5 Top memoir books like Belonging: A German Reckons with History and Home by Nora Krug

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Belonging: A German Reckons with History and Home

By: Nora Krug

4.32

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

„Kaip žinoti, kas esi, jei nesupranti, iš kur ateini?“ – klausia iliustratorė ir rašytoja Nora Krug…

"Here was the evidence of our collective guilt."

-Nora Krug, Belonging: A German Reckons with History and Home

"We struggled to understand the meaning of Heimat."

-Nora Krug, Belonging: A German Reckons with History and Home

"Whenever I traveled abroad as a teenager, my guilt traveled with me."

-Nora Krug, Belonging: A German Reckons with History and Home

"How do you know who you are, if you don't understand where you come from?"

-Nora Krug, Belonging: A German Reckons with History and Home

If you liked the memoir plot in Belonging: A German Reckons with History and Home by Nora Krug , here is a list of 5 books like this:

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1. Als ich ein kleiner Junge war

By: Erich Kästner

4.22

Format: 208 pages, Paperback

»Die Monate haben es eilig. Die Jahre haben es eiliger. Und die Jahrzehnte haben es am eiligsten. N… read more

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  • history
  • biography
  • memoir
  • germany
  • nonfiction
"Die Monate haben es eilig. Die Jahre haben es eiliger. Und die Jahrzehnte haben es am eiligsten. Nur die Erinnerungen habben Geduld mit uns. "

-Erich Kästner, Als ich ein kleiner Junge war

"Alt ist, was man vergessen hat. Und das Unvergeßliche war gestern. Der Maßtab ist nicht die Uhr, sondern der Wert. Und das Wertvollste, ob lustig oder traurig, ist die Kindheit. Vergeß das Unverglißl…"

-Erich Kästner, Als ich ein kleiner Junge war

"Ich war kein Lehrer, sondern ein Lerner. Ich wollte nicht lehren, sondern lernen. Ich hatte Lehrer werden wollen, um möglichst lange ein Schüler bleiben zu können. Ich wollte Neues, immer wieder Neue…"

-Erich Kästner, Als ich ein kleiner Junge war

"Ganz sicher aber haben mir die Kästners eine Familieneigenschaft in die Wiege gelegt [...]: die echte und unbelehrbare Abneigung vorm Reisen. Wir Kästners sind auf die weite Welt nicht sonderlich neu…"

-Erich Kästner, Als ich ein kleiner Junge war

Cover of Flying Couch: A Graphic Memoir by Amy Kurzweil

2. Flying Couch: A Graphic Memoir

By: Amy Kurzweil

3.50

Format: 224 pages, Paperback

Flying Couch, Amy Kurzweil’s debut, tells the stories of three unforgettable women. Amy weaves her … read more

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  • history
  • biography
  • memoir
  • graphic novels comics
  • graphic novels
  • comics
  • nonfiction
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3. The Property

By: Rutu Modan , Jessica Cohen

3.93

Format: 222 pages, Hardcover

After the death of her son, Regina Segal takes her granddaughter Mica to Warsaw, hoping to reclaim … read more

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  • graphic novels comics
  • graphic novels
  • comics
  • war
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4. How To Be Happy

By: Eleanor Davis

3.64

Format: 221 pages, Hardcover

Eleanor Davis's How to be Happy is the artist's first collection of graphic/literary short stories.… read more

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  • graphic novels comics
  • graphic novels
  • comics

5. Irmina

By: Barbara Yelin

3.86

Format: None pages, Hardcover

Die ehrgeizige Irmina reist Mitte der 1930er Jahre nach London, um eine Ausbildung zur Fremdsprache… read more

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  • graphic novels
  • germany
  • war
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6. Madgermanes

By: Birgit Weyhe

4.23

Format: 400 pages, Paperback

Von 1979 bis 1991 waren um die 20.000 Vertragsarbeiter aus Mosambik in der DDR beschaftigt. Ihr auf… read more

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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

7. 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

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

8. 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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9. Ducks: Two Years in the Oil Sands

By: Kate Beaton

4.41

Format: 430 pages, Hardcover

Celebrated cartoonist Kate Beaton vividly presents the untold story of Canada. Before there was … read more

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  • memoir
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  • graphic novels
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10. Belonging: A German Reckons with History and Home

By: Nora Krug

4.32

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

„Kaip žinoti, kas esi, jei nesupranti, iš kur ateini?“ – klausia iliustratorė ir rašytoja Nora Krug… read more

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  • history
  • biography
  • memoir
  • graphic novels comics
  • graphic novels
  • war
  • germany
  • world war ii
  • comics
  • nonfiction
"Here was the evidence of our collective guilt."

-Nora Krug, Belonging: A German Reckons with History and Home

"We struggled to understand the meaning of Heimat."

