8 Top biography books like Inge's War: A German Woman's Story of Family, Secrets, and Survival Under Hitler by Svenja O’Donnell

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Inge's War: A German Woman's Story of Family, Secrets, and Survival Under Hitler

By: Svenja O’Donnell

4.26

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

The mesmerizing account of a granddaughter's search for a World War II family history hidden for si…

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1. The Girl With No Name (The Girl With No Name #1)

By: Diney Costeloe

4.12

Format: 498 pages, Kindle Edition

A heart-wrenching story from the bestselling author of The Throwaway Children. Thirteen-year-old Li… read more

Similar categories in Diney Costeloe's The Girl With No Name (The Girl With No Name #1) book and Svenja O’Donnell's Inge's War: A German Woman's Story of Family, Secrets, and Survival Under Hitler

  • world war ii
  • historical
  • war
  • holocaust
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2. The Red Ribbon

By: Lucy Adlington

4.20

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

Rose, Ella, Marta and Carla. In another life we might have all been friends together. But this was … read more

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  • world war ii
  • historical
  • war
  • holocaust
"You don't have books?!' Rose almost sat up and banged her head on the roof rafters. That made the rats jump. 'How can you live without reading?' 'Pretty well so far.' I laughed. 'Stories are just mad…"

-Lucy Adlington, The Red Ribbon

"You've got to cram it into your thick heads: the sickos that sent us to this place are so stuffed with hate they've got to spew it out on someone, it almost doesn't matter who. If it's not one race, …"

-Lucy Adlington, The Red Ribbon

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3. D-Day: The Battle for Normandy

By: Antony Beevor

4.00

Format: 10 pages, Hardcover

Making use of overlooked and new material from over 30 archives in half a dozen countries, 'D-Day' … read more

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  • world war ii
  • nonfiction
  • history
  • war

4. A Woman in Berlin: Eight Weeks in the Conquered City: A Diary

By: Anonymous , Philip Boehm , Hans Magnus Enzensberger

3.52

Format: 257 pages,

A New York Times Book ReviewEditors' Choice For eight weeks in 1945, as Berlin fell to the Russian … read more

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5. Edwin of the Iron Shoes

By: Marcia Muller

3.89

Format: 575 pages, Paperback

It's Sharon McCone's first case as staff investigator for All Souls Legal Cooperative. She knows no… read more

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6. When Paris Went Dark: The City of Light Under German Occupation, 1940-1944

By: Ronald C. Rosbottom

3.89

Format: None pages, Hardcover

The spellbinding and revealing chronicle of Nazi-occupied Paris On June 14, 1940, German tanks ente… read more

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7. Blood and Iron: The Rise and Fall of the German Empire 1871–1918

By: Katja Hoyer

4.17

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

Before 1871, Germany was not a nation but an idea. Its founder, Otto von Bismarck, had a formidable… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • germany
  • history
  • war
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8. The Unfit Heiress: The Tragic Life and Scandalous Sterilization of Ann Cooper Hewitt

By: Audrey Clare Farley

3.65

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

At the turn of the twentieth century, American women began to reject Victorian propriety in favor o… read more

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  • history
  • biography
  • historical
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
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9. Beyond the Wall: East Germany, 1949-1990

By: Katja Hoyer

4.23

Format: 496 pages, Hardcover

In 1990, a country disappeared. When the Iron Curtain fell, East Germany simply ceased to be. For o… read more

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  • history
  • biography
  • historical
  • germany
  • nonfiction
"Some of the “songs"

-Katja Hoyer, Beyond the Wall: East Germany, 1949-1990

"Anti-Fascist Protection Rampart,"

-Katja Hoyer, Beyond the Wall: East Germany, 1949-1990

"From 1971, the rates paid were means-tested, allowing working class families with children privileged access. A four-person household in West Germany spent around 21 percent of their net income on re…"

-Katja Hoyer, Beyond the Wall: East Germany, 1949-1990

"In other fields too, female ambition had become the norm. By 1988, over 90% of East German women fought their own battles in the workplace. The GDR had reached the highest rate of female employment i…"

-Katja Hoyer, Beyond the Wall: East Germany, 1949-1990

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10. The Warsaw Sisters

By: Amanda Barratt

4.22

Format: 384 pages, Kindle Edition

On a golden August morning in 1939, sisters Antonina and Helena Dąbrowska send their father off to … read more

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  • world war ii
  • historical
  • war
  • holocaust
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11. The Volunteer: The True Story of the Resistance Hero who Infiltrated Auschwitz

By: Jack Fairweather

4.33

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

How do you keep fighting in the face of unimaginable horror?This is untold story of one of the grea… read more

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  • history
  • biography
  • historical
  • war
  • world war ii
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • holocaust
"So long as the prisoners could believe in the greater good, they were not defeated. Witold's men perished in many terrible ways, but they did so with a dignity that Nazism failed to destroy."

