10 must-read politics books like In Broad Daylight: The Secret Procedures behind the Holocaust by Bullets by Patrick Desbois

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In Broad Daylight: The Secret Procedures behind the Holocaust by Bullets

By: Patrick Desbois

4.50

Format: 334 pages, Kindle Edition

How the Murder of More Than Two Million Jews Was Carried Out—In Broad DaylightBased on a decade of …

If you liked the politics plot in In Broad Daylight: The Secret Procedures behind the Holocaust by Bullets by Patrick Desbois , here is a list of 10 books like this:

Cover of Why?: Explaining the Holocaust by Peter Hayes, Peter  Hayes

1. Why?: Explaining the Holocaust

By: Peter Hayes , Peter Hayes

4.42

Format: 432 pages, Hardcover

Featured in the PBS documentary, "The US and the Holocaust" by Ken Burns, Lynn Novick and Sarah Bot… read more

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  • history
  • politics
  • war
  • world war ii
  • nonfiction
  • holocaust
  • audiobook
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2. Train

By: Danny M. Cohen

4.52

Format: 382 pages, Paperback

Over ten days in 1943 Berlin, six teenagers witness and try to escape the Nazi round-ups of Jews an… read more

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  • war
  • holocaust
"They'll never know we were here."

-Danny M. Cohen, Train

"Rumors are the children of truth."

-Danny M. Cohen, Train

"In wartime, everyone's birthday turns into a commemoration of something so sad."

-Danny M. Cohen, Train

"Our glass train, on fragile tracks Beneath bombs that fall like the flood To wash away the shards —But all this sorrow will recede And we will leave Two by two And until then, I will only think of yo…"

-Danny M. Cohen, Train

Cover of The Devil's Diary: Alfred Rosenberg and the Stolen Secrets of the Third Reich by Robert K. Wittman, David Kinney

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

By: Robert K. Wittman , David Kinney

3.81

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

This exploration of the private wartime diary of Alfred Rosenberg—Hitler’s “chief philosopher” and … read more

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  • history
  • politics
  • war
  • world war ii
  • nonfiction
  • holocaust
  • audiobook
Cover of Gulag by Anne Applebaum

4. Gulag

By: Anne Applebaum

4.01

Format: 205 pages, Hardcover

The Gulag--a vast array of Soviet concentration camps that held millions of political and criminal … read more

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  • russia
  • history
  • politics
  • war
  • nonfiction
Cover of Black Earth: The Holocaust as History and Warning by Timothy Snyder

5. Black Earth: The Holocaust as History and Warning

By: Timothy Snyder

4.18

Format: 213 pages, Hardcover

A brilliant, haunting, and profoundly original portrait of the defining tragedy of our time. In thi… read more

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

6. Red Famine: Stalin's War on Ukraine, 1921-1933

By: Anne Applebaum

3.32

Format: None pages, Hardcover

From the author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning Gulagand the National Book Award finalist Iron Curtai… read more

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  • russia
  • history
  • politics
  • war
  • nonfiction
Cover of Sully: My Search for What Really Matters by Jeffrey Zaslow, Chesley B. Sullenberger III

7. Sully: My Search for What Really Matters

By: Jeffrey Zaslow , Chesley B. Sullenberger III

4.33

Format: None pages, Paperback

Now a major motion picture from Clint Eastwood, starring Tom Hanks--the inspirational autobiography… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
  • audiobook

8. Doctors from Hell: The Horrific Account of Nazi Experiments on Humans

By: Vivien Spitz

3.79

Format: 249 pages, Hardcover

A chilling story of human depravity and ultimate justice, told for the first time by an eyewitness … read more

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Cover of If I Did It: Confessions of the Killer by Dominick Dunne, O.J. Simpson, The Goldman Family, Pablo F. Fenjves

9. If I Did It: Confessions of the Killer

By: Dominick Dunne , O.J. Simpson , The Goldman Family , Pablo F. Fenjves

3.30

Format: 208 pages, Hardcover

In 1994, Ron Goldman and Nicole Brown Simpson were brutally murdered at her home in Brentwood, Cali… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
  • audiobook
"Jesus Christ, O.J.—what have you done?"

