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.Stalin's Russia 1924-53 (Access to History)
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by: Michale Lynch

June 27, 2008

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.Night
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by: Elie Wiesel, Marion Wiesel

September 04, 2008

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.The Most Dangerous Enemy: A History of the Battle of Britain
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by: Stephen Bungay

September 27, 2001
This book is simply amazing. The first chapters describe the development of machines and tactics that later on played important part during the Battle. It makes the whole book much easier to understand. From Home Chain to fighter planes, from vic formation to German tactics - it gives you lots of details. Later on the author describes the actual combat action, aims, targets etc. In later chapters you will find info about accuracy and effectiveness of pilots. It shows how aces differed from regular pilots.
At the same time it is a book that you will be reading very quickly and still wanting to go a little further. There's no time for boredom.
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.The Hiding Place
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by: Elizabeth Sherill, Corrie ten Boom, John Sherrill

November 18, 2004

Corrie Ten Boom is a 50 something spinster from a strong Christian family that lived in Holland during the second world war. The faith of the whole family is tested as they find themselves caught up in the adventure of the Dutch underground.

This is a book that I would recommend to anyone. It is a really easy read and an inspiring book that I was unable to put down.
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.The Nazi Dictatorship: Problems and Perspectives of Interpretation
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by: Ian Kershaw

August 28, 2000
This is an excellent scholarly overview of many aspects of the Nazi dictatorship and deserves to be read widely. With its study of often very complex ideas which require the use of correspondingly complex language, it is not as easily readable as, for example, the author's two-volume biography of Hitler and "The Hitler Myth: Image and Reality in the Third Reich". However, perseverance with this text is very rewarding.
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.The Children of Belsen
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by: Hetty Verolme

January 15, 2007
I've read a lot of Holocaust books that describe the terror and atrocities of the concentration camps,but I found this book very unusual in that despite Hetty being at the same time and place as the other victims,one turn of fate after another leads to her narrowly escaping all the worst horrors of WWII and surviving relatively unscathed right on the edge of it all.
Hetty's wonderful strong caring character shines through in this book making this a less bleak read than most other Holocaust autobiographies,but still as poignant.
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.Forgotten Voices of the Holocaust: A New History in the Words of the Men and Women Who Survived (Forgotten Voices/Holocaust)
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by: Lyn Smith

May 04, 2006
Much of what I wish to say has already been said but I just wanted to add my rating and say that this is an excellent book that manages to give an excellent view of the holocaust from start to finish. I found the final sections particularly moving.
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.We are at War: The Diaries of Five Ordinary People in Extraordinary Times
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by: Simon Garfield

March 02, 2006
Continuing the thread begun in Hidden Lives, Simon Garfield offers selections from the Mass-Observation Project diaries of five people caught up in the preparations and then the beginning of the infamous Blitz. The uncertainty, the anger, the fear; it's all here and it leaps off of the pages in a way that keeps you turning them.

Sometimes the diarists are not particularly likeable - you encounter racism and defeatist attitudes at certain points. But that is something that makes this volume particularly interesting. Knowing that these pages are going to be read by others, the diarists are still painfully honest in their fears and their prejudices. Very enlightening, and highly recommended, especially as a companion volume to Hidden Lives.
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.Betty's Wartime Diary 1939-1945
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by: Betty Armitage

July 05, 2002
I was so disappointed with this book, somehow to me it just doesnt ring true that this was written by a middle aged woman in war time, I would be interested how much of the authors slant was put on the originals diaries, everything is very much glossed over and the fact that in the introduction the author states that most of the original diaries are now unavailable, left me wondering... If you want a thoroughly good read of war time diaries look no further than the three books by Simon Garfield based on the Mass Observation Probject, they are absolutely superb and I think that is what has left me wanting more in this publication, oh well!
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.The Battle-Cruiser HMS Renown 1916-48
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by: Peter C. Smith

September 18, 2008
I was so disappointed with this book, somehow to me it just doesnt ring true that this was written by a middle aged woman in war time, I would be interested how much of the authors slant was put on the originals diaries, everything is very much glossed over and the fact that in the introduction the author states that most of the original diaries are now unavailable, left me wondering... If you want a thoroughly good read of war time diaries look no further than the three books by Simon Garfield based on the Mass Observation Probject, they are absolutely superb and I think that is what has left me wanting more in this publication, oh well!
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