15 best-selling biography books like The Nine: The True Story of a Band of Women Who Survived the Worst of Nazi Germany by Gwen Strauss

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The Nine: The True Story of a Band of Women Who Survived the Worst of Nazi Germany

By: Gwen Strauss

4.27

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

The Nine follows the true story of the author’s great aunt Hélène Podliasky, who led a band of nine…

If you liked the biography plot in The Nine: The True Story of a Band of Women Who Survived the Worst of Nazi Germany by Gwen Strauss , here is a list of 15 books like this:

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1. The Bookworm

By: Mitch Silver

3.91

Format: None pages, Hardcover

Why did Hitler chose not to invade England when he had the chance? Europe, 1940: It's late summer a… read more

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  • historical
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2. Rory Ita

By: Roddy Doyle

4.20

Format: None pages, Paperback

Ita Doyle: 'In all my life I have lived in two houses, had two jobs, and one husband. I'm a very in… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • biography
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3. Paul McCartney

By: Peter Ames Carlin

3.77

Format: None pages,

More than a rock star, more than a celebrity, Paul McCartney is a cultural touchstone. As one half … read more

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  • history
  • biography
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook

4. The Miracle at St. Bruno's (Daughters of England, #1)

By: Philippa Carr

3.98

Format: 212 pages,

"I was born in the September of 1523, nine months after the monks had discovered the child in the c… read more

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5. 1924: The Year That Made Hitler

By: Peter Ross Range

4.14

Format: 200 pages, Hardcover

The dark story of Adolf Hitler's life in 1924--the year that made a monster Before Adolf Hitler's r… read more

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6. Walking Free

By: Patrick Weaver , Munjed Al Muderis

3.87

Format: None pages, Paperback

In 1999, Munjed Al Muderis was a young surgical resident working in Baghdad when a squad of Militar… read more

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7. Vilniaus Madona

By: Gina Viliūnė

5.00

Format: 208 pages, Hardcover

XVI amziaus ir musu dienu Vilnius. Lietuvos didziojo kunigaikscio Aleksandro dvaro intrigos ir lege… read more

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8. Žemyn galva į Australiją

By: Martynas Starkus

4.06

Format: 244 pages, Paperback

Ketvirtojoje Martyno Starkaus knygoje pasakojama apie kelione i Australija su vienu pagrindiniu sav… read more

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9. Tiems, kurie neskaito

By: Benas Lastauskas

3.83

Format: 240 pages, Paperback

Knygos veikėjai Ofisinis, Rūtelė, Edgaras, Tautvydas ir Arina gyvena tarp aukštų didmiesčio daugiab… read more

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  • audiobook
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10. The Dressmakers of Auschwitz: The True Story of the Women Who Sewed to Survive

By: Lucy Adlington

4.09

Format: 400 pages, Paperback

A powerful chronicle of the women who used their sewing skills to survive the Holocaust, stitching … read more

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  • biography
  • history
  • historical
  • war
  • world war ii
  • nonfiction
  • holocaust
  • audiobook
"En Auschwitz-Birkenau, los internos aprendieron enseguida que era pocas las pertenencias personales realmente esenciales para vivir: ropa, calzado y un plato para la comida. Más allá de eso, lo que c…"

-Lucy Adlington, The Dressmakers of Auschwitz: The True Story of the Women Who Sewed to Survive

"En Auschwitz-Birkenau, los internos aprendieron enseguida que eran pocas las pertenencias personales realmente esenciales para vivir: ropa, calzado y un plato para la comida. Más allá de eso, lo que …"

-Lucy Adlington, The Dressmakers of Auschwitz: The True Story of the Women Who Sewed to Survive

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11. A Woman of No Importance: The Untold Story of the American Spy Who Helped Win World War II

By: Sonia Purnell

4.15

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

The never-before-told story of one woman's heroism that changed the course of the Second World War … read more

