After the Reich: The Brutal History of the Allied Occupation

5 best books like After the Reich: The Brutal History of the Allied Occupation (Giles MacDonogh): A People's History of the World, Estado y revolución, The End: The Defiance and Destruction of Hitler's Germany 1944-45, Hitler's Pope: The Secret History of Pius XII, Germany 1945: From War to Peace

A People's History of the World

Author

Chris Harman

Chris Harman describes the shape and course of human history as a narrative of ordinary people forming and re-forming complex societies in pursuit of common human goals. Interacting with the forces of technological change as well as the impact of powerful individuals and revolutionary ideas, these...

Estado y revolución

Author

Vladimir Lenin

If you happen to get the version which has a forward by Richard Pipes, I strongly suggest reading the text of Vladimir Lenin first, maybe Google or Wikipedia some of the historical references, and draw your own conclusion. Richard Pipes is your classical establishment propaganda clerk who's job is...

The End: The Defiance and Destruction of Hitler's Germany 1944-45

Author	Ian Kershaw
ISBN	1594203148

Countless books have been written about why Nazi Germany lost World War II, yet remarkably little attention has been paid to the equally vital question of how and why it was able to hold out as long as it did. The Third Reich did not surrender until Germany had been left in ruins and almost completely occupied....

Hitler's Pope: The Secret History of Pius XII

Author

John Cornwell

Backed by a wealth of new research, John Cornwell tells for the first time the story of the World War II career of Eugenio Pacelli, the man who was Pope Pius XII, arguably the most dangerous churchman in modern history. In the first decade of the century, as a brilliant young Vatican lawyer, Pacelli helped...

Germany 1945: From War to Peace

Author	Richard Bessel
ISBN	0060540362

“Fascinating….Bessel does an excellent job of evoking the blasted landscape of a conquered Germany.”

—The New Yorker

 

“A sober yet powerful account.”
—New York Times Book Review

 

Authoritative and dramatic, Germany 1945 by...