8 best-selling history books like The Italian Executioners: The Genocide of the Jews of Italy by Simon Levis Sullam

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The Italian Executioners: The Genocide of the Jews of Italy

By: Simon Levis Sullam

3.90

Format: 208 pages, Hardcover

A gripping revisionist history that shows how ordinary Italians played a central role in the genoci…

If you liked the history plot in The Italian Executioners: The Genocide of the Jews of Italy by Simon Levis Sullam , here is a list of 8 books like this:

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1. Christ Stopped at Eboli: The Story of a Year

By: Mark Rotella , Carlo Levi , Frances Frenaye

4.11

Format: 275 pages, Paperback

It was to Lucania, a desolate land in southern Italy, that Carlo Levi―a doctor, painter, philosophe… read more

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  • italy
  • nonfiction
  • history
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2. A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again: Essays and Arguments

By: David Foster Wallace

4.15

Format: 353 pages, Paperback

In this exuberantly praised book — a collection of seven pieces on subjects ranging from television… read more

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  • nonfiction
"What I know about auto racing could be inscribed with a dry Magic Marker on the lip of a Coke bottle."

-David Foster Wallace, A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again: Essays and Arguments

"If Realism called it like it saw it, Metafiction simply called it as it saw itself seeing itself see it."

-David Foster Wallace, A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again: Essays and Arguments

"Quentin Tarantino is interested in watching somebody's ear getting cut off; David Lynch is interested in the ear."

-David Foster Wallace, A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again: Essays and Arguments

"American human beings are a slippery and protean bunch in real life, hard as hell to get any kind of universal handle on."

-David Foster Wallace, A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again: Essays and Arguments

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3. Last Argument of Kings (The First Law, #3)

By: Joe Abercrombie

4.34

Format: 536 pages, Paperback

The end is coming. Logen Ninefingers might only have one more fight in him but it's going to be a b… read more

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  • adult
"You have to realistic about these things."

-Joe Abercrombie, Last Argument of Kings (The First Law, #3)

"Cleverness is no guarantee of sensible behavior."

-Joe Abercrombie, Last Argument of Kings (The First Law, #3)

"Luck is a woman. She's drawn to those that least deserve her."

-Joe Abercrombie, Last Argument of Kings (The First Law, #3)

"Rare rages render a man frightening. Common ones render him ridiculous."

-Joe Abercrombie, Last Argument of Kings (The First Law, #3)

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4. The Drowned and the Saved

By: Primo Levi , R. Rosenthal

4.43

Format: None pages, Paperback

The author tries to understand the rationale behind Auschwitz, Treblinka, Bergen-Belsen. Dismissing… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
  • war
  • holocaust
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5. Kitchen

By: Banana Yoshimoto , Megan Backus

3.66

Format: 296 pages,

Banana Yoshimoto's novels have made her a sensation in Japan and all over the world, and Kitchen, t… read more

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6. Debt: The First 5,000 Years

By: David Graeber

3.61

Format: 192 pages, Hardcover

Before there was money, there was debt Every economics textbook says the same thing: Money was inve… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
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7. The Prince

By: Niccolò Machiavelli , Adolph Caso , Rufus Goodwin , Benjamin Martinez

3.84

Format: 144 pages, Paperback

Machiavelli needs to be looked at as he really was. Hence: Can Machiavelli, who makes the following… read more

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  • italy
  • nonfiction
  • history
"Is it better to be loved or feared?"

-Niccolò Machiavelli, The Prince

"He who wishes to be obeyed must know how to command"

-Niccolò Machiavelli, The Prince

"Never attempt to win by force what can be won by deception."

-Niccolò Machiavelli, The Prince

"It is a common fault of men not to reckon on storms in fair weather."

-Niccolò Machiavelli, The Prince

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8. Before They Are Hanged (The First Law, #2)

By: Joe Abercrombie

4.35

Format: 441 pages, Trade Paperback

Superior Glokta has a problem. How do you defend a city surrounded by enemies and riddled with trai… read more

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  • adult
"So we wait?"

-Joe Abercrombie, Before They Are Hanged (The First Law, #2)

"Empathy? What’s that?"

-Joe Abercrombie, Before They Are Hanged (The First Law, #2)

"Great men have great faults."

-Joe Abercrombie, Before They Are Hanged (The First Law, #2)

"Those with the least always lose the most in war."

