World War II Memoirs

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Night
Night 4.38 avg rating — 1,334,293 ratings
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The Hiding Place: The Triumphant True Story of Corrie Ten Boom
The Hiding Place: The Triumphant True Story of Corrie Ten Boom 4.47 avg rating — 348,528 ratings
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The Nazi Officer's Wife: How One Jewish Woman Survived the Holocaust
The Nazi Officer's Wife: How One Jewish Woman Survived the Holocaust 4.17 avg rating — 48,562 ratings
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Hiroshima
Hiroshima 4.04 avg rating — 86,442 ratings
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Anne Frank Remembered: The Story of the Woman Who Helped to Hide the Frank Family
Anne Frank Remembered: The Story of the Woman Who Helped to Hide the Frank Family
by: Miep Gies
4.30 avg rating — 66,124 ratings
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The Diary of a Young Girl
The Diary of a Young Girl 4.20 avg rating — 4,073,511 ratings
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Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience and Redemption
Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience and Redemption 4.39 avg rating — 989,233 ratings
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Crabwalk
Crabwalk 3.47 avg rating — 4,041 ratings
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A Lucky Child: A Memoir of Surviving Auschwitz as a Young Boy
A Lucky Child: A Memoir of Surviving Auschwitz as a Young Boy 4.17 avg rating — 10,148 ratings
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I Have Lived A Thousand Years: Growing Up In The Holocaust
I Have Lived A Thousand Years: Growing Up In The Holocaust 4.19 avg rating — 23,341 ratings
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The Girls of Atomic City: The Untold Story of the Women Who Helped Win World War II
The Girls of Atomic City: The Untold Story of the Women Who Helped Win World War II 3.73 avg rating — 31,441 ratings
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Citizen Soldiers: The US Army from the Normandy Beaches to the Bulge to the Surrender of Germany
Citizen Soldiers: The US Army from the Normandy Beaches to the Bulge to the Surrender of Germany 4.24 avg rating — 24,326 ratings
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Hiroshima Diary: The Journal of a Japanese Physician, August 6-September 30, 1945
Hiroshima Diary: The Journal of a Japanese Physician, August 6-September 30, 1945 4.20 avg rating — 3,016 ratings
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Flyboys: A True Story of Courage
Flyboys: A True Story of Courage 4.20 avg rating — 22,798 ratings
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Beyond Band of Brothers: The War Memoirs of Major Dick Winters
Beyond Band of Brothers: The War Memoirs of Major Dick Winters 4.33 avg rating — 19,677 ratings
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In the Garden of Beasts: Love, Terror, and an American Family in Hitler's Berlin
In the Garden of Beasts: Love, Terror, and an American Family in Hitler's Berlin 3.89 avg rating — 215,190 ratings
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Masters of the Air: America's Bomber Boys Who Fought the Air War Against Nazi Germany
Masters of the Air: America's Bomber Boys Who Fought the Air War Against Nazi Germany 4.21 avg rating — 9,585 ratings
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In Harm's Way: The Sinking of the USS Indianapolis and the Extraordinary Story of Its Survivors
In Harm's Way: The Sinking of the USS Indianapolis and the Extraordinary Story of Its Survivors 4.33 avg rating — 23,191 ratings
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Evidence Not Seen: A Woman's Miraculous Faith in the Jungles of World War II
Evidence Not Seen: A Woman's Miraculous Faith in the Jungles of World War II 4.51 avg rating — 9,539 ratings
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Enemy at the Gates: The Battle for Stalingrad
Enemy at the Gates: The Battle for Stalingrad 4.23 avg rating — 14,178 ratings
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Inferno: The World at War, 1939-1945
Inferno: The World at War, 1939-1945 4.35 avg rating — 10,719 ratings
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An Army at Dawn: The War in North Africa, 1942-1943 (World War II Liberation Trilogy, #1)
An Army at Dawn: The War in North Africa, 1942-1943 (World War II Liberation Trilogy, #1) 4.29 avg rating — 22,180 ratings
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1939 - The War That Had Many Fathers: The Long Run-Up to the Second World War
1939 - The War That Had Many Fathers: The Long Run-Up to the Second World War 4.57 avg rating — 301 ratings
