Prisha's world war syllabus

1.
The Great War and Modern Memory
The Great War and Modern Memory 4.13 avg rating — 6,077 ratings
2.
The Tin Drum
The Tin Drum 3.95 avg rating — 45,957 ratings
3.
The Naked and the Dead
The Naked and the Dead 3.94 avg rating — 26,163 ratings
4.
The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich
The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich 4.22 avg rating — 144,582 ratings
5.
Fear
Fear 4.19 avg rating — 1,562 ratings
6.
The First World War
The First World War 4.04 avg rating — 15,645 ratings
7.
The Return of the Soldier
The Return of the Soldier 3.69 avg rating — 9,008 ratings
8.
All Quiet on the Western Front
All Quiet on the Western Front 4.10 avg rating — 505,046 ratings
9.
A Farewell to Arms
A Farewell to Arms 3.82 avg rating — 344,476 ratings
10.
Storm of Steel
Storm of Steel 4.15 avg rating — 20,486 ratings
11.
Goodbye to All That
Goodbye to All That 3.93 avg rating — 15,316 ratings
12.
Farthest Field: An Indian Story of the Second World War
Farthest Field: An Indian Story of the Second World War 3.89 avg rating — 556 ratings
13.
Churchill's Secret War: The British Empire and the Ravaging of India During World War II
Churchill's Secret War: The British Empire and the Ravaging of India During World War II 4.18 avg rating — 961 ratings
13.
Catch-22
Catch-22 3.99 avg rating — 873,329 ratings
15.
Hiroshima: Why America Dropped the Atomic Bomb
Hiroshima: Why America Dropped the Atomic Bomb 3.80 avg rating — 218 ratings
16.
Hiroshima in America
Hiroshima in America 4.15 avg rating — 120 ratings
17.
The Raj at War: A People’s History of India’s Second World War
The Raj at War: A People’s History of India’s Second World War 4.12 avg rating — 254 ratings
17.
Life and Fate
Life and Fate 4.45 avg rating — 14,758 ratings
17.
Stalingrad
Stalingrad 4.28 avg rating — 3,491 ratings
20.
The Burma Road: The Epic Story of the China-Burma-India Theater in World War II
The Burma Road: The Epic Story of the China-Burma-India Theater in World War II 3.92 avg rating — 469 ratings
21.
Army of Empire: The Untold Story of the Indian Army in World War I
Army of Empire: The Untold Story of the Indian Army in World War I 4.15 avg rating — 120 ratings
22.
The Battle for North Africa: El Alamein and the Turning Point for World War II
The Battle for North Africa: El Alamein and the Turning Point for World War II 4.22 avg rating — 32 ratings
23.
Death in Life: Survivors of Hiroshima
Death in Life: Survivors of Hiroshima 4.21 avg rating — 58 ratings
24.
Hiroshima
Hiroshima 4.04 avg rating — 86,440 ratings
25.
A World Destroyed: Hiroshima and Its Legacies
A World Destroyed: Hiroshima and Its Legacies 4.07 avg rating — 117 ratings
26.
Suffering Made Real: American Science and the Survivors at Hiroshima
Suffering Made Real: American Science and the Survivors at Hiroshima 3.17 avg rating — 12 ratings
27.
Farewell to Manzanar: A True Story of Japanese American Experience During and After the World War II Internment
Farewell to Manzanar: A True Story of Japanese American Experience During and After the World War II Internment 3.71 avg rating — 19,530 ratings
28.
A People's History of the Second World War: Resistance Versus Empire
A People's History of the Second World War: Resistance Versus Empire 3.98 avg rating — 65 ratings
29.
Bridge to the Sun: A Memoir of Love and War
Bridge to the Sun: A Memoir of Love and War 4.02 avg rating — 392 ratings
30.
Resistance: Memoirs of Occupied France
Resistance: Memoirs of Occupied France 4.13 avg rating — 1,498 ratings
31.
In the Shadow of War: The United States since the 1930s
In the Shadow of War: The United States since the 1930s 4.05 avg rating — 40 ratings
32.
India's War: World War II and the Making of Modern South Asia
India's War: World War II and the Making of Modern South Asia 4.10 avg rating — 287 ratings
33.
The Bomb
The Bomb 4.28 avg rating — 446 ratings
34.
Africa's World War: Congo, the Rwandan Genocide, and the Making of a Continental Catastrophe
Africa's World War: Congo, the Rwandan Genocide, and the Making of a Continental Catastrophe 4.09 avg rating — 783 ratings
35.
