Book suggestions please?

Question

Book suggestions please?

Answer 1

I read a book called

Hitler Youth: Growing up in Hitler's Shadow

That's a really good book.

Answer 2

Here are some of my favorites:



1) Maus I: A Survivor's Tale: My Father Bleeds History

http://www.amazon.com/Maus-Survivors-Father-Bleeds-History/dp/0394747232/



2) Maus II: A Survivor's Tale: And Here My Troubles Began by Art Spiegelman

http://www.amazon.com/Maus-II-Survivors-Troubles-Began/dp/0679729771/



3) Briar Rose by Jane Yolen

http://www.amazon.com/Briar-Rose-Jane-Yolen/dp/0765342308/



4) 2 Sisters by Matt Kindt

http://www.amazon.com/2-Sisters-Matt-Kindt/dp/1891830589/



5) Number the Stars by Lois Lowry

http://www.amazon.com/Number-Stars-Lois-Lowry/dp/0440227534/



6) The Secret of Priest's Grotto: A Holocaust Survival Story by Peter Lane Taylor

http://www.amazon.com/Secret-Priests-Grotto-Holocaust-Survival/dp/1580132618/



7) The Boy in the Striped Pajamas by John Boyne

http://www.amazon.com/Boy-Striped-Pajamas-John-Boyne/dp/0385751532/



8) Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two by Joseph Bruchac

http://www.amazon.com/Code-Talker-Novel-Navajo-Marines/dp/B000HT2PG6/



9) Rose Blanche by Roberto Innocenti

http://www.amazon.com/Rose-Blanche-Roberto-Innocenti/dp/1568461895/



10) Faithful Elephants: A True Story of Animals, People, and War by Yukio Tsuchiya

http://www.amazon.com/Faithful-Elephants-Story-Animals-People/dp/0395861373/



11) So Far from the Bamboo Grove by Yoko Kawashima Watkins

http://www.amazon.com/So-Far-Bamboo-Grove-rpkg/dp/0688131158/



12) A Coming Evil by Vivian Vande Velde

http://www.amazon.com/Coming-Evil-Vivian-Vande-Velde/dp/0618747818/



13) Dear Miss Breed by Joanne Oppenheim

http://www.amazon.com/Dear-Miss-Breed-Joanne-Oppenheim/dp/0439569923/



14) Milkweed by Jerry Spinelli

http://www.amazon.com/Milkweed-Readers-Circle-Jerry-Spinelli/dp/0440420059/



15) The Devil's Arithmetic by Jane Yolen

http://www.amazon.com/Devils-Arithmetic-Puffin-Modern-Classics/dp/0142401099/

Answer 3

Obviously the literature is VAST. But here are some things off the top of my head (I tried to pick some definitive things):





The Shawl by Cynthia Ozick (one of the best works of fiction in English)



This Way for the Gas, Ladies and Gentlemen -- Tadeusz Borowski



Number the Stars -- Lois Lowry



The Painted Bird -- Jerzy Kosinski



Schindler's List (a.k.a. Schindler's Ark) -- Thomas Keneally



Slaughterhouse Five -- Kurt Vonnegut



The Naked and the Dead -- Norman Mailer



Maus I and II -- Art Spiegelman



works of Imre Kertesz



poems of Nelly Sachs



poems of Paul Celan



fiction of Elie Wiesel



The Conformist by Alberto Moravia



Catch-22 -- Joseph Heller



The Tin Drum -- Gunter Grass









NON-FICTION



The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich--William Shirer (It looks daunting, but it's so interesting that most of it will go fast.)



Survival in Auschwitz (a.k.a. If This Is a Man) by Primo Levi (There are follow-ups to this.)



The War Against the Jews -- Lucy S. Dawidowitz

http://www.amazon.com/War-Against-Jews-1933-45/dp/0140134638/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1210793608&sr=8-3



Mein Kampf -- Adolf Hitler (This is still banned in Europe.)



