7 must-read germany books like The Jewish Enemy: Nazi Propaganda During World War II and the Holocaust by Jeffrey Herf

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The Jewish Enemy: Nazi Propaganda During World War II and the Holocaust

By: Jeffrey Herf

3.79

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

The sheer magnitude of the Holocaust has commanded our attention for the past sixty years. The exte…

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1. Stalin: Paradoxes of Power, 1878-1928

By: Stephen Kotkin

3.97

Format: 976 pages, Hardcover

A magnificent new biography that revolutionizes our understanding of Stalin and his world It has th… read more

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  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
"Russia was a genuine great power, but with a tragic flaw. Its vicious, archaic autocracy had to be emasculated for any type of better system to emerge. Unmodern in principle, let alone in practice, t…"

-Stephen Kotkin, Stalin: Paradoxes of Power, 1878-1928

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2. Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business

By: Neil Postman , Andrew Postman

4.15

Format: 184 pages, Paperback

Television has conditioned us to tolerate visually entertaining material measured out in spoonfuls … read more

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  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
"The written word endures, the spoken word disappears"

-Neil Postman, Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business

"We rarely talk about television, only about what’s on television"

-Neil Postman, Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business

"Writing is defined as "a conversation with no one and yet with everyone."

-Neil Postman, Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business

"With television, we vault ourselves into a continuous, incoherent present."

-Neil Postman, Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business

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3. Killing for Coal: America's Deadliest Labor War

By: Thomas G. Andrews

3.94

Format: 386 pages, Hardcover

On a spring morning in 1914, in the stark foothills of southern Colorado, members of the United Mi… read more

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  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
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4. Nazi Germany and the Jews: The Years of Persecution, 1933-1939

By: Saul Friedländer

4.14

Format: 439 pages, Paperback

A great historian crowns a lifetime of thought and research by answering a question that has haunte… read more

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  • history
  • germany
  • war
  • world war ii
  • nonfiction
  • holocaust
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5. Death with Interruptions

By: Margaret Jull Costa , José Saramago

4.00

Format: 238 pages, Hardcover

Nobel Prize-winner Jose Saramago's brilliant new novel poses the question what happens when the gri… read more

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"Al día siguiente no murió nadie."

-Margaret Jull Costa, Death with Interruptions

"Eu sunt moartea,restul nu e nimic."

-Margaret Jull Costa, Death with Interruptions

"La muerte está enfadada. Es el momento de sacarle la lengua."

-Margaret Jull Costa, Death with Interruptions

"Sin muerte no hay resurrección, y sin resurrección no hay iglesia"

-Margaret Jull Costa, Death with Interruptions

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6. Rethinking the Holocaust

By: Yehuda Bauer

3.99

Format: 352 pages, Paperback

Yehuda Bauer, one of the world’s premier historians of the Holocaust, here presents an insightful o… read more

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  • history
  • war
  • world war ii
  • religion
  • nonfiction
  • holocaust
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7. The Origins of the Final Solution: The Evolution of Nazi Jewish Policy, September 1939-March 1942

By: Christopher R. Browning , None

3.77

Format: 341 pages, Paperback

Published by the University of Nebraska Press, Lincoln, and Yad Vashem, Jerusalem In 1939, the Nazi… read more

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  • history
  • germany
  • war
  • world war ii
  • nonfiction
  • holocaust
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8. Infidel

By: Ayaan Hirsi Ali

3.84

Format: None pages, Hardcover

One of today's most admired and controversial political figures, Ayaan Hirsi Ali burst into interna… read more

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  • politics
  • religion
  • nonfiction
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9. Origins of Nazi Genocide

By: Henry Friedlander

3.62

Format: 128 pages, Paperback

Tracing the rise of racist and eugenic ideologies, Henry Friedlanderexplores in chilling detail how… read more

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  • world war ii
  • nonfiction
  • history
  • holocaust
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10. Beowulf

By: Unknown , Seamus Heaney

3.49

Format: 256 pages, Paperback

Composed toward the end of the first millennium, Beowulf is the elegiac narrative of the adventures… read more

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"Fate goes ever as fate must."

-Unknown, Beowulf

"Fate will unwind as it must!"

-Unknown, Beowulf

"Let whoever can win glory before death."

-Unknown, Beowulf

"We all know a boy can't daddy until his daddy's dead."

-Unknown, Beowulf

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11. The End of the Holocaust

By: Alvin H. Rosenfeld

3.90

Format: 49 pages, Hardcover

In this provocative work, Alvin H. Rosenfeld contends that the proliferation of books, films, telev… read more

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  • history
  • nonfiction
  • holocaust
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12. Bloodlands: Europe Between Hitler and Stalin

By: Timothy Snyder

4.38

Format: 524 pages, Hardcover

Americans call the Second World War “The Good War.” But before it even began, America’s wartime al… read more

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  • history
  • politics
  • germany
  • war
  • world war ii
  • nonfiction
  • holocaust
"Now we will live!"

