5 Best crime books like The Ravine: A Family, a Photograph, a Holocaust Massacre Revealed by Wendy Lower

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The Ravine: A Family, a Photograph, a Holocaust Massacre Revealed

By: Wendy Lower

4.16

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

A single photograph — an exceptionally rare “action shot” documenting the horrific final moment of …

If you liked the crime plot in The Ravine: A Family, a Photograph, a Holocaust Massacre Revealed by Wendy Lower , here is a list of 5 books like this:

Cover of Forgotten Voices of the Holocaust by Lyn Smith

1. Forgotten Voices of the Holocaust

By: Lyn Smith

4.44

Format: 351 pages, Paperback

Following the success of Forgotten Voices of the Great War, Lyn Smith visits the oral accounts pres… read more

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  • history
  • war
  • world war ii
  • nonfiction
  • holocaust
Cover of The Holocaust by Bullets: A Priest's Journey to Uncover the Truth Behind the Murder of 1.5 Million Jews by Patrick Desbois, Paul A. Shapiro

2. The Holocaust by Bullets: A Priest's Journey to Uncover the Truth Behind the Murder of 1.5 Million Jews

By: Patrick Desbois , Paul A. Shapiro

4.37

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

'The Holocaust by Bullets' tells the poignant story of how a Catholic priest uncovered the truth be… read more

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  • history
  • jewish
  • war
  • world war ii
  • nonfiction
  • holocaust
Cover of The Long Shadow of Small Ghosts: Murder and Memory in an American City by Laura Tillman

3. The Long Shadow of Small Ghosts: Murder and Memory in an American City

By: Laura Tillman

3.39

Format: 128 pages, Hardcover

In Cold Bloodmeets Adrian Nicole LeBlanc's Random Family: A harrowing, profoundly personal investig… read more

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  • history
  • true crime
  • nonfiction
  • crime
  • audiobook
"Here was the heart of dread. It was not fearsome. It was fetid, noxious, hopeless. A deep and exhausting misery, a crevasse so bottomless that, in the blackness, all one could make out were the conto…"

-Laura Tillman, The Long Shadow of Small Ghosts: Murder and Memory in an American City

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4. The Years of Extermination: Nazi Germany and the Jews, 1939-1945

By: Saul Friedländer

4.24

Format: 870 pages, Hardcover

With The Years of Extermination, Saul Friedländer completes his major historical work on Nazi Germa… read more

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  • history
  • jewish
  • war
  • world war ii
  • nonfiction
  • holocaust
"Esa sensación de extrañeza me parece que refleja la percepción por parte de las desventuradas víctimas del régimen, al menos durante los años treinta, de una realidad tan absurda como ominosa, de un …"

-Saul Friedländer, The Years of Extermination: Nazi Germany and the Jews, 1939-1945

Cover of War and Genocide: A Concise History of the Holocaust by Doris L. Bergen

5. War and Genocide: A Concise History of the Holocaust

By: Doris L. Bergen

3.94

Format: None pages, Paperback

In examining one of the defining events of the 20th century, Doris Bergen situates the Holocaust in… read more

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  • history
  • war
  • world war ii
  • nonfiction
  • holocaust
Cover of The Pale Criminal (Bernie Gunther, #2) by Philip Kerr

6. The Pale Criminal (Bernie Gunther, #2)

By: Philip Kerr

3.88

Format: None pages, Paperback

Hailed by Salman Rushdie as a "brilliantly innovative thriller-writer," Philip Kerr is the creator … read more

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  • crime
Cover of Black Earth: The Holocaust as History and Warning by Timothy Snyder

7. Black Earth: The Holocaust as History and Warning

By: Timothy Snyder

4.18

Format: 213 pages, Hardcover

A brilliant, haunting, and profoundly original portrait of the defining tragedy of our time. In thi… read more

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  • history
  • war
  • world war ii
  • nonfiction
  • holocaust
Cover of Hitler's Willing Executioners: Ordinary Germans and the Holocaust by Daniel Jonah Goldhagen

8. Hitler's Willing Executioners: Ordinary Germans and the Holocaust

By: Daniel Jonah Goldhagen

3.74

Format: None pages, Paperback

This groundbreaking international bestseller lays to rest many myths about the Holocaust: that Germ… read more

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  • history
  • war
  • world war ii
  • nonfiction
  • holocaust

9. The Eleventh Day: The Full Story of 9/11 and Osama bin Laden

By: Anthony Summers , Robbyn Swan

4.18

Format: None pages, Hardcover

Writing with access to thousands of recently released official documents, new interviews & perspect… read more

