9 best-selling memoir books like A Woman Living in the Shadow of the Second World War: Helena Hall's Journal from the Home Front by Helena Hall

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A Woman Living in the Shadow of the Second World War: Helena Hall's Journal from the Home Front

By: Helena Hall

4.20

Format: 468 pages, Kindle Edition

Helena Hall's daily diary of the war years, from 1940 to 1945, is one of the most vivid, detailed a…

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Cover of Debs At War: How Wartime Changed their Lives, 1939-1945 by Anne de Courcy

1. Debs At War: How Wartime Changed their Lives, 1939-1945

By: Anne de Courcy

3.33

Format: None pages, Paperback

This volume concerns how wartime changed the lives of the most sheltered section of British society… read more

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  • world war ii
  • history
Cover of Code Talker: The First and Only Memoir By One of the Original Navajo Code Talkers of WWII by Chester Nez, Judith Schiess Avila

2. Code Talker: The First and Only Memoir By One of the Original Navajo Code Talkers of WWII

By: Chester Nez , Judith Schiess Avila

3.56

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

The first and only memoir by one of the original Navajo code talkers of WWII-includes the actual Na… read more

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  • world war ii
  • history
  • memoir

3. The Husband Hunters: Social Climbing in London and New York

By: Anne de Courcy

4.29

Format: None pages, Hardcover

Towards the end of the nineteenth century and for the first few years of the twentieth, a strange i… read more

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  • history
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4. The Woodlanders

By: Thomas Hardy , Patricia Ingham

2.84

Format: 306 pages, Paperback

In this classically simple tale of the disastrous impact of outside life on a secluded community in… read more

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5. Mary Chesnut: A Diary From Dixie

By: Mary Boykin Chesnut

3.96

Format: 425 pages, Hardcover

This original diary of the wife of Confederate General James Chestnut, Jr., who was also an aide to… read more

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  • history
  • memoir

6. All But My Life: A Memoir

By: Gerda Weissmann Klein

4.03

Format: None pages,

All But My Life: A Memoir All But My Life is the unforgettable story of Gerda Weissmann Klein's six… read more

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7. Wild Strawberries (Barsetshire, #2)

By: Angela Thirkell

3.69

Format: 227 pages, Paperback

Action in Thirkells second Barsetshire novel centres around the extended family of the Leslies of R… read more

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"What does Mrs Preston want to go abroad for?' asked Mr Leslie. 'I think her doctor wanted her to, Father,' said Agnes. 'Doctors!' said Mr Leslie, wiping the whole of the Royal College of Physicians o…"

-Angela Thirkell, Wild Strawberries (Barsetshire, #2)

"...And of course they'll get their milk from us, because Gooch's milk in the village really can't be trusted. I do hope, Henry, the vicarage drains are all right if Martin is to go there, because the…"

-Angela Thirkell, Wild Strawberries (Barsetshire, #2)

"Perhaps as one gets older one takes one's joys altruistically,"said John, in turn thinking aloud. "I must say though I sometimes wish I could get it selfishly, just for myself, as Gay used to give me…"

-Angela Thirkell, Wild Strawberries (Barsetshire, #2)

"Henry, you mustn’t mind. It is really a kindness to have him.’ ‘Well, I do mind, Emily,’ said Mr Leslie, getting up. ‘Kindness is one thing and your family is another. You treat this house as if it w…"

-Angela Thirkell, Wild Strawberries (Barsetshire, #2)

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8. The Ride of Her Life: The True Story of a Woman, Her Horse, and Their Last-Chance Journey Across America

By: Elizabeth Letts

4.23

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

The incredible true story of a woman who rode her horse across America in the 1950s, fulfilling her… read more

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  • history
  • memoir
"As she passed through Maine, Annie would interpret a certain expression on someone's face as possibly a family trait. She saw the Stuart in a stranger's clear blue eyes, the Libby in someone's advent…"

-Elizabeth Letts, The Ride of Her Life: The True Story of a Woman, Her Horse, and Their Last-Chance Journey Across America

Cover of The Splendid and the Vile: A Saga of Churchill, Family, and Defiance During the Blitz by Erik Larson

9. The Splendid and the Vile: A Saga of Churchill, Family, and Defiance During the Blitz

By: Erik Larson

4.30

Format: 546 pages, ebook

"The #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Devil in the White City and Dead Wake delivers a f… read more

