13 must-read war books like In the Name of Humanity by Max Wallace

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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…

If you liked the war plot in In the Name of Humanity by Max Wallace , here is a list of 13 books like this:

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1. Big History: From the Big Bang to the Present

By: Cynthia Stokes Brown

3.86

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

Jared Diamond meets Stephen Hawking in a book that fits human history into the history of the unive… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
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2. 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
  • european history
  • holocaust

3. 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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  • nonfiction
  • history
  • war

4. The Fortunes

By: Peter Ho Davies

3.85

Format: 96 pages, Hardcover

From the author of The Welsh Girlcomes a groundbreaking, provocative new novel. Sly, funny, intelli… read more

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5. In the Garden of Beasts: Love, Terror, and an American Family in Hitler's Berlin

By: Erik Larson

3.86

Format: 250 pages, Hardcover

The time is 1933, the place, Berlin, when William E. Dodd becomes America's first ambassador to Hit… read more

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6. Clara's War

By: Clara Kramer

3.49

Format: None pages, Hardcover

On September 1, 1939, the Nazis invaded Poland. Three years later, in the small town of Zolkiew, li… read more

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7. Julip

By: Jim Harrison , Brice Matthieussent

4.43

Format: 85 pages, Paperback

Julip rassemble trois recits. Avec Chien Brun, d'abord, qui continue a crapahuter vers d'introuvabl… read more

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8. 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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9. Playing for the Ashes (Inspector Lynley, #7)

By: Elizabeth George

4.30

Format: 373 pages, Hardcover

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10. The Summer He Didn't Die

By: Jim Harrison

3.88

Format: None pages, Hardcover

"Jim Harrison's new book, The Summer He Didn't Die, is a collection of novellas showcasing the flai… read more

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11. The Postcard

By: Anne Berest

4.37

Format: 464 pages, Hardcover

Winner of the Choix Goncourt Prize, Anne Berest’s The Postcard is a vivid portrait of twentieth-cen… read more

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  • world war ii
  • war
  • holocaust
"It would be wrong to call them memories; they are moments of life, that man hat es erlebt - one has lived. They are inside me, part of me, branded into my skin, you might say - but they're not memori…"

-Anne Berest, The Postcard

"After the war, women in orthodox Jewish families had made it their mission to have as many children as possible to replenish the population -- and it seemed to me that the same was true for books. Th…"

-Anne Berest, The Postcard

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12. Israel: A Simple Guide to the Most Misunderstood Country on Earth

By: Noa Tishby

4.34

Format: None pages, Audiobook

AUDIO EXCLUSIVE: INCLUDES THE SONG “ELATION STATION” BY INFECTED MUSHROOM!A “fascinating and very m… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
"The truth is, there is absolutely nothing that can be said of Israel, that cannot be said of Pakistan."

-Noa Tishby, Israel: A Simple Guide to the Most Misunderstood Country on Earth

"Instead of helping people move forward UNRWA keeps the Palestinian people in an eternal loop of displacement. Instead of solving the problem in any meaningful way, they have overseen the problem's ex…"

-Noa Tishby, Israel: A Simple Guide to the Most Misunderstood Country on Earth

"Here's the nugget: settling the refugee problem would mean ending the war against Israel. And as of now, the Palestinians and many of the Arab world have been refusing to do so. The best way to keep …"

-Noa Tishby, Israel: A Simple Guide to the Most Misunderstood Country on Earth

"There is almost no difference between the establishment of Israel and Pakistan. They were both created as a safe haven for persecuted groups: Jews and Muslims. They are both engaged in land disputes.…"

-Noa Tishby, Israel: A Simple Guide to the Most Misunderstood Country on Earth

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13. 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

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  • history
  • war
  • world war ii
  • nonfiction
  • holocaust
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14. The Rise and Reign of the Mammals: A New History, from the Shadow of the Dinosaurs to Us

By: Steve Brusatte

4.38

Format: 528 pages, Hardcover

In his acclaimed bestseller The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs, American paleontologist Steve Brusa… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
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15. Pathogenesis: A History of the World in Eight Plagues

By: Jonathan Kennedy

3.94

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

An account of how the major transformations in history—from the rise of Homo sapiens to the birth o… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
"Pathogens thrive on inequality and injustice."

-Jonathan Kennedy, Pathogenesis: A History of the World in Eight Plagues

"Across the whole of the Americas, the introduction of infectious diseases from Europe resulted in a 90 percent fall in the population, from about 60.5 million in 1500 to 6 million a century later."