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10. Neighbors: The Destruction of the Jewish Community in Jedwabne, Poland

By: Jan Tomasz Gross

4.25

Format: 432 pages, Paperback

On a summer day in 1941 in Nazi-occupied Poland, half of the town of Jedwabne brutally murdered the… read more

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11. The German War: A Nation Under Arms

By: Nicholas Stargardt

4.34

Format: 704 pages, Hardcover

As early as 1941, Allied victory in World War II seemed all but assured. How and why, then, did the… read more

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  • history
  • war
  • world war ii
  • nonfiction
  • holocaust

12. Children in the Holocaust and World War II: Their Secret Diaries

By: Laurel Holliday

5.00

Format: 299 pages, Paperback

Children in the Holocaust and World War II is an extraordinary, unprecedented anthology of diaries … read more

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13. The Book Smugglers: Partisans, Poets, and the Race to Save Jewish Treasures from the Nazis

By: None

4.17

Format: 510 pages, Hardcover

The Book Smugglers is the nearly unbelievable story of ghetto residents who rescued thousands of ra… read more

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14. 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

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  • world war ii
  • nonfiction
  • history
  • war
Cover of The End of Everything: How Wars Descend into Annihilation by Victor Davis Hanson

15. The End of Everything: How Wars Descend into Annihilation

By: Victor Davis Hanson

4.32

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

A New York Times –bestselling historian charts how and why societies from ancient Greece to the mod… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
  • war
  • audiobook
"...there is no certainty that as scientific progress accelerates and leisure increases, and as the world shrinks on our computer and television screens, there is any corresponding advance in wisdom o…"

-Victor Davis Hanson, The End of Everything: How Wars Descend into Annihilation

"The same hubris that posits that complex tools of mass destruction can be created but never used, also fuels the fatal vanity that war itself is an anachronism and no longer an existential concern-at…"

-Victor Davis Hanson, The End of Everything: How Wars Descend into Annihilation

"War is probably the oldest human endeavor, and its face of battle is constantly changing, with new challenges prompting counterresponses. Its novel and unforeseen dangers can never be underestimated.…"

-Victor Davis Hanson, The End of Everything: How Wars Descend into Annihilation

Cover of Three Days in Moscow: Ronald Reagan and the Fall of the Soviet Empire by Bret Baier

16. Three Days in Moscow: Ronald Reagan and the Fall of the Soviet Empire

By: Bret Baier

4.37

Format: 416 pages, ebook

President Reagan's dramatic battle to win the Cold War is revealed as never before by the #1 bestse… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
  • audiobook
Cover of The Wrath to Come: Gone with the Wind and the Lies America Tells by Sarah Churchwell

17. The Wrath to Come: Gone with the Wind and the Lies America Tells

By: Sarah Churchwell

4.21

Format: 464 pages, Hardcover

Gone With the Wind, the myth of the Lost Cause and what they can tell us about American history and… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
Cover of Eight Days in May: The Final Collapse of the Third Reich by Volker Ullrich

18. Eight Days in May: The Final Collapse of the Third Reich

By: Volker Ullrich

4.21

Format: 322 pages, Hardcover

In a bunker deep below Berlin's Old Reich Chancellery, Adolf Hitler and his new bride, Eva Braun, t… read more

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  • history
  • war
  • world war ii
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of The Ravine: A Family, a Photograph, a Holocaust Massacre Revealed by Wendy Lower

19. The Ravine: A Family, a Photograph, a Holocaust Massacre Revealed

By: Wendy Lower

4.16

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

A single photograph — an exceptionally rare “action shot” documenting the horrific final moment of … read more

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  • history
  • true crime
  • jewish
  • war
  • ukraine
  • world war ii
  • nonfiction
  • crime
  • holocaust
  • audiobook
Cover of The Ratline: Love, Lies, and Justice on the Trail of a Nazi Fugitive by Philippe Sands

20. The Ratline: Love, Lies, and Justice on the Trail of a Nazi Fugitive

By: Philippe Sands

4.18

Format: 411 pages, Hardcover

As Governor of Galicia, SS Brigadeführer Otto Freiherr von Wächter presided over an authority on wh… read more

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  • history
  • true crime
  • war
  • world war ii
  • nonfiction
  • holocaust
  • audiobook
Cover of Into the Forest: A Holocaust Story of Survival, Triumph, and Love by Rebecca  Frankel

