Holocaust / WWII memoirs, diaries, biographies

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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 — 348,518 ratings
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The Diary of a Young Girl
The Diary of a Young Girl 4.20 avg rating — 4,073,307 ratings
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Night
Night 4.38 avg rating — 1,334,241 ratings
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Hiding Abigail. The Girl with the Yellow Star. : An absolutely beautiful and heartbreaking WW2 historical novel
Hiding Abigail. The Girl with the Yellow Star. : An absolutely beautiful and heartbreaking WW2 historical novel 3.92 avg rating — 105 ratings
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Hope and Honor
Hope and Honor 4.39 avg rating — 119 ratings
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Lily's Promise: How I Survived Auschwitz and Found the Strength to Live
Lily's Promise: How I Survived Auschwitz and Found the Strength to Live 4.59 avg rating — 7,691 ratings
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Schindler’s List
Schindler’s List 4.34 avg rating — 164,325 ratings
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The Pianist: The Extraordinary Story of One Man's Survival in Warsaw, 1939–45
The Pianist: The Extraordinary Story of One Man's Survival in Warsaw, 1939–45 4.25 avg rating — 79,660 ratings
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When Time Stopped: A Memoir of My Father's War and What Remains
When Time Stopped: A Memoir of My Father's War and What Remains 4.33 avg rating — 7,252 ratings
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Eyewitness Auschwitz: Three Years in the Gas Chambers
Eyewitness Auschwitz: Three Years in the Gas Chambers 4.28 avg rating — 5,814 ratings
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Separated Together: The Incredible True WWII Story of Soulmates Stranded an Ocean Apart
Separated Together: The Incredible True WWII Story of Soulmates Stranded an Ocean Apart 4.48 avg rating — 387 ratings
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Mala's Cat: A Memoir of Survival in World War II
Mala's Cat: A Memoir of Survival in World War II 4.13 avg rating — 2,495 ratings
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The Happiest Man on Earth
The Happiest Man on Earth 4.61 avg rating — 117,999 ratings
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Tramp for the Lord
Tramp for the Lord 4.50 avg rating — 25,905 ratings
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By Chance Alone: A Remarkable True Story of Courage and Survival at Auschwitz
By Chance Alone: A Remarkable True Story of Courage and Survival at Auschwitz
by: Max Eisen
4.56 avg rating — 5,135 ratings
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I Escaped from Auschwitz
I Escaped from Auschwitz 4.49 avg rating — 7,535 ratings
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The Story Keeper
The Story Keeper 4.32 avg rating — 127 ratings
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The Boy on the Wooden Box
The Boy on the Wooden Box 4.38 avg rating — 29,040 ratings
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Hana's Suitcase
Hana's Suitcase 4.20 avg rating — 9,969 ratings
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Wolf: A Story of Hate
Wolf: A Story of Hate 4.56 avg rating — 205 ratings
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Escape from Sobibor
Escape from Sobibor 4.32 avg rating — 3,090 ratings
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Inside the Gas Chambers: Eight Months in the Sonderkommando of Auschwitz
Inside the Gas Chambers: Eight Months in the Sonderkommando of Auschwitz 4.39 avg rating — 4,203 ratings
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The Volunteer: The True Story of the Resistance Hero who Infiltrated Auschwitz
The Volunteer: The True Story of the Resistance Hero who Infiltrated Auschwitz 4.33 avg rating — 8,360 ratings
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Outcry: Holocaust Memoirs
Outcry: Holocaust Memoirs 4.51 avg rating — 3,729 ratings
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Vera Brittain's Diary 1939-1945 (CH) (Charnwood Large Print Library Series)
Vera Brittain's Diary 1939-1945 (CH) (Charnwood Large Print Library Series) 3.83 avg rating — 6 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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Alicia: My Story
Alicia: My Story 4.14 avg rating — 11,729 ratings
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Four Perfect Pebbles: A Holocaust Story
Four Perfect Pebbles: A Holocaust Story
