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Second World War Books
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The Diary of a Young Girl (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 65 times as second-world-war)
avg rating 4.20 — 4,171,092 ratings — published 1947
The Book Thief (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 57 times as second-world-war)
avg rating 4.39 — 2,865,152 ratings — published 2005
Stalingrad: The Fateful Siege, 1942–1943 (Paperback)
by (shelved 40 times as second-world-war)
avg rating 4.33 — 41,145 ratings — published 1998
All the Light We Cannot See (Hardcover)
by (shelved 39 times as second-world-war)
avg rating 4.31 — 1,962,551 ratings — published 2014
The Boy in the Striped Pajamas (Hardcover)
by (shelved 31 times as second-world-war)
avg rating 4.16 — 961,532 ratings — published 2006
Night (Paperback)
by (shelved 27 times as second-world-war)
avg rating 4.38 — 1,358,453 ratings — published 1956
Atonement (Paperback)
by (shelved 26 times as second-world-war)
avg rating 3.95 — 561,988 ratings — published 2001
The Fall of Berlin 1945 (Paperback)
by (shelved 25 times as second-world-war)
avg rating 4.30 — 18,391 ratings — published 2002
The Tattooist of Auschwitz (The Tattooist of Auschwitz, #1)
by (shelved 23 times as second-world-war)
avg rating 4.32 — 1,158,192 ratings — published 2018
The Nightingale (Hardcover)
by (shelved 23 times as second-world-war)
avg rating 4.65 — 2,068,573 ratings — published 2015
The Second World War (Hardcover)
by (shelved 22 times as second-world-war)
avg rating 4.40 — 10,759 ratings — published 2012
Band of Brothers: E Company, 506th Regiment, 101st Airborne from Normandy to Hitler's Eagle's Nest (Paperback)
by (shelved 22 times as second-world-war)
avg rating 4.44 — 138,501 ratings — published 1992
The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society (Paperback)
by (shelved 21 times as second-world-war)
avg rating 4.19 — 808,066 ratings — published 2008
Catch-22 (Paperback)
by (shelved 20 times as second-world-war)
avg rating 3.99 — 884,823 ratings — published 1961
Sarah's Key (Hardcover)
by (shelved 20 times as second-world-war)
avg rating 4.18 — 494,318 ratings — published 2006
Ordinary Men: Reserve Police Battalion 101 and the Final Solution in Poland (Paperback)
by (shelved 19 times as second-world-war)
avg rating 4.11 — 23,315 ratings — published 1992
Man's Search for Meaning (Paperback)
by (shelved 18 times as second-world-war)
avg rating 4.37 — 870,234 ratings — published 1946
Every Man Dies Alone (Hardcover)
by (shelved 17 times as second-world-war)
avg rating 4.27 — 36,616 ratings — published 1947
Slaughterhouse-Five (Paperback)
by (shelved 17 times as second-world-war)
avg rating 4.10 — 1,478,372 ratings — published 1969
With the Old Breed: At Peleliu and Okinawa (Paperback)
by (shelved 17 times as second-world-war)
avg rating 4.49 — 47,476 ratings — published 1981
D-Day: The Battle for Normandy (Hardcover)
by (shelved 17 times as second-world-war)
avg rating 4.18 — 12,236 ratings — published 2009
The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich: A History of Nazi Germany (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 17 times as second-world-war)
avg rating 4.22 — 147,815 ratings — published 1960
Survival in Auschwitz (Paperback)
by (shelved 16 times as second-world-war)
avg rating 4.35 — 86,261 ratings — published 1947
Inferno: The World at War, 1939-1945 (Hardcover)
by (shelved 16 times as second-world-war)
avg rating 4.36 — 11,092 ratings — published 2011
Code Name Verity (Code Name Verity, #1)
by (shelved 16 times as second-world-war)
avg rating 4.00 — 127,958 ratings — published 2012
Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience and Redemption (Hardcover)
by (shelved 16 times as second-world-war)
avg rating 4.39 — 995,228 ratings — published 2010
The Forgotten Soldier (Paperback)
by (shelved 16 times as second-world-war)
avg rating 4.39 — 12,072 ratings — published 1967
War's Unwomanly Face (Hardcover)
by (shelved 15 times as second-world-war)
avg rating 4.51 — 38,854 ratings — published 1983
Armageddon: The Battle for Germany, 1944-1945 (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as second-world-war)
avg rating 4.28 — 7,443 ratings — published 2004
A Bridge Too Far (Hardcover)
by (shelved 14 times as second-world-war)
avg rating 4.28 — 21,469 ratings — published 1974
The Longest Day: June 6, 1944 (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as second-world-war)
avg rating 4.34 — 26,134 ratings — published 1959
Salt to the Sea (Hardcover)
by (shelved 13 times as second-world-war)
avg rating 4.35 — 254,009 ratings — published 2016
