9 must-read historical fiction books like The Train Journey: Transit, Captivity, and Witnessing in the Holocaust (War and Genocide Book 13) by Simone Gigliotti

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The Train Journey: Transit, Captivity, and Witnessing in the Holocaust (War and Genocide Book 13)

By: Simone Gigliotti

4.03

Format: 405 pages, Kindle Edition

Deportations by train were critical in the Nazis’ genocidal vision of the “Final Solution of the Je…

If you liked the historical fiction plot in The Train Journey: Transit, Captivity, and Witnessing in the Holocaust (War and Genocide Book 13) by Simone Gigliotti , here is a list of 9 books like this:

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1. The Deadly Dozen: America's 12 Worst Serial Killers

By: Robert Keller

3.75

Format: 179 pages, Kindle Edition

The Shocking True Crime Stories of the 12 Worst Serial Killers in American HistoryDavid Berkowitz: … read more

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2. The Gulag Archipelago, 1918-1956: An Experiment in Literary Investigation, Books I-II

By: None , Leon Trotsky , Thomas P. Whitney , Georgi Plekhanov

4.60

Format: None pages, Mass Market Paperback

It is a question if any work of literature in our era other than The Divine Comedyis commensurate w… read more

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3. With the Old Breed: At Peleliu and Okinawa

By: Paul Fussell , Eugene B. Sledge

4.47

Format: 326 pages, Paperback

In his own book, Wartime, Paul Fussell called With the Old Breed "one of the finest memoirs to emer… read more

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"Kick him in the balls before he kicks you in yours"

-Paul Fussell, With the Old Breed: At Peleliu and Okinawa

"Your soul may belong to Jesus, but your ass belongs to the marines."

-Paul Fussell, With the Old Breed: At Peleliu and Okinawa

"War is such self-defeating, organized madness the way it destroys a nation's best."

-Paul Fussell, With the Old Breed: At Peleliu and Okinawa

"Would the war dehumanize me so that I, too, could "field trip" enemy dead with such nonchalance?"

-Paul Fussell, With the Old Breed: At Peleliu and Okinawa

4. The Real Odessa: How Peron Brought the Nazi War Criminals to Argentina

By: None

4.16

Format: None pages, Paperback

Drawing on American and European intelligence documents, Uki Goni shows how from 1946 onward a Nazi… read more

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5. Dispatches: Stories from War Zones, Police States and Other Hellholes

By: Michael J. Totten

3.55

Format: 320 pages,

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6. Adolf Hitler: A Captivating Guide to the Life of the Führer of Nazi Germany (The Second World War)

By: Captivating History

3.91

Format: 82 pages, Kindle Edition

Explore the Rise of Adolf HitlerFree History BONUS Inside!Was Hitler, as Ian Kershaw asked, a natur… read more

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7. The Stable Boy of Auschwitz

By: Henry Oster

4.53

Format: 272 pages, Paperback

This heart-wrenching memoir from a Holocaust survivor reveals the terrible realities of life in Aus… read more

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  • holocaust
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8. The Redhead of Auschwitz: A True Story

By: Nechama Birnbaum

4.56

Format: 280 pages, Paperback

Rosie was always told her red hair was a curse, but she never believed it. She often dreamed what i… read more

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  • holocaust
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9. The Room in the Attic

By: Louise Douglas

4.32

Format: 388 pages, Kindle Edition

A child who does not know her name… In 1903 fishermen find a wrecked boat containing a woman, wh… read more

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  • historical fiction
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10. The Auschwitz Protocol (The Sikora Files #1)

By: Jack Carnegie

4.48

Format: None pages, Kindle Edition

Alternate cover edition of ASIN B086H33G7X Retired US Detective Emil Janowitz lied to his wife f… read more

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  • holocaust
  • historical fiction
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11. When the World Goes Quiet

By: Gian Sardar

4.32

Format: 315 pages, Kindle Edition

In the final days of World War I, an aspiring artist’s courageous journey is just beginning in a po… read more

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  • historical fiction
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12. Auschwitz Prisoner 31119: The Shocking True Story of a World War II Holocaust Survivor

By: Yitzchak Borowsky

3.88

Format: 249 pages, Kindle Edition

She was liberated from hell on Earth. But will she ever be free from Auschwitz?Poland, 1943. Dark s… read more

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  • holocaust
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13. A Harvest of Secrets

By: Roland Merullo

4.24

Format: 268 pages, Kindle Edition

From the bestselling author of From These Broken Streets comes a sweeping novel of love, resistance… read more

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  • historical fiction
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14. Where the Desert Meets the Sea

By: Werner Sonne

3.77

Format: 258 pages, Kindle Edition

An illuminating and heart-stirring historical novel set in post-WWII Palestine, where the boundarie… read more

