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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 — 4,103,561 ratings — published 1947
The Book Thief (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 57 times as second-world-war)
avg rating 4.39 — 2,821,141 ratings — published 2005
All the Light We Cannot See (Hardcover)
by (shelved 40 times as second-world-war)
avg rating 4.31 — 1,922,764 ratings — published 2014
Stalingrad: The Fateful Siege, 1942–1943 (Paperback)
by (shelved 39 times as second-world-war)
avg rating 4.33 — 40,351 ratings — published 1998
The Boy in the Striped Pajamas (Hardcover)
by (shelved 31 times as second-world-war)
avg rating 4.16 — 944,157 ratings — published 2006
Night (Paperback)
by (shelved 27 times as second-world-war)
avg rating 4.38 — 1,341,465 ratings — published 1956
Atonement (Paperback)
by (shelved 26 times as second-world-war)
avg rating 3.95 — 555,353 ratings — published 2001
The Fall of Berlin 1945 (Paperback)
by (shelved 25 times as second-world-war)
avg rating 4.30 — 18,104 ratings — published 2002
The Nightingale (Hardcover)
by (shelved 24 times as second-world-war)
avg rating 4.64 — 1,951,887 ratings — published 2015
Band of Brothers: E Company, 506th Regiment, 101st Airborne from Normandy to Hitler's Eagle's Nest (Paperback)
by (shelved 23 times as second-world-war)
avg rating 4.44 — 136,772 ratings — published 1992
The Tattooist of Auschwitz (The Tattooist of Auschwitz, #1)
by (shelved 22 times as second-world-war)
avg rating 4.32 — 1,131,364 ratings — published 2018
The Second World War (Hardcover)
by (shelved 22 times as second-world-war)
avg rating 4.39 — 10,507 ratings — published 2012
The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society (Paperback)
by (shelved 21 times as second-world-war)
avg rating 4.19 — 798,033 ratings — published 2008
Sarah's Key (Hardcover)
by (shelved 20 times as second-world-war)
avg rating 4.18 — 491,402 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 — 22,644 ratings — published 1992
Catch-22 (Paperback)
by (shelved 19 times as second-world-war)
avg rating 3.99 — 876,985 ratings — published 1961
Man's Search for Meaning (Paperback)
by (shelved 18 times as second-world-war)
avg rating 4.37 — 843,426 ratings — published 1946
Every Man Dies Alone (Hardcover)
by (shelved 17 times as second-world-war)
avg rating 4.27 — 35,793 ratings — published 1947
Slaughterhouse-Five (Paperback)
by (shelved 17 times as second-world-war)
avg rating 4.10 — 1,459,665 ratings — published 1969
Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience and Redemption (Hardcover)
by (shelved 17 times as second-world-war)
avg rating 4.39 — 993,409 ratings — published 2010
D-Day: The Battle for Normandy (Hardcover)
by (shelved 17 times as second-world-war)
avg rating 4.18 — 12,096 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 — 145,575 ratings — published 1960
Survival in Auschwitz (Paperback)
by (shelved 16 times as second-world-war)
avg rating 4.34 — 84,558 ratings — published 1947
Inferno: The World at War, 1939-1945 (Hardcover)
by (shelved 16 times as second-world-war)
avg rating 4.36 — 10,898 ratings — published 2011
Code Name Verity (Code Name Verity, #1)
by (shelved 16 times as second-world-war)
avg rating 4.00 — 126,514 ratings — published 2012
The Forgotten Soldier (Paperback)
by (shelved 16 times as second-world-war)
avg rating 4.39 — 11,922 ratings — published 1967
With the Old Breed: At Peleliu and Okinawa (Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as second-world-war)
avg rating 4.49 — 46,436 ratings — published 1981
War's Unwomanly Face (Hardcover)
by (shelved 14 times as second-world-war)
avg rating 4.51 — 37,859 ratings — published 1983
Salt to the Sea (Hardcover)
by (shelved 14 times as second-world-war)
avg rating 4.35 — 247,568 ratings — published 2016
A Bridge Too Far (Hardcover)
by (shelved 14 times as second-world-war)
avg rating 4.27 — 21,361 ratings — published 1974
The Longest Day: June 6, 1944 (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as second-world-war)
avg rating 4.34 — 25,886 ratings — published 1959
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 — 11,772 ratings — published 2003
Armageddon: The Battle for Germany, 1944-1945 (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as second-world-war)
avg rating 4.28 — 7,383 ratings — published 2004
Ardennes 1944: The Battle of the Bulge (Hardcover)
by (shelved 12 times as second-world-war)
avg rating 4.12 — 4,914 ratings — published 2015
The Complete Maus (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as second-world-war)
avg rating 4.58 — 247,907 ratings — published 1980
