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The Diary of a Young Girl
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Anne Frank
4.04 of 5 stars 4.04 avg rating — 903,240 ratings
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Night (The Night Trilogy, #1)
by
Elie Wiesel
4.25 of 5 stars 4.25 avg rating — 321,282 ratings
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The Hiding Place
by
Corrie ten Boom
4.42 of 5 stars 4.42 avg rating — 82,759 ratings
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A Lucky Child: A Memoir of Surviving Auschwitz as a Young Boy
by
Thomas Buergenthal
4.12 of 5 stars 4.12 avg rating — 2,032 ratings
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The Nazi Officer's Wife: How One Jewish Woman Survived the Holocaust
by
Edith Hahn Beer
4.04 of 5 stars 4.04 avg rating — 6,424 ratings
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I Have Lived a Thousand Years: Growing Up in the Holocaust
by
Livia Bitton-Jackson
4.17 of 5 stars 4.17 avg rating — 6,926 ratings
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Evidence Not Seen: A Woman's Miraculous Faith in the Jungles of World War II
by
Darlene Deibler Rose
4.54 of 5 stars 4.54 avg rating — 1,240 ratings
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In My Hands: Memories of a Holocaust Rescuer
by
Irene Gut Opdyke
4.3 of 5 stars 4.30 avg rating — 3,500 ratings
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The Cage
by
Ruth Minsky Sender
4.08 of 5 stars 4.08 avg rating — 1,791 ratings
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Anne Frank Remembered: The Story of the Woman Who Helped to Hide the Frank Family
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Miep Gies
4.32 of 5 stars 4.32 avg rating — 21,675 ratings
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When Hitler Stole Pink Rabbit (Out of the Hitler Time, #1)
by
Judith Kerr
3.82 of 5 stars 3.82 avg rating — 2,817 ratings
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Between Shades of Gray
by
Ruta Sepetys (Goodreads Author)
4.33 of 5 stars 4.33 avg rating — 21,676 ratings
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Quartered Safe Out Here: A Harrowing Tale of World War II
by
George MacDonald Fraser
4.37 of 5 stars 4.37 avg rating — 367 ratings
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Memoirs of the Second World War
by
Winston Churchill
4.45 of 5 stars 4.45 avg rating — 218 ratings
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Spandau: The Secret Diaries
by
Albert Speer
4.04 of 5 stars 4.04 avg rating — 296 ratings
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The Upstairs Room
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Johanna Reiss
3.85 of 5 stars 3.85 avg rating — 4,750 ratings
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The Tumbler: A 16-year-old Boy's Live Chronicle of Auschwitz, Belsen, Hanover, Hildesheim, Wolgsberg and Wustegiersdorf Nazi Death Camps
by
Azriel Feuerstein
4.0 of 5 stars 4.00 avg rating — 6 ratings
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Hiroshima
by
John Hersey
3.85 of 5 stars 3.85 avg rating — 17,653 ratings
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Operation Mincemeat: How a Dead Man and a Bizarre Plan Fooled the Nazis and Assured an Allied Victory
by
Ben Macintyre
3.89 of 5 stars 3.89 avg rating — 3,703 ratings
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'Rommel?' 'Gunner Who?': A Confrontation in the Desert
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Spike Milligan
4.1 of 5 stars 4.10 avg rating — 696 ratings
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Shanghai Diary: A Young Girl's Journey from Hitler's Hate to War-Torn China
by
Ursula Bacon
4.1 of 5 stars 4.10 avg rating — 256 ratings
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On Hitler's Mountain: Overcoming the Legacy of a Nazi Childhood
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Irmgard A. Hunt
3.92 of 5 stars 3.92 avg rating — 881 ratings
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The Monuments Men: Allied Heroes, Nazi Thieves, and the Greatest Treasure Hunt in History
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Robert M. Edsel
3.94 of 5 stars 3.94 avg rating — 1,215 ratings
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Six Days on a Raft
by
Bill Harrison
4.33 of 5 stars 4.33 avg rating — 6 ratings
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World War II London Blitz Diary: A Woman's Revelations Enduring War and Marriage
by
Ruby Side Thompson
3.59 of 5 stars 3.59 avg rating — 123 ratings
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German Boy: A Child in War
by
Wolfgang W.E. Samuel
4.37 of 5 stars 4.37 avg rating — 424 ratings
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Gertruda's Oath: A Child, a Promise, and a Heroic Escape During World War II
by
Ram Oren
4.1 of 5 stars 4.10 avg rating — 445 ratings
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Mischling, Second Degree: My Childhood in Nazi Germany
by
Ilse Koehn
3.83 of 5 stars 3.83 avg rating — 89 ratings
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Those Devils in Baggy Pants
by
Ross S. Carter
4.38 of 5 stars 4.38 avg rating — 56 ratings
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The Children of Willesden Lane
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Mona Golabek
4.21 of 5 stars 4.21 avg rating — 86 ratings
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Cut Off; Behind Enemy Lines in the Battle of the Bulge with Two Small Children, Ernest Hemingway, and Other Assorted Misanthropes
by
Bill Davidson
4.0 of 5 stars 4.00 avg rating — 3 ratings
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Baa Baa Black Sheep
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Gregory Boyington
3.87 of 5 stars 3.87 avg rating — 623 ratings
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Rena's Promise: A Story of Sisters in Auschwitz
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Rena Kornreich Gelissen
4.4 of 5 stars 4.40 avg rating — 2,119 ratings
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Uncle Hitler: A Child's Traumatic Journey Through Nazi Hell to the Safety of Britain
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Alfred Nestor (Goodreads Author)
3.67 of 5 stars 3.67 avg rating — 6 ratings
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The Little Girl That Could: A Memoir
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Marianne Tong
4.4 of 5 stars 4.40 avg rating — 5 ratings
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The Brave Japanese
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Kenneth Harrison
4.25 of 5 stars 4.25 avg rating — 16 ratings
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Prisoner of War Number 21860: The World War II Memoirs of Oliver Omanson
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Oliver Omanson
3.0 of 5 stars 3.00 avg rating — 1 rating
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Scars Of A Soldier: Vernon Heppe's True Story
