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2WW - accounts, challenges, horrors
If This Is a Man / The TruceIf This Is a Man / The Truce by Primo Levi
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heartbreaking but vital reading
The HolocaustThe Holocaust 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)
The Diary of a Young Girl: Definitive Edition (Penguin Modern Classics)The Diary of a Young Girl: Definitive Edition (Penguin Modern Classics) by Anne Frank
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a young life snuffed out
Five Days in London: May 1940 (Yale Nota Bene)Five Days in London: May 1940 (Yale Nota Bene) by J Lukacs
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things could have been so different if these days had been different
Burying Caesar : " Churchill, Chamberlain And The Battle For The Tory Party " :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
EnigmaEnigma by Robert Harris
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Bletchley Park fact and fiction blurred into one great read
FatherlandFatherland by Robert Harris
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another what if - this time if Hitler had won...
Hitler and Stalin: Parallel LivesHitler 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?
Explaining HitlerExplaining 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?
Schindler's List [DVD] [1994]Schindler's List [DVD] [1994]
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harrowing but profound
Conspiracy [DVD] [2001]Conspiracy [DVD] [2001]
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chillingly simple - just a business meeting of powerful men - with the most terrifying agenda ever
Address UnknownAddress Unknown by Kressmann Taylor
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1933 - the awful shape of things to come
Badenheim, 1939 (Penguin Classics)Badenheim, 1939 (Penguin Classics) by Aharon Appelfeld
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1939 - the clouds are darkening - a community in wait for the inevitable
Churchill: A BiographyChurchill: A Biography by Roy Jenkins
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warts and all - an impossible brilliant, man of the hour - a story brilliantly told
The Hiding PlaceThe Hiding Place by Elizabeth Sherill
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personal faith in the midst of the tragedy, hatred and horror of the concentration camps
Alone in Berlin (Penguin Hardback Classics)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