8 best-selling biography books like The School that Escaped the Nazis: The True Story of the Schoolteacher Who Defied Hitler by Deborah Cadbury

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The School that Escaped the Nazis: The True Story of the Schoolteacher Who Defied Hitler

By: Deborah Cadbury

4.38

Format: 464 pages, Hardcover

Named one of Book Riot's BEST BIOGRAPHIES OF 2022 The extraordinary true story of a courageous sch…

If you liked the biography plot in The School that Escaped the Nazis: The True Story of the Schoolteacher Who Defied Hitler by Deborah Cadbury , here is a list of 8 books like this:

1. The Debs of Bletchley Park and Other Stories

By: Michael Smith

3.66

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

The public fascination with Britain's wartime codebreakers shows no sign of abating, as reflected i… read more

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2. Tommy: The Gun That Changed America

By: Karen Blumenthal

3.66

Format: 325 pages, Hardcover

John Taliaferro Thompson had a mission: to develop a lightweight, fast-firing weapon that would hel… read more

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3. The Escape Artist: The Man Who Broke Out of Auschwitz to Warn the World

By: Jonathan Freedland

4.37

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

In a book that is part thrilling adventure, part exploration of some of the darkest secrets of the … read more

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  • history
  • biography
  • historical
  • war
  • world war ii
  • nonfiction
  • holocaust
  • audiobook
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4. You Can't Say That!: Writers for Young People Talk About Censorship, Free Expression, and the Stories They Have to Tell

By: Leonard S. Marcus

4.10

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

What happens when freedom of expression comes under threat? In frank and wide-ranging interviews, h… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • education
  • audiobook
"Intellectually I know free speech will prevail--it almost always does--and I know that some good conversations come out of it. But it's still harrowing to have to face such intolerance on your home g…"

-Leonard S. Marcus, You Can't Say That!: Writers for Young People Talk About Censorship, Free Expression, and the Stories They Have to Tell

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5. Top Secret: The Battle for the Pentagon Papers

By: Geoffrey Cowan

3.45

Format: 2 pages, Audible Audio

Listening time = 1h 43m A timely docudrama about The Washington Posts decision to publish the Pent… read more

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  • history
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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6. Faraway: Fairy Tales for the Here and Now (Faraway 5 Book Collection)

By: Rainbow Rowell

3.36

Format: None pages, Audible Audio

None read more

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  • audiobook
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7. The Paris Orphans

By: Suzanne Kelman

3.91

Format: 88 pages, Kindle Edition

Clutching her suitcase tightly to hide her trembling hands, Charlotte takes a steadying breath. Thi… read more

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  • historical
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8. The Daughter of Auschwitz: A Memoir

By: Tova Friedman

4.53

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

A powerful memoir by one of the youngest ever survivors of Auschwitz, Tova Friedman, following her … read more

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  • history
  • biography
  • historical
  • war
  • world war ii
  • nonfiction
  • holocaust
  • audiobook
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9. The Paris Affair

By: Victoria Cornwall

4.32

Format: 341 pages, Paperback

Born to a French mother and an English father, Charlotte Bray has always felt like an outsider in h… read more

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  • historical
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10. The German Child

By: Catherine Hokin

4.37

Format: 330 pages, Kindle Edition

Berlin, 1944. ‘No! Not my child!’ Annaliese screams, her voice breaking as she pounds the window us… read more

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  • world war ii
  • historical
Cover of They Came for the Schools: One Town's Fight Over Race and Identity, and the New War for America's Classrooms by Mike Hixenbaugh

11. They Came for the Schools: One Town's Fight Over Race and Identity, and the New War for America's Classrooms

By: Mike Hixenbaugh

4.48

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

The urgent, revelatory story of how a school board win for the conservative right in one Texas subu… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
  • education
  • audiobook
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12. The Shadow Network (WW2 Secret Agent #2)

By: Deborah Swift

4.17

Format: 353 pages, Kindle Edition

One woman must sacrifice everything to uncover the truth in this enthralling historical novel, insp… read more

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  • world war ii
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13. Fractured Tide

By: Leslie Lutz

3.71

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

Lost meets Stranger Things in this eerie, immersive YA thriller, thrusting seventeen-year-old Sia i… read more

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  • audiobook
"You told me once the mind is an ocean, and most of us live on the surface. But the currents beneath, that’s what moves everything around. The currents make the boats shift position in the night, push…"

-Leslie Lutz, Fractured Tide

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14. Wartime Wishes at Bletchley Park (The Bletchley Park Girls #3)