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Gordon Galloway
5.0 of 5 stars 5.00 avg rating — 2 ratings
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Op zoek naar mijn huwelijksring
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Florrie Rost van Tonningen-Heubel
5.0 of 5 stars 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating
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The Last Jew of Treblinka
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Chil Rajchman
4.18 of 5 stars 4.18 avg rating — 402 ratings
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The Road Past Mandalay: A Personal Narrative
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John Masters
4.43 of 5 stars 4.43 avg rating — 63 ratings
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If This Is a Man / The Truce
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Primo Levi
4.51 of 5 stars 4.51 avg rating — 3,783 ratings
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The Man Who Broke Into Auschwitz: A True Story of World War II
by
Denis Avey
3.84 of 5 stars 3.84 avg rating — 1,140 ratings
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Barefoot Gen, Volume One: A Cartoon Story of Hiroshima
by
Keiji Nakazawa
4.14 of 5 stars 4.14 avg rating — 1,769 ratings
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Rifleman
by
Rick Stroud
4.11 of 5 stars 4.11 avg rating — 37 ratings
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Balkenkreuz und Halbmond
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Franz Wimmer-Lamquet
5.0 of 5 stars 5.00 avg rating — 2 ratings
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The Daily Telegraph Book of Airmen's Obituaries
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Edward Bishop
4.0 of 5 stars 4.00 avg rating — 2 ratings
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Adolf Hitler: My Part in His Downfall (War Memoirs, #1)
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Spike Milligan
4.06 of 5 stars 4.06 avg rating — 1,793 ratings
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Bugles And A Tiger
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John Masters
4.21 of 5 stars 4.21 avg rating — 76 ratings
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The American Home Front: 1941-1942
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Alistair Cooke
3.65 of 5 stars 3.65 avg rating — 89 ratings
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To Life
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Ruth Minsky Sender
3.97 of 5 stars 3.97 avg rating — 96 ratings
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Flory: Survival in the Valley of Death
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Flory A. Van Beek
3.81 of 5 stars 3.81 avg rating — 78 ratings
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Going Solo
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Roald Dahl (author)
3.96 of 5 stars 3.96 avg rating — 7,563 ratings
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Happy Odyssey
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Adrian Carton de Wiart
4.5 of 5 stars 4.50 avg rating — 12 ratings
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Up Front
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Bill Mauldin
4.4 of 5 stars 4.40 avg rating — 360 ratings
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The Seamstress
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Sara Tuvel Bernstein
4.25 of 5 stars 4.25 avg rating — 1,723 ratings
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The Holocaust Lady
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Ruth Minsky Sender
4.06 of 5 stars 4.06 avg rating — 18 ratings
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Still Alive: A Holocaust Girlhood Remembered
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Ruth Klüger
3.96 of 5 stars 3.96 avg rating — 394 ratings
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Beyond the Chindwin
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Bernard Fergusson
4.1 of 5 stars 4.10 avg rating — 10 ratings
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The Few: The American "Knights of the Air" Who Risked Everything to Fight in the Battle of Britain
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Alex Kershaw (Goodreads Author)
3.91 of 5 stars 3.91 avg rating — 358 ratings
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One Man's Meat
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E.B. White
4.4 of 5 stars 4.40 avg rating — 566 ratings
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The Jungle Is Neutral
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F. Spencer Chapman
4.07 of 5 stars 4.07 avg rating — 59 ratings
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Winston Churchill: Man of the Century
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John Ramsden
4.0 of 5 stars 4.00 avg rating — 19 ratings
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Two Rings: A Story of Love and War
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Millie Werber
4.11 of 5 stars 4.11 avg rating — 469 ratings
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Barefoot Gen, Volume Two: The Day After
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Keiji Nakazawa
4.29 of 5 stars 4.29 avg rating — 568 ratings
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Sisterhood of Spies
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Elizabeth P. McIntosh
3.67 of 5 stars 3.67 avg rating — 115 ratings
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Barefoot Gen, Volume Three: Life After the Bomb
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Keiji Nakazawa
4.26 of 5 stars 4.26 avg rating — 370 ratings
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Barefoot Gen, Volume Four: Out of the Ashes
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Keiji Nakazawa
4.25 of 5 stars 4.25 avg rating — 264 ratings
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What Did You Do in the War, Daddy?: Growing Up German
by
Sabine Reichel
3.67 of 5 stars 3.67 avg rating — 15 ratings
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The Small Woman: Gladys Aylward
by
Alan Burgess
4.07 of 5 stars 4.07 avg rating — 408 ratings
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Citizen Soldiers: The U.S. Army from the Normandy Beaches to the Bulge to the Surrender of Germany June 7, 1944-May 7, 1945
by
Stephen E. Ambrose
4.14 of 5 stars 4.14 avg rating — 7,978 ratings
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Elly: My True Story of the Holocaust
by
Elly Berkovits Gross
3.59 of 5 stars 3.59 avg rating — 280 ratings
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The Girl Who Survived: A True Story of the Holocaust
by
Bronia Brandman
3.82 of 5 stars 3.82 avg rating — 137 ratings
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Return to Auschwitz
by
Kitt Hart
4.25 of 5 stars 4.25 avg rating — 84 ratings
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