World War Two - Firsthand Accounts (nonfiction)

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A Frozen Hell: The Russo-Finnish Winter War of 1939-1940
A Frozen Hell: The Russo-Finnish Winter War of 1939-1940 4.15 avg rating β€” 1,796 ratings
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World War II: Behind Closed Doors; Stalin, the Nazis, and the West
World War II: Behind Closed Doors; Stalin, the Nazis, and the West 4.25 avg rating β€” 831 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 β€” 3,692 ratings
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Ordinary Men: Reserve Police Battalion 101 and the Final Solution in Poland
Ordinary Men: Reserve Police Battalion 101 and the Final Solution in Poland 4.11 avg rating β€” 22,319 ratings
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What Soldiers Do: Sex and the American GI in World War II France
What Soldiers Do: Sex and the American GI in World War II France 3.92 avg rating β€” 381 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 β€” 2,433 ratings
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Letters From Iwo Jima
Letters From Iwo Jima 4.17 avg rating β€” 1,009 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 β€” 8,303 ratings
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The Good War: An Oral History of World War II
The Good War: An Oral History of World War II 4.30 avg rating β€” 4,770 ratings
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Why the Allies Won
Why the Allies Won 4.19 avg rating β€” 2,230 ratings
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Medaliony
Medaliony 4.04 avg rating β€” 6,147 ratings
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Armageddon: The Battle for Germany, 1944-1945
Armageddon: The Battle for Germany, 1944-1945 4.28 avg rating β€” 7,363 ratings
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Thanks to My Mother
Thanks to My Mother 4.12 avg rating β€” 2,517 ratings
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Crimes and Mercies: The Fate of German Civilians Under Allied Occupation, 1944-50
Crimes and Mercies: The Fate of German Civilians Under Allied Occupation, 1944-50 4.22 avg rating β€” 114 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 β€” 4,201 ratings
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Three Against Hitler
Three Against Hitler 4.18 avg rating β€” 1,024 ratings
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Berlin at War: Life and Death in Hitler's Capital, 1939-45
Berlin at War: Life and Death in Hitler's Capital, 1939-45 4.17 avg rating β€” 1,155 ratings
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Rommel: The Desert Fox
Rommel: The Desert Fox 4.07 avg rating β€” 972 ratings
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Code Girls: The Untold Story of the American Women Code Breakers of World War II
Code Girls: The Untold Story of the American Women Code Breakers of World War II 3.96 avg rating β€” 29,155 ratings
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The Second World War
The Second World War 4.39 avg rating β€” 10,406 ratings
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The Second World War
The Second World War 4.48 avg rating β€” 1,715 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 β€” 5,936 ratings
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The Dog Who Could Fly: The Incredible True Story of a WWII Airman and the Four-Legged Hero Who Flew At His Side
The Dog Who Could Fly: The Incredible True Story of a WWII Airman and the Four-Legged Hero Who Flew At His Side 4.29 avg rating β€” 2,046 ratings
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The End: The Defiance and Destruction of Hitler's Germany 1944-45
The End: The Defiance and Destruction of Hitler's Germany 1944-45 4.14 avg rating β€” 4,765 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 β€” 21,288 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 β€” 62 ratings
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War in My Town
War in My Town 4.15 avg rating β€” 61 ratings
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Passing Clouds
Passing Clouds it was amazing 5.00 avg rating β€” 14 ratings
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Shinano!: The Sinking of Japan's Secret Supership
Shinano!: The Sinking of Japan's Secret Supership 4.08 avg rating β€” 126 ratings
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Is Paris Burning?
