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The Inextinguish Symphony: A True Story of Music and Love in Nazi Germany

42 reviews
Martin Goldsmith

Wiley, 2000

A son's voyage of discovery of his parents' nightmarish past
What do we really know about our parents' life before we were born? That depends largely, I guess, on how much of an interest we show - and on how much they are willing to reveal. Because in the life of every person there are instances and times they rather wish to forget, and not revive time and again by discussion, even if only among their nearest and dearest. Such, in the lives of author ...

German Boy

61 reviews
Wolfgang W.E. Samuel

Sceptre, 2002

WQonderful first hand account
Wonderful and descriptive first hand account of living through WWII in Germany and the life there afterwards.

Last Battle

33 reviews
Cornelius ryan

Simon & Schuster, 1966

History review
Excellent how so manay different events were put in such a good sequence.

All But My Life

96 reviews
Gerda Weissmann Klein

Hill and Wang, 1995

Survial of the Human Spirit~A deeply moving story.
This is one of the first Holocaust survival stories that I read. It is by far one that has stayed with me in the most detail. What a strong girl Gerda is. she was told to never give up her boots and in the end it is one thing that saved her life after marching in a blizzard half frozen to death. How she survived is nothing short of a miracle. Reading this when you are in a hard time reminds ...

Forgotten Soldier : The Classic WWII Autobiography (Brassey's Commemorative Series WWII) (Brassey's ...

163 reviews
Guy Sajer

Brassey's (UK) Ltd, 1990

Chillingly Clear Account of War on the Eastern Front
Awsome - the one word I use to describe this book. Debates exist whether this book is non-fiction or fiction mainly due to the inaccuracies regarding specific details, some minor such as uniform markings. However, after researching this topic I came across a letter to the Editor of "Military Review", printed in the March-April 1997 edition, by a Douglas E. Nash. Nash eventually located Sajer ...

I Will Bear Witness, Volume 1: A Diary of the Nazi Years (I Will Bear Witness)

46 reviews
Victor Klemperer

Random House, 1998

Heartbreaking and essential book
A must read for all those who are compelled to understand the insanity of Nazi Germany. The evil is in the details as these journals so devastatingly reveal. Sometimes necessary to read only a few pages at a time as the devastation and slowly increasing helplessness of this man's life is revealed. A critical historical document.

Iron Coffins

89 reviews
Herbert A. Werner

Mandarin, 1990

A Very Personal and Accurate Account of the U-Boat War
If I could give this book more than 5 stars, I would - it is absolutely excellent. Herbert Werner was born in 1920, and served active duty aboard German submarines from 1941 until the very end of the war in May 1945. He survived the war, which is no small accomplishment. Of 40,000 World War 2 German submariners, 30,000 never returned home alive. But on a personal level, he suffered tremendous ...

Playing with the Enemy: A Baseball Prodigy, a World at War, and a Field of Broken Dreams

100 reviews
Gary Moore

Savas Beatie, 2006

Inspiring and heartwarming...
A wonderful book, I couldn't put it down! It made me very sad that Gene Moore never was able to fulfill his dream of playing in the majors, it was the game's loss, not just his, as he would've probably been in Cooperstown by now. However, he accomplished so much by the friendships he formed in his town, in the Navy, and in the minor leagues. Gary Moore did an excellent job of telling his story, ...

The Light Bearer

89 reviews
Donna Gillespie

Berkley Trade, 2006

I loved it! Suspenseful, passionate, breathtaking imagery
The Lightbearer is truly an amazing read. Once I began it, I couldn't pull myself away from the spell of Auriane, woman warrior, fighting for the survival of her embattled Germanic tribe against the all powerful Roman army. The characters are so richly drawn, I had an immediate sense of our shared humanity, despite the remoteness of their times. I was captivated by the vivid descriptions of ...

The Rommel Papers (Da Capo Paperback)

34 reviews
Erwin Rommel

Da Capo Press, 1982

Up there with the master himself
This is one of those books that made the shivers run down my spine while reading it. It felt like being right there in the thick of it with this amazing field commander. This man is a born leader and has the audacity and knighthood to fight an honest fight. He did what he believed was right and he is portrayed as human as possible in this text. War is a terrible thing, but it still is a part of ...