In the Garden of Beasts: Love, Terror, and an American Family in Hitler's Berlin (Hardcover)
by (shelved 13 times as second-world-war)
avg rating 3.90 — 219,322 ratings — published 2011
The Coming of the Third Reich (The History of the Third Reich, #1)
by (shelved 13 times as second-world-war)
avg rating 4.31 — 12,305 ratings — published 2003
Ardennes 1944: The Battle of the Bulge (Hardcover)
by (shelved 12 times as second-world-war)
avg rating 4.12 — 4,999 ratings — published 2015
The Complete Maus (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as second-world-war)
avg rating 4.58 — 252,905 ratings — published 1980
Bloodlands: Europe Between Hitler and Stalin (Hardcover)
by (shelved 12 times as second-world-war)
avg rating 4.39 — 19,652 ratings — published 2010
Corelli’s Mandolin (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as second-world-war)
avg rating 4.03 — 92,655 ratings — published 1994
The Gathering Storm (The Second World War, #1)
by (shelved 12 times as second-world-war)
avg rating 4.39 — 7,653 ratings — published 1948
The Third Reich in Power (The History of the Third Reich, #2)
by (shelved 12 times as second-world-war)
avg rating 4.36 — 7,430 ratings — published 2005
Overlord: D-Day and the Battle for Normandy (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as second-world-war)
avg rating 4.17 — 5,936 ratings — published 1984
Why the Allies Won (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as second-world-war)
avg rating 4.19 — 2,305 ratings — published 1995
Schindler’s List (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as second-world-war)
avg rating 4.34 — 165,554 ratings — published 1982
The Paris Library (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as second-world-war)
avg rating 4.06 — 145,190 ratings — published 2021
The Splendid and the Vile: A Saga of Churchill, Family, and Defiance During the Blitz (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 11 times as second-world-war)
avg rating 4.30 — 136,484 ratings — published 2020
Ivan's War: Life and Death in the Red Army, 1939-1945 (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as second-world-war)
avg rating 4.07 — 3,974 ratings — published 2005
The Guns at Last Light: The War in Western Europe, 1944-1945 (World War II Liberation Trilogy, #3)
by (shelved 11 times as second-world-war)
avg rating 4.48 — 10,826 ratings — published 2013
An Army at Dawn: The War in North Africa, 1942-1943 (World War II Liberation Trilogy, #1)
by (shelved 11 times as second-world-war)
avg rating 4.30 — 22,777 ratings — published 2002
Pacific Crucible: War at Sea in the Pacific, 1941-1942 (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as second-world-war)
avg rating 4.61 — 10,125 ratings — published 2011
The Wages of Destruction: The Making and Breaking of the Nazi Economy (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as second-world-war)
avg rating 4.54 — 3,073 ratings — published 2007
“In October 1941, Mahilue became teh first substantial city in occupied Soviet Belarus where almost all Jews were killed. A German (Austrian) policeman wrote to his wife of his feelings and experiences shooting the city's Jews in the first days of the month. 'During the first try, my hand trembled a bit as I shot, but one gets used to it. By the tenth try I aimed calmly and shot surely at the many women, children, and infants. I kept in mind that I have two infants at home, whom these hordes would treat just the same, if not ten times worse. The death that we gave them was a beautiful quick death, compared to the hellish torments of thousands and thousands in the jails of the GPU. Infants flew in great arcs through the air, and we shot them to pieces in flight, before their bodies fell into the pit and into the water.'
pp. 205-206”
― Bloodlands: Europe Between Hitler and Stalin
pp. 205-206”
― Bloodlands: Europe Between Hitler and Stalin
“Exploration! Exploring the past! We students in the camps seminar considered ourselves radical explorers. We tore open the windows and let in the air, the wind that finally whirled away the dust that society had permitted to settle over the horrors of the past. We made sure people could see. And we placed no reliance on legal scholarship. It was evident to us that there had to be convictions. It was just as evident as conviction of this or that camp guard or police enforcer was only the prelude. The generation that had been served by the guards and enforcers, or had done nothing to stop them, or had not banished them from its midst as it could have done after 1945, was in the dock, and we explored it, subjected it to trial by daylight, and condemned it to shame.”
― The Reader
― The Reader
