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24 books with the same feel
Include books by the same authorHungry Ghosts: Mao's Secret Famine
Jasper Becker · 352 pages
In the tradition of John Hersey's Hiroshima, journalist Jasper Becker's penetrating account of China's four-year famine uncovers the truth behind one of the darkest chapters in history. Hungry Ghosts is the horrific story of the state-sponsored terror, cannibalism, torture, and murder during Mao Zedong's "Great Leap Forward," an attempt at utopian engineering gone wrong. This is the unforgettable
Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee: An Indian History of the American West
Dee Brown · 512 pages
The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich: A History of Nazi Germany
William L. Shirer · 1,264 pages
The Harvest of Sorrow: Soviet Collectivization and the Terror-Famine
Robert Conquest · 412 pages
Tombstone: The Great Chinese Famine, 1958-1962
Yang Jisheng · 656 pages
Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed
Jared Diamond · 592 pages
"In his Pulitzer Prize-winning bestseller Guns, Germs, and Steel, Jared Diamond examined how and why Western civilizations developed the technologies and immunities that allowed them to dominate much of the world. Now, Diamond probes the other side of the equation: What caused some of the great civilizations of the past to collapse into ruin, and what can we learn from their fates?" "As in Guns, G
Dancing in the Glory of Monsters: The Collapse of the Congo and the Great War of Africa
Jason Stearns · 416 pages
The Gulag Archipelago, 1918-1956: An Experiment in Literary Investigation, Books III-IV
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn · 712 pages
Koba the Dread: Laughter and the Twenty Million
Martin Amis · 306 pages
The author describes the role of communism in mid-twentieth-century thought and its influence on his own family as he reflects on Stalin, his impact on the Soviet Union, and his legacy.
Savage Continent: Europe in the Aftermath of World War II
Keith Lowe · 508 pages
Lenin, Stalin, and Hitler: The Age of Social Catastrophe
Robert Gellately · 720 pages
A bold new accounting of the great social and political upheavals that enveloped Europe between 1914 and 1945--from the Russian Revolution through the Second World War.In Lenin, Stalin, and Hitler, acclaimed historian Robert Gellately focuses on the dominant powers of the time, the Soviet Union and Nazi Germany, but also analyzes the catastrophe of those years in an effort to uncover its political
The Good Old Days: The Holocaust as Seen by Its Perpetrators and Bystanders
Ernst Klee, Willi Dressen, Volker Riess · 320 pages
The title refers to a caption in the scrapbook of Kurt Franz, the commandant of the Treblinka concentration camp. Underneath the heading "Those Were the Days," and reproduced here, are pictures of smiling officers at a site where some 700,000 people were exterminated in the gas chambers. To refute revisionist historians who negate the testimony of Holocaust survivors, and to disprove those Germans
The Rape of Nanking
Iris Chang · 304 pages
In December 1937, in what was then the capital of China, one of the most brutal massacres in the long annals of wartime barbarity occurred. The Japanese army swept into the ancient city of Nanking (Nanjing) and within weeks not only looted and burned the defenseless city but systematically raped, tortured, and murdered more than 300,000 Chinese civilians. Amazingly, the story of this atrocity - on
An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States
Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz · 320 pages
Auschwitz
Laurence Rees · 327 pages
Published for the 60th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz -- a devastating and surprising account of the most infamous death camp the world has ever known. Auschwitz-Birkenau is the site of the largest mass murder in human history. Yet its story is not fully known. In Auschwitz, Laurence Rees reveals new insights from more than 100 original interviews with Auschwitz survivors and Nazi perp
Survival in the Killing Fields
Haing Ngor, Roger Warner · 521 pages
Hitler's Empire: How the Nazis Ruled Europe
Mark Mazower · 725 pages
Hitler's Empire constituted the largest, most brutal and most ambitious reshaping of the continent ever attempted in Europe's history. Liberalism and democracy were swept aside, as Germany aimed to turn itself into the most powerful state on the continent, and to compel everyone else to recognize its mastery. Europe's future was to lie in a new racial order based on the uprooting, resettlement and
The Third Reich
Michael Burleigh · 965 pages
"The Third Reich: A New History restores a broader perspective and intellectual unity to the many subjects that have become academic sub-specialities. It offers a radical re-examination of the Third Reich from its incubation in the hopelessness which followed the German defeat in 1918 to the Nazi regime's final destructive spiral and the aftershocks of de-Nazification."--BOOK JACKET.
The Fall of Yugoslavia
Misha Glenny · 257 pages
The Fall of Yugoslavia tells the whole, true story of the Balkan Crisis - and the ensuing war - for those around the world who have watched the battle unfold with a mixture of horror, dread, and confusion. When Croatia and Slovenia declared their independence in June 1991, peaceful neighbors of four decades took up arms against each other once again and a savage war flared in the Balkans. The unde
The Fate of Africa: A History of Fifty Years of Independence
Martin Meredith · 752 pages
Presents a narrative of the last fifty years of African history, analyzing the factors which account for the political chaos, financial troubles, and civil wars which prevail in many African countries today.
The Rediscovery of America: Native Peoples and the Unmaking of U.S. History
Ned Blackhawk · 596 pages
A People's History of the United States
Howard Zinn · 702 pages
Known for its lively, clear prose as well as its scholarly research, *A People's History of the United States* is the only volume to tell America's story from the point of view of -- and in the words of -- America's women, factory workers, African Americans, Native Americans, working poor, and immigrant laborers.
The Nazi Doctors: Medical Killing and the Psychology of Genocide
Robert Jay Lifton · 561 pages