Motherland : Beyond the Holocaust : A Daughter's Journey to Reclaim the Past

29 reviews
Fern Schumer Chapman, 2000

Schools use Motherland To Teach About Moral Choices
Edith Westerfield Schumer left Germany in 1938 as a twelve-year-old. She left alone. Her parents sent her to America, removing her from the threat of the Nazis in her German homeland. Her Jewish father mistakenly believed that Hitler would acknowledge his service to Germany in World War I. However, most of her family did not survive the persecution or the death camps. Edith never saw her parents ...

All the Way to Berlin: A Paratrooper at War in Europe

32 reviews
James Megellas

audible.com

All the Way to Berlin: A Paratrooper at War in Europe
One of the best combat narratives I have ever read. Engrossing, and compelling in its brutaly honest depiction of total warfare. Highly recomended.

Red Square

30 reviews
Martin Cruz Smith

Random House, 1992

Back in the USSR
Martin Cruz Smith is a former journalist and magazine editor. "Red Square" is his third novel - after " Gorky Park " and "Polar Star" - to feature Arkady Renko and was first published in 1992. Renko, the hero, works as an Investigator with Moscow's militia - more or less the standard police force - and has something of a chequered career. Never a truly 'practising' member of the Party, Renko ...

Defying Hitler

24 reviews
Sebastian Haffner

Blackstone Audiobooks, 2003

A gripping account with deep human insights into a fascist takeover
This is a powerful story of the rise of the Nazi movement with scary parallels to modern day events. The question has often been asked how the Germans could allow this to happen and Haffner does an amazing job at describing how. Along with a controlled media, one method was to turn the volume of fear and intimidation one little almost imperceptible increment at the time. Most people just laughed ...

Say the Name: A Survivor's Tale in Prose and Poetry

25 reviews
Judith H. Sherman

University of New Mexico Press, 2005

A woman's perspective
Judith Sherman's Say the Name is a survivor's account of a teenage girl's struggle with God and humanity in Ravensbruck concentration camp during the Holocaust. Sherman, now a wife, mother and grandmother living in the United States, writes her memoir some 50 to 60 years after the Nazi's carried out their "Final Solution." Sherman's poetry and prose in this book reflect a loss of people, ...

Hot Times During the Cold War: An American Comes of Age in West Germany

23 reviews
Scott W Hawley

iUniverse, Inc., 2007

CAPTURED PERFECTLY!
received and read -Scott Hawley's - "HOT TIMES DURING THE COLD WAR" I am not sure where to begin and I know for certain I cannot adequately or fairly write what I felt while reading Scott's book. July 1989 one month after graduation from FrankfurtAmericanHigh Schoolmy family and I prepared to leave Rhein-Main Air Base (our second tour) after three, magical almost unexplainable, awesome ...

I Will Bear Witness 1942-1945

30 reviews
Victor Klemperer

Random House, 2000

The most compelling book I have ever read
Because my friends all know what a book-hound I am, people often ask me what my all-time favorite book is. Admittedly the answer to this would change over time, but, at present, "I Will Bear Witness" is the one that first pops into my mind. I found this very personal account of the days and nights of a German Jewish man--an inoffensive and formerly rather conservative German nationalist ...

Torpedo Junction: U-Boat War Off America's East Coast 1942

27 reviews
Homer Hickam

Dell, 1991

Very Good Book
Torpedo Junction is a very educational and interesting book about German submarines destroying numerous ships and their cargos and many deaths. It is historically accurate and enlightening. Once you start this book, it is difficult to put down. I recommended it to anyone interested in history, WWII and what happened on the East Coast of the U.S., particularly from New Jersey to North Carolina.

Auschwitz: A New History

22 reviews
Laurence Rees

PublicAffairs, 2005

History of the Camp
When considering the history of the Holocaust, Auschwitz and extermination are synonymous, as it should be for the 1.1 million people who were killed by the Nazis at this concentration camp alone. Yet as Laurence Rees sets out to show in "Auschwitz: A New History", the camp's beginnings were a far cry from its final stages. Like other concentration camps within the Nazi's network, Auschwitz ...

Wings Of Morning: The Story Of The Last American Bomber Shot Down Over Germany In World War II

33 reviews
Thomas Childers

Da Capo Press, 1996

Exceptional
Through the years, I've read a number of histories and memoirs on the Eighth Air Force in World War II. Many of those volumes, published over 6 decades, were more authoritative, complete, wide-ranging, and fact-filled than this volume. Yet if I had to recommend a SINGLE book to give someone the flavor of all of those experiences represented by all those many books, this would be the one. ...

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