6 Top biography books like Young Hitler: The Making of the Führer by Paul Ham

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Young Hitler: The Making of the Führer

By: Paul Ham

3.77

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

When Adolf Hitler went to war in 1914, he was just 25 years old. It was a time he would later call …

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1. The Rape of the Mind: The Psychology of Thought Control, Menticide, and Brainwashing

By: Joost A.M. Meerloo

4.21

Format: 326 pages, Paperback

SINCE 1933, when a completely drugged and trial-conditioned human wreck confessed to having started… read more

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  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
"Delusions, carefully implanted, are difficult to correct."

-Joost A.M. Meerloo, The Rape of the Mind: The Psychology of Thought Control, Menticide, and Brainwashing

"Totalitarian ideology is able to blackmail man through his inner cowardice It threatens him into surrendering his innermost convictions in exchange for glamour and acceptance..."

-Joost A.M. Meerloo, The Rape of the Mind: The Psychology of Thought Control, Menticide, and Brainwashing

"It is often disturbing to see how even intelligent people do not have straight thinking minds of their own. The pattern of the mind, whether toward conformity and compliance or otherwise, is conditio…"

-Joost A.M. Meerloo, The Rape of the Mind: The Psychology of Thought Control, Menticide, and Brainwashing

"The mind that is open for questions is open for dissent. In the totalitarian regime the doubting, inquisitive, and imaginative mind has to be suppressed. The totalitarian slave is only allowed to mem…"

-Joost A.M. Meerloo, The Rape of the Mind: The Psychology of Thought Control, Menticide, and Brainwashing

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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

Similar categories in Nikolaus Wachsmann's KL: A History of the Nazi Concentration Camps book and Paul Ham's Young Hitler: The Making of the Führer

  • history
  • germany
  • war
  • world war ii
  • nonfiction
  • european history
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3. To Hell and Back: Europe 1914-1949

By: Ian Kershaw

3.98

Format: 574 pages, Hardcover

The Penguin History of Europe series reaches the twentieth century with acclaimed scholar Ian Kersh… read more

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  • world war i
  • history
  • politics
  • war
  • world war ii
  • nonfiction
  • european history
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4. When Nietzsche Wept

By: Irvin D. Yalom

4.09

Format: 129 pages, Paperback

A richly evocative novel set in 19th-century Vienna on the eve of the birth of psychoanalysis. The … read more

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5. The Gulag Archipelago 1918–1956 (Abridged)

By: None , Edward E. Ericson Jr. , Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

4.32

Format: 512 pages, Paperback

Drawing on his own incarceration and exile, as well as on evidence from more than 200 fellow prison… read more

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  • politics
  • history
  • biography
  • nonfiction
"To taste the sea, all one needs is one gulp."

-None, The Gulag Archipelago 1918–1956 (Abridged)

"One man who stopped lying could bring down a tyranny."

-None, The Gulag Archipelago 1918–1956 (Abridged)

"Oh, how hard it is to part with power! This one has to understand."

-None, The Gulag Archipelago 1918–1956 (Abridged)

"Unlimited power in the hands of limited people always leads to cruelty."

-None, The Gulag Archipelago 1918–1956 (Abridged)

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6. American Sniper: The Autobiography of the Most Lethal Sniper in U.S. Military History

By: Chris Kyle , Scott McEwen , Jim DeFelice

4.03

Format: 502 pages, Paperback

From 1999 to 2009, U.S. Navy SEAL Chris Kyle recorded the most career sniper kills in United States… read more

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  • history
  • biography
  • war
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
"But real life doesn't travel in a perfect straight line; it doesn't necessarily have that 'all lived happily ever after' bit. You have to work on where you're going."

-Chris Kyle, American Sniper: The Autobiography of the Most Lethal Sniper in U.S. Military History

"In my experience, Marines are gung ho no matter what. They will all fight to the death. Everyone of them just wants to get out there and kill. They are bad-ass, hard-charging mothers."

