12 Best nonfiction books like Hitler's Gift: The True Story of the Scientists Expelled By the Nazi Regime by J.S. Medawar

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Hitler's Gift: The True Story of the Scientists Expelled By the Nazi Regime

By: J.S. Medawar

3.97

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

Offers in-depth profiles of the talented Jewish scientists who fled Nazi Germany after Hitler's ris…

If you liked the nonfiction plot in Hitler's Gift: The True Story of the Scientists Expelled By the Nazi Regime by J.S. Medawar , here is a list of 12 books like this:

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1. Hide and Seek (Inspector Rebus, #2)

By: Ian Rankin

3.83

Format: 210 pages, Mass Market Paperback

A junkie lies dead in an Edinburgh squat. Just another dead addict, until John Rebus begins to chip… read more

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2. Paper Money

By: Ken Follett

3.38

Format: 261 pages, Mass Market Paperback

A politician wakes with a beautiful girl; a criminal briefs his team; a tycoon breakfasts with a Ba… read more

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"to him, money was like the toy bank notes in Monopoly: he wanted it, not for what it could buy, but because it was needed to play the game"

-Ken Follett, Paper Money

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3. 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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  • world war ii
  • nonfiction
  • history
  • war
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4. The Sinking of the Bismarck: The Deadly Hunt

By: William L. Shirer

4.29

Format: 256 pages, Paperback

The Bismarck was the greatest warship ever built. But the Allies had to sink it - or risk losing th… read more

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  • world war ii
  • nonfiction
  • history
  • war

5. Resurrection

By: Leo Tolstoy , Louise Maude , Aylmer Maude

4.00

Format: None pages,

Resurrection (1899) is the last of Tolstoy's major novels. It tells the story of a nobleman's attem… read more

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6. The Plantagenets: The Warrior Kings and Queens Who Made England

By: Dan Jones

3.25

Format: 198 pages, Hardcover

The first Plantagenet king inherited a blood-soaked kingdom from the Normans and transformed it int… read more

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7. The Cap: The Price Of A Life

By: Hillel Halkin , None

3.59

Format: None pages, Hardcover

"The path to freedom from self-destructive qualms ran over the corpses of those nobler than you," R… read more

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8. Thunderstruck

By: Erik Larson

3.77

Format: 463 pages, Hardcover

The interwoven stories of two men whose lives intersect during one of the greatest criminal cases o… read more

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  • history
  • biography
  • nonfiction
  • science
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9. Prequel: An American Fight Against Fascism

By: Rachel Maddow

4.45

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

Rachel Maddow traces the fight to preserve American democracy back to World War II, when a handful … read more

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  • world war ii
  • nonfiction
  • history
  • war
"One big appeal of fascism, if nothing else, was its unapologetic embrace of cruelty. Cruelty towards others, coupled with hypersensitivity towards any slight to oneself."

-Rachel Maddow, Prequel: An American Fight Against Fascism

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10. A Heart Full of Headstones (Inspector Rebus, #24)

By: Ian Rankin

4.20

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

The brand-new John Rebus thriller from the #1 international bestseller Ian Rankin. John Rebus st… read more

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11. 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
  • war
  • world war ii
  • nonfiction
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12. Shanghai

By: Joseph Kanon

4.03

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

In this dazzling thriller, New York Times bestselling author Joseph Kanon gives us his richest sett… read more

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  • world war ii
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13. The Peking Express: The Bandits Who Stole a Train, Stunned the West, and Broke the Republic of China

By: James M Zimmerman

3.90

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

The thrilling true story of train-robbing revolutionaries and passengers who got more than they pai… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
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14. Under The Wave At Waimea

By: Paul Theroux

3.70

Format: 416 pages, Paperback

“Theroux’s work is like no one else’s.” –Francine Prose, New York Times Book Review From legenda… read more

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15. The Code Breaker: Jennifer Doudna, Gene Editing, and the Future of the Human Race

By: Walter Isaacson

4.29

Format: 536 pages, Hardcover

When Jennifer Doudna was in sixth grade, she came home one day to find that her dad had left a pape… read more

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  • history
  • biography
  • nonfiction
  • science
"The beauty of nature and the joy that comes from unstructured human engagement is a powerful combination."

-Walter Isaacson, The Code Breaker: Jennifer Doudna, Gene Editing, and the Future of the Human Race

"Does empathy depend on believing that but for the grace of God, or the randomness of the natural lottery, we could have been born with a different set of endowments?"

-Walter Isaacson, The Code Breaker: Jennifer Doudna, Gene Editing, and the Future of the Human Race

"She felt at home in the lab. It was a quiet temple for individual persistence and contemplation. She could be creative and independent as she pursued a path toward her own discoveries."

-Walter Isaacson, The Code Breaker: Jennifer Doudna, Gene Editing, and the Future of the Human Race

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16. 999: The Extraordinary Young Women of the First Official Jewish Transport to Auschwitz

By: Heather Dune Macadam

4.54

Format: 464 pages, Hardcover

A PEN America Literary Award Finalist A Goodreads Choice Awards Nominee An Amazon Best of the Yea… read more

Similar categories in Heather Dune Macadam's 999: The Extraordinary Young Women of the First Official Jewish Transport to Auschwitz book and J.S. Medawar's Hitler's Gift: The True Story of the Scientists Expelled By the Nazi Regime

  • history
  • biography
  • war
  • world war ii
  • nonfiction
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17. Ethel Rosenberg: An American Tragedy

By: Anne Sebba

3.90

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

New York Times bestselling author Anne Sebba's moving biography of Ethel Rosenberg, the wife and mo… read more

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  • history
  • biography
  • nonfiction
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18. From Warsaw with Love: Polish Spies, the CIA, and the Forging of an Unlikely Alliance

By: John Pomfret

4.15

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

From Warsaw with Love is the epic story of how Polish intelligence officers forged an alliance with… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
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19. 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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  • world war ii
  • nonfiction
  • history
  • war
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20. Hot Time

By: W.H. Flint

3.86

Format: 288 pages, Kindle Edition

For fans of The Knick, The Alienist, and The Last Days of Night, a vivid, entertaining, and viscera… read more

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21. Hitler's Gift: The True Story of the Scientists Expelled By the Nazi Regime

By: J.S. Medawar

3.97

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

Offers in-depth profiles of the talented Jewish scientists who fled Nazi Germany after Hitler's ris… read more

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  • biography
  • war
  • world war ii
  • nonfiction
  • science

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4.06

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William L. Shirer

4.29

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Thunderstruck

Erik Larson

3.77

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Rachel Maddow

4.45

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Kai Bird , Martin J. Sherwin

4.00

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Ed Yong

4.18

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Erik Larson

4.24

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Chris Miller

4.44

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