Recommendations from our site
“Hitler’s People is a new book by historian Richard Evans…offering short portraits of major and minor players in the Third Reich, and what motivated them. It opens with a section on Adolf Hitler himself. I’ve never read any biographies of any of the men surrounding Hitler, so reading about their background and how they ended up getting involved made for interesting reading. Education and appreciation for culture were absolutely no guard against becoming a devout Nazi.” Read more...
Notable Nonfiction Books of Fall 2024
Sophie Roell, Journalist
Our most recommended books
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Life and Fate
by Vasily Grossman and translated by Robert Chandler -
Histories
by Herodotus -
The Confessions
by Augustine (translated by Maria Boulding) -
Ordinary Men: Reserve Police Battalion 101 and the Final Solution in Poland
by Christopher Browning -
On War
by Carl von Clausewitz -
The Interesting Narrative
by Olaudah Equiano