by: Lila Perl
3.99 avg rating — 7,074 ratings
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Outcasts: A Love Story
Outcasts: A Love Story 3.62 avg rating — 16 ratings
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Shoes of the Shoah: The Tomorrow of Yesterday
Shoes of the Shoah: The Tomorrow of Yesterday 4.25 avg rating — 332 ratings
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Memories of Evil: Recalling a World War II Childhood
Memories of Evil: Recalling a World War II Childhood 4.41 avg rating — 145 ratings
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When the Sirens Sounded: A Wartime Childhood
When the Sirens Sounded: A Wartime Childhood really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 2 ratings
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The Little Girl Who Could Not Cry
The Little Girl Who Could Not Cry 4.11 avg rating — 2,532 ratings
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The Diary Keepers: World War II in the Netherlands, as Written by the People Who Lived Through It
The Diary Keepers: World War II in the Netherlands, as Written by the People Who Lived Through It 4.33 avg rating — 593 ratings
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Kino and Kinder: A Family's Journey in the Shadow of the Holocaust
Kino and Kinder: A Family's Journey in the Shadow of the Holocaust 4.86 avg rating — 7 ratings
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At the Heart of the White Rose: Letters and Diaries of Hans and Sophie Scholl
At the Heart of the White Rose: Letters and Diaries of Hans and Sophie Scholl 4.33 avg rating — 290 ratings
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If It's Not Impossible...: The Life of Sir Nicholas Winton
If It's Not Impossible...: The Life of Sir Nicholas Winton 3.73 avg rating — 1,103 ratings
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The Stone Crusher: The True Story of a Father and Son's Fight for Survival in Auschwitz
The Stone Crusher: The True Story of a Father and Son's Fight for Survival in Auschwitz 4.45 avg rating — 19,384 ratings
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But You Did Not Come Back
But You Did Not Come Back 4.27 avg rating — 3,466 ratings
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The Man Across the River
The Man Across the River 4.64 avg rating — 307 ratings
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Safe Passage
Safe Passage
by: Ida Cook
3.72 avg rating — 1,310 ratings
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I Was Writing This Diary for You, Sasha
I Was Writing This Diary for You, Sasha 3.60 avg rating — 5 ratings
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The Men with the Pink Triangle: The True Life-and-Death Story of Homosexuals in the Nazi Death Camps
The Men with the Pink Triangle: The True Life-and-Death Story of Homosexuals in the Nazi Death Camps 4.35 avg rating — 3,402 ratings
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Franz Jägerstätter: Letters and Writings from Prison
Franz Jägerstätter: Letters and Writings from Prison 4.48 avg rating — 149 ratings
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Hidden in Berlin: A Holocaust Memoir
Hidden in Berlin: A Holocaust Memoir 4.33 avg rating — 763 ratings
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A Garland for Ashes: World War II, the Holocaust, and One Jewish Survivor’s Long Journey to Forgiveness
A Garland for Ashes: World War II, the Holocaust, and One Jewish Survivor’s Long Journey to Forgiveness 4.32 avg rating — 112 ratings
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The Plot to Kill Hitler: Dietrich Bonhoeffer—Pastor, Spy, Unlikely Hero
The Plot to Kill Hitler: Dietrich Bonhoeffer—Pastor, Spy, Unlikely Hero 4.04 avg rating — 2,715 ratings
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If Anyone Calls, Tell Them I Died
If Anyone Calls, Tell Them I Died 4.18 avg rating — 267 ratings
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Strength: My Memoir
Strength: My Memoir 4.76 avg rating — 41 ratings
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A-Not-So-Still-Life
A-Not-So-Still-Life 4.29 avg rating — 21 ratings
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The Cretan Runner: The Story of the German Occupation
The Cretan Runner: The Story of the German Occupation 3.78 avg rating — 424 ratings
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Up Front
Up Front 4.45 avg rating — 1,556 ratings
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One-way Ticket from Westerbork
One-way Ticket from Westerbork 4.21 avg rating — 24 ratings