Is Paris Burning? 4.15 avg rating β€” 4,024 ratings
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Onward Towards Our Noble Deaths
Onward Towards Our Noble Deaths 4.03 avg rating β€” 2,562 ratings
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Easy Company Soldier: The Legendary Battles of a Sergeant from World War II's "Band of Brothers"
Easy Company Soldier: The Legendary Battles of a Sergeant from World War II's "Band of Brothers" 4.31 avg rating β€” 4,695 ratings
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Das Reich: The March of the 2nd SS Panzer Division Through France, June 1944
Das Reich: The March of the 2nd SS Panzer Division Through France, June 1944 really liked it 4.00 avg rating β€” 1,473 ratings
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Pegasus Bridge: June 6, 1944
Pegasus Bridge: June 6, 1944 4.15 avg rating β€” 10,973 ratings
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Wartime: Understanding and Behavior in the Second World War
Wartime: Understanding and Behavior in the Second World War 4.16 avg rating β€” 758 ratings
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Atonement
Atonement 3.95 avg rating β€” 551,968 ratings
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Barbarossa
Barbarossa 4.09 avg rating β€” 1,727 ratings
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The Mitford Girls: The Biography of an Extraordinary Family
The Mitford Girls: The Biography of an Extraordinary Family 3.91 avg rating β€” 13,808 ratings
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Stilwell and the American Experience in China, 1911-45
Stilwell and the American Experience in China, 1911-45 4.16 avg rating β€” 3,678 ratings
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Heroes of Telemark
Heroes of Telemark
by: ray-mears
4.30 avg rating β€” 244 ratings
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The Secret Rescue: An Untold Story of American Nurses and Medics Behind Nazi Lines
The Secret Rescue: An Untold Story of American Nurses and Medics Behind Nazi Lines 3.74 avg rating β€” 2,008 ratings
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Between Silk and Cyanide: A Codemaker's War, 1941-1945
Between Silk and Cyanide: A Codemaker's War, 1941-1945
by: Leo Marks
4.25 avg rating β€” 2,631 ratings
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Clara's War: A Young Girl's True Story of Miraculous Survival Under the Nazis
Clara's War: A Young Girl's True Story of Miraculous Survival Under the Nazis 4.20 avg rating β€” 9,270 ratings
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Panzer Leader
Panzer Leader 4.12 avg rating β€” 4,315 ratings
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The Liberator: One World War II Soldier's 500-Day Odyssey from the Beaches of Sicily to the Gates of Dachau
The Liberator: One World War II Soldier's 500-Day Odyssey from the Beaches of Sicily to the Gates of Dachau 4.29 avg rating β€” 6,833 ratings
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Alicia: My Story
Alicia: My Story 4.14 avg rating β€” 11,729 ratings
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Keith, A: Three Came Home
Keith, A: Three Came Home 4.17 avg rating β€” 941 ratings
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Decision in Normandy
Decision in Normandy 4.05 avg rating β€” 869 ratings
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Der totale Rausch: Drogen im Dritten Reich
Der totale Rausch: Drogen im Dritten Reich 4.05 avg rating β€” 30,222 ratings
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The Story Keeper
The Story Keeper 4.32 avg rating β€” 127 ratings
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A Higher Call: An Incredible True Story of Combat and Chivalry in the War-Torn Skies of World War II
A Higher Call: An Incredible True Story of Combat and Chivalry in the War-Torn Skies of World War II 4.38 avg rating β€” 27,205 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 β€” 11 ratings
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Survivors: True Stories of Children in the Holocaust
Survivors: True Stories of Children in the Holocaust 4.25 avg rating β€” 6,197 ratings
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Yellow Star
Yellow Star 4.25 avg rating β€” 16,225 ratings
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We Were Not Alone: How an LDS Family Survived World War II Berlin
We Were Not Alone: How an LDS Family Survived World War II Berlin 4.22 avg rating β€” 480 ratings
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The Remnant - The Jewish Resistance in WWII (The Jewish History Novel Series Book 3)
The Remnant - The Jewish Resistance in WWII (The Jewish History Novel Series Book 3) 4.28 avg rating β€” 262 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 β€” 14,178 ratings
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How We Lived Then: A History of Everyday Life During the Second World War
How We Lived Then: A History of Everyday Life During the Second World War 4.24 avg rating β€” 232 ratings
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The Few: The American "Knights of the Air" Who Risked Everything to Fight in the Battle of Britain
The Few: The American "Knights of the Air" Who Risked Everything to Fight in the Battle of Britain 4.13 avg rating β€” 2,106 ratings
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Hitler
Hitler 4.36 avg rating β€” 6,159 ratings
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The SS: A New History
The SS: A New History 3.79 avg rating β€” 729 ratings
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The Ghost Mountain Boys: Their Epic March and the Terrifying Battle for New Guinea--The Forgotten War of the South Pacific
The Ghost Mountain Boys: Their Epic March and the Terrifying Battle for New Guinea--The Forgotten War of the South Pacific 4.03 avg rating β€” 1,291 ratings
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The Coldest Winter: America and the Korean War
The Coldest Winter: America and the Korean War 4.22 avg rating β€” 9,183 ratings
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Brothers In Battle, Best of Friends
Brothers In Battle, Best of Friends 4.30 avg rating β€” 4,844 ratings
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Women Heroes of World War II: 26 Stories of Espionage, Sabotage, Resistance, and Rescue
Women Heroes of World War II: 26 Stories of Espionage, Sabotage, Resistance, and Rescue 4.06 avg rating β€” 1,547 ratings
