7 must-read history books like The Bravest Battle: The Twenty-eight Days of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising by Dan Kurzman

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The Bravest Battle: The Twenty-eight Days of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising

By: Dan Kurzman

4.19

Format: 386 pages, Hardcover

In October 1940 Nazis forced all the Jews in the Polish city of Warsaw to live in the cramped squal…

If you liked the history plot in The Bravest Battle: The Twenty-eight Days of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising by Dan Kurzman , here is a list of 7 books like this:

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1. 1453: The Holy War for Constantinople and the Clash of Islam and the West

By: Roger Crowley

3.50

Format: None pages, Paperback

Now in trade paperback, a gripping exploration of the fall of Constantinople and its connection to … read more

Similar categories in Roger Crowley's 1453: The Holy War for Constantinople and the Clash of Islam and the West book and Dan Kurzman's The Bravest Battle: The Twenty-eight Days of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising

  • european history
  • nonfiction
  • history
  • war
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2. The Autobiography of Malcolm X

By: Alex Haley , Malcolm X

4.36

Format: 466 pages, Mass Market Paperback

Alternate cover for ISBN 9780345350688 Through a life of passion and struggle, Malcolm X became … read more

Similar categories in Alex Haley's The Autobiography of Malcolm X book and Dan Kurzman's The Bravest Battle: The Twenty-eight Days of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising

  • nonfiction
  • history
"We all like chicken"

-Alex Haley, The Autobiography of Malcolm X

"كانت حياتي سلسة من التحولات"

-Alex Haley, The Autobiography of Malcolm X

"لا يدرك الناس أن كتابا واحدا قد يغير حياة انسان"

-Alex Haley, The Autobiography of Malcolm X

"I Used the Word 'Negro' and I was Firmly Corrected"

-Alex Haley, The Autobiography of Malcolm X

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3. Treasure Island

By: Robert Louis Stevenson , N.C. Wyeth

3.85

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

"For sheer storytelling delight and pure adventure, Treasure Island has never been surpassed. From … read more

Similar categories in Robert Louis Stevenson's Treasure Island book and Dan Kurzman's The Bravest Battle: The Twenty-eight Days of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising

"Doctors is all swabs."

-Robert Louis Stevenson, Treasure Island

"Thems that die'll be the lucky ones."

-Robert Louis Stevenson, Treasure Island

"... Bear up until you see you're gaining."

-Robert Louis Stevenson, Treasure Island

"We must go on, because we can't turn back."

-Robert Louis Stevenson, Treasure Island

4. The Powers That Be

By: David Halberstam

3.62

Format: 240 pages, Paperback

Gives an account of power at work in America. read more

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5. The Guns of August

By: Barbara W. Tuchman

4.18

Format: 658 pages, Kindle Edition

The Proud Tower, the Pulitzer Prize–winning The Guns of August, and The Zimmerman Telegram comprise… read more

Similar categories in Barbara W. Tuchman's The Guns of August book and Dan Kurzman's The Bravest Battle: The Twenty-eight Days of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising

  • history
  • military fiction
  • war
  • military history
  • nonfiction
  • european history
"Nothing so comforts the military mind as the maxim of a great but dead general."

-Barbara W. Tuchman, The Guns of August

"Now according to German logic, a declaration of war was found to be unnecessary because of imaginary bombings"

-Barbara W. Tuchman, The Guns of August

"Human beings, like plans, prove fallible in the presence of those ingredients that are missing in maneuvers - danger, death, and live ammunition."

-Barbara W. Tuchman, The Guns of August

"To think meant to give room for freedom of initiative, for the imponderable to win over the material, for will to demonstrate its power over circumstance."

-Barbara W. Tuchman, The Guns of August

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

By: Erik Larson

4.24

Format: 565 pages, Hardcover

The #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Splendid and the Vile brings to life the pivotal fi… read more

Similar categories in Erik Larson's The Demon of Unrest: A Saga of Hubris, Heartbreak, and Heroism at the Dawn of the Civil War book and Dan Kurzman's The Bravest Battle: The Twenty-eight Days of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising

  • nonfiction
  • history
  • war
"A house divided against itself cannot stand."

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

"Lincoln on a sofa was like a ship's mast on a barstool, poised in an uneasy equilibrium between relaxation and structural collapse."

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

"They were convinced that Britain, once confronted with the loss of Southern cotton, would ally itself with the Confederacy—the “cotton is king"

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

"South Carolina is too small for a Republic, and too big for an insane asylum. [James L. Petigru (1789-1863), following the state's vote to secede from the Union in 1860]"

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

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7. The Anxious Generation: How the Great Rewiring of Childhood Caused an Epidemic of Mental Illness

By: Jonathan Haidt

4.46

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

After more than a decade of stability or improvement, the mental health of adolescents plunged in t… read more

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  • nonfiction
"Socially prescribed perfectionism is closely related to anxiety; people who suffer from anxiety are more prone to it. Being a perfectionist also increases your anxiety because you fear the shame of p…"

-Jonathan Haidt, The Anxious Generation: How the Great Rewiring of Childhood Caused an Epidemic of Mental Illness

"Girls in virtual networks are subjected to hundreds of times more social comparison than girls had experienced for all of human evolution. They are exposed to more cruelty and bullying because social…"

-Jonathan Haidt, The Anxious Generation: How the Great Rewiring of Childhood Caused an Epidemic of Mental Illness

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8. The Madness of Crowds: Gender, Race and Identity

By: Douglas Murray

4.21

Format: 293 pages, Hardcover

Douglas Murray examines the twenty-first century's most divisive issues: sexuality, gender, technol… read more

Similar categories in Douglas Murray's The Madness of Crowds: Gender, Race and Identity book and Dan Kurzman's The Bravest Battle: The Twenty-eight Days of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising

  • nonfiction
  • history
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9. The Kneeling Man: My Father's Life as a Black Spy Who Witnessed the Assassination of Martin Luther King Jr.

By: Leta McCollough Seletzky

3.91

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

A memoir and exploration of the recent past attempting to understand the author's complex father, M… read more

Similar categories in Leta McCollough Seletzky's The Kneeling Man: My Father's Life as a Black Spy Who Witnessed the Assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. book and Dan Kurzman's The Bravest Battle: The Twenty-eight Days of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising

  • nonfiction
  • history
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10. The Bravest Battle: The Twenty-eight Days of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising

By: Dan Kurzman

4.19

Format: 386 pages, Hardcover

In October 1940 Nazis forced all the Jews in the Polish city of Warsaw to live in the cramped squal… read more

Similar categories in Dan Kurzman's The Bravest Battle: The Twenty-eight Days of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising book and Dan Kurzman's The Bravest Battle: The Twenty-eight Days of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising

  • history
  • military fiction
  • war
  • military history
  • poland
  • world war ii
  • nonfiction
  • european history
  • 20th century
  • holocaust

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Roger Crowley

3.50

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4.36

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4.18

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Timothy Egan

4.38

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Simon Winchester

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C.W. Goodyear

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