-Chris Kyle, American Sniper: The Autobiography of the Most Lethal Sniper in U.S. Military History

"The joke was that President Bush only declared war when Starbucks was hit. You can mess with the U.N. all you want, but when you start interfering with the right to get caffeinated, someone has to pa…"

-Chris Kyle, American Sniper: The Autobiography of the Most Lethal Sniper in U.S. Military History

7. The Power of One (The Power of One, #1)

By: Bryce Courtenay

3.75

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

No stranger to the injustice of racial hatred, five-year-old Peekay learns the hard way the first s… read more

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8. Doomsday Book (Oxford Time Travel, #1)

By: Connie Willis

4.03

Format: 578 pages, Mass Market Paperback

For Kivrin, preparing an on-site study of one of the deadliest eras in humanity's history was as si… read more

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"It is the end of the world. Surely you could be allowed a few carnal thoughts."

-Connie Willis, Doomsday Book (Oxford Time Travel, #1)

"None of the things one frets about ever happen. Something one's never thought of does."

-Connie Willis, Doomsday Book (Oxford Time Travel, #1)

"Kivrin reached out for Dunworthy's hand and clasped it tightly in her own. "I knew you'd come," she said, and the net opened."

-Connie Willis, Doomsday Book (Oxford Time Travel, #1)

"No," she said. "No. It's only a bad time. A terrible time, but not everyone will die. And there will be wonderful times after this. The Renaissance and class reforms and music. Wonderful times. There…"

-Connie Willis, Doomsday Book (Oxford Time Travel, #1)

9. Reading Lolita in Tehran

By: Azar Nafisi

4.20

Format: 172 pages,

Every Thursday morning for two years in the Islamic Republic of Iran, a bold and inspired teacher n… read more

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10. Double Cross: The True Story of the D-Day Spies

By: Ben Macintyre

3.62

Format: None pages, Paperback

In his celebrated bestsellers Agent Zigzag and Operation Mincemeat, Ben Macintyre told the dazzling… read more

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11. White Noise

By: Don DeLillo

3.86

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

The National Book Award-winning classic from the author of Underworld and Libra, now a Netflix film… read more

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"The vast and terrible depth." “Of course,"

-Don DeLillo, White Noise

"You are the happy one. I am the doomed fool."

-Don DeLillo, White Noise

"Fear is self-awareness raised to a higher level."

-Don DeLillo, White Noise

"The family is the cradle of the world's misinformation."

-Don DeLillo, White Noise

12. Stalin: The Court of the Red Tsar

By: Simon Sebag Montefiore

4.44

Format: 212 pages, Paperback

This widely acclaimed biography provides a vivid and riveting account of Stalin and his courtiers--… read more

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13. Prisoners of the Castle: An Epic Story of Survival and Escape from Colditz, the Nazis' Fortress Prison

By: Ben Macintyre

4.26

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

The definitive and surprising true story of one of history’s most notorious prisons—and the remarka… read more

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  • history
  • biography
  • germany
  • war
  • world war ii
  • nonfiction
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14. Why We're Polarized

By: Ezra Klein

4.22

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

Discover how American politics became a toxic system, why we participate in it, and what it means f… read more

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  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
"Unfortunately, the term “identity politics"

-Ezra Klein, Why We're Polarized

"The key idea here is “negative partisanship"

-Ezra Klein, Why We're Polarized

"So here, then, is the last fifty years of American politics summarized: we became more consistent in the party we vote for not because we came to like our party more—indeed, we’ve come to like the pa…"

-Ezra Klein, Why We're Polarized

"The political media is biased, but not toward the Left or Right so much as toward loud, outrageous, colorful, inspirational, confrontational. It is biased toward the political stories and figures who…"

-Ezra Klein, Why We're Polarized

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15. How Democracies Die: What History Reveals About Our Future

By: Steven Levitsky

4.15

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

Donald Trump's presidency has raised a question that many of us never thought we'd be asking: Is ou… read more

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  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
"Authoritarian politicians cast their rivals as criminal, subversive, unpatriotic, or a threat to national security or the existing way of life."

