The Virtuous Wehrmacht: Crafting the Myth of the German Soldier on the Eastern Front, 1941-1944
By: David A. Harrisville
3.53
Format: None pages, Unknown Binding
"This book examines how German soldiers fighting on the Eastern Front during the Second World War r…
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1. Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil
By: Hannah Arendt
4.20
Format: 312 pages, Paperback
Originally appearing as a series of articles in The New Yorker, Hannah Arendt’s authoritative and s… read more
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- world war ii
- nonfiction
- history
"Evil in the Third Reich had lost the quality by which most people recognize it—the quality of temptation."-Hannah Arendt, Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil
"During the war, the lie most effective with the whole of the German people was the slogan of “the battle of destiny for the German people"-Hannah Arendt, Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil
"In the Third Reich evil lost its distinctive characteristic by which most people had until then recognized it. The Nazis redefined it as a civil norm."-Hannah Arendt, Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil
"It is quite gratifying to feel guilty if you haven't done anything wrong: how noble! Whereas it is rather hard and certainly depressing to admit guilt and to repent."-Hannah Arendt, Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil
2. Bloodlands: Europe Between Hitler and Stalin
By: Timothy Snyder
4.38
Format: 524 pages, Hardcover
Americans call the Second World War “The Good War.” But before it even began, America’s wartime al… read more
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- world war ii
- nonfiction
- history
- european history
"Now we will live!"-Timothy Snyder, Bloodlands: Europe Between Hitler and Stalin
"Closure is a false harmony, a siren song masquerading as a swan song."-Timothy Snyder, Bloodlands: Europe Between Hitler and Stalin
"The vast majority of Jews killed in the Holocaust never saw a concentration camp."-Timothy Snyder, Bloodlands: Europe Between Hitler and Stalin
"When meaning is drawn from killing, the risk is that more killing would bring about more meaning."-Timothy Snyder, Bloodlands: Europe Between Hitler and Stalin
3. The First And The Last
By: Adolf Galland
2.74
Format: None pages, Mass Market Paperback
A fearless leader with 104 victories to his name, Galland was a legendary hero in Germany's Luftwaf… read more
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- world war ii
- nonfiction
- history
- military history
4. Into That Darkness: An Examination of Conscience
By: Gitta Sereny
3.00
Format: 144 pages, Paperback
Based on 70 hours of interviews with Franz Stangl, commandant of Treblinka (the largest of the exte… read more
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- world war ii
- nonfiction
- history
5. The Last Battle: When U.S. and German Soldiers Joined Forces in the Waning Hours of World War II in Europe
By: Stephen Harding
3.13
Format: 192 pages, Hardcover
May 1945. Hitler is dead, and the Third Reich little more than smoking rubble. No GI wants to be th… read more
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- world war ii
- nonfiction
- history
- military history
6. The Face Of Battle: A Study Of Agincourt, Waterloo And The Somme
By: John Keegan
3.73
Format: 48 pages, Paperback
The Face of Battleis military history from the battlefield: a look at the direct experience of indi… read more
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7. Valdez Is Coming
By: Elmore Leonard
4.05
Format: 256 pages, Mass Market Paperback
They laughed at Roberto Valdez and then ignored him. But when a dark-skinned man was holed up in a … read more
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8. War's Unwomanly Face
By: None , Svetlana Alexievich
4.51
Format: 247 pages, Hardcover
This book is a confession, a document and a record of people's memory. More than 200 women speak in… read more
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- world war ii
- nonfiction
- history
"War kills time, precious human time."-None, War's Unwomanly Face
"My fearlessness came from an ignorance of life."-None, War's Unwomanly Face
"HOW DO THEY RECEIVE ME? They call me “little girl,"-None, War's Unwomanly Face
"What keeps us from remembering ? The unbearableness of the memories ..."-None, War's Unwomanly Face
9. Hitler
By: Ian Kershaw
3.59
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
"The Hitler biography of the twenty-first century" (Richard J. Evans), Ian Kershaw's Hitleris a new… read more
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10. Das Reich: The March of the 2nd SS Panzer Division Through France, June 1944
By: Max Hastings
4.27
Format: 304 pages, Paperback
World-renowned British historian Sir Max Hastings recounts one of the most horrific months of World… read more
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11. We Wept Without Tears: Testimonies of the Jewish Sonderkommando from Auschwitz
By: Gideon Greif
3.59
Format: 32 pages, Hardcover
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12. Kill Anything That Moves: The Real American War in Vietnam
By: Nick Turse
4.21
Format: None pages, Hardcover
Americans have long been taught that events such as the notorious My Lai massacre were isolated inc… read more
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13. At Leningrad's Gates: The Combat Memoirs of a Soldier with Army Group North
By: William Lubbeck
3.00
Format: None pages, Hardcover
This is the remarkable story of a German soldier who fought throughout World War II, rising from co… read more
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14. Marching into Darkness
By: None
3.17