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Horrie The War Dog: The Story of Australia's Most Famous Dog
Horrie The War Dog: The Story of Australia's Most Famous Dog 4.21 avg rating β€” 237 ratings
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The Admirals: Nimitz, Halsey, Leahy, and King --- The Five-Star Admirals Who Won the War at Sea
The Admirals: Nimitz, Halsey, Leahy, and King --- The Five-Star Admirals Who Won the War at Sea 4.33 avg rating β€” 4,409 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 β€” 31,441 ratings
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GI Brides: The Wartime Girls Who Crossed the Atlantic for Love
GI Brides: The Wartime Girls Who Crossed the Atlantic for Love 3.90 avg rating β€” 3,571 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 β€” 160 ratings
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Marcel's Letters: A Font and the Search for One Man's Fate
Marcel's Letters: A Font and the Search for One Man's Fate 4.04 avg rating β€” 1,036 ratings
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Blitz Writing: Night Shift & It Was Different At The Time
Blitz Writing: Night Shift & It Was Different At The Time 3.68 avg rating β€” 56 ratings
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Days of Steel Rain: The Epic Story of a WWII Vengeance Ship in the Year of the Kamikaze
Days of Steel Rain: The Epic Story of a WWII Vengeance Ship in the Year of the Kamikaze 4.44 avg rating β€” 239 ratings
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The Day Gone By: An Autobiography
The Day Gone By: An Autobiography 3.90 avg rating β€” 60 ratings
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Uncle Hitler: A Child's Traumatic Journey Through Nazi Hell to the Safety of Britain
Uncle Hitler: A Child's Traumatic Journey Through Nazi Hell to the Safety of Britain 3.25 avg rating β€” 12 ratings
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Vanished: The Sixty-Year Search for the Missing Men of World War II
Vanished: The Sixty-Year Search for the Missing Men of World War II 3.94 avg rating β€” 2,245 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 β€” 3,966 ratings
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If This Is a Man β€’ The Truce
If This Is a Man β€’ The Truce 4.54 avg rating β€” 21,711 ratings
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London 1945: Life in the Debris of War
London 1945: Life in the Debris of War 3.98 avg rating β€” 249 ratings
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Hitler's U-Boat War: The Hunters, 1939-1942
Hitler's U-Boat War: The Hunters, 1939-1942 4.12 avg rating β€” 488 ratings
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First Light
First Light 4.53 avg rating β€” 3,658 ratings
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Frontsoldaten: The German Soldier in World War II
Frontsoldaten: The German Soldier in World War II 3.87 avg rating β€” 293 ratings
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Johann Trollmann and Romani Resistance to the Nazis
Johann Trollmann and Romani Resistance to the Nazis 4.22 avg rating β€” 23 ratings
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The Journal of Hélène Berr
The Journal of Hélène Berr 4.09 avg rating — 1,762 ratings
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Notes of a Sniper
Notes of a Sniper 4.08 avg rating β€” 848 ratings
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Smoky the Brave: How a Feisty Yorkshire Terrier Mascot Became a Comrade-in-Arms during World War II
Smoky the Brave: How a Feisty Yorkshire Terrier Mascot Became a Comrade-in-Arms during World War II 4.13 avg rating β€” 306 ratings
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A Train in Winter (The Resistance #1)
A Train in Winter (The Resistance #1) 3.85 avg rating β€” 8,706 ratings
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Their Darkest Hour: People Tested to the Extreme in WWII
Their Darkest Hour: People Tested to the Extreme in WWII 4.11 avg rating β€” 677 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 β€” 9,890 ratings
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Guadalcanal Diary
Guadalcanal Diary 4.28 avg rating β€” 5,271 ratings
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Living with the Enemy: An outline of the German occupation of the Channel Islands with first hand accounts by people who remember the years 1940 to 1945
Living with the Enemy: An outline of the German occupation of the Channel Islands with first hand accounts by people who remember the years 1940 to 1945 3.72 avg rating β€” 94 ratings
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Darby's Rangers: We Led the Way
Darby's Rangers: We Led the Way 4.09 avg rating β€” 87 ratings
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Monte Cassino : The Story of the Hardest-Fought Battle of World War Two
Monte Cassino : The Story of the Hardest-Fought Battle of World War Two 4.06 avg rating β€” 518 ratings
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Don't Forget to Write: The True Story of an Evacuee and Her Family
Don't Forget to Write: The True Story of an Evacuee and Her Family
by: Pam Hobbs
3.87 avg rating β€” 326 ratings
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Ill Met by Moonlight
Ill Met by Moonlight 3.97 avg rating β€” 793 ratings
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Killing Hitler: The Plots, the Assassins, and the Dictator Who Cheated Death
Killing Hitler: The Plots, the Assassins, and the Dictator Who Cheated Death 3.82 avg rating β€” 383 ratings
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Rywka's Diary: The Writings of a Jewish Girl from the Lodz Ghetto
Rywka's Diary: The Writings of a Jewish Girl from the Lodz Ghetto 3.73 avg rating β€” 469 ratings
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No Picnic on Mount Kenya: A Daring Escape, A Perilous Climb
No Picnic on Mount Kenya: A Daring Escape, A Perilous Climb 4.03 avg rating β€” 2,429 ratings
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The Happiest Man on Earth
The Happiest Man on Earth 4.61 avg rating β€” 117,966 ratings
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Horror In The East: Japan And The Atrocities Of World War II
Horror In The East: Japan And The Atrocities Of World War II 4.22 avg rating β€” 526 ratings
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