-Joe Abercrombie, Before They Are Hanged (The First Law, #2)

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9. Moby-Dick or, The Whale

By: Herman Melville , Tom Quirk , Andrew Delbanco

3.55

Format: 720 pages, Paperback

"It is the horrible texture of a fabric that should be woven of ships' cables and hawsers. A Polar … read more

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"Call me Ishmael."

-Herman Melville, Moby-Dick or, The Whale

"Ignorance is the parent of fear"

-Herman Melville, Moby-Dick or, The Whale

"Ignorance is the parent of fear."

-Herman Melville, Moby-Dick or, The Whale

"Speak, thou vast and venerable head,"

-Herman Melville, Moby-Dick or, The Whale

10. The Fall

By: Albert Camus , Justin O'Brien

4.01

Format: 0 pages, Paperback

Elegantly styled, Camus' profoundly disturbing novel of a Parisian lawyer's confessions is a searin… read more

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11. Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents

By: Isabel Wilkerson

4.53

Format: 544 pages, Hardcover

The Pulitzer Prize–winning, bestselling author of The Warmth of Other Suns examines the unspoken ca… read more

Similar categories in Isabel Wilkerson's Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents book and Simon Levis Sullam's The Italian Executioners: The Genocide of the Jews of Italy

  • nonfiction
  • history
"The price of privilege is the moral duty to act when one sees another person treated unfairly. And the least that a person in the dominant caste can do is not make the pain any worse."

-Isabel Wilkerson, Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents

"A caste system is an artificial construction, a fixed and embedded ranking of human value that sets the presumed supremacy of one group against the presumed inferiority of other groups."

-Isabel Wilkerson, Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents

"[Scapegoating] blames societal ills on the groups with the least power and the least say in how the country operates while allowing the larger framework and those who control and reap the dividends o…"

-Isabel Wilkerson, Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents

"To dehumanize another human being is not merely to declare that someone is not human, and it does not happen by accident. It is a process, a programming. It takes energy and reinforcement to deny wha…"

-Isabel Wilkerson, Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents

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12. California. La fine del sogno

By: Francesco Costa

4.13

Format: 204 pages, Kindle Edition

Quando noi italiani pensiamo alla nazione che vorremmo diventare, cosa ci viene in mente? Probab… read more

Similar categories in Francesco Costa's California. La fine del sogno book and Simon Levis Sullam's The Italian Executioners: The Genocide of the Jews of Italy

  • italy
  • nonfiction
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13. Happy-Go-Lucky

By: David Sedaris

4.17

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

David Sedaris, the “champion storyteller,” ( Los Angeles Times ) returns with his first new collect… read more

Similar categories in David Sedaris's Happy-Go-Lucky book and Simon Levis Sullam's The Italian Executioners: The Genocide of the Jews of Italy

  • nonfiction
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14. A Village in the Third Reich

By: Julia Boyd

4.25

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

New from the author of Travellers in the Third Reich—the Sunday Times Top Three bestseller and Wate… read more

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  • history
  • war
  • world war ii
  • nonfiction
  • european history
  • holocaust
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15. The Jews Should Keep Quiet: Franklin D. Roosevelt, Rabbi Stephen S. Wise, and the Holocaust

By: Rafael Medoff

4.36

Format: 408 pages, Hardcover

Based on recently discovered documents, The Jews Should Keep Quiet reassesses the hows and whys beh… read more

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  • holocaust
  • history
  • judaism
  • world war ii
  • nonfiction
  • judaica
Cover of The Italian Executioners: The Genocide of the Jews of Italy by Simon Levis Sullam

16. The Italian Executioners: The Genocide of the Jews of Italy

By: Simon Levis Sullam

3.90

Format: 208 pages, Hardcover

A gripping revisionist history that shows how ordinary Italians played a central role in the genoci… read more

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  • italy
  • holocaust
  • history
  • judaism
  • war
  • world war ii
  • nonfiction
  • european history
  • adult
  • judaica

11 Top nonfiction books like The Italian Executioners: The Genocide of the Jews of Italy by Simon Levis Sullam

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Mark Rotella , Carlo Levi , Frances Frenaye

4.11

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David Foster Wallace

4.15

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The Drowned and the Saved

Primo Levi , R. Rosenthal

4.43

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Debt: The First 5,000 Years

David Graeber

3.61

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State of Emergency: The Way We Were: Britain, 1970-1974

Dominic Sandbrook

4.34

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Politics On the Edge: A Memoir From Within

Rory Stewart

4.36

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Unruly: The Ridiculous History of England's Kings and Queens

David Mitchell

4.16

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The Restless Republic: Britain Without a Crown

Anna Keay

4.39

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