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  • biography
  • history
  • historical
  • war
  • world war ii
  • nonfiction
  • womens
  • audiobook
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12. The Watchmaker's Daughter: The True Story of World War II Heroine Corrie ten Boom

By: Larry Loftis

4.32

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER Florida Book Awards Gold Medalist New York Times bestselling author and … read more

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  • biography
  • history
  • historical
  • war
  • world war ii
  • nonfiction
  • holocaust
  • audiobook
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13. 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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  • biography
  • history
  • historical
  • war
  • world war ii
  • nonfiction
  • holocaust
  • audiobook
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14. Sisters Under the Rising Sun

By: Heather Morris

3.89

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

A phenomenal novel of resilience and survival from bestselling author of The Tattooist of Auschwitz… read more

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  • world war ii
  • historical
  • war
  • audiobook
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15. The Keeper of Hidden Books

By: Madeline Martin

4.13

Format: 416 pages, Paperback

A heartwarming story about the power of books to bring us together, inspired by the true story of t… read more

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  • historical
  • war
  • world war ii
  • holocaust
  • audiobook
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16. 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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  • biography
  • history
  • historical
  • war
  • world war ii
  • nonfiction
  • holocaust
  • audiobook
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17. 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

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  • biography
  • history
  • war
  • world war ii
  • nonfiction
  • holocaust
  • audiobook
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18. Into the Forest: A Holocaust Story of Survival, Triumph, and Love

By: Rebecca Frankel

4.31

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

A 2021 National Jewish Book Award Finalist One of Smithsonian Magazine 's Best History Books of 202… read more

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  • biography
  • history
  • historical
  • war
  • world war ii
  • nonfiction
  • holocaust
  • audiobook
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19. My Friend Anne Frank: The Inspiring and Heartbreaking True Story of Best Friends Torn Apart and Reunited Against All Odds

By: Hannah Pick-Goslar

4.66

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

THE INSTANT  NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER "Both heartbreaking and life-affirming" (Edith Eger, auth… read more

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  • biography
  • history
  • historical
  • war
  • world war ii
  • nonfiction
  • holocaust
  • audiobook
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20. 999: The Extraordinary Young Women of the First Official Jewish Transport to Auschwitz

By: Heather Dune Macadam

4.54

Format: 464 pages, Hardcover

A PEN America Literary Award Finalist A Goodreads Choice Awards Nominee An Amazon Best of the Yea… read more

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  • biography
  • history
  • historical
  • war
  • world war ii
  • nonfiction
  • womens
  • holocaust
  • audiobook
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21. The Girls Who Stepped Out of Line (Feminist History Book for Adults)

By: Mari K. Eder

4.00

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

For fans of Radium Girls and history and WWII buffs, The Girls Who Stepped Out of Line takes you in… read more

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  • biography
  • history
  • historical
  • war
  • world war ii
  • nonfiction
  • womens
  • audiobook
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22. Du vandenynai

By: Greta Lietuvninkaitė

3.85

Format: 242 pages, Unknown Binding

Vandens tema persmelktas romanas „Du vandenynai“ – tai kelionė po moteriškumo simbolių marias. Isto… read more

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23. The Nine: The True Story of a Band of Women Who Survived the Worst of Nazi Germany

By: Gwen Strauss

4.27

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

The Nine follows the true story of the author’s great aunt Hélène Podliasky, who led a band of nine… read more

Similar categories in Gwen Strauss's The Nine: The True Story of a Band of Women Who Survived the Worst of Nazi Germany book and Gwen Strauss's The Nine: The True Story of a Band of Women Who Survived the Worst of Nazi Germany

  • biography
  • history
  • historical
  • war
  • germany
  • world war ii
  • nonfiction
  • womens
  • holocaust
  • audiobook
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24. The Briar Club

By: Kate Quinn

4.35

Format: 432 pages, Hardcover

A haunting and powerful story of female friendships and secrets in a Washington, D.C. boardinghouse… read more

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  • historical
  • audiobook
"You can't call yourself a proper home without the regular smell of good food..."

