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10 best books like HHhH (Laurent Binet): The Kindly Ones, Visitation, A Quiet Flame, Red Orchestra: The Story of the Berlin Underground and the Circle of Friends Who Resisted Hitler, Toby's Room, Ravel, Publieke werken, After Midnight, Mendelssohn is on the Roof, Ivyland
| Author | Jonathan Littell |
| ISBN | 0061353450 |
Named one of the "100 Best Books of the Decade" by The Times of London "Oh my human brothers, let me tell you how it happened." A former Nazi officer, Dr. Maximilien Aue has reinvented himself, many years after the war, as a middle-class family man and factory owner in France. An intellectual steeped in...
A house on the forested bank of a Brandenburg lake outside Berlin (once belonging to Erpenbeck’s grandparents) is the focus of this compact, beautiful novel. Encompassing over one hundred years of German history, from the nineteenth century to the Weimar Republic, from World War II to the Socialist...
| Author | Philip Kerr |
| ISBN | 1847243576 |
Philip Kerr returns with his best-loved character, Bernie Gunther, in the fifth novel in what is now a series: a tight, twisting, compelling thriller that is firmly rooted in history.
A Quiet Flame opens in 1950. Falsely fingered a war criminal, Bernie Gunther has booked passage to Buenos...
| Author | Anne Nelson |
| ISBN | 1400060001 |
In this unforgettable book, distinguished author Anne Nelson shares one of the most shocking and inspiring–and least chronicled–stories of domestic resistance to the Nazi regime. The Rote Kapelle, or Red Orchestra, was the Gestapo’s name for an intrepid band of German artists, intellectuals,...
| Author | Pat Barker |
| ISBN | 0385524366 |
From Booker Prize winner Pat Barker, a masterful novel that portrays the staggering human cost of the Great War. Admirers of her Regeneration Trilogy as well as fans of Downton Abbey and War Horse
will be enthralled.
With Toby’s Room, a sequel to her widely praised previous novel Life...
| Author | Jean Echenoz |
| ISBN | 1595581154 |
Ravel is a beguiling and original evocation of the last ten years in the life of the musical genius Ravel, written by novelist Jean Echenoz.
The book opens in 1928 as Maurice Ravel—dandy, eccentric, curmudgeon—crosses the Atlantic abroad the luxury liner the SS France to begin his triumphant...
Het is 1888. De Amsterdamse vioolbouwer Walter Vedder leest in de krant dat er op de plaats van zijn huis een groot hotel gebouwd gaat worden, en onmiddellijk begrijpt hij de kracht van zijn onderhandelingspositie tegenover de Nv Victorie Hotel, die hem immers zal moeten uitkopen.
In dezelfde...
| Author | Irmgard Keun |
| ISBN | 1935554417 |
Sanna and her ravishing friend Gerti would rather speak of love than politics, but in 1930s Frankfurt, politics cannot be escaped -- even in the lady's bathroom. Crossing town one evening to meet up with Gerti's Jewish lover, a blockade cuts off the girls' path -- it is the Fürher in a motorcade procession,...
Mendelssohn is on the Roof
| Author | Jiří Weil |
| ISBN | 0810116863 |
On the roof of Prague's concert hall, Julius Schlesinger, aspiring SS officer, is charged with the removal of the statue of the Jew Mendelssohn--but which one is he? Remembering his course on "racial science," Schlesinger instructs his men to pull down the statue with the biggest nose. Only as the statue...
| Author | Miles Klee |
| ISBN | 1935928619 |
Populated by a bumbling, murderous citizenry of corrupt cops, innocents, ravenous addicts, lovesick geniuses, and cynical adventurers, Ivyland operates in the shadow of a giant pharmaceutical corporation that thrives on people's weaknesses...and may have an even more sinister agenda. It's...
| Author | David Abrams |
| ISBN | 0802120326 |
Fobbit \’fä-bit\, noun. Definition: A U.S. soldier stationed at a Forward Operating Base who avoids combat by remaining at the base, esp. during Operation Iraqi Freedom (2003-2011). Pejorative.