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Surviving the Holocaust: The Kovno Ghetto Diary
Surviving the Holocaust: The Kovno Ghetto Diary 4.26 avg rating — 35 ratings
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The House on Thrömerstrasse: A Story of Rebirth and Renewal in the Wake of the Holocaust
The House on Thrömerstrasse: A Story of Rebirth and Renewal in the Wake of the Holocaust 4.09 avg rating — 128 ratings
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Carve Her Name with Pride: The Story of Violette Szabo
Carve Her Name with Pride: The Story of Violette Szabo 4.22 avg rating — 628 ratings
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The Cage
The Cage 4.10 avg rating — 6,421 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 — 48,563 ratings
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From Yale to Jail: The Life Story of a Moral Dissenter
From Yale to Jail: The Life Story of a Moral Dissenter 4.40 avg rating — 55 ratings
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Heart Songs: A Holocaust Memoir (Holocaust Survivor True Stories WWII #4)
Heart Songs: A Holocaust Memoir (Holocaust Survivor True Stories WWII #4) 4.28 avg rating — 137 ratings
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Dancing with My Father
Dancing with My Father 4.52 avg rating — 170 ratings
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The Past Is Myself
The Past Is Myself 3.97 avg rating — 591 ratings
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Appel Is Forever: A Child's Memoir
Appel Is Forever: A Child's Memoir really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 13 ratings
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The Test of Courage: Michel Thomas
The Test of Courage: Michel Thomas 4.22 avg rating — 437 ratings
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Man's Search for Meaning
Man's Search for Meaning 4.37 avg rating — 832,501 ratings
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The Ciano Diaries 1939-1943: The Complete, Unabridged Diaries of Count Galeazzo Ciano, Italian Minister of Foreign Affairs, 1936-1943
The Ciano Diaries 1939-1943: The Complete, Unabridged Diaries of Count Galeazzo Ciano, Italian Minister of Foreign Affairs, 1936-1943 4.33 avg rating — 221 ratings
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I Am a Star: Child of the Holocaust
I Am a Star: Child of the Holocaust 3.99 avg rating — 1,393 ratings
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The Shadow of His Wings: The True Story of Fr. Gereon Goldmann, OFM
The Shadow of His Wings: The True Story of Fr. Gereon Goldmann, OFM 4.51 avg rating — 1,979 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 — 15,186 ratings
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Save my Children. An Astonishing Tale of Survival and its Unlikely Hero
Save my Children. An Astonishing Tale of Survival and its Unlikely Hero 4.63 avg rating — 681 ratings
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All But My Life
All But My Life 4.33 avg rating — 21,984 ratings
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The Big Lie: A True Story
The Big Lie: A True Story 3.89 avg rating — 471 ratings
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Facing the Lion: Memoirs of a Young Girl in Nazi Europe
Facing the Lion: Memoirs of a Young Girl in Nazi Europe 4.71 avg rating — 1,767 ratings
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Living Among the Dead: My Grandmother's Holocaust Survival Story of Love and Strength
Living Among the Dead: My Grandmother's Holocaust Survival Story of Love and Strength 4.29 avg rating — 306 ratings
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The Complete Maus
The Complete Maus 4.58 avg rating — 245,669 ratings
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The Seamstress
The Seamstress 4.14 avg rating — 7,617 ratings
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A Brilliant Life: My Mother's Inspiring True Story of Surviving the Holocaust
A Brilliant Life: My Mother's Inspiring True Story of Surviving the Holocaust 4.30 avg rating — 1,915 ratings
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The Diary of Petr Ginz
The Diary of Petr Ginz
by: Petr Ginz
3.85 avg rating — 440 ratings
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Remembering Ravensbrück. Holocaust to Healing
Remembering Ravensbrück. Holocaust to Healing 4.32 avg rating — 320 ratings
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KL: A History of the Nazi Concentration Camps
KL: A History of the Nazi Concentration Camps 4.55 avg rating — 2,070 ratings