Format: None pages,
On October 10, 1941, the entire Jewish population of the Belarusian village of Krucha was rounded u… read more
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15. American Midnight: The Great War, a Violent Peace, and Democracy's Forgotten Crisis
By: Adam Hochschild
4.21
Format: 422 pages, Hardcover
From award-winning, New York Times bestselling historian Adam Hochschild, a fast-paced, revelatory … read more
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- nonfiction
- history
16. Collapse: The Fall of the Soviet Union
By: Vladislav M. Zubok
4.26
Format: 576 pages, Hardcover
A major study of the collapse of the Soviet Union—showing how Gorbachev’s misguided reforms led to … read more
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- nonfiction
- history
- european history
17. 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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- nonfiction
- history
- european history
"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
18. 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
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- nonfiction
- history
19. Vietnam: An Epic Tragedy, 1945-1975
By: Max Hastings
4.30
Format: 896 pages, Hardcover
An absorbing and definitive modern history of the Vietnam War from the acclaimed New York Times bes… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
- military history
"The merits of rival causes are never absolute. Even in the Second World War, the Western allied struggle against fascism was compromised by its reliance upon the tyranny of Stalin to pay most of the …"-Max Hastings, Vietnam: An Epic Tragedy, 1945-1975
20. Tribe: On Homecoming and Belonging
By: Sebastian Junger
4.02
Format: 182 pages, Kindle Edition
Sebastian Junger, the bestselling author of War and The Perfect Storm, takes a critical look at pos… read more
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- history
"Modern society has perfected the art of making people not feel necessary."-Sebastian Junger, Tribe: On Homecoming and Belonging
"Today's veterans often come home to find that, although they're willing to die for their country, they're not sure how to live for it."-Sebastian Junger, Tribe: On Homecoming and Belonging
"An earthquake achieves what the law promises but does not in practice maintain," one of the survivors wrote. "The equality of all men"."-Sebastian Junger, Tribe: On Homecoming and Belonging
"Disasters, he proposed, create a "community of sufferers" that allow individuals to experience an immensely reassuring connection to others"-Sebastian Junger, Tribe: On Homecoming and Belonging
21. The Bright Ages: A New History of Medieval Europe
By: Matthew Gabriele
3.65
Format: 307 pages, Hardcover
A lively and magisterial popular history that refutes common misperceptions of the European Middle … read more
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- nonfiction
- history
- european history
22. 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
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23. 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
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- history
- military history
- world war ii
- nonfiction
- european history
24. Poland 1939: The Outbreak of World War II
By: Roger Moorhouse
4.22
Format: 368 pages, Kindle Edition
A "chilling" and "expertly" written history of the 1939 September Campaign and the onset of World W… read more
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- military history
- world war ii
- nonfiction
- european history
25. Atoms and Ashes: A Global History of Nuclear Disasters
By: Serhii Plokhy
4.11
Format: 345 pages, Hardcover
A chilling account of more than half a century of nuclear catastrophes, by the author of the “defin… read more
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- history
26. The Virtuous Wehrmacht: Crafting the Myth of the German Soldier on the Eastern Front, 1941-1944
By: David A. Harrisville
3.53
Format: None pages, Unknown Binding
"This book examines how German soldiers fighting on the Eastern Front during the Second World War r… read more
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- history
- military history
- world war ii
- nonfiction
- european history
27. A Brief History of Fascist Lies
By: Federico Finchelstein
3.52
Format: 152 pages, Hardcover
"There is no better book on fascism's complex and vexed relationship with truth."––Jason Stanley, a… read more
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- history
28. The Warsaw Uprising: 1 August - 2 October 1944
By: George Bruce
4.10
Format: 309 pages, Kindle Edition
By the summer of 1944 Poland had been occupied by Nazi forces for nearly five years, but on August … read more
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- history
- military history
29. From the Realm of a Dying Sun, Volume I: IV. SS-Panzerkorps and the Battles for Warsaw, July–November 1944
By: Douglas E. Nash
4.13
Format: 962 pages, Kindle Edition
The first volume of the tactical and operational history of World War II Germany’s fourth SS-Panzer… read more
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- world war ii
- history
- nonfiction
30. The Soviet Century: Archaeology of a Lost World
By: Karl Schlögel
4.25
Format: 928 pages, Hardcover
An encyclopedic and richly detailed history of everyday life in the Soviet Union The Soviet Unio… read more
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- history
- european history
31. The Commandant of Auschwitz: Rudolf Höss
By: Volker Koop
3.89
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
Described as one of the greatest mass-murderers in history, Rudolf Höss, was born in Baden-Baden, o… read more
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