10 must-read history books like The Unanswered Letter: One Holocaust Family's Desperate Plea for Help by Faris Cassell

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The Unanswered Letter: One Holocaust Family's Desperate Plea for Help

By: Faris Cassell

4.19

Format: 437 pages, Hardcover

In 1939, as the Nazis closed in, Alfred Berger mailed a desperate letter to an American stranger wh…

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1. A Full Life: Reflections at Ninety

By: Jimmy Carter

3.84

Format: 257 pages, Hardcover

Jimmy Carter, thirty-ninth President, Nobel Peace Prize winner, international humanitarian, fisherm… read more

Similar categories in Jimmy Carter's A Full Life: Reflections at Ninety book and Faris Cassell's The Unanswered Letter: One Holocaust Family's Desperate Plea for Help

  • history
  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir
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2. Auschwitz

By: Laurence Rees

4.30

Format: 327 pages, Hardcover

Auschwitz-Birkenau is the site of the largest mass murder in human history. Yet its story is not fu… read more

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  • history
  • historical
  • war
  • world war ii
  • nonfiction
  • holocaust
"A diferencia del estalinismo y otras dictaduras que se apropiaron, sin más, del poder, el nazismo se sustentó en una base popular."

-Laurence Rees, Auschwitz

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3. Heretic Queen: Queen Elizabeth I and the Wars of Religion

By: Susan Ronald

3.51

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

A stunning account of Elizabeth I that focuses on her role in the Wars on Religion—the battle bet… read more

Similar categories in Susan Ronald's Heretic Queen: Queen Elizabeth I and the Wars of Religion book and Faris Cassell's The Unanswered Letter: One Holocaust Family's Desperate Plea for Help

  • history
  • biography
  • historical
  • war
  • nonfiction
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4. A Place to Stand

By: Jimmy Santiago Baca

3.82

Format: 340 pages,

read more

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  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir
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5. Rogue

By: Danielle Steel

4.64

Format: None pages, Hardcover

For Maxine Williams, being married to Blake was an amazing adventure. Brilliant, charismatic, and w… read more

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6. I Have Lived a Thousand Years

By: None

3.93

Format: None pages, Paperback

What is death all about? What is life all about? So wonders thirteen-year-old- Elli Friedmann, just… read more

Similar categories in None's I Have Lived a Thousand Years book and Faris Cassell's The Unanswered Letter: One Holocaust Family's Desperate Plea for Help

  • history
  • biography
  • memoir
  • historical
  • world war ii
  • nonfiction
  • holocaust
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7. The Secret Holocaust Diaries: The Untold Story of Nonna Bannister

By: Nonna Bannister , Denise George , Carolyn Tomlin

4.00

Format: 205 pages, Hardcover

Nonna Bannister carried a secret almost to her Tennessee grave: the diaries she kept as a young gir… read more

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  • history
  • biography
  • historical
  • world war ii
  • nonfiction
  • holocaust

8. Our Crime Was Being Jewish: Hundreds of Holocaust Survivors Tell Their Stories

By: Anthony S. Pitch , Michael Berenbaum

4.21

Format: 160 pages,

In the shouted words of a woman bound for Auschwitz to a man about to escape from a cattle car, "If… read more

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9. Alone on the Ice: The Greatest Survival Story in the History of Exploration

By: David Roberts

3.30

Format: None pages, Paperback

"An important missing story from the heroic age of Antarctic exploration."--Laurence Gonzales, auth… read more

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10. Life in a Jar: The Irena Sendler Project

By: Jack Mayer

4.00

Format: 224 pages,

During World War II, Irena Sendler, a Polish Catholic social worker, organized a rescue network of … read more

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11. Remember Us: My Journey from the Shtetl Through the Holocaust

By: None , None

4.32

Format: 210 pages, Hardcover

Remember Usis a look back at the lost world of the shtetl: a wise Zayde offering prophetic and prof… read more

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12. The Blue Tattoo: The Life of Olive Oatman

By: Margot Mifflin

2.57

Format: None pages, Hardcover

In 1851 Olive Oatman was a thirteen-year old pioneer traveling west toward Zion, with her Mormon fa… read more

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13. Vacuuming in the Nude: And Other Ways to Get Attention

By: Peggy Rowe

4.25

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

Peggy Rowe is at it again—this time giving a hilarious inside look at her writing career. Peggy Ro… read more