-Dominick Dunne, If I Did It: Confessions of the Killer

"You don`t get mood swings from eating cornflakes"

-Dominick Dunne, If I Did It: Confessions of the Killer

"Still, I've heard it said that all stories are basically love stories, and my story is no exception. This is a love story, too. And, like a lot of love stories, it doesn't have a happy ending."

-Dominick Dunne, If I Did It: Confessions of the Killer

10. A Light in the Window (Mitford Years, #2)

By: Jan Karon

4.36

Format: 39 pages, Paperback

- Readers will enjoy a story from the popular series-packaged bestseller! - Includes new Reader's G… read more

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11. Failure of Justice: A Brutal Murder, An Obsessed Cop, Six Wrongful Convictions

By: John Ferak

3.86

Format: 368 pages,

read more

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12. Inside the Gas Chambers: Eight Months in the Sonderkommando of Auschwitz

By: Andrew Brown , Shlomo Venezia , Umberto Gentiloni Silveri , Marcello Pezzetti , Simone Veil , None , None

3.36

Format: 96 pages, Hardcover

It is usual to imagine that none of those who went into the gas chambers at Auschwitz ever emerged … read more

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13. 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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14. The Nazi Hunters

By: Damien Lewis

3.82

Format: 160 pages, Hardcover

The Nazi Huntersis the incredible, hitherto untold story of the most secret chapter in the SAS's hi… read more

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15. Frederick Douglass: Prophet of Freedom

By: David W. Blight

4.15

Format: 888 pages, Hardcover

As a young man, Frederick Douglass (1818–1895) escaped from slavery in Baltimore, Maryland. He was … read more

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  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"Douglass told white northern voters that 'The blood of the slave is on your garments. You have said that slavery is better than freedom. That war is better than peace. And that cruelty is better than…"

-David W. Blight, Frederick Douglass: Prophet of Freedom

Cover of People Love Dead Jews: Reports from a Haunted Present by Dara Horn

16. People Love Dead Jews: Reports from a Haunted Present

By: Dara Horn

4.36

Format: 237 pages, Hardcover

Renowned and beloved as a prizewinning novelist, Dara Horn has also been publishing penetrating ess… read more

Similar categories in Dara Horn's People Love Dead Jews: Reports from a Haunted Present book and Patrick Desbois's In Broad Daylight: The Secret Procedures behind the Holocaust by Bullets

  • history
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • holocaust
  • audiobook
"Evil' may or may not be banal, but killing Jews sure is."

-Dara Horn, People Love Dead Jews: Reports from a Haunted Present

"between the raindrops" - a Hebrew expression for evading repeated disaster."

-Dara Horn, People Love Dead Jews: Reports from a Haunted Present

"Sometimes your body is someone else's haunted house. Other people look at you and can only see the dead."

-Dara Horn, People Love Dead Jews: Reports from a Haunted Present

"There are so few Jews in the world: even in the United States, we are barely 2 percent of the population, a minority among minorities... Statistically speaking, nothing that happens to Jews should be…"

-Dara Horn, People Love Dead Jews: Reports from a Haunted Present

Cover of All the Frequent Troubles of Our Days: The True Story of the American Woman at the Heart of the German Resistance to Hitler by Rebecca Donner

17. All the Frequent Troubles of Our Days: The True Story of the American Woman at the Heart of the German Resistance to Hitler

By: Rebecca Donner

4.31

Format: 576 pages, Hardcover

Born and raised in Milwaukee, Mildred Harnack was twenty-six when she enrolled in a PhD program in … read more

Similar categories in Rebecca Donner's All the Frequent Troubles of Our Days: The True Story of the American Woman at the Heart of the German Resistance to Hitler book and Patrick Desbois's In Broad Daylight: The Secret Procedures behind the Holocaust by Bullets

  • history
  • war
  • world war ii
  • nonfiction
  • holocaust
  • audiobook
Cover of The Violinist of Auschwitz by Ellie Midwood

18. The Violinist of Auschwitz

By: Ellie Midwood

4.48

Format: 356 pages, Kindle Edition

Auschwitz, 1943: In the depths of hell, can hope rise? And can love triumph over hatred? Based o… read more

