2WW - accounts, challenges, horrors

A Listmania! list by Mark Meynell "quaesitor" (London, UK)
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If This Is a Man / The Truce
1.  If This Is a Man / The Truce by Primo Levi
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  "heartbreaking but vital reading"
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The Holocaust: The Jewish Tragedy
2.  The Holocaust: The Jewish Tragedy by Martin Gilbert
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  "definitive, systematic and an essential reminder of why this war was necessary (albeit from a retrospective position since hardly anyone outside Nazi Europe  knew (or so they claimed)"
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The Diary of a Young Girl: The Definitive Edition (Penguin Modern Classics)
3.  The Diary of a Young Girl: The Definitive Edition (Penguin Modern Classics) by Anne Frank
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  "a young life snuffed out"
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Five Days in London: May 1940 (Yale Nota Bene)
4.  Five Days in London: May 1940 (Yale Nota Bene) by John Lukacs
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  "things could have been so different if these days had been different"
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Burying Caesar : " Churchill, Chamberlain And The Battle For The Tory Party " :
5.  Burying Caesar : " Churchill, Chamberlain And The Battle For The Tory Party " : by Graham Stewart
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  "puts those 5 days into a wider context in British politics"
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Enigma
6.  Enigma by Robert Harris
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  "Bletchley Park fact and fiction blurred into one great read"
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Fatherland
7.  Fatherland by Robert Harris
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  "another what if - this time if Hitler had won..."
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Hitler and Stalin: Parallel lives
8.  Hitler and Stalin: Parallel lives by Alan Bullock
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  "one of these guys was always going to win the war - how do you choose between them?"
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Explaining Hitler
9.  Explaining Hitler by Ron Rosenbaum
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  "surveys all the attempts to explain the inexplicable  - from childhood, to society, to personal megalomania, to...? Well how do you do it?"
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Schindler's List [DVD] [1994]
10.  Schindler's List [DVD] [1994] DVD ~ Liam Neeson
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  "harrowing but profound"
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Conspiracy [DVD]
11.  Conspiracy [DVD] DVD ~ Kenneth Branagh
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  "chillingly simple - just a business meeting of powerful men - with the most terrifying agenda ever"
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Address Unknown
12.  Address Unknown by Kressmann Taylor
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  "1933 - the awful shape of things to come"
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Badenheim 1939 (Penguin Classics)
13.  Badenheim 1939 (Penguin Classics) by Aharon Appelfeld
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  "1939 - the clouds are darkening - a community in wait for the inevitable"
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Churchill: A Biography
14.  Churchill: A Biography by Roy Jenkins
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  "warts and all - an impossible brilliant, man of the hour - a story brilliantly told"
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The Hiding Place
15.  The Hiding Place by Elizabeth Sherill
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  "personal faith in the midst of the tragedy, hatred and horror of the concentration camps"
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Alone in Berlin (Penguin Hardback Classics)
16.  Alone in Berlin (Penguin Hardback Classics) by Hans Fallada
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  "a brilliant fictional analysis of life at the bottom of the pile in wartime Berlin - couldn't put it down"
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Mark Meynell "quaesitor" (London, UK)
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Last updated: 05/06/2009
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