8 best-selling war books like Born Survivors by Wendy Holden

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Born Survivors

By: Wendy Holden

3.91

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

The Nazis murdered their husbands but concentration camp prisoners Priska, Rachel, and Anka would n…

If you liked the war plot in Born Survivors by Wendy Holden , here is a list of 8 books like this:

Cover of War! What Is It Good For?: Conflict and the Progress of Civilization from Primates to Robots by Ian Morris

1. War! What Is It Good For?: Conflict and the Progress of Civilization from Primates to Robots

By: Ian Morris

3.94

Format: 512 pages, Hardcover

A powerful and provocative exploration of how war has changed our society―for the better "War! . . … read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
  • war
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2. War Brothers: The Graphic Novel

By: Sharon E. McKay , Daniel LaFrance

3.91

Format: None pages, Hardcover

This is the graphic novel edition of Sharon McKay's novel set in Uganda, where Joseph Kony's Lord's… read more

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  • war
Cover of Remembering Whitney: My Story of Love, Loss, and the Night the Music Stopped by Lisa Dickey, Cissy Houston

3. Remembering Whitney: My Story of Love, Loss, and the Night the Music Stopped

By: Lisa Dickey , Cissy Houston

4.43

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

On the eve of the 2012 Grammy Awards, the world learned of a stunning tragedy: Whitney Houston, unq… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • biography
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4. The Autobiography of Malcolm X

By: Alex Haley , Malcolm X

4.36

Format: 466 pages, Mass Market Paperback

Alternate cover for ISBN 9780345350688 Through a life of passion and struggle, Malcolm X became … read more

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  • history
  • biography
  • nonfiction
"We all like chicken"

-Alex Haley, The Autobiography of Malcolm X

"كانت حياتي سلسة من التحولات"

-Alex Haley, The Autobiography of Malcolm X

"لا يدرك الناس أن كتابا واحدا قد يغير حياة انسان"

-Alex Haley, The Autobiography of Malcolm X

"I Used the Word 'Negro' and I was Firmly Corrected"

-Alex Haley, The Autobiography of Malcolm X

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5. Yellow Star

By: Jennifer Roy

4.00

Format: 45 pages, Hardcover

The niece of Syvia Perlmutter, one of only twelve child survivors of the Lodz ghetto in Poland, sha… read more

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  • world war ii
  • historical
  • war
  • holocaust
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6. Born Survivors

By: Wendy Holden

3.91

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

The Nazis murdered their husbands but concentration camp prisoners Priska, Rachel, and Anka would n… read more

Similar categories in Wendy Holden's Born Survivors book and Wendy Holden's Born Survivors

  • history
  • biography
  • historical
  • war
  • world war ii
  • nonfiction
  • holocaust
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7. The Fire Next Time

By: James Baldwin

3.54

Format: None pages, Paperback

A national bestseller when it first appeared in 1963, The Fire Next Timegalvanized the nation and g… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history

8. Africa's Child (Dancing Soul Trilogy Book 1)

By: Maria Nhambu

3.98

Format: 296 pages,

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9. Mengeleho dievča

By: None , Veronika Homolová Tóthová

3.85

Format: 128 pages, Hardcover

Strhujuce spomienky zeny, ktora dokazala nemozne! ,,Kazdy vecer, ked myslim na svojich drahych, kto… read more

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10. The Face of War

By: Martha Gellhorn

2.96

Format: None pages,

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11. The Souls of Black Folk

By: W.E.B. Du Bois , None , None

3.62

Format: 208 pages, Paperback

William Edward Burghardt Du Bois (1868-1963) is the greatest of African American intellectuals--a s… read more

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12. Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America

By: Ibram X. Kendi

4.54

Format: 592 pages, Hardcover

In this deeply researched and fast-moving narrative, Kendi chronicles the entire story of anti-Blac… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
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13. The Beauty and the Sorrow: An Intimate History of the First World War

By: Peter Englund , Peter Graves

4.17

Format: 532 pages, Hardcover

Four devastating years told by twenty eyewitnesses showing not just what the First World War was, b… read more

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  • history
  • biography
  • historical
  • war
  • nonfiction
"Війна — гарне видовище з точки зору генералів, журналістів та вчених."