By: Molly Green

4.50

Format: 464 pages, Kindle Edition

‘The characters are multi-faceted, the settings are described with a depth that makes you feel you … read more

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15. The Counterfeit Countess: The Jewish Woman Who Rescued Thousands of Poles During the Holocaust

By: Elizabeth White

4.03

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

The astonishing story of Dr. Josephine Janina Mehlberg—a Jewish mathematician who saved thousands o… read more

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  • history
  • biography
  • historical
  • world war ii
  • nonfiction
  • holocaust
  • audiobook
"People are not fully defined by either the best or the worst of their actions"

-Elizabeth White, The Counterfeit Countess: The Jewish Woman Who Rescued Thousands of Poles During the Holocaust

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16. The School that Escaped the Nazis: The True Story of the Schoolteacher Who Defied Hitler

By: Deborah Cadbury

4.38

Format: 464 pages, Hardcover

Named one of Book Riot's BEST BIOGRAPHIES OF 2022 The extraordinary true story of a courageous sch… read more

Similar categories in Deborah Cadbury's The School that Escaped the Nazis: The True Story of the Schoolteacher Who Defied Hitler book and Deborah Cadbury's The School that Escaped the Nazis: The True Story of the Schoolteacher Who Defied Hitler

  • history
  • biography
  • historical
  • germany
  • war
  • world war ii
  • nonfiction
  • education
  • holocaust
  • audiobook
Cover of Sisters in Resistance: How a German Spy, a Banker's Wife, and Mussolini's Daughter Outwitted the Nazis by Tilar J. Mazzeo

17. Sisters in Resistance: How a German Spy, a Banker's Wife, and Mussolini's Daughter Outwitted the Nazis

By: Tilar J. Mazzeo

4.04

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

In a tale as twisted as any spy thriller, discover how three women delivered critical evidence of A… read more

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  • history
  • biography
  • historical
  • war
  • world war ii
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of The Woman Who Split the Atom: The Life of Lise Meitner by Marissa Moss

18. The Woman Who Split the Atom: The Life of Lise Meitner

By: Marissa Moss

4.13

Format: 264 pages, Hardcover

The gripping story of Lise Meitner, the physicist who discovered nuclear fission As a female Jew… read more

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  • history
  • biography
  • historical
  • war
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"Life need not be easy, provided only that it is not empty." (Lise Meitner)"

-Marissa Moss, The Woman Who Split the Atom: The Life of Lise Meitner

Cover of If It's Not Impossible...: The Life of Sir Nicholas Winton by Barbara Winton

19. If It's Not Impossible...: The Life of Sir Nicholas Winton

By: Barbara Winton

3.86

Format: 298 pages, Paperback

There are around 6000 people in the world today who owe their lives to Nicholas Winton. They are th… read more

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  • history
  • biography
  • historical
  • war
  • world war ii
  • nonfiction
  • holocaust
Cover of The Women of Jersey Island: A WW2 Historical Fiction Novel (Unforgettable World War 2 Stories) by Rachael Dymski

20. The Women of Jersey Island: A WW2 Historical Fiction Novel (Unforgettable World War 2 Stories)

By: Rachael Dymski

4.28

Format: None pages, Kindle Edition

When the Nazis invade their home, they will need each other to survive.Jersey, 1940. In the quiet o… read more

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21. Daughters of Tuscany

By: Siobhan Daiko

4.39

Format: None pages, Kindle Edition

Two women, one community, everyone’s war… With the arrival of English prisoners of war on Marche… read more

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11 Best audiobook books like The School that Escaped the Nazis: The True Story of the Schoolteacher Who Defied Hitler by Deborah Cadbury

Transform Your Habits

The Escape Artist: The Man Who Broke Out of Auschwitz to Warn the World

Jonathan Freedland

4.37

Transform Your Habits

You Can't Say That!: Writers for Young People Talk About Censorship, Free Expression, and the Stories They Have to Tell

Leonard S. Marcus

4.10

Transform Your Habits

Top Secret: The Battle for the Pentagon Papers

Geoffrey Cowan

3.45

Transform Your Habits

Faraway: Fairy Tales for the Here and Now (Faraway 5 Book Collection)

Rainbow Rowell

3.36

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22 best-selling audiobook books like You Can't Say That!: Writers for Young People Talk About Censorship, Free Expression, and the Stories They Have to Tell by Leonard S. Marcus

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Hurricane Song

Paul Volponi

3.75

Transform Your Habits

Tevye the Milkman

Sholom Aleichem

3.61

Transform Your Habits

Attack of the Black Rectangles

Amy Sarig King

4.21

Transform Your Habits

28 Days

David Safier

4.29

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