14 must-read history books like Life Under Nazi Occupation: The Struggle to Survive During World War II by Paul Roland

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Life Under Nazi Occupation: The Struggle to Survive During World War II

By: Paul Roland

4.06

Format: 261 pages, Kindle Edition

When the Nazis invaded, they did not intend to govern fairly. Instead they stripped defeated nation…

If you liked the history plot in Life Under Nazi Occupation: The Struggle to Survive During World War II by Paul Roland , here is a list of 14 books like this:

Cover of KL: A History of the Nazi Concentration Camps by Nikolaus Wachsmann

1. KL: A History of the Nazi Concentration Camps

By: Nikolaus Wachsmann

4.06

Format: None pages, Hardcover

In a landmark work of history, Nikolaus Wachsmann offers an unprecedented, integrated account of th… read more

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

2. Mao's Great Famine: The History Of China's Most Devastating Catastrophe, 1958-62

By: Frank Dikötter

3.51

Format: 235 pages, Hardcover

Between 1958 and 1962, China descended into hell. Mao Zedong threw his country into a frenzy with t… read more

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3. Cook County ICU: 30 Years of Unforgettable Patients and Odd Cases

By: Cory Franklin

3.57

Format: 240 pages, Paperback

An inside look at one of the nation's most famous public hospitals, Cook County, as seen through th… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history

4. Motherland: Growing Up With the Holocaust

By: Rita Goldberg

3.58

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

"I am the child of a woman who survived the Holocaust not by the skin of her teeth but heroically,"… read more

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5. Five Chimneys: A Woman Survivor's True Story of Auschwitz

By: Olga Lengyel

3.91

Format: 385 pages, Paperback

Olga Lengyel tells, frankly and without compromise, one of the most horrifying stories of all time.… read more

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6. The Demon of Unrest: A Saga of Hubris, Heartbreak, and Heroism at the Dawn of the Civil War

By: Erik Larson

4.24

Format: 565 pages, Hardcover

The #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Splendid and the Vile brings to life the pivotal fi… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
  • war
"A house divided against itself cannot stand."

-Erik Larson, The Demon of Unrest: A Saga of Hubris, Heartbreak, and Heroism at the Dawn of the Civil War

"Lincoln on a sofa was like a ship's mast on a barstool, poised in an uneasy equilibrium between relaxation and structural collapse."

-Erik Larson, The Demon of Unrest: A Saga of Hubris, Heartbreak, and Heroism at the Dawn of the Civil War

"They were convinced that Britain, once confronted with the loss of Southern cotton, would ally itself with the Confederacy—the “cotton is king"

-Erik Larson, The Demon of Unrest: A Saga of Hubris, Heartbreak, and Heroism at the Dawn of the Civil War

"South Carolina is too small for a Republic, and too big for an insane asylum. [James L. Petigru (1789-1863), following the state's vote to secede from the Union in 1860]"

-Erik Larson, The Demon of Unrest: A Saga of Hubris, Heartbreak, and Heroism at the Dawn of the Civil War

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7. City in Ruins (Danny Ryan, #3)

By: Don Winslow

4.42

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

Sometimes you have to become what you hate to protect what you love. Danny Ryan is rich. Beyond … read more

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8. Mistress of Life and Death: The Dark Journey of Maria Mandl, Head Overseer of the Women's Camp at Auschwitz-Birkenau

By: Susan J. Eischeid

4.21

Format: 464 pages, Hardcover

The first-ever biography of SS Overseer Maria Mandl, the highest-ranked woman in the Nazi killing m… read more

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  • history
  • war
  • world war ii
  • nonfiction
  • holocaust
Cover of The Girl Who Survived Auschwitz by Sara Leibovits

9. The Girl Who Survived Auschwitz

By: Sara Leibovits

4.35

Format: 336 pages, Paperback

Poland, 1944 The train slowed and halted with a squeal of the brakes. It felt like we waited in the… read more

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  • history
  • war
  • world war ii
  • nonfiction
  • holocaust
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10. The Light of Days: The Untold Story of Women Resistance Fighters in Hitler's Ghettos

By: Judy Batalion

4.07

Format: 560 pages, Hardcover

One of the most important stories of World War II, already optioned by Steven Spielberg for a major… read more

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  • history
  • war
  • world war ii
  • nonfiction
  • holocaust
"The Nazis were particularly brutal with children, who represented the Jewish future. Boys and girls who were not useful for slave labor were some of the first Jews to be killed."

