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Berlin Diary: The Journal of a Foreign Correspondent 1934-1941
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Include books by the same authorI Will Bear Witness 1933-41 A Diary of the Nazi Years
Victor Klemperer · 544 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.
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
Diary of a Man in Despair
Friedrich Reck-Malleczewen
Churchill: A Biography
Roy Jenkins · 1,020 pages
"Winston Churchill is an icon of modern history, but even though he was at the forefront of the political scene for almost sixty years, he might be remembered only as a minor player in the drama of British government had it not been for World War II. In this magisterial book, Roy Jenkins's command of the political history of Britain and his own high-level government experience combine in a narr
No Ordinary Time: Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt: The Home Front in World War II
Doris Kearns Goodwin · 759 pages
From the best-selling author of The Fitzgeralds and the Kennedys and Lyndon Johnson and the American Dream comes a compelling chronicle of a nation and its leaders during the period when modern America was created. Presenting an aspect of American history that has never been fully told, Doris Kearns Goodwin writes a brilliant narrative account of how the United States of 1940, an isolationist cou
Rutka's Notebook
Rutka Laskier · 90 pages
Hiroshima Diary: The Journal of a Japanese Physician, August 6-September 30, 1945
Michihiko Hachiya · 256 pages
The late Dr. Michihiko Hachiya was director of the Hiroshima Communications Hospital when the world's first atomic bomb was dropped on the city. Though his responsibilities in the appalling chaos of a devastated city were awesome, he found time to record the story daily, with compassion and tenderness.
War in Val d'Orcia: An Italian War Diary, 1943-1944
Iris Origo · 254 pages
A Woman in Berlin: Eight Weeks in the Conquered City: A Diary
Anonymous · 299 pages
April-May, 1945 Berlin-A Perilous Place For A Woman!, April 22, 2009 By Bernie Weisz "a historian specializing in the Vietnam War (Pembroke Pines,Florida) E mail:BernWei1@aol.com Written originally for Amazon.com April 22, 2009 This review is from: A Woman in Berlin: Eight Weeks in the Conquered City: A Diary (Paperback) The Diary "A Woman In Berlin 8 weeks In The Conquered City" was written
A World Gone Mad: The Diaries of Astrid Lindgren, 1939-45
Astrid Lindgren · 240 pages
Before she became internationally known for her Pippi Longstocking books, Astrid Lindgren was an aspiring author living in Stockholm with her family at the outbreak of the Second World War. The diaries she kept throughout the hostilities offer a civilian's, a mother's, and an aspiring writer's unique account of the devastating conflict. She emerges as a morally courageous critic of violence and wa
Sleeping with the Enemy: Coco Chanel, Nazi Agent
Hal Vaughan
Defying Hitler
Sebastian Haffner · 259 pages
Written in 1939 and unpublished until 2000, Sebastian Haffner's memoir of the rise of Nazism in Germany offers a unique portrait of the lives of ordinary German citizens between the wars. Covering 1907 to 1933, his eyewitness account provides a portrait of a country in constant flux: from the rise of the First Corps, the right-wing voluntary military force set up in 1918 to suppress Communism and
Resistance: A French Woman's Journal of the War
Agnes Humbert · 370 pages
A real-life Suite Française, this riveting diary by a key female member of the French Resistance in WWII is translated into English for the first time. Agnès Humbert was an art historian in Paris during the German occupation in 1940. Though she might well have weathered the oppressive regime, Humbert was stirred to action by the atrocities she witnessed. In an act of astonishing bravery, she joine
The Secret Holocaust Diaries: The Untold Story of Nonna Bannister
Nonna Bannister · 299 pages
Journal
Helene Berr · 303 pages
From April 1942 to March 1944, Hélène Berr, a recent graduate of the Sorbonne, kept a journal that is an intensely moving, intimate and harrowing text of astonishing literary maturity. Her last recorded words are 'Horror, horror, horror' - she and the rest of her Jewish family were sent to Auschwitz.
Hiroshima
John Hersey · 118 pages
Describes the effect of the bombing of Hiroshima on six survivors of the atomic blast.
We Are Witnesses: Five Diaries of Teenagers Who Died in the Holocaust
Jacob Boas · 196 pages
And Then All Hell Broke Loose: Two Decades in the Middle East
Richard Engel · 241 pages
"Based on two decades of reporting, NBC's chief foreign correspondent's riveting story of the Middle East revolutions, the Arab Spring, war, and terrorism seen up-close--sometimes dangerously so. When he was just twenty-three, a recent graduate of Stanford University, Richard Engel set off to Cairo with $2,000 and dreams of being a reporter. Shortly thereafter he was working freelance for Arab new
Naples '44: A World War II Diary of Occupied Italy
Norman Lewis · 192 pages
Clara's War
Clara Kramer · 339 pages
*Clara's War* is a memoir by Clara Kramer and Stephen Glantz which tells Kramer's story of her life in Nazi occupied Poland, where she and several other Polish Jews spent 20 months hiding in a bunker beneath a house in the town of Zhovkva. The book was first published by Ebury Press (Penguin Random House) in 2008, in the United Kingdon. The first USA edition was published by Harper/Ecco on 2009.
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
Country of My Skull: Guilt, Sorrow, and the Limits of Forgiveness in the New South Africa
Antjie Krog · 403 pages
"Ever since Nelson Mandela dramatically walked out of prison in 1990 after twenty-seven years behind bars, South Africa has been undergoing a radical transformation. In one of the most miraculous events of the century, the oppressive system of apartheid was dismantled. But how could this country - one of spectacular beauty and promise - come to terms with its ugly past? How could its people, whom