15 must-read biography books like Two Roads Home: Hitler, Stalin, and the Miraculous Survival of My Family by Daniel Finkelstein

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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…

If you liked the biography plot in Two Roads Home: Hitler, Stalin, and the Miraculous Survival of My Family by Daniel Finkelstein , here is a list of 15 books like this:

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1. Ian Fleming: The Complete Man

By: Nicholas Shakespeare

4.09

Format: 839 pages, Kindle Edition

A fresh portrait of the man behind James Bond, and his enduring impact, by an award-winning biograp… read more

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  • history
  • biography
  • nonfiction
Cover of Politics On the Edge: A Memoir From Within by Rory Stewart

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

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  • history
  • biography
  • memoir
  • politics
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
"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

Cover of The Making of the Modern Middle East: A Personal History by Jeremy Bowen

3. 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

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  • history
  • biography
  • memoir
  • politics
  • war
  • nonfiction
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4. Great-Uncle Harry: A Tale of War and Empire

By: Michael Palin

4.17

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

From the time, many years ago, when Michael Palin first heard that his grandfather had a brother, H… read more

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  • history
  • biography
  • memoir
  • war
  • nonfiction
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5. The Seventh Son

By: Sebastian Faulks

3.60

Format: 353 pages, Kindle Edition

A CHILD WILL BE BORN WHO WILL CHANGE EVERYTHING When a young woman named Talissa answers an adve… read more

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6. The Picnic: A Dream of Freedom and the Collapse of the Iron Curtain

By: Matthew Longo

4.28

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

The gripping story of a collective passion for freedom that shook the world. In August 1989, a grou… read more

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  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
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7. 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

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  • politics
  • history
  • biography
  • nonfiction
"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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8. 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

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  • politics
  • history
  • biography
  • nonfiction
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9. Berserker!

By: Adrian Edmondson

4.32

Format: 406 pages, Kindle Edition

From brutal schooldays to '80s anarchy, through The Young Ones and beyond, Berserker! is the one-of… read more

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  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir
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10. All That Glitters: A Story of Friendship, Fraud, and Fine Art

By: Orlando Whitfield

3.84

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

DECEPTION IS A FINE ART. When Orlando Whitfield first meets Inigo Philbrick, they are students d… read more

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

11. 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 Daniel Finkelstein's Two Roads Home: Hitler, Stalin, and the Miraculous Survival of My Family

  • history
  • biography
  • memoir
  • jewish
  • politics
  • war
  • world war ii
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • holocaust
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12. 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 Daniel Finkelstein's Two Roads Home: Hitler, Stalin, and the Miraculous Survival of My Family

  • history
  • biography
  • politics
  • war
  • world war ii
  • nonfiction
Cover of Follow The Money: How much does Britain cost? by Paul Johnson

13. Follow The Money: How much does Britain cost?

By: Paul Johnson

4.29

Format: 313 pages, Hardcover

What is the truth about Britain's finances? Paul Johnson and the enormously respected Institute … read more

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  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
Cover of An Uneasy Inheritance: My Family and Other Radicals by Polly Toynbee

14. An Uneasy Inheritance: My Family and Other Radicals

By: Polly Toynbee

4.14

Format: 434 pages, Kindle Edition

'Fascinating' Spectator'Entertaining' Sunday Times'Enthralling' Guardian'Beautiful, funny and movin… read more

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  • history
  • biography
  • memoir
  • politics
  • nonfiction
"Children know. They breathe it in early, for there's no unknowing the difference between nannies, cleaners, below stairs people and the family upstairs. Children are the go-betweens, one foot in each…"

-Polly Toynbee, An Uneasy Inheritance: My Family and Other Radicals

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15. I Seek a Kind Person: My Father, Seven Children and the Adverts that Helped Them Escape the Holocaust

By: Julian Borger

4.28

Format: 297 pages, Kindle Edition

In 1938, Jewish families are scrambling to flee Vienna. Desperate, they take out adverts offering t… read more

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  • history
  • memoir
  • jewish
  • nonfiction
  • holocaust
Cover of One Boy, Two Bills and a Fry Up: A Memoir of Growing Up and Getting On by Wes Streeting

16. One Boy, Two Bills and a Fry Up: A Memoir of Growing Up and Getting On

By: Wes Streeting

4.30

Format: 284 pages, Kindle Edition

Wes Streeting might have ended up in prison rather than in parliament. His maternal grandfather Bil… read more

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  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir
Cover of Behind These Doors: Stories of Strength, Suffering and Survival in Prison by Alex   South

17. Behind These Doors: Stories of Strength, Suffering and Survival in Prison

By: Alex South

4.52

Format: 361 pages, Kindle Edition

'The men I have worked with and the staff I've worked alongside over the last ten years in prison h… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir
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18. The Silence In Between

By: Josie Ferguson

4.48

Format: None pages, Kindle Edition

Imagine waking up and a wall has divided your city in two. Imagine that on the other side is your n… read more

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"Evil demanded little of me – it merely asked me to stay silent, to do nothing. And I complied."

-Josie Ferguson, The Silence In Between

"Mozart said that music is not in the notes but in the silence in between. I think that's where our souls are – hidden in that silence."

-Josie Ferguson, The Silence In Between

"These are stories from the past, but they are still echoing now, in the present. As I write this, Russian forces are using rape as a weapon of war against Ukrainian women; deported mothers are being …"

-Josie Ferguson, The Silence In Between

Cover of Jews in the Garden: A Holocaust Survivor, the Fate of His Family, and the Secret History of Poland in World War II by Judy Rakowsky

19. Jews in the Garden: A Holocaust Survivor, the Fate of His Family, and the Secret History of Poland in World War II

By: Judy Rakowsky

4.04

Format: 384 pages, Paperback

" Jews in the Garden reads like the best of narrator-guided murder-mysteries. But in this case the … read more

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  • history
  • memoir
  • war
  • world war ii
  • nonfiction
  • holocaust
Cover of The War We Won Apart: The Untold Story of Two Elite Agents Who Became One of the Most Decorated Couples of WWII by Nahlah Ayed

20. The War We Won Apart: The Untold Story of Two Elite Agents Who Became One of the Most Decorated Couples of WWII

By: Nahlah Ayed

3.87

Format: 415 pages, Kindle Edition

Love, betrayal, and a secret the untold story of two elite agents, one Canadian, one British, who … read more

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  • history
  • biography
  • war
  • world war ii
  • nonfiction
"I believe personally that the women of France did more than their men"

-Nahlah Ayed, The War We Won Apart: The Untold Story of Two Elite Agents Who Became One of the Most Decorated Couples of WWII

"For every generation there is a defining life-altering event, and for Guy and his like-minded cohort, it was this war; …"

-Nahlah Ayed, The War We Won Apart: The Untold Story of Two Elite Agents Who Became One of the Most Decorated Couples of WWII

"It had been forty years since Europe began to comprehend just how many of its children had been victims of book-burning authoritarians, of populism gone murderously awry, of blind and violent intoler…"

-Nahlah Ayed, The War We Won Apart: The Untold Story of Two Elite Agents Who Became One of the Most Decorated Couples of WWII

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21. Truss at 10: How Not to Be Prime Minister

By: Anthony Seldon

4.36

Format: 403 pages, Kindle Edition

Liz Truss's disastrous premiership was the shortest and most chaotic in British history. In the spa… read more

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  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • history

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4.09

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4.36

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4.38

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4.17

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Jennifer Saunders

3.85

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James O'Brien

4.29

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David Mitchell

4.16

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