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Life is Beautiful/La Vita è Bella: A Screenplay by Roberto Benigni, Vincenzo Cerami
Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsThis romantic, hilarious, and astonishingly moving story, winner of the Grand Jury prize at the 1998 Cannes Film Festival, explores the power of the imagination, set against the stark reality of World War II Europe. The companion screenplay to the Miramax film presents the profound yet tender story that has touched the hearts of so many... -
Twilight of the Gods: War in the Western Pacific, 1944-1945 by Ian W. Toll
Rated: 4.75 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsTwilight of the Gods is a riveting account of the harrowing last year of World War II in the Pacific, when the U.S... -
The Conquering Tide: War in the Pacific Islands, 1942-1944 by [美]伊恩·托尔(Ian W. Toll)
Rated: 4.56 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsThe devastation of Pearl Harbor and the American victory at Midway were prelude to a greater challenge: rolling back the vast Japanese Pacific empire, island by island... -
Pacific Crucible: War at Sea in the Pacific, 1941–1942 by Ian W. Toll
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsThe planning, the strategy, the sacrifices and heroics-on both sides-illuminating the greatest naval war in history. On the first Sunday in December 1941, an armada of Japanese warplanes appeared suddenly over Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, and devastated the U.S. Pacific Fleet. Six months later, in a sea fight north of the tiny atoll of Midway, four Japanese aircraft carriers were sent into the abyss... -
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Ultra-Processed People: The Science Behind Food That Isn't Food by Chris van Tulleken
Rated: 4.42 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsA manifesto to change how you eat and how you think about the human body.It’s not you, it’s the food.We have entered a new age of eating. For the first time in human history, most of our calories come from an entirely novel set of substances called Ultra-Processed Food... -
Hero of Two Worlds: The Marquis de Lafayette in the Age of Revolution by Mike Duncan
Rated: 4.57 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsFrom the bestselling author of The Storm Before the Storm and host of the Revolutions podcast comes the thrilling story of the Marquis de Lafayette’s lifelong quest to defend the principles of liberty and equalityA NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER A #1 ABA INDEPENDENT BOOKSTORE BESTSELLER Few in history can match the revolutionary career of the Marquis de Lafayette... -
Scars and Stripes: An Unapologetically American Story of Fighting the Taliban, UFC Warriors, and Myself by Tim Kennedy, Nick Palmisciano
Rated: 4.57 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsINSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERFrom decorated Green Beret sniper, UFC headliner, and all around badass, Tim Kennedy, a rollicking, inspirational memoir offering lessons in how to embrace failure and weather storms, in order to unlock the strongest version of yourself.Tim Kennedy has a problem; he only feels alive right before he’s about to die... -
The Wages of Destruction: The Making and Breaking of the Nazi Economy by Adam Tooze
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsThe idea that Nazi Germany was an unstoppable juggernaut, backed by an efficient, highly industrialized economy, has been central to all accounts of World War II... -
The Vietnam War: An Intimate History by Geoffrey C. Ward, Ken Burns
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsFrom the award-winning historian and filmmakers of The Civil War, Baseball, The War, The Roosevelts, and others: a vivid, uniquely powerful history of the conflict that tore America apart--the companion volume to the major, multipart PBS film to be aired in September 2017.More than forty years after it ended, the Vietnam War continues to haunt our country... -
El abismo del olvido by Paco Roca, Rodrigo Terrasa
Rated: 4.75 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsPaco Roca viaja a nuestro pasado con El abismo del olvido para recuperar junto al periodista Rodrigo Terrasa la historia real de Leoncio Badía —joven republicano obligado a trabajar de sepulturero—; de José Celda —fusilado y enterrado en una fosa común, ejemplo de las decenas de miles de españoles que fueron represaliados de forma salvaje por el régimen franquista—; y de Pepica Celda —hija de... -
The Last Lion 2: Winston Spencer Churchill: Alone, 1932-40 by William Manchester
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsThe second volume of William Manchester's masterful account of Winston Churchill's life. Alone is the second volume of William Manchester's brilliant three-volume biography of Winston Churchill. In this volume, we witness the war within, before the colossal war to come... -
The Last Lion: Winston Spencer Churchill: Defender of the Realm, 1940-1965 by William Manchester, Paul Reid
Rated: 4.39 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsSpanning the years of 1940-1965, The Last Lion picks up shortly after Winston Churchill became Prime Minister—when his tiny island nation stood alone against the overwhelming might of Nazi Germany. The Churchill conjured up by William Manchester and Paul Reid is a man of indomitable courage, lightning fast intellect, and an irresistible will to action... -
Like Eating a Stone: Surviving the Past in Bosnia by Wojciech Tochman
Rated: 4.43 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsDuring four years of war in Bosnia, over 100,000 people lost their lives. But it was months, even years, before the mass graves started to yield up their dead and the process of identification, burial, and mourning could begin... -
Pity the Nation: Lebanon at War by Robert Fisk
Rated: 4.43 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsAccount of war in the late-20th century both as historical document and as an eyewitness testament to human savagery. Written by one of Britain's foremost journalists, this book combines political analysis and war reporting: it is an epic account of the Lebanon conflict by an author who has personally witnessed the carnage of Beirut for over a decade... -
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“Finest Hour” by Winston S. Churchill
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsThis eBook reproduces British Prime Minister Winston Churchill’s historic speech “Finest Hour,” delivered on June 18, 1940. The speech was dedicated to the heroism of Royal Air Force pilots defending England from the Luftwaffe during the critical Battle of Britain (July 10, 1940 to October 31, 1940)... -