No Enchanted Palace: The End of Empire and the Ideological Origins of the United Nations
No Enchanted Palace: The End of Empire and the Ideological Origins of the United Nations 3.77 avg rating — 211 ratings
36.
Diary of Bergen-Belsen: 1944-1945
Diary of Bergen-Belsen: 1944-1945 4.10 avg rating — 199 ratings
37.
The Nazi War on Cancer
The Nazi War on Cancer 3.94 avg rating — 125 ratings
38.
Fallout: An American Nuclear Tragedy
Fallout: An American Nuclear Tragedy 4.03 avg rating — 35 ratings
39.
The Nazi Doctors: Medical Killing and the Psychology of Genocide
The Nazi Doctors: Medical Killing and the Psychology of Genocide 4.12 avg rating — 3,614 ratings
40.
The Jungle War: Mavericks, Marauders, and Madmen in the China-Burma-India Theater of World War II
The Jungle War: Mavericks, Marauders, and Madmen in the China-Burma-India Theater of World War II 3.49 avg rating — 49 ratings
41.
The Blood Never Dried: A People's History of the British Empire
The Blood Never Dried: A People's History of the British Empire 4.26 avg rating — 737 ratings
42.
The Good War: An Oral History of World War II
The Good War: An Oral History of World War II 4.30 avg rating — 4,770 ratings
43.
By the Bomb's Early Light: American Thought and Culture at the Dawn of the Atomic Age
By the Bomb's Early Light: American Thought and Culture at the Dawn of the Atomic Age 3.85 avg rating — 190 ratings
44.
Wartime: Understanding and Behavior in the Second World War
Wartime: Understanding and Behavior in the Second World War 4.16 avg rating — 758 ratings
45.
Rommel's Desert War: Waging World War II in North Africa, 1941–1943
Rommel's Desert War: Waging World War II in North Africa, 1941–1943 really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 25 ratings
46.
Forgotten Ally: China's World War II, 1937-1945
Forgotten Ally: China's World War II, 1937-1945 4.13 avg rating — 2,173 ratings
47.
The Quiet American
The Quiet American 3.98 avg rating — 68,867 ratings
48.
The Cairo Trilogy: Palace Walk, Palace of Desire, Sugar Street (The Cairo Trilogy #1-3)
The Cairo Trilogy: Palace Walk, Palace of Desire, Sugar Street (The Cairo Trilogy #1-3) 4.46 avg rating — 4,947 ratings
49.
Stalingrad: The Fateful Siege, 1942–1943
Stalingrad: The Fateful Siege, 1942–1943 4.32 avg rating — 40,053 ratings
50.
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 — 365,581 ratings
51.
Unit 731: The Forgotten Asian Auschwitz
Unit 731: The Forgotten Asian Auschwitz
by: Derek Pua
3.55 avg rating — 565 ratings
52.
Exposure: Victims of Radiation Speak Out
Exposure: Victims of Radiation Speak Out 3.75 avg rating — 4 ratings
53.
The Great War for Civilisation: The Conquest of the Middle East
The Great War for Civilisation: The Conquest of the Middle East 4.41 avg rating — 5,520 ratings
54.
Long the Imperial Way: A Japanese Soldier in China
Long the Imperial Way: A Japanese Soldier in China 3.50 avg rating — 8 ratings
55.
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 — 50,743 ratings
56.
The Sleepwalkers: How Europe Went to War in 1914
The Sleepwalkers: How Europe Went to War in 1914 4.23 avg rating — 13,395 ratings
57.
Three Soldiers
Three Soldiers 3.55 avg rating — 1,331 ratings
58.
The Great War in Africa: 1914-1918
The Great War in Africa: 1914-1918 4.08 avg rating — 259 ratings
59.
Hiroshima Diary
Hiroshima Diary 4.20 avg rating — 3,015 ratings
60.
Sophie's Choice
Sophie's Choice 4.17 avg rating — 93,607 ratings
61.
Britain and Arab Unity: A Documentary History from the Treaty of Versailles to the End of World War II
Britain and Arab Unity: A Documentary History from the Treaty of Versailles to the End of World War II 4.50 avg rating — 2 ratings
62.
The Regeneration Trilogy (Regeneration, #1-3)
The Regeneration Trilogy (Regeneration, #1-3) 4.37 avg rating — 2,837 ratings
63.
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
64.
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 — 22,176 ratings
65.
Hiroshima Nagasaki
Hiroshima Nagasaki
by: Paul Ham
4.35 avg rating — 1,015 ratings
66.