-Kate Quinn, The Briar Club

"And guilt roiled in his stomach because he wanted to love his mother, and sometimes what pulsed through him came horribly close to hate."

-Kate Quinn, The Briar Club

"Be selfish, stick to the plan Claire had clung to since she was 16. Look out for herself and no one else, because love was for suckers and happiness meant a well-stocked bank account and a house you …"

-Kate Quinn, The Briar Club

"Happiness is a choice as much as anything. Or you could choose to be angry, and if you stay angry long enough, it will become comfortable, like an old robe. But eventually you’ll realize that old rob…"

-Kate Quinn, The Briar Club

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25. In the Garden of the Righteous: The Heroes Who Risked Their Lives to Save Jews During the Holocaust

By: Richard Hurowitz

4.42

Format: 480 pages, Hardcover

“ In the Garden of the Righteous brilliantly describes how in the midst of the brutality of the Hol… read more

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  • history
  • biography
  • historical
  • world war ii
  • nonfiction
  • holocaust
  • audiobook
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26. 21 taisyklė geram gyvenimui

By: Beata Nicholson

4.51

Format: 336 pages, Paperback

Tai mano vienuolikta knyga ir ji yra ne apie maistą, o apie GYVENIMĄ. Galima vadinti ją asmenini… read more

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  • nonfiction
Cover of The Fighter of Auschwitz: The incredible true story of Leen Sanders who boxed to help others survive by Erik Brouwer

27. The Fighter of Auschwitz: The incredible true story of Leen Sanders who boxed to help others survive

By: Erik Brouwer

3.55

Format: 336 pages, Paperback

The story of Dutch boxer Leen Sanders who was spared to entertain the Nazi guards and helped others… read more

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  • world war ii
  • history
  • nonfiction
  • holocaust
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28. The Home Front Nurses

By: Rachel Brimble

4.30

Format: 266 pages, Kindle Edition

As war rages and brave soldiers returning home from the frontline need nurses more than ever, fierc… read more

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29. The Codebreaker Girl

By: Gosia Nealon

4.42

Format: 326 pages, Kindle Edition

1930s, Poland. We hold our breath as the gears turn, waiting to see if years of work have paid off.… read more

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  • holocaust
Cover of The Orphan List (The World War Two Orphanage #1) by Ann Bennett

30. The Orphan List (The World War Two Orphanage #1)

By: Ann Bennett

4.65

Format: 342 pages, Kindle Edition

Munich, 1943. My heart breaks as I watch the smug couple carry the tiny bundle into their sinister … read more

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Cover of Close But No Cigar: A True Story of Prison Life in Castro's Cuba by Stephen Purvis

31. Close But No Cigar: A True Story of Prison Life in Castro's Cuba

By: Stephen Purvis

4.03

Format: 273 pages, Kindle Edition

'In its tragic absurdity, Close But No Cigar reads like a Graham Greene story, with a cast of chara… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • biography

17 must-read audiobook books like The Nine: The True Story of a Band of Women Who Survived the Worst of Nazi Germany by Gwen Strauss

Transform Your Habits

Paul McCartney

Peter Ames Carlin

3.77

Transform Your Habits

Tiems, kurie neskaito

Benas Lastauskas

3.83

Transform Your Habits

The Dressmakers of Auschwitz: The True Story of the Women Who Sewed to Survive

Lucy Adlington

4.09

Transform Your Habits

A Woman of No Importance: The Untold Story of the American Spy Who Helped Win World War II

Sonia Purnell

4.15

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17 Top adult books like The Dressmakers of Auschwitz: The True Story of the Women Who Sewed to Survive by Lucy Adlington

Transform Your Habits

The Women

Kristin Hannah

4.64

Transform Your Habits

Auschwitz Lullaby

Mario Escobar

4.23

Transform Your Habits

The Paris Daughter

Kristin Harmel

4.25

Transform Your Habits

The Woman with the Blue Star

Pam Jenoff

4.15

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