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  • world war ii
  • history
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10. Out of the Corner

By: Jennifer Grey

3.81

Format: 331 pages, Hardcover

A deeply candid and refreshingly spirited memoir of identity lost and found from the star of the ic… read more

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  • memoir
Cover of The Dark Queens: The Bloody Rivalry That Forged the Medieval World by Shelley Puhak

11. The Dark Queens: The Bloody Rivalry That Forged the Medieval World

By: Shelley Puhak

4.09

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

The remarkable, little-known story of two trailblazing women in the Early Middle Ages who wielded i… read more

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  • history
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12. The Mitford Affair

By: Marie Benedict

3.70

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

From New York Times bestselling author Marie Benedict—she'll have to choose: her country or her sis… read more

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  • world war ii
Cover of The Midwife of Auschwitz (Women of War #1) by Anna Stuart

13. The Midwife of Auschwitz (Women of War #1)

By: Anna Stuart

4.53

Format: 348 pages, Kindle Edition

Auschwitz, 1943: As I held the tiny baby in my arms, my fingers traced the black tattoo etched acro… read more

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  • world war ii
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14. Like a Rolling Stone

By: Jann S. Wenner

3.84

Format: 592 pages, Hardcover

In this New York Times bestseller, Rolling Stone founder, co-editor, and publisher Jann Wenner offe… read more

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  • history
  • memoir
Cover of The Very Secret Sex Lives of Medieval Women: An Inside Look at Women & Sex in Medieval Times (Human Sexuality, True Stories, Women in History) by Rosalie Gilbert

15. The Very Secret Sex Lives of Medieval Women: An Inside Look at Women & Sex in Medieval Times (Human Sexuality, True Stories, Women in History)

By: Rosalie Gilbert

3.53

Format: 327 pages, Paperback

What Was Sex Like for a Medieval Woman?An inside look at sexual practices in the medieval world. We… read more

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  • history
Cover of The Wordhord: Daily Life in Old English by Hana Videen

16. The Wordhord: Daily Life in Old English

By: Hana Videen

4.26

Format: 284 pages, Hardcover

An entertaining and illuminating collection of weird, wonderful, and downright baffling words from … read more

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  • history
"For some reason, the ball-biting beaver doesn't live on in modern fiction like Aslan the lion or Fawkes the phoenix."

-Hana Videen, The Wordhord: Daily Life in Old English

Cover of PILGRIM: FINDING A NEW WAY ON THE CAMINO DE SANTIAGO by Carolyn Gillespie

17. PILGRIM: FINDING A NEW WAY ON THE CAMINO DE SANTIAGO

By: Carolyn Gillespie

4.49

Format: 307 pages, Kindle Edition

When faced with an empty nest, Kari decides to spread her own wings. Giving up a job she loves, she… read more

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Cover of The Camino de Santiago: One Wanderful Walk by Shannon O'Gorman

18. The Camino de Santiago: One Wanderful Walk

By: Shannon O'Gorman

4.23

Format: 252 pages, Kindle Edition

Every year, over three hundred thousand people complete the Camino de Santiago pilgrimage from St J… read more

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  • memoir
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19. I Leap Over The Wall

By: Monica Baldwin

3.71

Format: 328 pages, Paperback

I am not the first member of my family to leap over a wall. Nearly four hundred years ago, my ances… read more

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  • history
  • memoir
Cover of A Woman Living in the Shadow of the Second World War: Helena Hall's Journal from the Home Front by Helena Hall

20. A Woman Living in the Shadow of the Second World War: Helena Hall's Journal from the Home Front

By: Helena Hall

4.20

Format: 468 pages, Kindle Edition

Helena Hall's daily diary of the war years, from 1940 to 1945, is one of the most vivid, detailed a… read more

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12 Top history books like A Woman Living in the Shadow of the Second World War: Helena Hall's Journal from the Home Front by Helena Hall

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Anne de Courcy

3.33

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Chester Nez , Judith Schiess Avila

3.56

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Anne de Courcy

4.29

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Mary Chesnut: A Diary From Dixie

Mary Boykin Chesnut

3.96

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Minnie Driver

4.09

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3.81

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Barbra Streisand

4.20

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Henry Winkler

4.14

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