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The Diary of a Young Girl (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 66 times as second-world-war)
avg rating 4.20 — 4,338,706 ratings — published 1947
The Book Thief (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 56 times as second-world-war)
avg rating 4.39 — 2,984,334 ratings — published 2005
Stalingrad: The Fateful Siege, 1942–1943 (Paperback)
by (shelved 45 times as second-world-war)
avg rating 4.33 — 43,310 ratings — published 1998
All the Light We Cannot See (Hardcover)
by (shelved 39 times as second-world-war)
avg rating 4.30 — 2,074,592 ratings — published 2014
The Boy in the Striped Pajamas (Hardcover)
by (shelved 31 times as second-world-war)
avg rating 4.16 — 1,007,986 ratings — published 2006
Night (Paperback)
by (shelved 27 times as second-world-war)
avg rating 4.38 — 1,405,620 ratings — published 1956
Atonement (Paperback)
by (shelved 26 times as second-world-war)
avg rating 3.96 — 579,441 ratings — published 2001
The Nightingale (Hardcover)
by (shelved 26 times as second-world-war)
avg rating 4.65 — 2,396,460 ratings — published 2015
The Fall of Berlin 1945 (Paperback)
by (shelved 26 times as second-world-war)
avg rating 4.31 — 19,193 ratings — published 2002
The Second World War (Hardcover)
by (shelved 24 times as second-world-war)
avg rating 4.41 — 11,383 ratings — published 2012
The Tattooist of Auschwitz (The Tattooist of Auschwitz, #1)
by (shelved 23 times as second-world-war)
avg rating 4.32 — 1,221,787 ratings — published 2018
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 — 143,249 ratings — published 1992
The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society (Paperback)
by (shelved 21 times as second-world-war)
avg rating 4.20 — 832,331 ratings — published 2008
Catch-22 (Paperback)
by (shelved 20 times as second-world-war)
avg rating 3.99 — 905,875 ratings — published 1961
The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich: A History of Nazi Germany (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 20 times as second-world-war)
avg rating 4.23 — 153,524 ratings — published 1960
Sarah's Key (Hardcover)
by (shelved 19 times as second-world-war)
avg rating 4.18 — 502,686 ratings — published 2006
Man's Search for Meaning (Paperback)
by (shelved 18 times as second-world-war)
avg rating 4.37 — 942,131 ratings — published 1946
Ordinary Men: Reserve Police Battalion 101 and the Final Solution in Poland (Paperback)
by (shelved 18 times as second-world-war)
avg rating 4.11 — 25,075 ratings — published 1992
Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience and Redemption (Hardcover)
by (shelved 18 times as second-world-war)
avg rating 4.39 — 1,019,519 ratings — published 2010
With the Old Breed: At Peleliu and Okinawa (Paperback)
by (shelved 18 times as second-world-war)
avg rating 4.50 — 50,245 ratings — published 1981
Survival in Auschwitz (Paperback)
by (shelved 17 times as second-world-war)
avg rating 4.35 — 90,898 ratings — published 1947
Alone in Berlin (Paperback)
by (shelved 17 times as second-world-war)
avg rating 4.27 — 39,013 ratings — published 1947
Inferno: The World at War, 1939-1945 (Hardcover)
by (shelved 17 times as second-world-war)
avg rating 4.36 — 11,529 ratings — published 2011
D-Day: The Battle for Normandy (Hardcover)
by (shelved 17 times as second-world-war)
avg rating 4.18 — 12,685 ratings — published 2009
Slaughterhouse-Five (Paperback)
by (shelved 16 times as second-world-war)
avg rating 4.10 — 1,530,540 ratings — published 1969
Armageddon: The Battle for Germany, 1944-1945 (Paperback)
by (shelved 16 times as second-world-war)
avg rating 4.29 — 7,591 ratings — published 2004
The Forgotten Soldier (Paperback)
by (shelved 16 times as second-world-war)
avg rating 4.39 — 12,470 ratings — published 1967
War's Unwomanly Face (Hardcover)
by (shelved 15 times as second-world-war)
avg rating 4.51 — 41,423 ratings — published 1983
Code Name Verity (Code Name Verity, #1)
by (shelved 15 times as second-world-war)
avg rating 3.99 — 131,227 ratings — published 2012
The Coming of the Third Reich (The History of the Third Reich, #1)
by (shelved 15 times as second-world-war)
avg rating 4.32 — 13,452 ratings — published 2003
A Bridge Too Far (Hardcover)
by (shelved 15 times as second-world-war)
avg rating 4.28 — 21,749 ratings — published 1974
The Splendid and the Vile: A Saga of Churchill, Family, and Defiance During the Blitz (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 14 times as second-world-war)