In the Garden of Beasts: Love, Terror, and an American Family in Hitler's Berlin (Hardcover)
by (shelved 12 times as second-world-war)
avg rating 3.89 — 216,469 ratings — published 2011
Corelli’s Mandolin (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as second-world-war)
avg rating 4.03 — 92,011 ratings — published 1994
The Third Reich in Power (The History of the Third Reich, #2)
by (shelved 12 times as second-world-war)
avg rating 4.35 — 7,211 ratings — published 2005
Overlord: D-Day and the Battle for Normandy (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as second-world-war)
avg rating 4.17 — 5,886 ratings — published 1984
Why the Allies Won (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as second-world-war)
avg rating 4.19 — 2,262 ratings — published 1995
Schindler’s List (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as second-world-war)
avg rating 4.34 — 164,722 ratings — published 1982
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 — 3,934 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 — 10,651 ratings — published 2013
Bloodlands: Europe Between Hitler and Stalin (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as second-world-war)
avg rating 4.39 — 19,087 ratings — published 2010
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 4.29 — 22,353 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 — 9,876 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 4.53 — 2,922 ratings — published 2007
The Day of Battle: The War in Sicily and Italy, 1943-1944 (World War II Liberation Trilogy, #2)
by (shelved 11 times as second-world-war)
avg rating 4.36 — 15,601 ratings — published 2007
The Gathering Storm (The Second World War, #1)
by (shelved 11 times as second-world-war)
avg rating 4.38 — 7,531 ratings — published 1948
The Third Reich at War (The History of the Third Reich, #3)
by (shelved 11 times as second-world-war)
avg rating 4.39 — 6,013 ratings — published 2008
“How could a large land empire thrive and dominate in the modern world without reliable access to world markets and without much recourse to naval power?
Stalin and Hitler had arrived at the same basic answer to this fundamental question. The state must be large in territory and self-sufficient in economics, with a balance between industry and agriculture that supported a hardily conformist and ideologically motivated citizenry capable of fulfilling historical prophecies - either Stalinist internal industrialization or Nazi colonial agrarianism. Both Hitler and Stalin aimed at imperial autarky, within a large land empire well supplies in food, raw materials, and mineral resources. Both understood the flash appeal of modern materials: Stalin had named himself after steel, and Hitler paid special attention to is production. Yet both Stalin and Hitler understood agriculture as a key element in the completion of their revolutions. Both believed that their systems would prove their superiority to decadent capitalism, and guarantee independence from the rest of the world, by the production of food.
p. 158”
― Bloodlands: Europe Between Hitler and Stalin
Stalin and Hitler had arrived at the same basic answer to this fundamental question. The state must be large in territory and self-sufficient in economics, with a balance between industry and agriculture that supported a hardily conformist and ideologically motivated citizenry capable of fulfilling historical prophecies - either Stalinist internal industrialization or Nazi colonial agrarianism. Both Hitler and Stalin aimed at imperial autarky, within a large land empire well supplies in food, raw materials, and mineral resources. Both understood the flash appeal of modern materials: Stalin had named himself after steel, and Hitler paid special attention to is production. Yet both Stalin and Hitler understood agriculture as a key element in the completion of their revolutions. Both believed that their systems would prove their superiority to decadent capitalism, and guarantee independence from the rest of the world, by the production of food.
p. 158”
― Bloodlands: Europe Between Hitler and Stalin
“What should our second generation have done, what should it do with the knowledge of the horrors of the extermination of the Jews? We should not believe we can comprehend the incomprehensible, we may not compare the incomparable, we may not inquire because to inquire is to make the horrors an object of discussion, even if the horrors themselves are not questioned, instead of accepting them as something in the face of which we can only fall silent in revulsion, shame and guilt. Should we only fall silent in revulsion, shame and guilt? To what purpose?”
― The Reader
― The Reader