The Kaiser's Holocaust: Germany'S Forgotten Genocide and the Colonial Roots of Nazism
The Kaiser's Holocaust: Germany'S Forgotten Genocide and the Colonial Roots of Nazism 4.30 avg rating — 517 ratings
67.
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 — 8,400 ratings
68.
Yoko's Diary
Yoko's Diary
by: Paul Ham
3.94 avg rating — 353 ratings
69.
The Wall
The Wall 4.29 avg rating — 2,006 ratings
70.
Atonement
Atonement 3.95 avg rating — 551,977 ratings
71.
The Remains of the Day
The Remains of the Day 4.14 avg rating — 344,060 ratings
72.
The English Patient
The English Patient 3.86 avg rating — 137,382 ratings
73.
The Rape of Nanking: An Undeniable History in Photographs
The Rape of Nanking: An Undeniable History in Photographs
by: James Yin
4.57 avg rating — 137 ratings
74.
Once There Was a War
Once There Was a War 3.84 avg rating — 3,937 ratings
75.
Christmas Truce: The Western Front December 1914 (Pan Grand Strategy Series)
Christmas Truce: The Western Front December 1914 (Pan Grand Strategy Series) 3.87 avg rating — 112 ratings
76.
1916: A Global History
1916: A Global History 3.64 avg rating — 214 ratings
77.
A Peace to End All Peace: The Fall of the Ottoman Empire and The Creation of the Modern Middle East
A Peace to End All Peace: The Fall of the Ottoman Empire and The Creation of the Modern Middle East 4.22 avg rating — 9,543 ratings
78.
Desert Queen: The Extraordinary Life of Gertrude Bell: Adventurer, Adviser to Kings, Ally of Lawrence of Arabia
Desert Queen: The Extraordinary Life of Gertrude Bell: Adventurer, Adviser to Kings, Ally of Lawrence of Arabia 3.81 avg rating — 6,039 ratings
79.
The 42nd Parallel (U.S.A. #1)
The 42nd Parallel (U.S.A. #1) 3.83 avg rating — 7,652 ratings
80.
Europe's Last Summer: Who Started the Great War in 1914?
Europe's Last Summer: Who Started the Great War in 1914? 3.98 avg rating — 1,508 ratings
81.
Paris, 1919: Six Months that Changed the World
Paris, 1919: Six Months that Changed the World 4.13 avg rating — 14,816 ratings
82.
Memoirs of an Infantry Officer
Memoirs of an Infantry Officer 4.07 avg rating — 1,808 ratings
83.
August 1914 (The Red Wheel, #1)
August 1914 (The Red Wheel, #1) 3.94 avg rating — 2,770 ratings
84.
Parade's End
Parade's End 3.87 avg rating — 6,753 ratings
85.
The Good Soldier : A Tale of Passion
The Good Soldier : A Tale of Passion 3.67 avg rating — 28,235 ratings
86.
The African Queen
The African Queen really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 9,132 ratings
87.
Johnny Got His Gun
Johnny Got His Gun 4.21 avg rating — 47,420 ratings
88.
Maus II: A Survivor's Tale: And Here My Troubles Began (Maus, #2)
Maus II: A Survivor's Tale: And Here My Troubles Began (Maus, #2) 4.42 avg rating — 156,030 ratings
89.
One of Ours
One of Ours 3.95 avg rating — 9,720 ratings
90.
Ashenden
Ashenden 3.86 avg rating — 3,851 ratings
91.
Memoirs of a Fox-Hunting Man
Memoirs of a Fox-Hunting Man 3.92 avg rating — 1,660 ratings
92.
Journey's End
Journey's End 3.87 avg rating — 4,486 ratings
93.
Seven Pillars of Wisdom: A Triumph
Seven Pillars of Wisdom: A Triumph 3.91 avg rating — 11,816 ratings
94.
The War Lover
The War Lover 4.01 avg rating — 116 ratings
95.
Strange Defeat
Strange Defeat 3.98 avg rating — 1,013 ratings
96.
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
97.
A Bridge Too Far
A Bridge Too Far 4.27 avg rating — 21,303 ratings
98.
Postwar: A History of Europe Since 1945
Postwar: A History of Europe Since 1945
by: Tony Judt
4.38 avg rating — 13,387 ratings
99.
Year Zero: A History of 1945
Year Zero: A History of 1945 3.92 avg rating — 2,248 ratings
100.
The Great War
The Great War 3.67 avg rating — 58 ratings