich

  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of Two Roads Home: Hitler, Stalin, and the Miraculous Survival of My Family by Daniel Finkelstein

15. Two Roads Home: Hitler, Stalin, and the Miraculous Survival of My Family

By: Daniel Finkelstein

4.63

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

An epic and beautifully written World War II family history that spans Europe, telling of two happy… read more

Similar categories in Daniel Finkelstein's Two Roads Home: Hitler, Stalin, and the Miraculous Survival of My Family book and Julia Boyd's A Village in the Third Reich

  • history
  • politics
  • war
  • world war ii
  • nonfiction
  • holocaust
Cover of France on Trial: The Case of Marshal Pétain by Julian T. Jackson

16. France on Trial: The Case of Marshal Pétain

By: Julian T. Jackson

4.17

Format: 432 pages, Hardcover

One of the great contemporary historians of France on one of the most controversial periods of twen… read more

Similar categories in Julian T. Jackson's France on Trial: The Case of Marshal Pétain book and Julia Boyd's A Village in the Third Reich

  • history
  • politics
  • war
  • world war ii
  • nonfiction
  • european history
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17. British Rail

By: Christian Wolmar

4.19

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

The rise and fall of the state-owned British Rail, from "the greatest expert on British trains" Chr… read more

Similar categories in Christian Wolmar's British Rail book and Julia Boyd's A Village in the Third Reich

  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
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18. Cairn

By: Kathleen Jamie

4.34

Format: 136 pages, Paperback

Cairn: A marker on open land, a memorial, a viewpoint shared by strangers. For the last five yea… read more

Similar categories in Kathleen Jamie's Cairn book and Julia Boyd's A Village in the Third Reich

  • nonfiction
Cover of Retracing the Iron Curtain: A 3,000-Mile Journey Through the End and Afterlife of the Cold War by Timothy  Phillips

19. Retracing the Iron Curtain: A 3,000-Mile Journey Through the End and Afterlife of the Cold War

By: Timothy Phillips

4.22

Format: 464 pages, Hardcover

Across 3,000 miles and over eight decades, this epic new people's history of the Cold War makes eye… read more

Similar categories in Timothy Phillips's Retracing the Iron Curtain: A 3,000-Mile Journey Through the End and Afterlife of the Cold War book and Julia Boyd's A Village in the Third Reich

  • history
  • politics
  • germany
  • nonfiction
  • european history
  • audiobook
Cover of Coffee With Hitler: The Untold Story of the Amateur Spies Who Tried to Civilize the Nazis by Charles Spicer

20. Coffee With Hitler: The Untold Story of the Amateur Spies Who Tried to Civilize the Nazis

By: Charles Spicer

3.79

Format: 520 pages, Hardcover

*A Telegraph and Spectator Best Book of the Year* The fascinating story of how an eccentric group … read more

Similar categories in Charles Spicer's Coffee With Hitler: The Untold Story of the Amateur Spies Who Tried to Civilize the Nazis book and Julia Boyd's A Village in the Third Reich

  • history
  • politics
  • world war ii
  • nonfiction
  • european history
  • audiobook

15 Best audiobook books like A Village in the Third Reich by Julia Boyd

Transform Your Habits

State of Emergency: The Way We Were: Britain, 1970-1974

Dominic Sandbrook

4.34

Transform Your Habits

Politics On the Edge: A Memoir From Within

Rory Stewart

4.36

Transform Your Habits

Unruly: The Ridiculous History of England's Kings and Queens

David Mitchell

4.16

Transform Your Habits

The Restless Republic: Britain Without a Crown

Anna Keay

4.39

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15 best-selling history books like Two Roads Home: Hitler, Stalin, and the Miraculous Survival of My Family by Daniel Finkelstein

Transform Your Habits

Ian Fleming: The Complete Man

Nicholas Shakespeare

4.09

Transform Your Habits

Politics On the Edge: A Memoir From Within

Rory Stewart

4.36

Transform Your Habits

The Making of the Modern Middle East: A Personal History

Jeremy Bowen

4.38

Transform Your Habits

Great-Uncle Harry: A Tale of War and Empire

Michael Palin

4.17

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