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When Books Went to War: The Stories that Helped Us Win World War II
When Books Went to War: The Stories that Helped Us Win World War II 3.92 avg rating — 8,413 ratings
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The Forgotten Soldier
The Forgotten Soldier
by: Guy Sajer
4.39 avg rating — 11,840 ratings
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Killing the Rising Sun: How America Vanquished World War II Japan
Killing the Rising Sun: How America Vanquished World War II Japan 4.35 avg rating — 21,289 ratings
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Schindler’s List
Schindler’s List 4.34 avg rating — 164,326 ratings
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A Train in Winter (The Resistance #1)
A Train in Winter (The Resistance #1) 3.85 avg rating — 8,703 ratings
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The Last Battle: The Classic History of the Battle for Berlin
The Last Battle: The Classic History of the Battle for Berlin 4.25 avg rating — 7,006 ratings
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Legacy of Ashes: The History of the CIA
Legacy of Ashes: The History of the CIA 3.95 avg rating — 14,512 ratings
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Armageddon: The Battle for Germany, 1944-1945
Armageddon: The Battle for Germany, 1944-1945 4.28 avg rating — 7,362 ratings
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Company Commander: The Classic Infantry Memoir of World War II
Company Commander: The Classic Infantry Memoir of World War II 4.24 avg rating — 4,921 ratings
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The Winter Fortress: The Epic Mission to Sabotage Hitler’s Atomic Bomb
The Winter Fortress: The Epic Mission to Sabotage Hitler’s Atomic Bomb 4.24 avg rating — 5,907 ratings
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If You Survive: From Normandy to the Battle of the Bulge to the End of World War II, One American Officer's Riveting True Story
If You Survive: From Normandy to the Battle of the Bulge to the End of World War II, One American Officer's Riveting True Story 4.23 avg rating — 3,877 ratings
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Quartered Safe Out Here: A Harrowing Tale of World War II
Quartered Safe Out Here: A Harrowing Tale of World War II 4.14 avg rating — 4,009 ratings
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The Cage
The Cage 4.10 avg rating — 6,420 ratings
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Black Hawk Down: A Story of Modern War
Black Hawk Down: A Story of Modern War 4.30 avg rating — 67,947 ratings
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Pegasus Bridge: June 6, 1944
Pegasus Bridge: June 6, 1944 4.15 avg rating — 10,974 ratings
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In My Hands: Memories of a Holocaust Rescuer
In My Hands: Memories of a Holocaust Rescuer 4.26 avg rating — 15,185 ratings
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Berlin Diary: The Journal of a Foreign Correspondent 1934-1941
Berlin Diary: The Journal of a Foreign Correspondent 1934-1941 4.34 avg rating — 6,315 ratings
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The Longest Winter: The Battle of the Bulge and the Epic Story of World War II's Most Decorated Platoon
The Longest Winter: The Battle of the Bulge and the Epic Story of World War II's Most Decorated Platoon 4.18 avg rating — 8,304 ratings
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Band of Brothers: E Company, 506th Regiment, 101st Airborne from Normandy to Hitler's Eagle's Nest
Band of Brothers: E Company, 506th Regiment, 101st Airborne from Normandy to Hitler's Eagle's Nest 4.44 avg rating — 136,022 ratings
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At Dawn We Slept: The Untold Story of Pearl Harbor
At Dawn We Slept: The Untold Story of Pearl Harbor 4.21 avg rating — 3,692 ratings
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A Woman in Berlin: Eight Weeks in the Conquered City: A Diary
A Woman in Berlin: Eight Weeks in the Conquered City: A Diary
by: Anonymous
4.29 avg rating — 17,076 ratings
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The Second World War
The Second World War 4.39 avg rating — 10,406 ratings
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The Rape of Nanking: The Forgotten Holocaust of World War II
The Rape of Nanking: The Forgotten Holocaust of World War II 4.24 avg rating — 50,753 ratings
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The Train to Crystal City: FDR's Secret Prisoner Exchange Program and America's Only Family Internment Camp During World War II
The Train to Crystal City: FDR's Secret Prisoner Exchange Program and America's Only Family Internment Camp During World War II 4.08 avg rating — 2,433 ratings
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The Story of the Trapp Family Singers