-Timothy Snyder, Bloodlands: Europe Between Hitler and Stalin

"Closure is a false harmony, a siren song masquerading as a swan song."

-Timothy Snyder, Bloodlands: Europe Between Hitler and Stalin

"The vast majority of Jews killed in the Holocaust never saw a concentration camp."

-Timothy Snyder, Bloodlands: Europe Between Hitler and Stalin

"When meaning is drawn from killing, the risk is that more killing would bring about more meaning."

-Timothy Snyder, Bloodlands: Europe Between Hitler and Stalin

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13. Ordinary Men: Reserve Police Battalion 101 and the Final Solution in Poland

By: Christopher R. Browning

4.10

Format: 271 pages, Paperback

Christopher R. Browning’s shocking account of how a unit of average middle-aged Germans became the … read more

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  • history
  • politics
  • germany
  • war
  • world war ii
  • nonfiction
  • holocaust
"The behavior of any human being is, of course, a very complex phenomenon, and the historian who attempts to "explain" it is indulging in a certain arrogance."

-Christopher R. Browning, Ordinary Men: Reserve Police Battalion 101 and the Final Solution in Poland

"This story of ordinary men is not the story of all men. The reserve policemen faced choices, and most of them committed terrible deeds. But those who killed cannot be absolved by the notion that anyo…"

-Christopher R. Browning, Ordinary Men: Reserve Police Battalion 101 and the Final Solution in Poland

"What, then, is one to conclude? Most of all, one comes away from the story of Reserve Police Battalion 101 with great unease. This story of ordinary men is not the story of all men. The reserve polic…"

-Christopher R. Browning, Ordinary Men: Reserve Police Battalion 101 and the Final Solution in Poland

"At the same time, however, the collective behavior of Reserve Police Battalion 101 has deeply disturbing implications. There are many societies afflicted by traditions of racism and caught in the sie…"

-Christopher R. Browning, Ordinary Men: Reserve Police Battalion 101 and the Final Solution in Poland

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14. The Death of Ivan Ilych

By: Leo Tolstoy , Aylmer Maude

4.13

Format: 86 pages, Paperback

Hailed as one of the world's supreme masterpieces on the subject of death and dying, The Death of I… read more

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"If you look for the working classes in fiction, and especially English fiction, all you find is a hole."

-Leo Tolstoy, The Death of Ivan Ilych

"And the further he departed from childhood and the nearer he came to the present the more worthless and doubtful were the joys."

-Leo Tolstoy, The Death of Ivan Ilych

"In the depths of his heart he knew that he was dying but, so far from growing used to the idea, he simply did not and could not grasp it."

-Leo Tolstoy, The Death of Ivan Ilych

"It can't be that life is so senseless and horrible. But if it really has been so horrible and senseless, why must I die and die in agony? There is something wrong!"

-Leo Tolstoy, The Death of Ivan Ilych

15. Neighbors: The Destruction of the Jewish Community in Jedwabne, Poland

By: Jan Tomasz Gross

4.25

Format: 432 pages, Paperback

On a summer day in 1941 in Nazi-occupied Poland, half of the town of Jedwabne brutally murdered the… read more

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16. 2666

By: Roberto Bolaño

4.21

Format: 1128 pages, Paperback

A cuatro profesores de literatura, Pelletier, Morini, Espinoza y Norton, los une su fascinación por… read more

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"Nothing is ever behind us."

-Roberto Bolaño, 2666

"Reading is never a waste of time."

-Roberto Bolaño, 2666

"Every hundred feet the world changes"

-Roberto Bolaño, 2666

"The sky, at sunset, looked like a carnivorous flower."

-Roberto Bolaño, 2666

17. The Myth of Seneca Falls: Memory and the Women's Suffrage Movement, 1848-1898

By: None

4.30

Format: 503 pages, Hardcover

The story of how the women's rights movement began at the Seneca Falls convention of 1848 is a cher… read more

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18. The Butcher's Tale: Murder and Anti-Semitism in a German Town

By: Helmut Walser Smith

4.03

Format: None pages, Paperback

In 1900, in a small Prussian town, a young boy was found murdered, his body dismembered, the blood … read more

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19. Hitler's American Model: The United States and the Making of Nazi Race Law

By: None

4.67

Format: 40 pages, Hardcover

Nazism triumphed in Germany during the high era of Jim Crow laws in the United States. Did the Amer… read more

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20. ¡Que viva la música!

