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Execution by Hunger: The Hidden Holocaust

9 best books like Execution by Hunger: The Hidden Holocaust (Miron Dolot): The Hero and the Crown, The Rape of Nanking, Beyond Band of Brothers: The War Memoirs of Major Dick Winters, Les Liaisons dangereuses, The Harvest of Sorrow: Soviet Collectivization and the Terror-Famine, The Whisperers: Private Life in Stalin's Russia, Reflection, Kolyma Tales, The Recipient

The Hero and the Crown
AuthorRobin McKinley
ISBN0441328091
Aerin could not remember a time when she had not known the story; she had grown up knowing it.

It was the story of her mother, the witchwoman who enspelled the king into marrying her, to get an heir that would rule Damar; and it was told that she turned her face to the wall and died of despair when she...
The Rape of Nanking
AuthorIris Chang
ISBN0140277447
In December 1937, the Japanese army invaded the ancient city of Nanking, systematically raping, torturing, and murdering more than 300,000 Chinese civilians.

This book tells the story from three perspectives: of the Japanese soldiers who performed it, of the Chinese civilians who endured...
Beyond Band of Brothers: The War Memoirs of Major Dick Winters
AuthorDick Winters
ISBN0425208133
They were called Easy Company—but their mission was never easy. Immortalized as the Band of Brothers, they suffered 150% casualties while liberating Europe—an unparalleled record of bravery under fire. Dick Winters was their commander—"the best combat leader in World War II" to his men....
Les Liaisons dangereuses
AuthorPierre Choderlos de Laclos
ISBN0192838679
The complex moral ambiguities of seduction and revenge make Les Liaisons dangereuses (1782) one of the most scandalous and controversial novels in European literature. The subject of major film and stage adaptations, the novel's prime movers, the Vicomte de Valmont and the Marquise de Merteuil,...
The Harvest of Sorrow: Soviet Collectivization and the Terror-Famine
AuthorRobert Conquest
ISBN0195051807
The Harvest of Sorrow is the first full history of one of the most horrendous human tragedies of the 20th century. Between 1929 and 1932 the Soviet Communist Party struck a double blow at the Russian peasantry: dekulakization, the dispossession and deportation of millions of peasant families, and...
The Whisperers: Private Life in Stalin's Russia
AuthorOrlando Figes
ISBN0805074619
From the award-winning author of A People's Tragedy and Natasha's Dance, a landmark account of what private life was like for Russians in the worst years of Soviet repression
 
There have been many accounts of the public aspects of Stalin's dictatorship: the arrests and trials, the enslavement...
Reflection
AuthorElizabeth Lim
ISBN1484781295
What if Mulan had to travel to the Underworld?

When Captain Shang is mortally wounded by Shan Yu in battle, Mulan must travel to the Underworld, Diyu, in order to save him from certain death. But King Yama, the ruler of Diyu, is not willing to give Shang up easily. With the help of Shang's great lion...
Kolyma Tales
AuthorVarlam Shalamov
ISBN0140186956
It is estimated that some three million people died in the Soviet forced-labour camps of Kolyma, in the northeastern area of Siberia. Shalamov himself spent seventeen years there, and in these stories he vividly captures the lives of ordinary people caught up in terrible circumstances, whose hopes...
The Recipient
AuthorAudrey J. Cole
ISBN1542953707
Sergeant Wade McKinnon knows who killed Samantha the moment he arrives at her crime scene. Problem is, he watched her killer die a year ago.
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A year after serial killer Michael Rhodes is executed and allowed to donate part of his brain as an organ transplant, Wade gets called to a murder scene...
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