The Story of the Trapp Family Singers 3.92 avg rating — 16,916 ratings
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Helmet for My Pillow: From Parris Island to the Pacific
Helmet for My Pillow: From Parris Island to the Pacific 4.23 avg rating — 24,388 ratings
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The Monuments Men: Allied Heroes, Nazi Thieves, and the Greatest Treasure Hunt in History
The Monuments Men: Allied Heroes, Nazi Thieves, and the Greatest Treasure Hunt in History 3.80 avg rating — 51,856 ratings
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Rena's Promise: A Story of Sisters in Auschwitz
Rena's Promise: A Story of Sisters in Auschwitz 4.36 avg rating — 9,890 ratings
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A Bridge Too Far
A Bridge Too Far 4.27 avg rating — 21,304 ratings
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The Guns of August
The Guns of August 4.18 avg rating — 82,606 ratings
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The Third Reich at War (The History of the Third Reich, #3)
The Third Reich at War (The History of the Third Reich, #3) 4.39 avg rating — 5,928 ratings
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Pacific Crucible: War at Sea in the Pacific, 1941–1942
Pacific Crucible: War at Sea in the Pacific, 1941–1942 4.61 avg rating — 9,760 ratings
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On Hitler's Mountain: Overcoming the Legacy of a Nazi Childhood
On Hitler's Mountain: Overcoming the Legacy of a Nazi Childhood 3.97 avg rating — 3,966 ratings
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Memoirs of the Second World War
Memoirs of the Second World War 4.49 avg rating — 1,193 ratings
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Retribution: The Battle for Japan, 1944-45
Retribution: The Battle for Japan, 1944-45 4.28 avg rating — 5,079 ratings
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Baa Baa Black Sheep
Baa Baa Black Sheep 4.04 avg rating — 3,552 ratings
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One Man's Justice
One Man's Justice 3.94 avg rating — 362 ratings
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German Boy: A Child in War
German Boy: A Child in War 4.44 avg rating — 2,056 ratings
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With the Old Breed: At Peleliu and Okinawa
With the Old Breed: At Peleliu and Okinawa 4.49 avg rating — 45,843 ratings
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Maus I: A Survivor's Tale: My Father Bleeds History (Maus, #1)
Maus I: A Survivor's Tale: My Father Bleeds History (Maus, #1) 4.39 avg rating — 365,614 ratings
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Blitzed: Drugs in the Third Reich
Blitzed: Drugs in the Third Reich 4.05 avg rating — 30,226 ratings
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When Hitler Stole Pink Rabbit (Out of the Hitler Time, #1)
When Hitler Stole Pink Rabbit (Out of the Hitler Time, #1) 3.99 avg rating — 23,728 ratings
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The Longest Day: June 6, 1944
The Longest Day: June 6, 1944 4.34 avg rating — 25,785 ratings
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Code Talker: The First and Only Memoir By One of the Original Navajo Code Talkers of WWII
Code Talker: The First and Only Memoir By One of the Original Navajo Code Talkers of WWII 4.26 avg rating — 8,401 ratings
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The Upstairs Room
The Upstairs Room 3.84 avg rating — 12,069 ratings
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The Long Walk: The True Story of a Trek to Freedom
The Long Walk: The True Story of a Trek to Freedom 4.24 avg rating — 21,396 ratings
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Through Innocent Eyes: The Chosen Girls of the Hitler Youth
Through Innocent Eyes: The Chosen Girls of the Hitler Youth 4.38 avg rating — 45 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
The Tumbler: A 16-year-old Boy's Live Chronicle of Auschwitz, Belsen, Hanover, Hildesheim, Wolgsberg and Wustegiersdorf Nazi Death Camps really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 11 ratings
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We Band of Angels: The Untold Story of American Nurses Trapped on Bataan by the Japanese
We Band of Angels: The Untold Story of American Nurses Trapped on Bataan by the Japanese 4.28 avg rating — 4,732 ratings
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Gertruda's Oath: A Child, a Promise, and a Heroic Escape During World War II
Gertruda's Oath: A Child, a Promise, and a Heroic Escape During World War II
by: Ram Oren
4.14 avg rating — 2,083 ratings
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Yellow Star
Yellow Star 4.25 avg rating — 16,227 ratings
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Cork Wars: Intrigue and Industry in World War II