By: Andrés Caicedo

3.68

Format: 113 pages,

Andres Caicedo se habia propuesto morir joven y dejar obra; asi lo hizo. !Que viva la musica!fue la… read more

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21. Three New Deals: Reflections on Roosevelt's America, Mussolini's Italy, and Hitler's Germany, 1933-1939

By: Wolfgang Schivelbusch

3.75

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

From a world-renowned cultural historian, an original look at the hidden commonalities among Fascis… read more

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22. Chaos: Charles Manson, the CIA, and the Secret History of the Sixties

By: Tom O'Neill

4.03

Format: 504 pages, Kindle Edition

A journalist's twenty-year obsession with the Manson murders brings shocking revelations about the … read more

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  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
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23. Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea

By: Barbara Demick

4.45

Format: 338 pages, Kindle Edition

Nothing to Envy follows the lives of six North Koreans over fifteen years—a chaotic period that saw… read more

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  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
"...the strength of the regime came from its ability to isolate its own citizens completely."

-Barbara Demick, Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea

"In North Korea, you don’t own your own home; you are merely awarded the right to live there."

-Barbara Demick, Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea

"He would wait hours for her, maybe two or three. It didn’t matter. The cadence of life is slower in North Korea. Nobody owned a watch."

-Barbara Demick, Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea

"Even in parts of the showcase capital of Pyongyang, you can stroll down the middle of a main street at night without being able to see the buildings on either side."

-Barbara Demick, Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea

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24. Little Eyes

By: Samanta Schweblin

3.60

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

A visionary novel about the collision of technology and play, horror and humanity, from a master of… read more

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"Regulation has nothing to do with setting standards; it meant putting rules in place that worked in favor of a few."

-Samanta Schweblin, Little Eyes

"The animal's camera was installed behind its eyes, and sometimes it spun around on the three wheels hidden in its base, moving forward or backward. Someone was controlling the creature from somewhere…"

-Samanta Schweblin, Little Eyes

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25. Stalin: The History and Critique of a Black Legend

By: Domenico Losurdo

4.39

Format: 353 pages, ebook

La figura di Stalin occupa una posizione centrale nella storia del Novecento. Dittatore sanguinario… read more

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  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
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26. Hitler: Downfall, 1939-45

By: Volker Ullrich

4.60

Format: 848 pages, Hardcover

In the summer of 1939 Hitler was at the zenith of his power. The Nazis had consolidated their autho… read more

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  • history
  • politics
  • germany
  • war
  • world war ii
  • nonfiction
  • holocaust
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27. Culture in Nazi Germany

By: Michael H. Kater

3.51

Format: 472 pages, Hardcover

A fresh and insightful history of how the German arts-and-letters scene was transformed under the N… read more

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  • history
  • politics
  • germany
  • world war ii
  • nonfiction
  • holocaust
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28. A Brief History of Fascist Lies

By: Federico Finchelstein

3.52

Format: 152 pages, Hardcover

"There is no better book on fascism's complex and vexed relationship with truth."––Jason Stanley, a… read more

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  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
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29. The Thirty-Year Genocide: Turkey’s Destruction of Its Christian Minorities, 1894–1924

By: Benny Morris

4.10

Format: 636 pages, Hardcover

A reappraisal of the giant massacres perpetrated by the Ottoman Empire, and then the Turkish Republ… read more

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  • history
  • politics
  • war
  • religion
  • nonfiction
"In his memoirs, Celal Bey recalled what it felt like to witness what were, in effect, death marches. “I was like a person sitting beside a river,"

-Benny Morris, The Thirty-Year Genocide: Turkey’s Destruction of Its Christian Minorities, 1894–1924

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30. Remembering the Holocaust: Generations, Witnessing and Place

By: Esther Jilovsky

4.20

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

An intriguing analysis of how place constructs memory and how memory constructs place, Remembering … read more

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31. The Jewish Enemy: Nazi Propaganda During World War II and the Holocaust

By: Jeffrey Herf

3.79

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

The sheer magnitude of the Holocaust has commanded our attention for the past sixty years. The exte… read more

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  • politics
  • germany
  • war
  • world war ii
  • religion
  • nonfiction
  • holocaust

18 Top history books like The Jewish Enemy: Nazi Propaganda During World War II and the Holocaust by Jeffrey Herf

Transform Your Habits

Stalin: Paradoxes of Power, 1878-1928

Stephen Kotkin

3.97

Transform Your Habits

Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business

Neil Postman , Andrew Postman

4.15

Transform Your Habits

Killing for Coal: America's Deadliest Labor War

Thomas G. Andrews

3.94

Transform Your Habits

Nazi Germany and the Jews: The Years of Persecution, 1933-1939

Saul Friedländer

4.14

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12 Top fiction books like 2666 by Roberto Bolaño

Transform Your Habits

Hopscotch

Julio Cortázar , Gregory Rabassa

4.20

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The Recognitions

William H. Gass , William Gaddis

4.20

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The Crying of Lot 49

Thomas Pynchon

3.69

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Underworld

Don DeLillo

4.81

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