-Judy Batalion, The Light of Days: The Untold Story of Women Resistance Fighters in Hitler's Ghettos

"An old Jewish joke went - A man asks whether his town is now in Soviet or Polish territory. He's told, "This year we're in Poland." "Thank goodness!", the man exclaims. "I simply could not take anoth…"

-Judy Batalion, The Light of Days: The Untold Story of Women Resistance Fighters in Hitler's Ghettos

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11. A Gypsy In Auschwitz: How I Survived the Horrors of the ‘Forgotten Holocaust’

By: Otto Rosenberg

4.02

Format: 240 pages, Kindle Edition

Otto Rosenberg is 9 and living in Berlin, poor but happy, when his family are first detained. All a… read more

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  • history
  • war
  • world war ii
  • nonfiction
  • holocaust
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12. The Berlin Family's Secret: A Historical WW2 Novel (Unforgettable World War 2 Stories Book 1)

By: Baruch Cohen

4.29

Format: 213 pages, Kindle Edition

They were loyal subjects of the Reich… until it came knocking on their door.Berlin, 1942. As bombs … read more

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  • world war ii
  • holocaust
Cover of The Apprentice of Buchenwald: The True Story of the Teenage Boy Who Sabotaged Hitler’s War Machine (Holocaust Survivor True Stories) by Oren Schneider

13. The Apprentice of Buchenwald: The True Story of the Teenage Boy Who Sabotaged Hitler’s War Machine (Holocaust Survivor True Stories)

By: Oren Schneider

4.49

Format: 238 pages, Kindle Edition

Alexander Rosenberg was a smart and curious teenager who spoke many languages, collected stamps, pl… read more

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  • history
  • war
  • world war ii
  • nonfiction
  • holocaust
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14. The Seven Men of Spandau: The Last of the Hitler Gang (Hitler's Henchmen)

By: Jack Fishman

4.27

Format: 486 pages, Kindle Edition

The riveting story of what happened to the seven top Nazi war criminals in the aftermath of World W… read more

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15. Life Under Nazi Occupation: The Struggle to Survive During World War II

By: Paul Roland

4.06

Format: 261 pages, Kindle Edition

When the Nazis invaded, they did not intend to govern fairly. Instead they stripped defeated nation… read more

Similar categories in Paul Roland's Life Under Nazi Occupation: The Struggle to Survive During World War II book and Paul Roland's Life Under Nazi Occupation: The Struggle to Survive During World War II

  • history
  • war
  • world war ii
  • nonfiction
  • holocaust
Cover of The Wrong Stuff: How the Soviet Space Program Crashed and Burned by John Strausbaugh

16. The Wrong Stuff: How the Soviet Space Program Crashed and Burned

By: John Strausbaugh

4.17

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

A witty, deeply researched history of the surprisingly ramshackle Soviet space program, and how its… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
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17. Women in the Valley of the Kings: The Untold Story of Women Egyptologists in the Gilded Age

By: Kathleen Sheppard

3.65

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

The never-before-told story of the women Egyptologists who paved the way of exploration in Egypt an… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
Cover of Ask Not: The Kennedys and the Women They Destroyed by Maureen Callahan

18. Ask Not: The Kennedys and the Women They Destroyed

By: Maureen Callahan

4.25

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

From New York Times bestseller Maureen Callahan, a fierce, character-driven exposé of the real Kenn… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
Cover of The Fatal Alliance: A Century of War on Film by David  Thomson

19. The Fatal Alliance: A Century of War on Film

By: David Thomson

3.34

Format: 448 pages, Hardcover

In The Fatal Alliance the acclaimed film critic David Thomson offers us one of his most provocative… read more

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  • history
  • nonfiction
  • war
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20. FIVE DAYS THAT SHOCKED THE WORLD eyewitness accounts from Europe at the end of World War II (Nicholas Best World War II History)

By: Nicholas Best

4.47

Format: 314 pages, Kindle Edition

A GRIPPING ACCOUNT OF THE LAST DAYS OF WORLD WAR II FROM THE FAMOUS FACES WHO WITNESSED IT.‘Rivetin… read more

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8 must-read holocaust books like Life Under Nazi Occupation: The Struggle to Survive During World War II by Paul Roland

Transform Your Habits

KL: A History of the Nazi Concentration Camps

Nikolaus Wachsmann

4.06

Transform Your Habits

Mistress of Life and Death: The Dark Journey of Maria Mandl, Head Overseer of the Women's Camp at Auschwitz-Birkenau

Susan J. Eischeid

4.21

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The Girl Who Survived Auschwitz

Sara Leibovits

4.35

Transform Your Habits

The Light of Days: The Untold Story of Women Resistance Fighters in Hitler's Ghettos

Judy Batalion

4.07

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5 Best audiobook books like Mistress of Life and Death: The Dark Journey of Maria Mandl, Head Overseer of the Women's Camp at Auschwitz-Birkenau by Susan J. Eischeid

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The Devil's Diary: Alfred Rosenberg and the Stolen Secrets of the Third Reich

Robert K. Wittman , David Kinney

3.81

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Dead By Sunset: Perfect Husband, Perfect Killer?

Ann Rule

4.11

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Mistress of Life and Death: The Dark Journey of Maria Mandl, Head Overseer of the Women's Camp at Auschwitz-Birkenau

Susan J. Eischeid

4.21

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Zenith Man: Death, Love, and Redemption in a Georgia Courtroom

McCracken Poston Jr.

4.45

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