Cork Wars: Intrigue and Industry in World War II 3.98 avg rating — 62 ratings
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The Rising Sun: The Decline & Fall of the Japanese Empire, 1936-45
The Rising Sun: The Decline & Fall of the Japanese Empire, 1936-45 4.30 avg rating — 5,936 ratings
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The Few: The American "Knights of the Air" Who Risked Everything to Save Britain in the Summer of 1940
The Few: The American "Knights of the Air" Who Risked Everything to Save Britain in the Summer of 1940 4.13 avg rating — 2,106 ratings
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Spandau: The Secret Diaries
Spandau: The Secret Diaries 4.13 avg rating — 1,102 ratings
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Operation Mincemeat: How a Dead Man and a Bizarre Plan Fooled the Nazis and Assured an Allied Victory
Operation Mincemeat: How a Dead Man and a Bizarre Plan Fooled the Nazis and Assured an Allied Victory 4.03 avg rating — 22,520 ratings
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The Little Girl That Could: A Memoir
The Little Girl That Could: A Memoir really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 7 ratings
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The Brave Japanese
The Brave Japanese 4.23 avg rating — 379 ratings
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My Name Was Five: A Novel of the Second World War
My Name Was Five: A Novel of the Second World War 4.11 avg rating — 88 ratings
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The Railway Man
The Railway Man 4.13 avg rating — 7,981 ratings
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Adventure, romance and war in the Far East: The Iris Hay-Edie Diary: A historical memoir
Adventure, romance and war in the Far East: The Iris Hay-Edie Diary: A historical memoir 4.28 avg rating — 160 ratings
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Six Days on a Raft
Six Days on a Raft 4.22 avg rating — 85 ratings
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'Rommel?' 'Gunner Who?': A Confrontation in the Desert
'Rommel?' 'Gunner Who?': A Confrontation in the Desert 4.17 avg rating — 3,023 ratings
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Agent Zigzag: A True Story of Nazi Espionage, Love, and Betrayal
Agent Zigzag: A True Story of Nazi Espionage, Love, and Betrayal 4.14 avg rating — 19,738 ratings
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Shanghai Diary: A Young Girl's Journey from Hitler's Hate to War-Torn China
Shanghai Diary: A Young Girl's Journey from Hitler's Hate to War-Torn China 4.08 avg rating — 986 ratings
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Sisterhood of Spies: The Women of the OSS
Sisterhood of Spies: The Women of the OSS 3.70 avg rating — 553 ratings
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The Hare With Amber Eyes: A Family's Century of Art and Loss
The Hare With Amber Eyes: A Family's Century of Art and Loss 3.95 avg rating — 61,689 ratings
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To Hell And Back
To Hell And Back 4.26 avg rating — 8,645 ratings
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World War II London Blitz Diary: A Woman's Revelations Enduring War and Marriage, Volume 1
World War II London Blitz Diary: A Woman's Revelations Enduring War and Marriage, Volume 1 3.66 avg rating — 488 ratings
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The Road Past Mandalay: A Personal Narrative
The Road Past Mandalay: A Personal Narrative 4.42 avg rating — 320 ratings
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Blockade. The diary of an Austrian middle-class woman, 1914-1924
Blockade. The diary of an Austrian middle-class woman, 1914-1924 3.67 avg rating — 1,193 ratings
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Das Boot: The Boat
Das Boot: The Boat 4.26 avg rating — 5,825 ratings
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The Small Woman
The Small Woman 4.28 avg rating — 1,666 ratings
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The Children of Willesden Lane. Beyond the Kindertransport: A Memoir of Music, Love, and Survival
The Children of Willesden Lane. Beyond the Kindertransport: A Memoir of Music, Love, and Survival 4.26 avg rating — 3,910 ratings
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A Soldier's Story
A Soldier's Story 4.10 avg rating — 1,194 ratings
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Running From Giants: The Holocaust Through the Eyes of a Child
Running From Giants: The Holocaust Through the Eyes of a Child 4.15 avg rating — 114 ratings
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The Last Jew of Treblinka
The Last Jew of Treblinka 4.35 avg rating — 6,904 ratings
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