-Jonathan Kennedy, Pathogenesis: A History of the World in Eight Plagues

"There is one universally incorrect choice: do nothing. This didn't work when humans thought that plagues were a punishment sent by angry gods. Nor does a laissez-faire approach help stop disease when…"

-Jonathan Kennedy, Pathogenesis: A History of the World in Eight Plagues

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16. Fire Weather: A True Story from a Hotter World

By: John Vaillant

4.35

Format: 432 pages, Hardcover

A stunning account of a colossal wildfire that collided with a city and a panoramic exploration of … read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
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17. The Heat Will Kill You First: Life and Death on a Scorched Planet

By: Jeff Goodell

4.32

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

The world is waking up to a new wildfires are now seasonal in California, the Northeast is getting… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
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18. 21 Things You May Not Know About the Indian Act

By: Bob Joseph

4.57

Format: 160 pages, Paperback

Based on a viral article, 21 Things You May Not Know About the Indian Act is the essential guide to… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
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19. Daughters of Shandong

By: Eve J. Chung

4.50

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

An instant USA Today Bestseller! A propulsive, extraordinary novel about a mother and her daught… read more

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  • war
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20. We Must Not Think of Ourselves

By: Lauren Grodstein

4.08

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

A heart-wrenching story of love and defiance set in the Warsaw Ghetto, based on the actual archives… read more

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  • world war ii
  • war
  • holocaust
"We had never practiced Judaism before, and I thought myself too old to try believing something new, or to take advantage of an accident of birth to claim some brown patch of desert as my home."

-Lauren Grodstein, We Must Not Think of Ourselves

"Our task is to pay attention... To listen to the stories. We want all political backgrounds, all religious attitudes. The illiterate and the elite. Every ideology. Interview everyone. Learn about the…"

-Lauren Grodstein, We Must Not Think of Ourselves

"There should be another word for this feeling - a sort of sorrowful happiness, or a happiness that only deepens someone's sorrow. The closest I can come to it is the Portuguese word saudade, which ne…"

-Lauren Grodstein, We Must Not Think of Ourselves

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21. The Postmistress of Paris

By: Meg Waite Clayton

3.75

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

Now an International bestseller, New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice, Good Morning America B… read more

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  • world war ii
  • war
  • holocaust
"No one suspects American women of anything but needlepoint. Men so seldom imagine us capable of the things we're capable of."

-Meg Waite Clayton, The Postmistress of Paris

"Even in the darkest times at Camp des Milles, the men kept making art and music, literature, theatre. It was how they stayed alive. How they helped the world right itself."

-Meg Waite Clayton, The Postmistress of Paris

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22. Strongmen: Mussolini to the Present

By: Ruth Ben-Ghiat

4.23

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

Ours is the age of authoritarian rulers: self-proclaimed saviors of the nation who evade accountabi… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
"Designed for instant impact and encouraging feelings of omnipotence, Twitter is the perfect tool for an impulsive, attention-addicted strongman."

-Ruth Ben-Ghiat, Strongmen: Mussolini to the Present

"Many strongmen, past and present, have used populist rhetoric that defines their nations as bound by faith, race, and ethnicity rather than by legal rights. For authoritarians, only some people are "…"

-Ruth Ben-Ghiat, Strongmen: Mussolini to the Present

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23. The Goddess of Warsaw

By: Lisa Barr

4.45

Format: 368 pages, Paperback

From the New York Times bestselling author of Woman on Fire, the harrowing and ultimately triumphan… read more

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  • world war ii
  • war
  • holocaust
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24. The Last Nazi (Joe Johnson #1)

By: Andrew Turpin

4.00

Format: 506 pages, Kindle Edition

The buried contents of a Nazi train. An aging SS mass-murderer. And the wartime secrets of a U.S. p… read more

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  • world war ii
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25. The Sisterhood: The Secret History of Women at the CIA

By: Liza Mundy

4.23

Format: 400 pages, Kindle Edition

A thrilling and monumental new history of the CIA that reveals how women have always played crucial… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
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26. The Girl from Venice (Girls from the Italian Resistance #1)

By: Siobhan Daiko

4.39

Format: 310 pages, Kindle Edition

Lidia De Angelis has kept a low profile since Mussolini's racial laws wrenched her from her childho… read more

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  • world war ii
  • war
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27. The Scourge of the Swastika: A History of Nazi War Crimes During World War II

By: Edward Frederick Langley Russell, Baron of Liverpool

4.12

Format: 290 pages, Kindle Edition

When discussing the German war crimes of the Second World War, modern histories have focused on the… read more

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  • history
  • war
  • world war ii
  • nonfiction
  • european history
  • holocaust
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28. Daughters of Warsaw

By: Maria Frances

4.37

Format: 336 pages, Kindle Edition

An emotional World War Two time-slip of one woman’s inspiring, dangerous and courageous undertaking… read more

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  • world war ii
  • war
  • holocaust
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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

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  • history
  • war
  • world war ii
  • nonfiction
  • holocaust
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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
  • european history
  • holocaust
Cover of The Talented Mrs. Mandelbaum: The Rise and Fall of an American Organized-Crime Boss by Margalit Fox

31. The Talented Mrs. Mandelbaum: The Rise and Fall of an American Organized-Crime Boss

By: Margalit Fox

3.48

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

A Jewish mother of four, a gracious society hostess, a beloved member of her community—and the firs… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history

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Cynthia Stokes Brown

3.86

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4.06

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Anne Applebaum

3.32

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Noa Tishby

4.34

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Erik Larson

4.24

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Frank Figliuzzi

3.64

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Steven Johnson

4.08

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Emily Nussbaum

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