Confessions of a Mask --Yukio Mishima (some of the Japanese perspective, but not fighting, just being bombed)



The "Good War" -- Studs Terkel



The Holocaust Encyclopedia -- Judith Tydor Baumel and Walter Laqueur



The Nazi Doctors -- Robert Jay Lifton



N-F works of Elie Wiesel



Hitler and Stalin: Parallel Lives -- Alan Bullock



Hitler's Willing Executioners -- Daniel Goldhagen

(a book that has caused great controversy; probably better to read after reading quite a bit more)



probably a book or two about the Siege of Leningrad and the Battle of Britain



a book or two about FDR and Churchill (Churchill wrote his own account, too)



The Pink Triangle: The Nazi War Against Homosexuals -- Richard Plant





----I'll leave it there for now.

Answer 4

Corrie Ten Boom:

The Hiding Place (Non-Fiction about the Holocaust)



Elie Wiesel:

Night (Historical Fiction about the Holocaust); Dawn; and Day



Donna Lynn Hess: A Father's Promise

William F.McMurdie: Hey, Mac!

Ian Serraillier: Escape from Warsaw

Stephen Ambrose: The Good Fight How WWII Was Won

Anne De Vries: Journey through the Night

Sharon Linnea: Raoul Wallenberg - The Man Who Stopped Death

Marie McSwigan: Snow Treasure

Piet Prins: The Shadow Series (The Lonely Sentinel, Hideout in the Swamp, The Grim Reaper, The Partisans, and Sabotage)

Michael Leapman: Witness to War

William Pene Du Bois: Twenty and Ten

Answer 5

The Book Thief by Markus Zusak, its amazing, about a german girl living during WW2 and her family hides a jew

Answer 6

Catch 22 by Joseph heller. Its about a pilot in WW2, but its mostly about his life and his situation, not the war itself. It is a great book though.

Answer 7

The Great Escape by Paul Brickhill

http://www.amazon.com/Great-Escape-Paul-Brickhill/dp/0393325792/ref=pd_bbs_sr_2?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1210802774&sr=1-2



Hart's War - John Katzenbach

http://www.amazon.com/Harts-War-John-Katzenbach/dp/0345426258/ref=tag_dpp_lp_edpp_ttl_in



The Caine Mutiny - Herman Wouk

http://www.amazon.com/Caine-Mutiny-Novel-Herman-Wouk/dp/0316955108/ref=pd_sim_b_title_1



The Winds of War/War & Remembrance - Herman Wouk

http://www.amazon.com/Winds-War-Herman-Wouk/dp/0316952664/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1210805215&sr=1-1



These all also have had movies/mini-series made about them which were very good.



Alternate History Fiction about WWII/Nazis/Germany

In the Presence of Mine Enemies - Harry Turtledove

http://www.amazon.com/Presence-Mine-Enemies-Harry-Turtledove/dp/0451459598/ref=sr_1_49?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1210803194&sr=1-49



Fatherland - Robert Harris

http://www.amazon.com/Fatherland-Novel-Mortalis-Robert-Harris/dp/0812977211/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1210805086&sr=1-1



If you are looking for something a little different, try the Worldwar series by Harry Turtledove. World War II is well underway when an alien race attempts to conquer earth, expecting to find a medieval civilization instead of a more technical civilization engaged in global war.

http://www.amazon.com/Balance-Alternate-History-Second-Worldwar/dp/0345388526/ref=pd_sim_b_title_2



Non Fiction

Try the works of Stephen Ambrose (D-Day, Band of Brothers, Citizen Soldiers). These books make reading non-fiction fun; you don't feel like you are reading a textbook, you feel more like you are reading a story. They are very informative and tell a lot of stories and things that most other books gloss over. If you are a fan of the Ken Burns documentaries on PBS, these are written more along those lines than a names/dates/places history book. I would give them a try.

Answer 8

my friend read "My German Soldier"

she said it was good

Answer 9

The Longest Day by Cornelius Ryan

From Here to Eternity by James Jones

The Black March by Peter Neumann

Battle Cry by Leon Uris

Armageddon by Leon Uris



I read all of the above during my teen years and utterly enjoyed them (they are not YA books, they are all adult though).

Answer 10

In My Hands: Memories of a Holocaust Rescuer by: Irene Opdyke This is an amazing book!



Hiding in the Open by: by Sabina S., M.D. Zimering



An Unbroken Chain: My Journey Through the Nazi Holocaust by Henry A. Oertelt and Stephanie Oertelt Samuels



Also, I highly recommend Hitler Youth: Growing up in Hitler's Shadow