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…
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1. 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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- philosophy
- nonfiction
- memoir
"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
2. Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil
By: Hannah Arendt
4.20
Format: 312 pages, Paperback
Originally appearing as a series of articles in The New Yorker, Hannah Arendt’s authoritative and s… read more
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- history
- war
- philosophy
- nonfiction
- holocaust
"Evil in the Third Reich had lost the quality by which most people recognize it—the quality of temptation."-Hannah Arendt, Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil
"During the war, the lie most effective with the whole of the German people was the slogan of “the battle of destiny for the German people"-Hannah Arendt, Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil
"In the Third Reich evil lost its distinctive characteristic by which most people had until then recognized it. The Nazis redefined it as a civil norm."-Hannah Arendt, Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil
"It is quite gratifying to feel guilty if you haven't done anything wrong: how noble! Whereas it is rather hard and certainly depressing to admit guilt and to repent."-Hannah Arendt, Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil
3. 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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- history
- biography
- memoir
- war
- philosophy
- nonfiction
- holocaust
4. Zeno's Conscience
By: Italo Svevo , William Weaver
4.25
Format: None pages, Paperback
Long hailed as a seminal work of modernism in the tradition of Joyce and Kafka, and now available i… read more
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5. La morte della Pizia
By: Friedrich Dürrenmatt , Renata Colorni
4.27
Format: 24 pages, Paperback
<>. Con queste parole spigolose e beffarde ha inizio La morte della Piziae subito il racconto inves… read more
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6. Fontamara
By: Ignazio Silone
4.04
Format: 288 pages, Paperback
Fontamara fu pubblicato a Zurigo nel 1933. Ambientato in un paesino abruzzese, Fontamara appunto, r… read more
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7. Una questione privata
By: Beppe Fenoglio
3.79
Format: 129 pages, Paperback
Nelle Langhe, durante la guerra partigiana, Milton (quasi una controfigura di Fenoglio stesso), è u… read more
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- war
"Non poteva più vivere senza sapere e, soprattutto, non poteva morire senza sapere, in un'epoca in cui i ragazzi come lui erano chiamati più a morire che a vivere. Avrebbe rinunciato a tutto per quell…"-Beppe Fenoglio, Una questione privata
"Scattò tutta la testa verso di lui e disse: «Come comincerai la tua prossima lettera? Fulvia dannazione?» Lui aveva scosso la testa, frusciando i capelli contro la corteccia del ciliegio. Fulvia si a…"-Beppe Fenoglio, Una questione privata
"Era successo proprio all’altezza dell’ultimo ciliegio. Lei aveva attraversato il vialetto ed era entrata nel prato oltre i ciliegi. Si era sdraiata, sebbene vestisse di bianco e l’erba non fosse più …"-Beppe Fenoglio, Una questione privata
8. Il giorno della civetta
By: Leonardo Sciascia
3.96
Format: 425 pages,
Di questo romanzo breve sulla mafia, apparso per la prima volta nel 1961, ha scritto Leonardo Scias… read more
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9. Il sentiero dei nidi di ragno
By: Italo Calvino
3.71
Format: 192 pages, Paperback
Pubblicato nel 1947, Il sentiero dei nidi di ragno e il romanzo d'esordio di Italo Calvino. Protago… read more
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- war
10. Into That Darkness: An Examination of Conscience
By: Gitta Sereny
3.00
Format: 144 pages, Paperback
Based on 70 hours of interviews with Franz Stangl, commandant of Treblinka (the largest of the exte… read more
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- history
- biography
- war
- nonfiction
- holocaust
11. L'inferno di Treblinka
By: Vasily Grossman , Claudia Zonghetti
4.25
Format: None pages, Paperback
La piu terribile fabbrica della morte nazista nel folgorante, esemplare reportage - fondato su test… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
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12. Trilogia del ritorno: L'amico ritrovato; Un'anima non vile; Niente resurrezioni, per favore
By: Fred Uhlman , Elena Bona , Bruno Armando
3.99
Format: None pages, Paperback
I romanzi di questa "Trilogia" nascono dalla tragedia di chi fu allontanato dal proprio paese in no… read more
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- war
13. La luna e i falò
By: Cesare Pavese , Gian Luigi Beccaria
4.06
Format: 205 pages, Paperback
Pubblicato nell'aprile del 1950 e considerato dalla critica il libro piu bello di Pavese, "La luna … read more
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14. La casa in collina
By: Cesare Pavese
4.70
Format: 84 pages,
Il momento forse piu alto della maturita dello scrittore Cesare Pavese: la storia di una solitudine… read more
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15. Henry IV
By: Tom Stoppard , Luigi Pirandello
3.29
Format: None pages, Paperback
In this meeting of two noted playwrights, Tom Stoppard has made a new version of Luigi Pirandello's… read more
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16. Con gli occhi chiusi
By: Luigi Pirandello , Federigo Tozzi
4.07
Format: 71 pages, Paperback
Spunti autobiografici conferiscono al romanzo una sorta di vigoroso e talvolta tumultuoso lirismo, … read more
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17. Gli indifferenti
By: Alberto Moravia , Eileen Romano , Edoardo Sanguineti , Tonino Tornitore
3.88
Format: 373 pages,
Gli indifferentie il primo romanzo scritto da Moravia appena diciottenne e pubblicato nel 1929. Tem… read more
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18. At the Mind's Limits: Contemplations by a Survivor on Auschwitz and Its Realities
By: Jean Améry , None , None
4.18
Format: None pages, Paperback
"These are pages that one reads with almost physical pain...all the way to its stoic conclusion." -… read more
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19. 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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20. 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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- 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
21. 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