The Last Punisher: A SEAL Team Three Sniper's True Account of the Battle of Ramadi by Kevin Lacz, Ethan E. Rocke
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 16 ratings“One of the very best books to come out of the war in Iraq,” (Lt. Col. Dave Grossman, bestselling author of On Killing ), The Last Punisher is a gripping and intimate on-the-ground memoir from a Navy SEAL who was part of SEAL Team THREE with American Sniper Chris Kyle... -
The Nazis Knew My Name: A Remarkable Story of Survival and Courage in Auschwitz-Birkenau by Magda Hellinger, Maya Lee
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsThe “thought-provoking…must-read” (Ariana Neumann, author of When Time Stopped) memoir by a Holocaust survivor who saved an untold number of lives at Auschwitz through everyday acts of courage and kindness—in the vein of A Bookshop in Berlin and The Nazi Officer’s Wife... -
Holocaust Memoirs of a Bergen-Belsen Survivor : Classmate of Anne Frank by Nanette Blitz Konig
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsA monument to the indestructible nature of the human spirit. In these compelling Holocaust memoirs, Nanette Blitz Konig relates her amazing story of survival during the Second World War when she, together with her family and millions of other Jews were imprisoned by the Nazi's with a minimum chance of survival. Nanette (b. 1929) was a class mate of Anne Frank in the Jewish Lyceum of Amsterdam... -
Journal 1935 - 1944: The Fascist Years by Mihail Sebastian
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsHailed as one of the most important portrayals of the dark years of Nazism, this powerful chronicle by the Romanian Jewish writer Mihail Sebastian aroused a furious response in Eastern Europe when it was first published. A profound and powerful literary achievement, it offers a lucid and finely shaded analysis of erotic and social life, a Jew's diary, a reader's notebook, a music-lover's journal... -
История Российского Государства. Ордынский период by Boris Akunin, Boris Akunin
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsВторой том "Истории Российского Государства. Ордынский период" охватывает период с 1223 по 1462 год."В биографии всякой страны есть главы красивые, ласкающие национальное самолюбие, и некрасивые, которые хочется забыть или мифологизировать. Эпоха монгольского владычества в русской истории - самая неприглядная... -
The Grand Alliance by Winston S. Churchill
Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsWinston Churchill's six-volume history of the cataclysm that swept the world remains the definitive history of the Second World War. Lucid, dramatic, remarkable both for its breadth and sweep and for its sense of personal involvement, it is universally acknowledged as a magnificent reconstruction and is an enduring, compelling work that led to his being awarded the Nobel Prize for literature... -
Closing the Ring by Winston S. Churchill, John Keegan
Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsThe drive to victory between June 1943 and July 1944, as the Allies consolidate their achievements, with enormous difficulty and great divergence of opinion... -
Triumph and Tragedy by Winston S. Churchill
Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsWinston Churchill's six-volume history of the cataclysm that swept the world remains the definitive history of the Second World War. Lucid, dramatic, remarkable both for its breadth and sweep and for its sense of personal involvement, it is universally acknowledged as a magnificent reconstruction and is an enduring, compelling work that led to his being awarded the Nobel Prize for literature... -
The German War: A Nation Under Arms by Nicholas Stargardt
Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsAs early as 1941, Allied victory in World War II seemed all but assured. How and why, then, did the Germans prolong the barbaric conflict for three and a half more years?In The German War, acclaimed historian Nicholas Stargardt draws on an extraordinary range of primary source materials—personal diaries, court records, and military correspondence—to answer this question... -
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Auschwitz Escape: The Klara Wizel Story by Danny Naten, R.J. Gifford
Rated: 4.31 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsAt sixteen years old, Klara Wizel is full of life with a loving family. But her spirit quails when she and her family are swept up with fifteen thousand other Hungarian Jews and forcibly transported to one of the world's most infamous concentration Auschwitz-Birkenau... -
Inside the Gas Chambers: Eight Months in the Sonderkommando of Auschwitz by Shlomo Venezia
Rated: 4.31 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsThis is a unique, eye-witness account of everyday life right at the heart of the Nazi extermination machine. Slomo Venezia was born into a poor Jewish-Italian community living in Thessaloniki, Greece. At first, the occupying Italians protected his family; but when the Germans invaded, the Venezias were deported to Auschwitz... -
A World Undone: The Story of the Great War, 1914 to 1918 by G.J. Meyer
Rated: 4.28 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsThe First World War is one of history's greatest tragedies. In this remarkable and intimate account, author G. J. Meyer draws on exhaustive research to bring to life the story of how the Great War reduced Europe’s mightiest empires to rubble, killed twenty million people, and cracked the foundations of the world we live in today... -
Biggest Brother: The Life of Major Dick Winters, the Man Who Led the Band of Brothers by Larry Alexander
Rated: 4.28 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsThe New York Times bestseller that tells the true story of the life of Major Dick Winters, the man who led the Band of Brothers in World War II.In every band of brothers, there is always one who looks out for the others... -
The Third Plate: Field Notes on the Future of Food by Dan Barber
Rated: 4.28 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsBarber explores the evolution of American food from the 'first plate,' or industrially-produced, meat-heavy dishes, to the 'second plate' of grass-fed meat and organic greens, and says that both of these approaches are ultimately neither sustainable nor healthy... -
Metabolical: The Lure and the Lies of Processed Food, Nutrition, and Modern Medicine by Robert H. Lustig
Rated: 4.28 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsThe New York Times bestselling author of Fat Chance explains the eight pathologies that underlie all chronic disease, documents how processed food has impacted them to ruin our health, economy, and environment over the past 50 years, and proposes an urgent manifesto and strategy to cure both us and the planet.Dr...
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