-Nora Krug, Belonging: A German Reckons with History and Home

"Whenever I traveled abroad as a teenager, my guilt traveled with me."

-Nora Krug, Belonging: A German Reckons with History and Home

"How do you know who you are, if you don't understand where you come from?"

-Nora Krug, Belonging: A German Reckons with History and Home

Cover of On Tyranny Graphic Edition: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century by Timothy Snyder

11. On Tyranny Graphic Edition: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century

By: Timothy Snyder

4.40

Format: 128 pages, Hardcover

A graphic edition of historian Timothy Snyder's bestselling book of lessons for surviving and resis… read more

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  • graphic novels comics
  • graphic novels
  • war
  • comics
  • nonfiction
"Якщо ніхто з нас не готовий загинути за свободу, усі ми загинемо під тиранією."

-Timothy Snyder, On Tyranny Graphic Edition: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century

"Люди, які запевняють вас, що безпека можлива лише коштом свободи, зазвичай хочуть забрати у вас і безпеку, і свободу."

-Timothy Snyder, On Tyranny Graphic Edition: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century

"Whoever can pierce your privacy can humiliate you and disrupt your relationships at will. No one (except perhaps a tyrant) has a private life that can survive public exposure by hostile directive."

-Timothy Snyder, On Tyranny Graphic Edition: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century

Cover of Sibiro haiku by Jurga Vilė

12. Sibiro haiku

By: Jurga Vilė

4.54

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

Algiukas svajoja palakioti po pasaulį su savo draugu žąsinu Martynu. Netrukus taip ir nutinka, tači… read more

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Cover of This Country: Searching for Home in (Very) Rural America by Navied Mahdavian

13. This Country: Searching for Home in (Very) Rural America

By: Navied Mahdavian

3.98

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

A gorgeously illustrated and written debut graphic memoir about belonging, identity, and making a h… read more

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Cover of The Three Escapes of Hannah Arendt: A Tyranny of Truth by Ken Krimstein

14. The Three Escapes of Hannah Arendt: A Tyranny of Truth

By: Ken Krimstein

3.92

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

For Persepolis and Logicomix fans, a New Yorker cartoonist's page-turning graphic biography of the … read more

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  • biography
  • graphic novels comics
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  • nonfiction
"For me, in the ashes, it’s not enough to describe what happened, but to focus unforgivingly on what actually happened, to provide a road map, a game plan for how hell happens, not just in Nazi German…"

-Ken Krimstein, The Three Escapes of Hannah Arendt: A Tyranny of Truth

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15. Jun

By: Keum Suk Gendry-Kim

4.16

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

Un témoignage touchant, chargé d'empathie, le récit de vie d'un pianiste autiste touché par la grâc… read more

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16. Prigione N°5

By: Zehra Doğan

4.40

Format: 144 pages, Hardcover

À travers le récit de son emprisonnement en Turquie, Zehra Dogan, journaliste et artiste, parle de … read more

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  • nonfiction
Cover of Red Harvest: A Novel of the Terror Famine in Soviet Ukraine by Michael Cherkas

17. Red Harvest: A Novel of the Terror Famine in Soviet Ukraine

By: Michael Cherkas

4.10

Format: 144 pages, Hardcover

Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin waged a brutal war against the Soviet peasantry leading to the Holodo… read more

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Cover of Grandmothers, Our Grandmothers: Remembering the "Comfort Women" of World War II by Han Seong-Won

18. Grandmothers, Our Grandmothers: Remembering the "Comfort Women" of World War II

By: Han Seong-Won

4.11

Format: 181 pages, Kindle Edition

**Recommended by the New York Public Library among its list of '50 Best New Comics for Adults' in 2… read more

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  • graphic novels comics
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  • war
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  • nonfiction
Cover of Movements and Moments by Sonja Eismann

19. Movements and Moments

By: Sonja Eismann

4.15

Format: 264 pages, Paperback

An ambitious feminist anthology chronicling Indigenous rebellions around the worldIn 1930s Bolivia,… read more

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Cover of Madones et putains by Nine Antico

20. Madones et putains

By: Nine Antico

3.26

Format: 144 pages, Hardcover

À travers trois nouvelles, inspirées de destins véridiques, Nine Antico brosse un instantané de la … read more

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Cover of I folgorati by Susanna Bissoli

21. I folgorati

By: Susanna Bissoli

3.66

Format: 192 pages, Hardcover

Si può sopravvivere alla scarica di un fulmine: le tracce magari sembrano minime, ma nel profondo s… read more

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9 Best history books like Belonging: A German Reckons with History and Home by Nora Krug

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Als ich ein kleiner Junge war

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4.22

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3.50

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Dale A. Jenkins

4.30

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4.32

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