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  • war
  • world war ii
  • 20th century
  • holocaust
  • audiobook
Cover of Fatherland: A Memoir of War, Conscience, and Family Secrets by Burkhard Bilger

19. 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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  • history
  • war
  • world war ii
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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20. Tears of Amber

By: Sofía Segovia

4.43

Format: 487 pages, Kindle Edition

From the bestselling author of The Murmur of Bees comes a transportive novel of two families uproot… read more

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  • world war ii
  • war
  • audiobook
Cover of The Ravine: A Family, a Photograph, a Holocaust Massacre Revealed by Wendy Lower

21. The Ravine: A Family, a Photograph, a Holocaust Massacre Revealed

By: Wendy Lower

4.16

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

A single photograph — an exceptionally rare “action shot” documenting the horrific final moment of … read more

Similar categories in Wendy Lower's The Ravine: A Family, a Photograph, a Holocaust Massacre Revealed book and Patrick Desbois's In Broad Daylight: The Secret Procedures behind the Holocaust by Bullets

  • history
  • war
  • world war ii
  • nonfiction
  • holocaust
  • audiobook
Cover of Genesis: The Story of How Everything Began by Guido Tonelli

22. Genesis: The Story of How Everything Began

By: Guido Tonelli

3.81

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

A breakout bestseller in Italy, now available for American readers for the first time, The Story o… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
  • audiobook
"La aparición del pensamiento simbólico marca una de las etapas fundamentales de la evolución humana."

-Guido Tonelli, Genesis: The Story of How Everything Began

"Durante millones de años, la humanidad ha tenido que lidiar cotidianamente con la dureza de la existencia."

-Guido Tonelli, Genesis: The Story of How Everything Began

"La sensación de asombro frente a un cielo estrellado supone, todavía hoy, una emoción intensa, en la que se escucha el eco del antiguo estupor que marcó a las miles de generaciones que nos han preced…"

-Guido Tonelli, Genesis: The Story of How Everything Began

Cover of Until the Eyes Shut: Memories of a machine gunner on the Eastern Front, 1943-45 by Andreas Hartinger

23. Until the Eyes Shut: Memories of a machine gunner on the Eastern Front, 1943-45

By: Andreas Hartinger

4.53

Format: 177 pages, Kindle Edition

The veteran tells his grandson about his World War II experiences, without pathos, but with grippin… read more

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  • history
  • war
  • world war ii
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"Rough nature shapes tough people"

-Andreas Hartinger, Until the Eyes Shut: Memories of a machine gunner on the Eastern Front, 1943-45

"On, onward ... until the eyes shut …"

-Andreas Hartinger, Until the Eyes Shut: Memories of a machine gunner on the Eastern Front, 1943-45

"Only those who really experienced the war will want to preserve peace with all their might"

-Andreas Hartinger, Until the Eyes Shut: Memories of a machine gunner on the Eastern Front, 1943-45

"War always claims the best. Those selfless fighters who at all times, in life, in death, in victory or defeat, establish the ethos of pure comradeship and genuine soldierhood"

-Andreas Hartinger, Until the Eyes Shut: Memories of a machine gunner on the Eastern Front, 1943-45

Cover of Cold Crematorium: Reporting from the Land of Auschwitz by József  Debreczeni

24. Cold Crematorium: Reporting from the Land of Auschwitz

By: József Debreczeni

4.53

Format: 248 pages, Kindle Edition

The first English language edition of a lost memoir by a Holocaust survivor, offering a shocking an… read more

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  • history
  • war
  • world war ii
  • nonfiction
  • holocaust
  • audiobook
Cover of The Last Secret of the Secret Annex: The Untold Story of Anne Frank, Her Silent Protector, and a Family Betrayal by Joop van Wijk-Voskuijl

25. The Last Secret of the Secret Annex: The Untold Story of Anne Frank, Her Silent Protector, and a Family Betrayal

By: Joop van Wijk-Voskuijl

4.24

Format: 288 pages, ebook

A riveting historical investigation and family memoir that intertwines the iconic narrative of Anne… read more

Similar categories in Joop van Wijk-Voskuijl's The Last Secret of the Secret Annex: The Untold Story of Anne Frank, Her Silent Protector, and a Family Betrayal book and Patrick Desbois's In Broad Daylight: The Secret Procedures behind the Holocaust by Bullets