avg rating 4.30 — 144,748 ratings — published 2020
In the Garden of Beasts: Love, Terror, and an American Family in Hitler's Berlin (Hardcover)
by (shelved 14 times as second-world-war)
avg rating 3.90 — 226,688 ratings — published 2011
The Third Reich in Power (The History of the Third Reich, #2)
by (shelved 14 times as second-world-war)
avg rating 4.37 — 7,984 ratings — published 2005
The Longest Day: June 6, 1944 (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as second-world-war)
avg rating 4.34 — 26,860 ratings — published 1959
Ivan's War: Life and Death in the Red Army, 1939-1945 (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as second-world-war)
avg rating 4.07 — 4,068 ratings — published 2005
Salt to the Sea (Hardcover)
by (shelved 13 times as second-world-war)
avg rating 4.35 — 271,547 ratings — published 2016
Ardennes 1944: The Battle of the Bulge (Hardcover)
by (shelved 13 times as second-world-war)
avg rating 4.12 — 5,255 ratings — published 2015
The Guns at Last Light: The War in Western Europe, 1944-1945 (World War II Liberation Trilogy, #3)
by (shelved 13 times as second-world-war)
avg rating 4.49 — 11,325 ratings — published 2013
Bloodlands: Europe Between Hitler and Stalin (Hardcover)
by (shelved 13 times as second-world-war)
avg rating 4.39 — 20,879 ratings — published 2010
An Army at Dawn: The War in North Africa, 1942-1943 (World War II Liberation Trilogy, #1)
by (shelved 13 times as second-world-war)
avg rating 4.30 — 23,894 ratings — published 2002
The Wages of Destruction: The Making and Breaking of the Nazi Economy (Hardcover)
by (shelved 13 times as second-world-war)
avg rating 4.54 — 3,404 ratings — published 2007
The Day of Battle: The War in Sicily and Italy, 1943-1944 (World War II Liberation Trilogy, #2)
by (shelved 13 times as second-world-war)
avg rating 4.37 — 16,459 ratings — published 2007
The Gathering Storm (The Second World War, #1)
by (shelved 13 times as second-world-war)
avg rating 4.39 — 7,936 ratings — published 1948
The Third Reich at War (The History of the Third Reich, #3)
by (shelved 13 times as second-world-war)
avg rating 4.40 — 6,623 ratings — published 2008
Pacific Crucible: War at Sea in the Pacific, 1941-1942 (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as second-world-war)
avg rating 4.61 — 10,864 ratings — published 2011
Helmet for My Pillow: From Parris Island to the Pacific (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 12 times as second-world-war)
avg rating 4.23 — 26,114 ratings — published 1957
Corelli’s Mandolin (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as second-world-war)
avg rating 4.04 — 94,455 ratings — published 1994
Hiroshima (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as second-world-war)
avg rating 4.06 — 93,425 ratings — published 1946
Overlord: D-Day and the Battle for Normandy (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as second-world-war)
avg rating 4.17 — 6,060 ratings — published 1984
“This was a particularly spectacular example of the German campaign to gather forced labor in the East, which had begun with the Poles of the General Government, and spread to Ukraine before reaching this bloody climax in Belarus. By the end of the war, some eight million foreigners from the East, most of them Slavs, were working in the Reich. It was a rather perverse result, even by the standards of Nazi racism: German men went abroad and killed millions of "subhumans," only to import millions of other "subhumans" to do the work in Germany that the German men would have been doing themselves - had they not been abroad killing "subhumans." The net effect, setting aside the mass killing abroad, was that Germany became more of a Slavic land than it had ever been in history. (The perversity would reach its extreme in the first months of 1945, when surviving Jews were sent to labor camps in Germany itself. Having killed 5.4 million Jews as racial enemies, the Germans then brought Jewish survivors home to do the work that the killers might have been doing themselves had they not been abroad killing.)
pp. 244-246”
― Bloodlands: Europe Between Hitler and Stalin
pp. 244-246”
― Bloodlands: Europe Between Hitler and Stalin
“The eyes of the men after the war. Like rabbits in headlights. We all were. All of them who never came back. All them going up into the air and then not coming down. A line through the name in the morning. And that was that. Well, we came through, Philip and me.”
― There But For The
― There But For The