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  • historical fiction
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15. Life After the Third Reich: The Struggle to Rise from the Nazi Ruins

By: Paul Roland

4.04

Format: 196 pages, Kindle Edition

In 1945, Hitler committed suicide in his bunker as the Third Reich collapsed and the Red Army swamp… read more

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16. No Place To Lay My Head: A Memoir of the Eastern Front in World War Two (Remarkable Survivors from World War Two)

By: Anthony Richardson

4.22

Format: 314 pages, Kindle Edition

The eye-opening account of the forgotten and tumultuous Eastern Front in World War Two.Perfect for … read more

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17. The Night Train to Berlin

By: Melanie Hudson

4.01

Format: 400 pages, Paperback

A train journey into the past A love that echoes through time Paddington Station, present day… read more

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  • historical fiction
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18. Forever England

By: Katrina Nowak

4.04

Format: 540 pages, Kindle Edition

Naïve but determined, Captain Edward Eldridge refuses to ride out the war from the safety of headqu… read more

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  • historical fiction
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19. The Cottage: A True Haunted House Story

By: Jess Breitling

3.57

Format: 26 pages, Kindle Edition

When the Breitling family moves into a mountain cottage, they have no reason to believe there is an… read more

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20. Retriever Ransom (Pet Whisperer P.I. #10)

By: Molly Fitz

4.40

Format: 117 pages, Kindle Edition

When the mayor's golden retriever best friend goes missing under suspicious circumstances, Angie an… read more

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21. SAS: Body Count (The Wicked Will Perish, #1)

By: Anthony Vincent Bruno

4.08

Format: 267 pages, Kindle Edition

Do unto others before they do it to you. Three disillusioned SAS Special Forces soldiers return to … read more

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22. Desperate Journey: Escape from Burma in 1942, through 900 miles of arduous, Japanese-occupied territory

By: Francis Clifford

4.48

Format: None pages, Kindle Edition

“This is a story of escape; a true account of how a dwindling group of soldiers made their way to s… read more

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23. The U.S. Marines on Iwo Jima

By: Alvin M. Josephy

4.47

Format: 166 pages, Kindle Edition

“We had to take that island to speed the end of the war against Japan.” But the capture of Iwo Jim… read more

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24. Dark Loch: The Highland Waters Hold A Grim Secret In This Scottish Dark Psychological Thriller

By: Keddie Hughes

3.90

Format: 236 pages, Kindle Edition

Dark Loch is a dark Scottish crime novel set in the atmospheric setting of St Andrews and the haunt… read more

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25. The Train Journey: Transit, Captivity, and Witnessing in the Holocaust (War and Genocide Book 13)

By: Simone Gigliotti

4.03

Format: 405 pages, Kindle Edition

Deportations by train were critical in the Nazis’ genocidal vision of the “Final Solution of the Je… read more

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  • holocaust
  • historical fiction
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26. VIETNAM WARHORSE: A HUEY PILOTS MEMOIRS: TOLD BY A TWO-TOUR US ARMY IROQUOIS ('HUEY') PILOT DURING THE VIETNAM WAR. A TRIBUTE TO THE MANY WHO FLEW THIS WONDERFUL WARHORSE.

By: Richard Guay

4.27

Format: 258 pages, Kindle Edition

Have you ever wanted to pull up the curtain and look at what the US Army was really like during the… read more

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27. Barrack Four: A Holocaust Story (Book 2 of the Barracks Series)

By: Elyse Hoffman

4.59

Format: None pages, Kindle Edition

The past has a funny way of coming back to haunt you... Vilém Rehor works at a former concentrat… read more

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28. Stalin, Japan, and the Struggle for Supremacy over China, 1894–1945 (Routledge Open History)

By: Hiroaki Kuromiya

3.25

Format: 923 pages, Kindle Edition

Stalin was a master of deception, disinformation, and camouflage, by means of which he gained supre… read more

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29. Empire's Violent End: Comparing Dutch, British, and French Wars of Decolonization, 1945–1962

By: Thijs Brocades Zaalberg

3.74

Format: 380 pages, Kindle Edition

In Empire's Violent End, Thijs Brocades Zaalberg and Bart Luttikhuis, along with expert contributor… read more

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The Stable Boy of Auschwitz

Henry Oster

4.53

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The Redhead of Auschwitz: A True Story

Nechama Birnbaum

4.56

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Jack Carnegie

4.48

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Auschwitz Prisoner 31119: The Shocking True Story of a World War II Holocaust Survivor

Yitzchak Borowsky

3.88

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Steve Weddle

3.41

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Christopher Reich

4.26

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Suzanne Redfearn

4.47

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Mary Ellen Taylor

4.30

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