Cannibal Island: Death in a Siberian Gulag

7 best books like Cannibal Island: Death in a Siberian Gulag (Jan Tomasz Gross): Girl, Interrupted, Legacy of Ashes: The History of the CIA, And Quiet Flows the Don, Goodbye to All That, The Missing of the Somme, Life and Death in the Third Reich, Spy the Lie: Three Former CIA Officers Reveal Their Secrets to Uncloaking Deception

Girl, Interrupted

Author	Susanna Kaysen
ISBN	0679746048

In 1967, after a session with a psychiatrist she'd never seen before, eighteen-year-old Susanna Kaysen was put in a taxi and sent to McLean Hospital. She spent most of the next two years on the ward for teenage girls in a psychiatric hospital as renowned for its famous clientele--Sylvia Plath, Robert...

Legacy of Ashes: The History of the CIA

Author

Tim Weiner

For the last sixty years, the CIA has managed to maintain a formidable reputation in spite of its terrible record, burying its blunders in top-secret archives. Its mission was to know the world. When it did not succeed, it set out to change the world. Its failures have handed us, in the words of President...

And Quiet Flows the Don

Author	Mikhail Sholokhov
ISBN	0460878905

And Quiet Flows the Don or Quietly Flows the Don (Тихий Дон, lit. "The Quiet Don") is 4-volume epic novel by Russian writer Mikhail Aleksandrovich Sholokhov. The 1st three volumes were written from 1925 to '32 & published in the Soviet magazine October in 1928–32. The 4th volume was finished...

Goodbye to All That

Author

Robert Graves

An autobiographical work that describes firsthand the great tectonic shifts in English society following the First World War, Robert Graves's Goodbye to All That is a matchless evocation of the Great War's haunting legacy, published in Penguin Modern Classics.

In 1929 Robert Graves went...

The Missing of the Somme

Author	Geoff Dyer
ISBN	1842124501

”Crosses stretch away in lines so long they seem to follow the curvature of the earth. Names are written on both the front and back of each cross. The scale of the cemetery exceeds all imagining. Even the names on the crosses count for nothing. Only the numbers count, the scale of loss. But this is so huge...

Life and Death in the Third Reich

Author	Peter Fritzsche
ISBN	0674027930

On January 30, 1933, hearing about the celebrations for Hitler's assumption of power, Erich Ebermayer remarked bitterly in his diary, "We are the losers, definitely the losers." Learning of the Nuremberg Laws in 1935, which made Jews non-citizens, he raged, "hate is sown a million-fold." Yet in March...

Spy the Lie: Three Former CIA Officers Reveal Their Secrets to Uncloaking Deception

Author

Philip Houston

Three former CIA officers - among the world’s foremost authorities on recognizing deceptive behavior - share their proven techniques for uncovering a lie.

Imagine how different your life would be if you could tell whether someone was lying or telling you the truth. Be it hiring a new employee,...