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The Book Thief (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 1292 times as ww2)
avg rating 4.39 — 2,933,380 ratings — published 2005
All the Light We Cannot See (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1258 times as ww2)
avg rating 4.31 — 2,028,264 ratings — published 2014
The Nightingale (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1025 times as ww2)
avg rating 4.65 — 2,259,419 ratings — published 2015
The Diary of a Young Girl (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 1016 times as ww2)
avg rating 4.20 — 4,265,483 ratings — published 1947
The Tattooist of Auschwitz (The Tattooist of Auschwitz, #1)
by (shelved 833 times as ww2)
avg rating 4.32 — 1,196,104 ratings — published 2018
Night (Paperback)
by (shelved 782 times as ww2)
avg rating 4.38 — 1,386,595 ratings — published 1956
Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience and Redemption (Hardcover)
by (shelved 671 times as ww2)
avg rating 4.39 — 1,009,115 ratings — published 2010
The Boy in the Striped Pajamas (Hardcover)
by (shelved 583 times as ww2)
avg rating 4.16 — 988,168 ratings — published 2006
The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society (Paperback)
by (shelved 534 times as ww2)
avg rating 4.19 — 822,305 ratings — published 2008
The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich: A History of Nazi Germany (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 523 times as ww2)
avg rating 4.23 — 151,011 ratings — published 1960
The Alice Network (Paperback)
by (shelved 464 times as ww2)
avg rating 4.32 — 655,511 ratings — published 2017
Salt to the Sea (Hardcover)
by (shelved 438 times as ww2)
avg rating 4.35 — 263,829 ratings — published 2016
Lilac Girls (Woolsey-Ferriday, #1)
by (shelved 428 times as ww2)
avg rating 4.29 — 349,262 ratings — published 2016
Band of Brothers: E Company, 506th Regiment, 101st Airborne from Normandy to Hitler's Eagle's Nest (Paperback)
by (shelved 422 times as ww2)
avg rating 4.44 — 141,114 ratings — published 1992
Sarah's Key (Hardcover)
by (shelved 413 times as ww2)
avg rating 4.18 — 499,132 ratings — published 2006
Between Shades of Gray (Hardcover)
by (shelved 407 times as ww2)
avg rating 4.36 — 282,887 ratings — published 2011
Stalingrad: The Fateful Siege, 1942–1943 (Paperback)
by (shelved 404 times as ww2)
avg rating 4.33 — 42,334 ratings — published 1998
Number the Stars (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 398 times as ww2)
avg rating 4.20 — 630,014 ratings — published 1989
Beneath a Scarlet Sky (Paperback)
by (shelved 392 times as ww2)
avg rating 4.44 — 400,541 ratings — published 2017
The Rose Code (Paperback)
by (shelved 376 times as ww2)
avg rating 4.44 — 391,266 ratings — published 2021
Code Name Verity (Code Name Verity, #1)
by (shelved 376 times as ww2)
avg rating 3.99 — 129,805 ratings — published 2012
Slaughterhouse-Five (Paperback)
by (shelved 355 times as ww2)
avg rating 4.10 — 1,506,554 ratings — published 1969
In the Garden of Beasts: Love, Terror, and an American Family in Hitler's Berlin (Hardcover)
by (shelved 344 times as ww2)
avg rating 3.90 — 223,650 ratings — published 2011
The Splendid and the Vile: A Saga of Churchill, Family, and Defiance During the Blitz (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 328 times as ww2)
avg rating 4.30 — 141,129 ratings — published 2020
Man's Search for Meaning (Paperback)
by (shelved 327 times as ww2)
avg rating 4.37 — 910,731 ratings — published 1946
We Were the Lucky Ones (Hardcover)
by (shelved 314 times as ww2)
avg rating 4.42 — 203,213 ratings — published 2017
The Book of Lost Names (Hardcover)
by (shelved 313 times as ww2)
avg rating 4.44 — 315,400 ratings — published 2020
The Things We Cannot Say (Hardcover)
by (shelved 304 times as ww2)
avg rating 4.54 — 290,775 ratings — published 2019
The Hiding Place: The Triumphant True Story of Corrie Ten Boom (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 291 times as ww2)
avg rating 4.48 — 363,028 ratings — published 1971
The Huntress (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 287 times as ww2)
avg rating 4.30 — 221,857 ratings — published 2019
Catch-22 (Paperback)
by (shelved 285 times as ww2)
avg rating 3.99 — 896,432 ratings — published 1961
The Complete Maus (Paperback)
by (shelved 281 times as ww2)
avg rating 4.58 — 260,435 ratings — published 1980
Schindler’s List (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 280 times as ww2)
avg rating 4.34 — 166,768 ratings — published 1982
The Rape of Nanking: The Forgotten Holocaust of World War II (Paperback)
by (shelved 276 times as ww2)
avg rating 4.25 — 56,181 ratings — published 1997
The Fall of Berlin 1945 (Paperback)
by (shelved 269 times as ww2)
avg rating 4.31 — 18,827 ratings — published 2002
With the Old Breed: At Peleliu and Okinawa (Paperback)
by (shelved 266 times as ww2)
avg rating 4.50 — 49,035 ratings — published 1981
Bloodlands: Europe Between Hitler and Stalin (Hardcover)
by (shelved 257 times as ww2)
avg rating 4.39 — 20,346 ratings — published 2010
City of Thieves (Hardcover)
by (shelved 255 times as ww2)
avg rating 4.30 — 171,915 ratings — published 2008
Cilka's Journey (The Tattooist of Auschwitz, #2)
by (shelved 254 times as ww2)
avg rating 4.40 — 221,659 ratings — published 2019
An Army at Dawn: The War in North Africa, 1942-1943 (World War II Liberation Trilogy, #1)
by (shelved 253 times as ww2)
avg rating 4.30 — 23,392 ratings — published 2002
Maus I: A Survivor's Tale: My Father Bleeds History (Maus, #1)
by (shelved 249 times as ww2)
avg rating 4.39 — 381,410 ratings — published 1986
Atonement (Paperback)
by (shelved 246 times as ww2)
avg rating 3.95 — 571,587 ratings — published 2001
Hiroshima (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 242 times as ww2)
avg rating 4.06 — 91,566 ratings — published 1946
The Paris Library (Hardcover)
by (shelved 232 times as ww2)
avg rating 4.06 — 150,032 ratings — published 2021
The Diamond Eye (Hardcover)
by (shelved 230 times as ww2)
avg rating 4.29 — 217,973 ratings — published 2022
Inferno: The World at War, 1939-1945 (Hardcover)
by (shelved 214 times as ww2)
avg rating 4.36 — 11,349 ratings — published 2011
The Second World War (Hardcover)
by (shelved 214 times as ww2)
avg rating 4.40 — 11,072 ratings — published 2012
A Woman of No Importance: The Untold Story of the American Spy Who Helped Win World War II (Hardcover)
by (shelved 204 times as ww2)
avg rating 4.15 — 63,588 ratings — published 2019
The War That Saved My Life (The War That Saved My Life, #1)
by (shelved 198 times as ww2)
avg rating 4.49 — 118,611 ratings — published 2015
The Librarian of Auschwitz (Hardcover)
by (shelved 193 times as ww2)
avg rating 4.15 — 65,760 ratings — published 2012
“All the nut eaters and food faddists I have ever known, died early after a long period of senile decay - Winston Churchill”
― What Churchill Would Do: Practical Business Advice Based on Winston's WW2 Wisdom
― What Churchill Would Do: Practical Business Advice Based on Winston's WW2 Wisdom
“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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