-Peter Englund, The Beauty and the Sorrow: An Intimate History of the First World War

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14. A Gracious Enemy & After the War Volume Two

By: Michael G. Kramer

4.29

Format: 300 pages, Kindle Edition

This book covers the things I was forced to leave out of "A Gracious Enemy & After the War Volume O… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
  • war
Cover of Diplomats & Admirals: From Failed Negotiations and Tragic Misjudgments to Powerful Leaders and Heroic Deeds, the Untold Story of the Pacific War from Pearl Harbor to Midway by Dale A. Jenkins

15. Diplomats & Admirals: From Failed Negotiations and Tragic Misjudgments to Powerful Leaders and Heroic Deeds, the Untold Story of the Pacific War from Pearl Harbor to Midway

By: Dale A. Jenkins

4.30

Format: 402 pages, Kindle Edition

WAS THE JAPANESE ATTACK ON PEARL HARBOR INEVITABLE? It’s November 1941. Japan and the US are te… read more

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  • world war ii
  • nonfiction
  • history
  • war
"During the Fireside Chats, half the country tuned in on their radios, and it was said that on hot summer nights when people had their windows open, one could walk through the residential downtown of …"

-Dale A. Jenkins, Diplomats & Admirals: From Failed Negotiations and Tragic Misjudgments to Powerful Leaders and Heroic Deeds, the Untold Story of the Pacific War from Pearl Harbor to Midway

"Roosevelt was a genius at mass communications, and his speechwriters deferred to his reviews of their drafts, not so much because he was the president, but because when a text required the perfect wo…"

-Dale A. Jenkins, Diplomats & Admirals: From Failed Negotiations and Tragic Misjudgments to Powerful Leaders and Heroic Deeds, the Untold Story of the Pacific War from Pearl Harbor to Midway

"In 1941, as the United States faced the threat of another horrific war, President Franklin D. Roosevelt was leading the nation from a wheelchair. Struck down by polio at age thirty-nine, he rehabilit…"

-Dale A. Jenkins, Diplomats & Admirals: From Failed Negotiations and Tragic Misjudgments to Powerful Leaders and Heroic Deeds, the Untold Story of the Pacific War from Pearl Harbor to Midway

"Back in Washington, alone in the late afternoon of December 7, a chastened Franklin Roosevelt considered the situation.  He may have wondered how things had gone so terribly wrong.  But what might ha…"

-Dale A. Jenkins, Diplomats & Admirals: From Failed Negotiations and Tragic Misjudgments to Powerful Leaders and Heroic Deeds, the Untold Story of the Pacific War from Pearl Harbor to Midway

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16. Who Has Buried the Dead?: From Stalin to Putin … The last great secret of World War Two

By: K.G.E. Konkel

4.32

Format: 440 pages, Kindle Edition

The Second World War was fought not only on the front lines but also in secrets, some of which have… read more

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"The terrified men did not move. Then Nadia Fedin did something instinctive; she drew her Nagant revolver and fired three short bursts into the head of the nearest soldier. Stepan Ivanovich’s skull bu…"

-K.G.E. Konkel, Who Has Buried the Dead?: From Stalin to Putin … The last great secret of World War Two

"Outside, beyond the vast red bricked labyrinth of Kremlin walls, a humid night ensnarled the Soviet capital in its spell. Yet here in the womb-like private cinema Josef Stalin sat, eyes transfixed on…"

-K.G.E. Konkel, Who Has Buried the Dead?: From Stalin to Putin … The last great secret of World War Two

"Fedin laughed outright, a grim, calculating gesture as hard and unfeeling as cold steel. “Twenty million Russians have been slaughtered by the Fascists in the last six years..... Always remember this…"

-K.G.E. Konkel, Who Has Buried the Dead?: From Stalin to Putin … The last great secret of World War Two

"They came for him near midnight, seven hard-faced men arriving simultaneously in a matching set of Zis 101s, the black-lacquered saloon car so shamelessly modeled on the American Buick Roadmaster, an…"

-K.G.E. Konkel, Who Has Buried the Dead?: From Stalin to Putin … The last great secret of World War Two

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17. Frederick Douglass: Prophet of Freedom