In the satirical tradition of Catch-22 and M*A*S*H, Fobbit takes us into the chaotic world...
| Author | Yannick Haenel |
| ISBN | 2070123111 |
Varsovie, 1942. La Pologne est dévastée par les nazis et les Soviétiques. Jan Karski est un messager de la Résistance polonaise auprès du gouvernement en exil à Londres. Il rencontre deux hommes qui le font entrer clandestinement dans le ghetto, afin qu'il dise aux Alliés ce qu'il a vu, et qu'il...
| Author | Daniel Sada |
| ISBN | 1555976093 |
"Of my generation I most admire Daniel Sada, whose writing project seems to me the most daring."- Roberto Bolaño
This Rabelaisian tale of lust and longing in the drier precincts of postwar Mexico introduces one of Latin America’s most admired writers to the English-speaking world.
Demetrio...
| Author | Gert Ledig |
| ISBN | 1590171640 |
1942, at the Eastern Front. Soldiers crouch in horrible holes in the ground, mingling with corpses. Tunneled beneath a radio mast, German soldiers await the order to blow themselves up. Russian tanks, struggling to break through enemy lines, bog down in a swamp, while a German runner, bearing messages...
| Author | Hans Keilson |
| ISBN | 1843914565 |
A penetrating study of ordinary people resisting the Nazi occupation—and, true to its title, a dark comedy of wartime manners—Comedy in a Minor Key tells the story of Wim and Marie, a Dutch couple who first hide a Jew they know as Nico, then must dispose of his body when he dies of pneumonia. This novella,...
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....
Criminal Case 40/61, the Trial of Adolf Eichmann: An Eyewitness Account
| Author | Harry Mulisch |
| ISBN | 0812238613 |
The trial of Adolf Eichmann began in 1961 under a deceptively simple label, "criminal case 40/61." Hannah Arendt covered the trial for the New Yorker magazine and recorded her observations in Eichmann in Jerusalem: The Banality of Evil. Harry Mulisch was also assigned to cover the trial for a Dutch...
In February 1940, the Nazis established what would become the second-largest Jewish ghetto, in the Polish city of Lódz. The leader they appointed was Mordechai Chaim Rumkowski, a sixty-three-year-old Jewish businessman and orphanage director—and the elusive, authoritarian power sustaining...
| Author | Mathias Énard |
| ISBN | 1934824267 |
Francis Servain Mirkovic, a French-born Croat who has been working for the French Intelligence Services for fifteen years, is traveling by train from Milan to Rome. He’s carrying a briefcase whose contents he’s selling to a representative from the Vatican; the briefcase contains a wealth of...
| Author | Jacques Chessex |
| ISBN | 1904738516 |
On April 16, 1942, a handful of Swiss Nazis in Payerne lure Arthur Bloch, a Jewish cattle merchant, into an empty stable and kill him with a crowbar. Europe is in flames, but this is Switzerland, and Payerne, a rural market town of butchers and bankers, is more worried about unemployment and local bankruptcies...
Winner of the German Book Prize, The Blindness of the Heart is a dark marvel of a novel by one of Europe’s freshest young voices— a family story spanning two world wars and several generations in a German family. In the devastating opening scene, a woman named Helene stands with her seven-year-old...
Het zijn net mensen: beelden uit het Midden-Oosten
| Author | Joris Luyendijk |
| ISBN | 9057593165 |
Vijf jaar lang was Joris Luyendijk correspondent voor de Arabische wereld. Hij liep vluchtelingenkampen af en sloppenwijken, joodse nederzettingen en fundamentalistische bolwerken. Hij sprak met terroristen en bezetters, met slachtoffers, daders en hun familie. Hij doorstond beschietingen...
‘Ik heb geleerd zonder vrijheid te leven, zonder hoop. Waarom, verdorie, valt het me zo zwaar om zonder geweten te leven?’
Terugkeer ongewenst is het deels waargebeurde, deels fictieve levensverhaal van de Joodse acteur, entertainer en regisseur Kurt Gerron, die in de jaren twintig...
| Author | Friedrich Christian Delius |
| ISBN | 0956284000 |
Rome one January afternoon in 1943. A young German woman is on her way to listen to a Bach concert at the Lutheran church. Innocent and naïve, the war is for her little more than a day-dream, until she realizes that her husband might never return.
This is a mesmerizing psychological portrait...
