World Wars


The Book Thief
The Diary of a Young Girl
All Quiet on the Western Front
All the Light We Cannot See
The Guns of August
Night
The Nightingale
The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society
The Alice Network
Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience and Redemption
Stalingrad: The Fateful Siege, 1942–1943
The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich: A History of Nazi Germany
Slaughterhouse-Five
The Sleepwalkers: How Europe Went to War in 1914
The Boy in the Striped Pajamas
Britain and the Dictators by Robert William Seton-WatsonL'esploratore del Duce. Le avventure di Giuseppe Tucci e la p... by Enrica GarzilliThe Genoa Conference by Carole FinkHellfire by David FlemingPositioning for Advantage by Kimberly A. Whitler
Best Books on the Inter War period
7 books — 5 voters
The Lil Super Snoopers Club 2nd Edition by Steve P. JeffersonGhost Town at Sundown by Mary Pope OsborneMary Poppins by P.L. TraversThe Year Winter Came Late by Michael L. LarzelereIf I Were a Pony by Leonard Eckhaus
Fictional History 4 Kids!
110 books — 23 voters

The German Empire, 1870-1918 by Michael StürmerThe Greatest Battle by Andrew NagorskiA Woman in Berlin by AnonymousWhen Money Dies by Adam FergussonCrimes and Mercies by James Bacque
Modern German History (nonfiction)
88 books — 15 voters
Titanic by Will OsborneAncient Greece and the Olympics by Mary Pope OsborneDK Eyewitness Books by Michele ByamCastle by Christopher GravettCathedral by David Macaulay
History 4 Kids!
116 books — 3 voters

Geoffrey Blainey
“ Full-blooded democracy still remains a brave new experiment, the history of ancient Athens notwithstanding. It would be unwise to assume that its victory across the globe is inevitable, for democracy is not always a simple mode of governing. It is almost forgotten that one reason why in this century the world stood three times on the verge of chaos — during two world wars and one world depression — was that the leading democracies were almost as prone to accidents and blunders as were their auth ...more ”
― Geoffrey Blainey, In Our Time: The Issues and The People of Our Century

John Wyndham
“ They made a mess of 1914. They came a cropper in 1940. And now they're working up for it again. ...more ”
― John Wyndham, Wanderers of Time

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