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Where Stands a Winged Sentry (Handheld World War 2 Classics Book 4)
Where Stands a Winged Sentry (Handheld World War 2 Classics Book 4) 4.30 avg rating — 80 ratings
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Krystyna: The Tragedy of the Polish Resistance (STUDIES IN AUSTRIAN LITERATURE, CULTURE, AND THOUGHT TRANSLATION SERIES)
Krystyna: The Tragedy of the Polish Resistance (STUDIES IN AUSTRIAN LITERATURE, CULTURE, AND THOUGHT TRANSLATION SERIES) 3.47 avg rating — 15 ratings
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My Lvov: Holocaust Memoir of a Twelve-Year-Old Girl
My Lvov: Holocaust Memoir of a Twelve-Year-Old Girl 4.21 avg rating — 244 ratings
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Hell Before Their Very Eyes: American Soldiers Liberate Concentration Camps in Germany, April 1945
Hell Before Their Very Eyes: American Soldiers Liberate Concentration Camps in Germany, April 1945 4.23 avg rating — 223 ratings
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Elli: Coming of Age in the Holocaust
Elli: Coming of Age in the Holocaust 4.38 avg rating — 851 ratings
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Night of the Mist
Night of the Mist 4.14 avg rating — 21 ratings
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Under the Yellow & Red Stars (The Azrieli Series of Holocaust Survivor Memoirs, 5)
Under the Yellow & Red Stars (The Azrieli Series of Holocaust Survivor Memoirs, 5) 3.70 avg rating — 10 ratings
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The Light of Days: The Untold Story of Women Resistance Fighters in Hitler's Ghettos
The Light of Days: The Untold Story of Women Resistance Fighters in Hitler's Ghettos 4.07 avg rating — 9,480 ratings
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A Holocaust Memoir of Love & Resilience: Mama's Survival from Lithuania to America
A Holocaust Memoir of Love & Resilience: Mama's Survival from Lithuania to America 4.19 avg rating — 407 ratings
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The Girl in the Green Sweater: A Life in Holocaust's Shadow
The Girl in the Green Sweater: A Life in Holocaust's Shadow 4.22 avg rating — 6,844 ratings
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Rescued from the Ashes: The Diary of Leokadia Schmidt, Survivor of the Warsaw Ghetto
Rescued from the Ashes: The Diary of Leokadia Schmidt, Survivor of the Warsaw Ghetto 4.37 avg rating — 1,463 ratings
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Nazi Wives: The Women at the Top of Hitler's Germany
Nazi Wives: The Women at the Top of Hitler's Germany 3.83 avg rating — 2,709 ratings
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Holocaust Memoirs by a Bergen-Belsen survivor & Classmate of Anne Frank
Holocaust Memoirs by a Bergen-Belsen survivor & Classmate of Anne Frank 4.40 avg rating — 1,437 ratings
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A Woman of No Importance: The Untold Story of the American Spy Who Helped Win World War II
A Woman of No Importance: The Untold Story of the American Spy Who Helped Win World War II 4.15 avg rating — 58,208 ratings
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See You Tonight and Promise to Be a Good Boy!: War memories
See You Tonight and Promise to Be a Good Boy!: War memories 4.22 avg rating — 139 ratings
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Hitler's Children: Sons and Daughters of Third Reich Leaders
Hitler's Children: Sons and Daughters of Third Reich Leaders 3.99 avg rating — 1,296 ratings
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Tote Jahre: Eine jüdische Leidensgeschichte (Holocaust Überlebende erzählen)
Tote Jahre: Eine jüdische Leidensgeschichte (Holocaust Überlebende erzählen) really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 15 ratings
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Code Name: Lise: The True Story of the Woman Who Became WWII's Most Highly Decorated Spy
Code Name: Lise: The True Story of the Woman Who Became WWII's Most Highly Decorated Spy 3.99 avg rating — 11,603 ratings
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Madame Fourcade's Secret War: The Daring Young Woman Who Led France's Largest Spy Network Against Hitler
Madame Fourcade's Secret War: The Daring Young Woman Who Led France's Largest Spy Network Against Hitler 4.22 avg rating — 8,386 ratings
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Among the Reeds: The True Story of How a Family Survived the Holocaust
Among the Reeds: The True Story of How a Family Survived the Holocaust 4.32 avg rating — 1,526 ratings
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