-Steven Levitsky, How Democracies Die: What History Reveals About Our Future

"The drift into authoritarianism doesn’t always set off alarm bells. Citizens are often slow to realize that their democracy is being dismantled even as it happens before their eyes."

-Steven Levitsky, How Democracies Die: What History Reveals About Our Future

"Institutions become political weapons, wielded forcefully by those who control them against those who do not. This is how elected autocrats subvert democracy—packing and “weaponizing"

-Steven Levitsky, How Democracies Die: What History Reveals About Our Future

"But when faced with a would-be authoritarian, establishment politicians must unambiguously reject him or her and do everything possible to defend democratic institutions—even if that means temporaril…"

-Steven Levitsky, How Democracies Die: What History Reveals About Our Future

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16. The Wim Hof Method: Activate Your Full Human Potential

By: Wim Hof

3.83

Format: 232 pages, Hardcover

INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER The only definitive book authored by Wim Hof on his powerful met… read more

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  • nonfiction
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17. The Habsburgs: To Rule the World

By: Martyn Rady

3.85

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

The definitive history of the dynasty that dominated Europe for centuries In The Habsburgs, Mart… read more

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  • history
  • biography
  • politics
  • germany
  • nonfiction
  • european history
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18. Lying Beside You (Cyrus Haven, #3)

By: Michael Robotham

4.30

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

Cyrus Haven and Evie Cormac return in Robotham’s latest page-turning, psychological thriller in thi… read more

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19. The Trial of Adolf Hitler: The Beer Hall Putsch and the Rise of Nazi Germany

By: David King

3.93

Format: 496 pages, Paperback

“Gripping… a disturbing portrait of how an advanced country can descend into chaos.” ―Frederick Tay… read more

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  • history
  • biography
  • politics
  • germany
  • war
  • world war ii
  • nonfiction
  • european history
Cover of Young Hitler: The Making of the Führer by Paul Ham

20. Young Hitler: The Making of the Führer

By: Paul Ham

3.77

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

When Adolf Hitler went to war in 1914, he was just 25 years old. It was a time he would later call … read more

Similar categories in Paul Ham's Young Hitler: The Making of the Führer book and Paul Ham's Young Hitler: The Making of the Führer

  • world war i
  • history
  • biography
  • politics
  • war
  • germany
  • world war ii
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • european history
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21. Kings of Shanghai

By: Jonathan Kaufman

4.34

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

Kings of Shanghai tells the story of two Jewish families - the Sassoons and the Kadoories - who imm… read more

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  • history
  • nonfiction

12 Top history books like Young Hitler: The Making of the Führer by Paul Ham

Transform Your Habits

The Rape of the Mind: The Psychology of Thought Control, Menticide, and Brainwashing

Joost A.M. Meerloo

4.21

Transform Your Habits

KL: A History of the Nazi Concentration Camps

Nikolaus Wachsmann

4.06

Transform Your Habits

To Hell and Back: Europe 1914-1949

Ian Kershaw

3.98

Transform Your Habits

The Gulag Archipelago 1918–1956 (Abridged)

None , Edward E. Ericson Jr. , Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

4.32

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9 Top history books like Kings of Shanghai by Jonathan Kaufman

Transform Your Habits

Chinese Whispers: Searching For Forgiveness In Beijing

Jan Wong

4.15

Transform Your Habits

The World for Sale: Money, Power and the Traders Who Barter the Earth’s Resources

Javier Blas

4.34

Transform Your Habits

Red Roulette: An Insider's Story of Wealth, Power, Corruption, and Vengeance in Today's China

Desmond Shum

3.91

Transform Your Habits

In the Dragon's Shadow: Southeast Asia in the Chinese Century

Sebastian Strangio

4.26

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