  • history
  • war
  • world war ii
  • nonfiction
  • holocaust
  • audiobook
Cover of The Counterfeit Countess: The Jewish Woman Who Rescued Thousands of Poles During the Holocaust by Elizabeth White

26. 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
  • 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

Cover of On Inhumanity: Dehumanization and How to Resist It by David Livingstone Smith

27. On Inhumanity: Dehumanization and How to Resist It

By: David Livingstone Smith

4.15

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

The Rwandan genocide, the Holocaust, the lynching of African Americans, the colonial slave trade: t… read more

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  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"The spread of ideologies should be seen as something akin to cognitive epidemics."

-David Livingstone Smith, On Inhumanity: Dehumanization and How to Resist It

"Beware of attempts to destroy the credibility of media outlets that oppose and expose the dehumanizing propaganda of those in power."

-David Livingstone Smith, On Inhumanity: Dehumanization and How to Resist It

"It's through media that dehumanizing ideas are spread and reproduced. That's why totalitarians out a premium on destroying freedom of the press."

-David Livingstone Smith, On Inhumanity: Dehumanization and How to Resist It

"It's through media that dehumanizing ideas are spread and reproduced. That's why totalitarians puts a premium on destroying freedom of the press."

-David Livingstone Smith, On Inhumanity: Dehumanization and How to Resist It

Cover of In the Midst of Civilized Europe: The Pogroms of 1918–1921 and the Onset of the Holocaust by Jeffrey Veidlinger

28. In the Midst of Civilized Europe: The Pogroms of 1918–1921 and the Onset of the Holocaust

By: Jeffrey Veidlinger

4.34

Format: 480 pages, Hardcover

FINALIST FOR THE NATIONAL JEWISH BOOK AWARD * SHORTLISTED FOR THE LIONEL GELBER PRIZE “The mass ki… read more

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  • history
  • politics
  • world war ii
  • nonfiction
  • holocaust
Cover of In Broad Daylight: The Secret Procedures behind the Holocaust by Bullets by Patrick Desbois

29. In Broad Daylight: The Secret Procedures behind the Holocaust by Bullets

By: Patrick Desbois

4.50

Format: 334 pages, Kindle Edition

How the Murder of More Than Two Million Jews Was Carried Out—In Broad DaylightBased on a decade of … read more

Similar categories in Patrick Desbois's In Broad Daylight: The Secret Procedures behind the Holocaust by Bullets book and Patrick Desbois's In Broad Daylight: The Secret Procedures behind the Holocaust by Bullets

  • russia
  • history
  • nazi party
  • politics
  • war
  • world war ii
  • nonfiction
  • 20th century
  • holocaust
  • audiobook
Cover of In the Name of Humanity by Max Wallace

30. In the Name of Humanity

By: Max Wallace

3.99

Format: 464 pages, Hardcover

The dramatic, untold, true story of the secret negotiations--by the most unlikely people--that ende… read more

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  • history
  • war
  • world war ii
  • nonfiction
  • holocaust
Cover of Empire of Destruction: A History of Nazi Mass Killing by Alex J. Kay

31. Empire of Destruction: A History of Nazi Mass Killing

By: Alex J. Kay

4.54

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

The first comparative, comprehensive history of Nazi mass killing—showing how genocidal policies we… read more

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

17 must-read war books like In Broad Daylight: The Secret Procedures behind the Holocaust by Bullets by Patrick Desbois

Transform Your Habits

Why?: Explaining the Holocaust

Peter Hayes , Peter Hayes

4.42

Transform Your Habits

Train

Danny M. Cohen

4.52

Transform Your Habits

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

Robert K. Wittman , David Kinney

3.81

Transform Your Habits

Gulag

Anne Applebaum

4.01

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20 Top audiobook books like Cold Crematorium: Reporting from the Land of Auschwitz by József Debreczeni

Transform Your Habits

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

Erik Larson

4.24

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

Transform Your Habits

Madness: Race and Insanity in a Jim Crow Asylum

Antonia Hylton

4.27

Transform Your Habits

A Fatal Inheritance: How a Family Misfortune Revealed a Deadly Medical Mystery

Lawrence Ingrassia

4.41

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