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The Man Who Broke Into Auschwitz: A True Story of World War II
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Include books by the same authorUnbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption
Laura Hillenbrand · 514 pages
On a May afternoon in 1943, an Army Air Forces bomber crashed into the Pacific Ocean and disappeared, leaving only a spray of debris and a slick of oil, gasoline, and blood. Then, on the ocean surface, a face appeared. It was that of a young lieutenant, the plane’s bombardier, who was struggling to a life raft and pulling himself aboard. So began one of the most extraordinary odysseys of the Se
Four Perfect Pebbles: A Holocaust Story
Lila Perl, Marion Blumenthal Lazan · 130 pages
The Hiding Place: The Triumphant True Story of Corrie Ten Boom
Corrie ten Boom, John Sherrill, Elizabeth Sherrill · 241 pages
The Triumphant True Story of Corrie Ten Boom by Corrie ten Boom, John Sherrill, Elizabeth Sherrill (Goodreads Author) "At one time Corrie ten Boom would have laughed at the idea that there would ever be a story to tell. For the first fifty years of her life nothing at all out of the ordinary had ever happened to her. She was an old-maid watchmaker living contentedly with her spinster sister a
Do the Birds Still Sing in Hell?
Horace Greasley, Ken Scott
The Forgotten Highlander: My Incredible Story of Survival During the War in the Far East
Alistair Urquhart
The Colditz Story
P.R. Reid · 252 pages
A realistic portrayal of life as a prisoner of war based on Reid’s own experiences as a prisoner in Colditz Castle, a high security German P.O.W. camp during WW2.
Dresden: A Survivor's Story
Victor Gregg · 64 pages
Tears in the Darkness: The Story of the Bataan Death March and Its Aftermath
Michael Norman, Elizabeth M. Norman · 463 pages
Following the U.S. surrender to the Japanese on the peninsula of Bataan in 1942, 76,000 American and Filipino POWs began the infamous Death March. This gripping narrative, told in unsparing but sympathetic detail, focuses intermittently on American POW Ben Steele, whose sketches adorn the book, and the hell of Japanese prison and labor camps that introduced these captives to the starvation, dehydr
Man's Search for Meaning
Viktor E. Frankl · 165 pages
Psychiatrist Viktor Frankl's memoir has riveted generations of readers with its descriptions of life in Nazi death camps and its lessons for spiritual survival. Based on his own experience and the stories of his patients, Frankl argues that we cannot avoid suffering but we can choose how to cope with it, find meaning in it, and move forward with renewed purpose. At the heart of his theory, known a
Out of the Depths: An Unforgettable WWII Story of Survival, Courage, and the Sinking of the USS Indianapolis
Edgar Harrell, David Harrell · 189 pages
"A WWII hero's courageous, inspiring true story of survival against all odds after the sinking of the USS Indianapolis"--
The Wooden Horse
Eric Williams · 264 pages
The Boy on the Wooden Box
Leon Leyson · 240 pages
Leon Leyson describes growing up in Poland, being forced from home to ghetto to concentration camps by the Nazis, and being saved by Oskar Schindler. The text contains descriptions of violence.
Escape from Auschwitz
Rudolf Vrba, Alan Bestic · 359 pages
The Sergeant in the Snow
Mario Rigoni Stern · 157 pages
A Bag of Marbles
Joseph Joffo · 302 pages
The Pianist: The Extraordinary True Story of One Man's Survival in Warsaw, 1939-1945
Wladyslaw Szpilman · 224 pages
A Jewish pianist's real-life account of survival in World War II Warsaw. Separated in a mêlée, he fights to rejoin his family as they board the death train, but police block him. "Papa!" he cries. The father waves, "as if I were setting out into life and he was already greeting me from beyond the grave."
Helmet for my Pillow
Robert Leckie · 234 pages
This is a real story of a Marine's ordeal fighting the Japanese in the South Pacific during World Two. Amazing stories reveals what Marine Combat was like during the Island Campaign that took so many lives of Japanese and Americans.
The Auschwitz Volunteer: Beyond Bravery
Witold Pilecki · 401 pages
Survivor: Auschwitz, the Death March and my Fight for Freedom
Sam Pivnik · 320 pages
Sam Pivnik is a survivor of a world that no longer exists - on 14 occasions, he should have been killed. On his 13th birthday, the Nazis invaded Poland. He survived two ghettoes and 6 months on Auschwitz's notorious Rampkommando where prisoners were either sent to camp or gassed. After this, he was sent to work at the brutal Furstengrube mining camp. As the Third Reich collapsed, he was only one o
Rena's Promise: A Story of Sisters in Auschwitz
Rena Kornreich Gelissen, Heather Dune Macadam · 240 pages
All But My Life: A Memoir
Gerda Weissmann Klein · 246 pages
All But My Life is the unforgettable story of Gerda Weissmann Klein's six-year ordeal as a victim of Nazi cruelty. From her comfortable home in Bielitz (present-day Bielsko) in Poland to her miraculous survival and her liberation by American troops--including the man who was to become her husband--in Volary, Czechoslovakia, in 1945, Gerda takes the reader on a terrifying journey. Gerda's serene
Surviving the Angel of Death
Eva Mozes Kor, Lisa Rojany Buccieri · 175 pages
iv, 141 pages : illustrations, maps ; 23 cm830L Lexile