12 must-read history books like Wannsee: The Road to the Final Solution by Peter Longerich

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Wannsee: The Road to the Final Solution

By: Peter Longerich

3.83

Format: 167 pages, Kindle Edition

The complete story of the Wannsee Conference, the meeting that paved the way for the Holocaust.On 2…

If you liked the history plot in Wannsee: The Road to the Final Solution by Peter Longerich , here is a list of 12 books like this:

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1. The Fall of Berlin 1945

By: Antony Beevor

4.29

Format: 490 pages, Paperback

The Red Army had much to avenge when it finally reached the frontiers of the Reich in January 1945.… read more

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  • history
  • historical
  • germany
  • war
  • world war ii
  • nonfiction
"Sé practico: regala un ataúd"

-Antony Beevor, The Fall of Berlin 1945

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2. The Years of Extermination: Nazi Germany and the Jews, 1939-1945

By: Saul Friedländer

4.24

Format: 870 pages, Hardcover

With The Years of Extermination, Saul Friedländer completes his major historical work on Nazi Germa… read more

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  • history
  • historical
  • politics
  • germany
  • war
  • world war ii
  • nonfiction
  • holocaust
"Esa sensación de extrañeza me parece que refleja la percepción por parte de las desventuradas víctimas del régimen, al menos durante los años treinta, de una realidad tan absurda como ominosa, de un …"

-Saul Friedländer, The Years of Extermination: Nazi Germany and the Jews, 1939-1945

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3. The Language of the Third Reich: LTI--Lingua Tertii Imperii: A Philologist's Notebook

By: Victor Klemperer , Martin Brady , Juliusz Zychowicz

4.34

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

Under the Third Reich, the official language of Nazism came to be used as a political tool. The exi… read more

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  • history
  • politics
  • germany
  • world war ii
  • nonfiction
  • holocaust
"Academics love the semicolon; their hankering after logic demands a division which is more emphatic than a comma, but not quite as absolute a demarcation as a full stop."

-Victor Klemperer, The Language of the Third Reich: LTI--Lingua Tertii Imperii: A Philologist's Notebook

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4. The Death of Stalin

By: Fabien Nury , Thierry Robin

4.25

Format: 351 pages, Hardcover

The graphic novel that inspired the new Armando Iannucci movie which includes an all-star cast - St… read more

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  • politics
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5. Stalingrad: The Fateful Siege, 1942–1943

By: Antony Beevor

4.32

Format: 494 pages, Paperback

The Battle of Stalingrad was not only the psychological turning point of World War II: it also chan… read more

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  • history
  • historical
  • germany
  • war
  • world war ii
  • nonfiction
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6. Hellhound on His Trail: The Stalking of Martin Luther King, Jr. and the International Hunt for His Assassin

By: Hampton Sides

3.17

Format: None pages,

On April 23, 1967, Prisoner #416J, an inmate at the notorious Missouri State Penitentiary, escaped … read more

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  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
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7. The Last Jew of Treblinka

By: Chil Rajchman

4.35

Format: 138 pages, Hardcover

Before me sits a young woman. I cut off her hair, thick and beautiful, and she grasps my hand and b… read more

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  • historical
  • war
  • world war ii
  • nonfiction
  • holocaust
"I weep for my fate, for what I have left to see."

-Chil Rajchman, The Last Jew of Treblinka

"I look around and think: Good God, what kind of hell is this?"

-Chil Rajchman, The Last Jew of Treblinka

"I am as if paralysed: over there in the chamber the gas people and we are supposed to sing!"

-Chil Rajchman, The Last Jew of Treblinka

"Once, when I straighten up, I am beaten till I bleed. I no longer know where I am in the world."

-Chil Rajchman, The Last Jew of Treblinka

8. This Way for the Gas, Ladies and Gentlemen

By: Michael Kandel , Jan Kott , Tadeusz Borowski , None

3.92

Format: 594 pages, Paperback

Tadeusz Borowski's concentration camp stories were based on his own experiences surviving Auschwitz… read more

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9. 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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10. Stasiland: Stories from Behind the Berlin Wall

By: Anna Funder

4.20

Format: 328 pages, Paperback

In 1989, the Berlin Wall fell; shortly afterwards the two Germanies reunited, and East Germany ceas… read more

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  • history
  • historical
  • politics
  • germany
  • nonfiction
"People were crazy with pain and secrets."

-Anna Funder, Stasiland: Stories from Behind the Berlin Wall

"When I got out of prison, I was basically no longer human,' Miriam says."

