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The Book Thief (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 1306 times as ww2)
avg rating 4.39 — 2,979,529 ratings — published 2005
All the Light We Cannot See (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1274 times as ww2)
avg rating 4.30 — 2,070,587 ratings — published 2014
The Nightingale (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1052 times as ww2)
avg rating 4.65 — 2,383,330 ratings — published 2015
The Diary of a Young Girl (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 1027 times as ww2)
avg rating 4.20 — 4,332,315 ratings — published 1947
The Tattooist of Auschwitz (The Tattooist of Auschwitz, #1)
by (shelved 848 times as ww2)
avg rating 4.32 — 1,219,348 ratings — published 2018
Night (Paperback)
by (shelved 795 times as ww2)
avg rating 4.38 — 1,403,164 ratings — published 1956
Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience and Redemption (Hardcover)
by (shelved 677 times as ww2)
avg rating 4.39 — 1,018,295 ratings — published 2010
The Boy in the Striped Pajamas (Hardcover)
by (shelved 598 times as ww2)
avg rating 4.16 — 1,006,167 ratings — published 2006
The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society (Paperback)
by (shelved 539 times as ww2)
avg rating 4.20 — 831,416 ratings — published 2008
The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich: A History of Nazi Germany (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 537 times as ww2)
avg rating 4.23 — 153,228 ratings — published 1960
The Alice Network (Paperback)
by (shelved 469 times as ww2)
avg rating 4.32 — 677,515 ratings — published 2017
Salt to the Sea (Hardcover)
by (shelved 446 times as ww2)
avg rating 4.35 — 270,863 ratings — published 2016
Lilac Girls (Woolsey-Ferriday, #1)
by (shelved 434 times as ww2)
avg rating 4.29 — 355,235 ratings — published 2016
Band of Brothers: E Company, 506th Regiment, 101st Airborne from Normandy to Hitler's Eagle's Nest (Paperback)
by (shelved 426 times as ww2)
avg rating 4.44 — 142,966 ratings — published 1992
Stalingrad: The Fateful Siege, 1942–1943 (Paperback)
by (shelved 418 times as ww2)
avg rating 4.33 — 43,199 ratings — published 1998
Sarah's Key (Hardcover)
by (shelved 411 times as ww2)
avg rating 4.18 — 502,356 ratings — published 2006
Between Shades of Gray (Hardcover)
by (shelved 408 times as ww2)
avg rating 4.36 — 287,734 ratings — published 2011
Number the Stars (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 407 times as ww2)
avg rating 4.20 — 637,286 ratings — published 1989
Beneath a Scarlet Sky (Paperback)
by (shelved 396 times as ww2)
avg rating 4.44 — 410,230 ratings — published 2017
The Rose Code (Paperback)
by (shelved 385 times as ww2)
avg rating 4.44 — 408,105 ratings — published 2021
Code Name Verity (Code Name Verity, #1)
by (shelved 384 times as ww2)
avg rating 3.99 — 131,093 ratings — published 2012
Slaughterhouse-Five (Paperback)
by (shelved 357 times as ww2)
avg rating 4.10 — 1,528,252 ratings — published 1969
In the Garden of Beasts: Love, Terror, and an American Family in Hitler's Berlin (Hardcover)
by (shelved 349 times as ww2)
avg rating 3.90 — 226,397 ratings — published 2011
The Splendid and the Vile: A Saga of Churchill, Family, and Defiance During the Blitz (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 336 times as ww2)
avg rating 4.30 — 144,386 ratings — published 2020
Man's Search for Meaning (Paperback)
by (shelved 333 times as ww2)
avg rating 4.37 — 939,013 ratings — published 1946
The Book of Lost Names (Hardcover)
by (shelved 326 times as ww2)
avg rating 4.44 — 330,989 ratings — published 2020
We Were the Lucky Ones (Hardcover)
by (shelved 326 times as ww2)
avg rating 4.42 — 208,626 ratings — published 2017
The Things We Cannot Say (Hardcover)
by (shelved 314 times as ww2)
avg rating 4.54 — 306,204 ratings — published 2019
The Hiding Place: The Triumphant True Story of Corrie Ten Boom (Paperback)
by (shelved 296 times as ww2)
avg rating 4.48 — 367,816 ratings — published 1971
The Huntress (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 291 times as ww2)
avg rating 4.30 — 228,986 ratings — published 2019
Catch-22 (Paperback)
by (shelved 291 times as ww2)
avg rating 3.99 — 904,924 ratings — published 1961
The Complete Maus (Paperback)
by (shelved 287 times as ww2)
avg rating 4.58 — 265,296 ratings — published 1992
Schindler’s List (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 285 times as ww2)
avg rating 4.34 — 167,619 ratings — published 1982
The Fall of Berlin 1945 (Paperback)
by (shelved 281 times as ww2)
avg rating 4.31 — 19,157 ratings — published 2002
The Rape of Nanking: The Forgotten Holocaust of World War II (Paperback)
by (shelved 281 times as ww2)
avg rating 4.26 — 58,119 ratings — published 1997
With the Old Breed: At Peleliu and Okinawa (Paperback)
by (shelved 275 times as ww2)
avg rating 4.50 — 50,129 ratings — published 1981
An Army at Dawn: The War in North Africa, 1942-1943 (World War II Liberation Trilogy, #1)
by (shelved 267 times as ww2)
avg rating 4.30 — 23,833 ratings — published 2002
Bloodlands: Europe Between Hitler and Stalin (Hardcover)