Similar categories in Peggy Rowe's Vacuuming in the Nude: And Other Ways to Get Attention book and Faris Cassell's The Unanswered Letter: One Holocaust Family's Desperate Plea for Help

  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir
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14. The Note Through the Wire: The Incredible True Story of a Prisoner of War and a Resistance Heroine

By: Doug Gold

4.01

Format: 336 pages, Paperback

Praised as an “unforgettable love story” by Heather Morris,  New York Times  bestselling author of … read more

Similar categories in Doug Gold's The Note Through the Wire: The Incredible True Story of a Prisoner of War and a Resistance Heroine book and Faris Cassell's The Unanswered Letter: One Holocaust Family's Desperate Plea for Help

  • history
  • biography
  • historical
  • war
  • world war ii
  • nonfiction
  • holocaust
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15. American Spirits

By: Russell Banks

3.88

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

From one of America’s most celebrated storytellers come three dark, interlocking tales about the re… read more

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16. My Name Is Selma: The Remarkable Memoir of a Jewish Resistance Fighter and Ravensbrück Survivor

By: Selma van de Perre

4.17

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

An international bestseller, this powerful memoir by a ninety-eight-year-old Jewish Resistance figh… read more

Similar categories in Selma van de Perre's My Name Is Selma: The Remarkable Memoir of a Jewish Resistance Fighter and Ravensbrück Survivor book and Faris Cassell's The Unanswered Letter: One Holocaust Family's Desperate Plea for Help

  • history
  • biography
  • memoir
  • war
  • world war ii
  • nonfiction
  • holocaust
Cover of The Unanswered Letter: One Holocaust Family's Desperate Plea for Help by Faris Cassell

17. The Unanswered Letter: One Holocaust Family's Desperate Plea for Help

By: Faris Cassell

4.19

Format: 437 pages, Hardcover

In 1939, as the Nazis closed in, Alfred Berger mailed a desperate letter to an American stranger wh… read more

Similar categories in Faris Cassell's The Unanswered Letter: One Holocaust Family's Desperate Plea for Help book and Faris Cassell's The Unanswered Letter: One Holocaust Family's Desperate Plea for Help

  • history
  • biography
  • memoir
  • jewish
  • historical
  • war
  • world war ii
  • nonfiction
  • family
  • holocaust
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18. The Slow March of Light

By: Heather B. Moore

4.29

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

Based on a true story. Inspired by real events. A riveting and emotionally gripping novel of an Ame… read more

Similar categories in Heather B. Moore's The Slow March of Light book and Faris Cassell's The Unanswered Letter: One Holocaust Family's Desperate Plea for Help

  • historical
  • war
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19. The Boy Who Followed His Father into Auschwitz: A True Story of Family and Survival

By: Jeremy Dronfield

4.45

Format: 464 pages, Paperback

The #1 Sunday Times bestseller—a remarkable story of the heroic and unbreakable bond between a fath… read more

Similar categories in Jeremy Dronfield's The Boy Who Followed His Father into Auschwitz: A True Story of Family and Survival book and Faris Cassell's The Unanswered Letter: One Holocaust Family's Desperate Plea for Help

  • history
  • biography
  • memoir
  • historical
  • war
  • world war ii
  • nonfiction
  • holocaust
"The Stair of Death was the epitome of SS thinking — why install a more efficient mechanical conveyor when criminal and Jewish labour was so cheap and the process so satisfyingly punishing?"

-Jeremy Dronfield, The Boy Who Followed His Father into Auschwitz: A True Story of Family and Survival

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20. I Marched with Patton: A Firsthand Account of World War II Alongside One of the U.S. Army's Greatest Generals

By: Frank Sisson

3.82

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

"Poignant . . . Well worth the read." — Wall Street Journal In December 1944, Frank Sisson deployed… read more

Similar categories in Frank Sisson's I Marched with Patton: A Firsthand Account of World War II Alongside One of the U.S. Army's Greatest Generals book and Faris Cassell's The Unanswered Letter: One Holocaust Family's Desperate Plea for Help

  • history
  • biography
  • memoir
  • war
  • world war ii
  • nonfiction
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21. In Alexa's Shoes

By: Rochelle Alexandra

4.24

Format: 276 pages, ebook

In Alexa’s Shoes – a dramatic, uplifting true story of a young girls struggle to overcome great odd… read more

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  • world war ii
  • holocaust

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