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24 books with the same feel
Include books by the same authorBerlin Diary: The Journal of a Foreign Correspondent 1934-1941
William L. Shirer · 605 pages
Essential Historic Document. This is a most important historic document as it is the only known diary written by a professional journalist while on assignment in nazi Germany from 1933 to 1941. Prior to this, Bill Shirer was on assignment in Paris. There is no other Book I know that provides a better description of Germany's transformation from an essentially western democratic nation to a naz
The Diary of Virginia Woolf, Volume One: 1915-1919
Virginia Woolf · 384 pages
The Diary of a Young Girl
Anne Frank · 285 pages
Anne Frank's The Diary of a Young Girl is among the most enduring documents of the twentieth century. Since its publication in 1947, it has been read by tens of millions of people all over the world. It remains a beloved and deeply admired testament to the indestructible nature of the human spirit. Restored in this Definitive Edition are diary entries that were omitted from the original edition. T
I Will Bear Witness 1933-41 A Diary of the Nazi Years
Victor Klemperer · 544 pages
The Further Adventures of a London Call Girl
Belle de Jour, Brooke Magnanti · 336 pages
The Duchess of Bloomsbury Street
Helene Hanff · 137 pages
Nella Last's War: The Second World War Diaries of Housewife, 49
Nella Last · 320 pages
While Nella's younger son joined the army, the rest of the family adapted to the transformed rhythms of life in Barrow-in-Furness, which suffered terribly from enemy bombing raids. Nella writes in confidence about the war years, covering everything from sex to the genuine fear of invasion. This is the war as Nella Last lived it.
Sarah Morgan: The Civil War Diary Of A Southern Woman
Sarah Morgan Dawson, Charles East · 672 pages
Journals: Captain Scott's Last Expedition
Robert Falcon Scott · 529 pages
Black Like Me
John Howard Griffin · 190 pages
Publisher's description: Studs Terkel tells us in his Foreword to the definitive Griffin Estate Edition of Black Like Me: "This is a contemporary book, you bet." Indeed, Black Like Me remains required reading in thousands of high schools and colleges for this very reason. Regardless of how much progress has been made in eliminating outright racism from American life, Black Like Me endures as a gre
All for the Union: The Civil War Diary & Letters of Elisha Hunt Rhodes
Robert Hunt Rhodes, Elisha Hunt Rhodes
Diary of a Man in Despair
Friedrich Reck-Malleczewen
Mary Chesnut's Civil War
Mary Boykin Chesnut · 892 pages
I Await the Devil's Coming
Mary MacLane · 162 pages
Mary MacLane’s I Await the Devil’s Coming is a shocking, brave and intellectually challenging diary of a 19-year-old girl living in Butte, Montana in 1902. Written in potent, raw prose that propelled the author to celebrity upon publication, the book has become almost completely forgotten. In the early 20th century, MacLane’s name was synonymous with sexuality; she is widely hailed as being one
The Great Plague: The Diary of Alice Paynton, London, 1665-1666
Pamela Oldfield · 192 pages
A time of horror has come to London. In one terrible summer, more than 15% of its population will perish. As the bubonic plague ravages London's streets, mercilessly plucking up victims and filling the plague pits with corpses, 13-year-old Alice Paynton records the outbreak in her diary. "It seems that in the past week 700 people have died of the plague. So the plague has well and truly come to Lo
Diaries of Franz Kafka
Franz Kafka · 528 pages
These diaries cover the years 1910 to 1923, the year before Kafka’s death at the age of forty. They provide a penetrating look into life in Prague and into Kafka’s accounts of his dreams, his feelings for the father he worshipped and the woman he could not bring himself to marry, his sense of guilt, and his feelings of being an outcast. They offer an account of a life of almost unbearable intensit
The Journals of Lewis and Clark
Meriwether Lewis, William Clark
At the dawn of the 19th century, Meriwether Lewis and William Clark embarked on an unprecedented journey from St. Louis, Missouri to the Pacific Ocean and back again. Their assignment was to explore the newly acquired Louisiana Territory and record the geography, flora, fauna, and people they encountered along the way. The tale of their incredible journey, meticulously recorded in their journals,
The Bolivian Diary: The Authorised Edition
Ernesto Che Guevara · 303 pages
Madly, Deeply: The Diaries of Alan Rickman
Alan Rickman · 469 pages
The Gossamer Years: The Diary of a Noblewoman of Heian Japan
Michitsuna no Haha · 208 pages