by (shelved 265 times as ww2)
avg rating 4.39 — 20,798 ratings — published 2010
Cilka's Journey (The Tattooist of Auschwitz, #2)
by (shelved 261 times as ww2)
avg rating 4.40 — 225,877 ratings — published 2019
City of Thieves (Hardcover)
by (shelved 256 times as ww2)
avg rating 4.30 — 175,891 ratings — published 2008
Maus I: A Survivor's Tale: My Father Bleeds History (Maus, #1)
by (shelved 251 times as ww2)
avg rating 4.39 — 386,514 ratings — published 1986
Atonement (Paperback)
by (shelved 248 times as ww2)
avg rating 3.96 — 578,703 ratings — published 2001
Hiroshima (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 247 times as ww2)
avg rating 4.06 — 93,207 ratings — published 1946
The Diamond Eye (Hardcover)
by (shelved 238 times as ww2)
avg rating 4.29 — 228,185 ratings — published 2022
The Paris Library (Hardcover)
by (shelved 235 times as ww2)
avg rating 4.06 — 153,291 ratings — published 2021
Inferno: The World at War, 1939-1945 (Hardcover)
by (shelved 223 times as ww2)
avg rating 4.36 — 11,508 ratings — published 2011
The Second World War (Hardcover)
by (shelved 222 times as ww2)
avg rating 4.41 — 11,358 ratings — published 2012
A Woman of No Importance: The Untold Story of the American Spy Who Helped Win World War II (Hardcover)
by (shelved 211 times as ww2)
avg rating 4.15 — 65,800 ratings — published 2019
The War That Saved My Life (The War That Saved My Life, #1)
by (shelved 202 times as ww2)
avg rating 4.49 — 120,904 ratings — published 2015
The Librarian of Auschwitz (Hardcover)
by (shelved 197 times as ww2)
avg rating 4.15 — 66,968 ratings — published 2012
“Dal Ka-Be la musica non si sente bene: arriva assiduo e monotono il martellare della grancassa e dei piatti, ma su questa trama le frasi musicali si disegnano solo a intervalli, col capriccio del vento. Noi ci guardiamo l'un l'altro nei nostri letti, perchè tutti sentiamo che questa è musica infernale.
I motivi sono pochi, una dozzina, ogni giorno gli stessi, mattina e sera: marce e canzoni popolari care a ogni tedesco. Esse giacciono incise nelle nostre menti, saranno l'ultima cosa del Lager che dimenticheremo: sono la voce del Lager, l'espressione sensibile della sua follia geometrica, della risoluzione altrui di annullarci prima come uomoni per ucciderci poi lentamente.
Quando questa musica suona, noi sappiamo che i compagni, fuori nella nebbia, partono in marcia come automi; le loro anime sono morte e la musica li sospinge, come il vento le foglie secche, e si sostituisce alla loro volontà. Non c'è più volontà, ogni pulsazione diventa un passo, una contrazione rilflessa dei muscoli sfatti. [...] Ma dove andiamo non sappiamo. Potremo forse sopravvivere alle malattie e sfuggire alle scelte, forse anche resistere al lavoro e alla fame che ci consumano: e dopo? Qui, lontani momentaneamente dalle bestiemme e dai colpi, possiamo rientrare in noi stessi e meditare, e allora diventa chiaro che non ritorneremo. Noi abbiamo viaggiato fin qui nei vagoni piombati; noi abbiamo visto partire verso il niente le nostre donne e i nostri bambini; noi fatti schiavi abbiamo marciato centro volte avanti e indietro alla fatica muta, spenti nell'anima prima che dalla morte anonima. Noi non ritorneremo. Nessuno deve uscire di qui, che potrebbe portare al mondo, insieme col segno impresso nella carne, la mala novella di quanto ad Auschwitz, è bastato animo all'uomo di fare all'uomo.”
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I motivi sono pochi, una dozzina, ogni giorno gli stessi, mattina e sera: marce e canzoni popolari care a ogni tedesco. Esse giacciono incise nelle nostre menti, saranno l'ultima cosa del Lager che dimenticheremo: sono la voce del Lager, l'espressione sensibile della sua follia geometrica, della risoluzione altrui di annullarci prima come uomoni per ucciderci poi lentamente.
Quando questa musica suona, noi sappiamo che i compagni, fuori nella nebbia, partono in marcia come automi; le loro anime sono morte e la musica li sospinge, come il vento le foglie secche, e si sostituisce alla loro volontà. Non c'è più volontà, ogni pulsazione diventa un passo, una contrazione rilflessa dei muscoli sfatti. [...] Ma dove andiamo non sappiamo. Potremo forse sopravvivere alle malattie e sfuggire alle scelte, forse anche resistere al lavoro e alla fame che ci consumano: e dopo? Qui, lontani momentaneamente dalle bestiemme e dai colpi, possiamo rientrare in noi stessi e meditare, e allora diventa chiaro che non ritorneremo. Noi abbiamo viaggiato fin qui nei vagoni piombati; noi abbiamo visto partire verso il niente le nostre donne e i nostri bambini; noi fatti schiavi abbiamo marciato centro volte avanti e indietro alla fatica muta, spenti nell'anima prima che dalla morte anonima. Noi non ritorneremo. Nessuno deve uscire di qui, che potrebbe portare al mondo, insieme col segno impresso nella carne, la mala novella di quanto ad Auschwitz, è bastato animo all'uomo di fare all'uomo.”
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“You see beyond the world we live in. There's a price to be paid for that.”
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