By: David W. Blight

4.15

Format: 888 pages, Hardcover

As a young man, Frederick Douglass (1818–1895) escaped from slavery in Baltimore, Maryland. He was … read more

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  • history
  • biography
  • nonfiction
"Douglass told white northern voters that 'The blood of the slave is on your garments. You have said that slavery is better than freedom. That war is better than peace. And that cruelty is better than…"

-David W. Blight, Frederick Douglass: Prophet of Freedom

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18. The Twins of Auschwitz

By: Eva Mozes Kor

4.22

Format: 240 pages, Paperback

The Nazis spared their lives because they were twins. In the summer of 1944, Eva Mozes Kor and h… read more

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  • history
  • biography
  • historical
  • war
  • world war ii
  • nonfiction
  • holocaust
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19. How to Be an Antiracist

By: Ibram X. Kendi

4.37

Format: 305 pages, Hardcover

Ibram X. Kendi's concept of antiracism reenergizes and reshapes the conversation about racial justi… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
"Racist"

-Ibram X. Kendi, How to Be an Antiracist

"I use “anticapitalist"

-Ibram X. Kendi, How to Be an Antiracist

"Internalized racism is the real Black on Black crime."

-Ibram X. Kendi, How to Be an Antiracist

"But what was the difference between Ebonics and so-called “standard"

-Ibram X. Kendi, How to Be an Antiracist

Cover of I'm Still Here: Black Dignity in a World Made for Whiteness by Austin Channing Brown

20. I'm Still Here: Black Dignity in a World Made for Whiteness

By: Austin Channing Brown

4.38

Format: 185 pages, Hardcover

From a powerful new voice on racial justice, an eye-opening account of growing up Black, Christian,… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • biography
"I am not a priest for the white soul."

-Austin Channing Brown, I'm Still Here: Black Dignity in a World Made for Whiteness

"Rare is the ministry praying that they would be worthy of the giftedness of Black minds and hearts."

-Austin Channing Brown, I'm Still Here: Black Dignity in a World Made for Whiteness

"This is the shadow of hope. Knowing that we may never see the realization of our dreams, and yet still showing up."

-Austin Channing Brown, I'm Still Here: Black Dignity in a World Made for Whiteness

"Reconciliation is the pursuit of the impossible - and upside-down world where those who are powerful have relinquished that power to the margins"

-Austin Channing Brown, I'm Still Here: Black Dignity in a World Made for Whiteness

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21. So You Want to Talk About Race

By: Ijeoma Oluo

4.49

Format: 248 pages, Hardcover

In this breakout book, Ijeoma Oluo explores the complex reality of today's racial landscape--from w… read more

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  • nonfiction
"Conversations on racism should never be about winning."

-Ijeoma Oluo, So You Want to Talk About Race

"Our humanity is worth a little discomfort, it's actually worth a lot of discomfort."

-Ijeoma Oluo, So You Want to Talk About Race

"Our police forces were created not to protect Americans of color, but to control Americans of color."

-Ijeoma Oluo, So You Want to Talk About Race

"When we say ‘Asian American’ we are talking about so much more than can be fit in a single stereotype."

-Ijeoma Oluo, So You Want to Talk About Race

11 best-selling history books like Born Survivors by Wendy Holden

Transform Your Habits

War! What Is It Good For?: Conflict and the Progress of Civilization from Primates to Robots

Ian Morris

3.94

Transform Your Habits

The Autobiography of Malcolm X

Alex Haley , Malcolm X

4.36

Transform Your Habits

Born Survivors

Wendy Holden

3.91

Transform Your Habits

The Fire Next Time

James Baldwin

3.54

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7 Top historical fiction books like War Brothers: The Graphic Novel by Sharon E. McKay, Daniel LaFrance

Transform Your Habits

The Siege of Krishnapur (Empire Trilogy, #2)

Pankaj Mishra , J.G. Farrell

3.93

Transform Your Habits

Shadow

Michael Morpurgo , Christine Birmingham

4.22

Transform Your Habits

Once an Eagle

Anton Myrer

4.39

Transform Your Habits

War Brothers: The Graphic Novel

Sharon E. McKay , Daniel LaFrance

3.91

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