-Jack Fairweather, The Volunteer: The True Story of the Resistance Hero who Infiltrated Auschwitz

"The camp [Auschwitz] had already developed nicknames for those on the edge of starvation: cripples, derelicts, jewels, but the most common was "Musselmänner," or "Muslims," seemingly in reference to …"

-Jack Fairweather, The Volunteer: The True Story of the Resistance Hero who Infiltrated Auschwitz

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12. The Midnight News

By: Jo Baker

3.70

Format: 322 pages, Hardcover

From the best-selling author of Longbourn, a gripping novel of one young woman’s unraveling during … read more

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  • world war ii
  • historical
  • war
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13. SAS Ghost Patrol: The Ultra-Secret Unit That Posed As Nazi Stormtroopers

By: Damien Lewis

4.36

Format: 335 pages, Kindle Edition

The Ultra-Secret Unit That Posed As Nazi StormtroopersThe Most Daring Mission Ever UndertakenSAS Gh… read more

Similar categories in Damien Lewis's SAS Ghost Patrol: The Ultra-Secret Unit That Posed As Nazi Stormtroopers book and Svenja O’Donnell's Inge's War: A German Woman's Story of Family, Secrets, and Survival Under Hitler

  • history
  • historical
  • war
  • world war ii
  • nonfiction
Cover of Into Siberia: George Kennan's Epic Journey Through the Brutal, Frozen Heart of Russia by Gregory J. Wallance

14. Into Siberia: George Kennan's Epic Journey Through the Brutal, Frozen Heart of Russia

By: Gregory J. Wallance

3.99

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

In the late nineteenth century, close diplomatic relations existed between the United States and Ru… read more

Similar categories in Gregory J. Wallance's Into Siberia: George Kennan's Epic Journey Through the Brutal, Frozen Heart of Russia book and Svenja O’Donnell's Inge's War: A German Woman's Story of Family, Secrets, and Survival Under Hitler

  • history
  • biography
  • historical
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
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15. The Elephant of Belfast

By: S. Kirk Walsh

3.46

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

Inspired by true events, this vivid and moving story of a young woman zookeeper and the elephant sh… read more

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  • world war ii
  • historical
  • war
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16. The German Heiress

By: Anika Scott

3.73

Format: 384 pages, Paperback

For readers of The Alice Network and The Lost Girls of Paris, an immersive, heart-pounding debut ab… read more

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  • historical
  • germany
  • war
  • world war ii
  • holocaust
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17. The Nine: The True Story of a Band of Women Who Survived the Worst of Nazi Germany

By: Gwen Strauss

4.27

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

The Nine follows the true story of the author’s great aunt Hélène Podliasky, who led a band of nine… read more

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  • history
  • biography
  • historical
  • germany
  • war
  • world war ii
  • nonfiction
  • holocaust
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18. Nancy Wake

By: Russell Braddon

4.33

Format: 281 pages, Kindle Edition

This is the incredible true story of the greatest spy you’ve never heard of—as told to the author b… read more

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  • history
  • biography
  • memoir
  • historical
  • war
  • world war ii
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
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19. Geniuses at War: Bletchley Park, Colossus, and the Dawn of the Digital Age

By: David A. Price

3.96

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

The untold story of the team who built the world's first digital electronic computer at Bletchley P… read more

Similar categories in David A. Price's Geniuses at War: Bletchley Park, Colossus, and the Dawn of the Digital Age book and Svenja O’Donnell's Inge's War: A German Woman's Story of Family, Secrets, and Survival Under Hitler

  • world war ii
  • nonfiction
  • history
  • war
Cover of Inge's War: A German Woman's Story of Family, Secrets, and Survival Under Hitler by Svenja O’Donnell

20. Inge's War: A German Woman's Story of Family, Secrets, and Survival Under Hitler

By: Svenja O’Donnell

4.26

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

The mesmerizing account of a granddaughter's search for a World War II family history hidden for si… read more

Similar categories in Svenja O’Donnell's Inge's War: A German Woman's Story of Family, Secrets, and Survival Under Hitler book and Svenja O’Donnell's Inge's War: A German Woman's Story of Family, Secrets, and Survival Under Hitler

  • history
  • biography
  • memoir
  • historical
  • war
  • germany
  • world war ii
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • holocaust
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21. Empresses of Seventh Avenue: World War II, New York City, and the Birth of American Fashion

By: Nancy MacDonell

4.10

Format: 354 pages, Hardcover

In the tradition of The Barbizon and The Girls of Atomic City, fashion historian and journalist Nan… read more

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  • historical
  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • history

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