18 books like Se questo è un uomo

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Works (La tregua / Se questo è un uomo) Primo Levi · 1963 · ★ 4.4 · 397p · ≈ 13h · Moderate The author's survival in Auschwitz and his travels through Eastern Europe and Russia are the subjects of this memoir. Shares German Prisoners and prisons, Prisoners of war, Holocaust, Personal narratives

Three came home Agnes Newton Keith · 1948 · ★ 4.2 · 304p · ≈ 10h · Moderate "Three Came Home" tells of the author's time in Japanese POW and civilian internee camps in North Borneo and Sarawak, and was made into a film of the same name in 1950. It describes Keith's life in North Borneo in the period immediately before the Japanese invasion in 1942, and her subsequent internment and suffering, separated from her husband Harry, and with a young son to care for. Keith was… Shares Prisoners of war, Concentration Camps, Personal narratives, World War II

The Tenth Man Graham Greene · 1985 · ★ 3.7 · 155p · ≈ 5h · Moderate In a prison in occupied France one in every ten men is to be shot. The prisoners draw lots among themselves - and for rich lawyer Louis Chavel, it seems that his whole life has been leading up to an agonizing and crucial failure of nerve. Shares Prisoners and prisons, Prisoners of war, World War II

Andersonville; a story of rebel military prisons John McElroy · 1879 · 624p · ≈ 20h · Demanding "McElroy, with a detachment of his regiment, was guarding a supply route to Cumberland Gap when his entire company was captured in a surprise attack one morning during the winter of 1862-63. He and his comrades were taken to Lippy Prison, and from there they were sent to Andersonville. McElroy spent the rest of the war as a prisoner. His story of attempts at escape, of comrades tracked through… Shares Prisoners and prisons, Prisoners of war, Personal narratives, Biography & Memoir

King Rat James Clavell · 1950 · ★ 4.2 · 371p · ≈ 12h · Moderate The time is World War II. The place is a brutal prison camp deep in Japanese-occupied territory. Here, within the seething mass of humanity, one man, an American corporal, seeks dominance over both captives and captors alike. His weapons are human courage, unblinking understanding of human weaknesses, and total willingness to exploit every opportunity to enlarge his power and corrupt or destroy… Shares Prisoners and prisons, Prisoners of war, World War II

The Boys from Brazil Ira Levin · 1637 · ★ 3.9 · 286p · ≈ 9h · Challenging A Group of Obscure Men Ninety-four civil servants. All aged Sixty-five. Harmless men. In different countries. All of them marked for death. Unknowing Guardians of a Monster Their deaths will be but the beginning. They will lay the groundwork for a grand scheme. A plan which will fulfill a long-thwarted destiny. Change the future of humanity. And allow history's greatest evil to… Shares Concentration Camps, Holocaust, World War II

Let the Celebrations Begin! Margaret Wild · 1991 · ★ 4.0 · 32p · ≈ 1h · Moderate A child, who remembers life at home before life in a concentration camp, makes toys with the women to give to the other children at the very special party they are going to have when the soldiers arrive to liberate the camp. Shares Concentration Camps, Holocaust, World War II

Recollections of an old soldier Capt. David Perry (b. 1741) · 1822 · 64p · ≈ 2h · Challenging As they were in those days, the full title of Capt David Perry's book is its own description: Recollections of an old soldier. The life of Captain David Perry, a soldier of the French and revolutionary wars, containing many extraordinary occurrences relating to his own private history, and an account of some interesting events in the history of the times in which he lived, no-where else… Shares Personal narratives, Biography & Memoir

Autobiography

Autobiography Anderson L Staff · 2001 · 166p · ≈ 5h · Moderate Shares Biography & Memoir with this book.

The Library of American Biography Jared Sparks · 1846 · 402p · ≈ 13h · Challenging Shares Biography & Memoir with this book.

A history of autobiography in antiquity

A history of autobiography in antiquity Georg Misch · 1950 · 364p · ≈ 12h · Moderate Shares Biography & Memoir with this book.

Missing Persons

Missing Persons Mary Evans · 1998 · 176p · ≈ 5h · Moderate Shares Biography & Memoir with this book.

Marse Henry : An Autobiography Henry Watterson · 1919 · 325p · ≈ 10h · Moderate Shares Biography & Memoir with this book.

Two Sisters Gore Vidal · 1970 · ★ 5.0 · 236p · ≈ 7h · Moderate Originally published in 1970 this fairly short novel (174 pages) contains, according to the blurb on the dust jacket of the first edition, “Gore Vidal’s singular speculations on love, sex, death, literature and politics.” Shares Biography & Memoir

Mr. Nice Howard Marks · 1996 · 468p · ≈ 15h · Moderate Shares Biography & Memoir with this book.

Rule Of Law Dexter Dias · 1997 · ★ 4.4 · 483p · ≈ 16h · Moderate Shares Concentration Camps, World War II with this book.

Israel Potter Herman Melville · 1855 · 241p · ≈ 8h · Challenging Melville's eighth book was begun as a simple rewrite of an obscure little narrative entitled Life and Remarkable Adventures of Israel R. Potter, in which Israel tells the story of his sad fall from Revolutionary hero to London peddler. Following its opening chapter Melville's novel retells that tale, with close adherence to the language and events of the Life, and then, shaking free of the… Shares Prisoners and prisons, Personal narratives

The devil's arithmetic Jane Yolen · 1988 · ★ 4.4 · 170p · ≈ 5h · Moderate Hannah thinks tonight's Passover Seder will be the same as always. Little does she know that this year she will be mysteriously transported into the past where only she knows the horrors that await. Hannah resents the traditions of her Jewish heritage until time travel places her in the middle of a small Jewish village in Nazi-occupied Poland. Hannah resents stories of her Jewish heritage… Shares Concentration Camps, Holocaust

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