21. Into the Forest: A Holocaust Story of Survival, Triumph, and Love

By: Rebecca Frankel

4.31

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

A 2021 National Jewish Book Award Finalist One of Smithsonian Magazine 's Best History Books of 202… read more

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  • history
  • war
  • world war ii
  • nonfiction
  • holocaust
  • audiobook
Cover of My Mother's War: The Incredible True Story of How a Resistance Fighter Survived Three Concentration Camps by Eva Taylor

22. My Mother's War: The Incredible True Story of How a Resistance Fighter Survived Three Concentration Camps

By: Eva Taylor

3.69

Format: 208 pages, Paperback

"A sad and beautiful book, shining a light on quiet heroism in dark times.” – Lucy Adlington, New Y… read more

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

23. 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

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  • history
  • jewish
  • war
  • world war ii
  • nonfiction
  • holocaust
Cover of A Place For Everything: The Curious History of Alphabetical Order by Judith Flanders

24. A Place For Everything: The Curious History of Alphabetical Order

By: Judith Flanders

3.49

Format: 412 pages, Kindle Edition

In A Place for Everything, historian Judith Flanders draws our attention to both the neglected ubiq… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
  • audiobook
Cover of Cold Crematorium: Reporting from the Land of Auschwitz by József  Debreczeni

25. Cold Crematorium: Reporting from the Land of Auschwitz

By: József Debreczeni

4.53

Format: 248 pages, Kindle Edition

The first English language edition of a lost memoir by a Holocaust survivor, offering a shocking an… read more

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  • history
  • war
  • world war ii
  • nonfiction
  • holocaust
  • audiobook
Cover of The Holocaust: An Unfinished History by Dan Stone

26. The Holocaust: An Unfinished History

By: Dan Stone

4.28

Format: 464 pages, Hardcover

A revelatory new history that reexamines the brutal reality of the Holocaust—and reinterprets the e… read more

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  • history
  • jewish
  • war
  • world war ii
  • nonfiction
  • holocaust
  • audiobook
Cover of The Scourge of the Swastika: A History of Nazi War Crimes During World War II by Edward Frederick Langley Russell, Baron of Liverpool

27. The Scourge of the Swastika: A History of Nazi War Crimes During World War II

By: Edward Frederick Langley Russell, Baron of Liverpool

4.12

Format: 290 pages, Kindle Edition

When discussing the German war crimes of the Second World War, modern histories have focused on the… read more

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  • history
  • war
  • world war ii
  • nonfiction
  • holocaust
  • audiobook
Cover of Plunder: A Memoir of Family Property and Nazi Treasure by Menachem Kaiser

28. Plunder: A Memoir of Family Property and Nazi Treasure

By: Menachem Kaiser

3.68

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

From a gifted young writer, the story of his quest to reclaim his family’s apartment building in Po… read more

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  • history
  • jewish
  • war
  • world war ii
  • nonfiction
  • holocaust
  • audiobook
Cover of In Broad Daylight: The Secret Procedures behind the Holocaust by Bullets by Patrick Desbois

29. In Broad Daylight: The Secret Procedures behind the Holocaust by Bullets

By: Patrick Desbois

4.50

Format: 334 pages, Kindle Edition

How the Murder of More Than Two Million Jews Was Carried Out—In Broad DaylightBased on a decade of … read more

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  • history
  • war
  • world war ii
  • nonfiction
  • holocaust
  • audiobook
Cover of The Disappearing Act: The Impossible Case of MH370 by Florence de Changy

30. The Disappearing Act: The Impossible Case of MH370

By: Florence de Changy

3.93

Format: 432 pages, Kindle Edition

‘The affair was weird when seen from afar, but seen in close-up, it was Kafkaesque: it was not poss… read more

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  • history
  • true crime
  • nonfiction
  • crime
  • audiobook
Cover of Anatomy of a Killing: Life and Death on a Divided Island by Ian Cobain

31. Anatomy of a Killing: Life and Death on a Divided Island

By: Ian Cobain

4.21

Format: 305 pages, Kindle Edition

On the morning of Saturday 22nd April 1978, members of an Active Service Unit of the IRA hijacked a… read more

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  • history
  • true crime
  • war
  • nonfiction
  • crime

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Laura Tillman

3.39

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Victor Davis Hanson

4.32

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Bret Baier

4.37

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4.21

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Nicholas Shakespeare

4.09

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Rory Stewart

4.36

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Jeremy Bowen

4.38

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