-Anna Funder, Stasiland: Stories from Behind the Berlin Wall

"Why are some things easier to remember the more time has passed since they occurred?"

-Anna Funder, Stasiland: Stories from Behind the Berlin Wall

"Ten days is time enough to die, to be born, to fall in love and to go mad. Ten days is a very long time."

-Anna Funder, Stasiland: Stories from Behind the Berlin Wall

11. The Book that Made Your World: How the Bible Created the Soul of Western Civilization

By: Vishal Mangalwadi , None

4.34

Format: None pages, Hardcover

Understand where we came from. Whether you're an avid student of the Bible or a skeptic of its rele… read more

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12. The Shadow of War: A Novel of the Cuban Missile Crisis

By: Jeff Shaara

4.33

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

New York Times bestselling author Jeff Shaara brings alive the heart-stopping days and nights of th… read more

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  • historical
  • politics
  • war
Cover of Nazi Billionaires: The Dark History of Germany's Wealthiest Dynasties by David de Jong

13. Nazi Billionaires: The Dark History of Germany's Wealthiest Dynasties

By: David de Jong

4.21

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

A groundbreaking investigation of how the Nazis helped German tycoons make billions off the horrors… read more

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  • history
  • politics
  • germany
  • war
  • world war ii
  • nonfiction
Cover of Nuclear Folly: A History of the Cuban Missile Crisis by Serhii Plokhy

14. Nuclear Folly: A History of the Cuban Missile Crisis

By: Serhii Plokhy

4.22

Format: 444 pages, Hardcover

Nearly thirty years after the end of the Cold War, today’s world leaders are abandoning disarmament… read more

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  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • history
  • war
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15. Nazi Wives: The Women at the Top of Hitler's Germany

By: James Wyllie

3.82

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

Nazi Wives is a fascinating look at the personal lives, psychological profiles, and marriages of th… read more

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  • historical
  • politics
  • germany
  • war
  • world war ii
  • nonfiction
  • holocaust
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16. Zelfzorg is het begin van alles

By: Nina Mouton

3.73

Format: 214 pages, Kindle Edition

Zelfzorg is het begin van alles. Van beter luisteren naar de signalen van je lijf. Van stilstaan bi… read more

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  • nonfiction
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17. Wannsee: The Road to the Final Solution

By: Peter Longerich

3.83

Format: 167 pages, Kindle Edition

The complete story of the Wannsee Conference, the meeting that paved the way for the Holocaust.On 2… read more

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  • history
  • historical
  • politics
  • germany
  • war
  • world war ii
  • nonfiction
  • holocaust
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18. Austerlitz: Napoleon and The Eagles of Europe

By: Ian Castle

3.88

Format: 411 pages, Kindle Edition

In this authoritative and beautifully illustrated new account of Napoleon's greatest victory and th… read more

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19. Den sista boken om mordet på Olof Palme

By: Jon Jordås

3.83

Format: 174 pages, Hardcover

Efter det förbryllande utpekandet av Skandia-mannen år 2020 började Jon Jordås, dokumentärchef och … read more

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  • nonfiction
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20. Hitler's People: The Faces of the Third Reich

By: Richard J. Evans

4.27

Format: 624 pages, Hardcover

Through a connected set of biographical portraits of key Nazi figures that follows power as it radi… read more

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  • politics
  • germany
  • war
  • world war ii
  • nonfiction

8 Best historical books like Wannsee: The Road to the Final Solution by Peter Longerich

Transform Your Habits

The Fall of Berlin 1945

Antony Beevor

4.29

Transform Your Habits

The Years of Extermination: Nazi Germany and the Jews, 1939-1945

Saul Friedländer

4.24

Transform Your Habits

Stalingrad: The Fateful Siege, 1942–1943

Antony Beevor

4.32

Transform Your Habits

The Last Jew of Treblinka

Chil Rajchman

4.35

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16 best-selling history books like Stalingrad: The Fateful Siege, 1942–1943 by Antony Beevor

Transform Your Habits

Citizen Soldiers: The US Army from the Normandy Beaches to the Bulge to the Surrender of Germany

Stephen E. Ambrose

4.24

Transform Your Habits

D-Day, June 6, 1944: The Battle for the Normandy Beaches

Stephen E. Ambrose

4.30

Transform Your Habits

1776

David McCullough

4.09

Transform Your Habits

Rubicon: The Last Years of the Roman Republic

Tom Holland

4.22

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