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Books : History : World History

• A History of Modern Britain

  Andrew Marr

  
  
   

• Masters and Commanders: How Roosevelt, Churchill, Marshall and Alanbrooke Won the War in the West

  Andrew Roberts

  
  
   

• The Third Reich at War: How the Nazis Led Germany from Conquest to Disaster (Allen Lane History)

  Richard J. Evans

  
  
   

• Nemesis: The Battle for Japan, 1944--45

  Max Hastings

  
  
   

• Kitchener's Last Volunteer: The Life of Henry Allingham, Britain's Oldest Man and the Oldest Surviving Veteran of the Great War

  Henry Allingham

  
  
   

• Nella Last's Peace: The Post-war Diaries of Housewife 49

  
  
   

• Resistance: Memoirs of Occupied France

  Agnes Humbert

  
  
   

• The White War: Life and Death on the Italian Front, 1915-1919

  Mark Thompson

  
  
   

• The Diary of a Young Girl: The Definitive Edition

  Anne Frank

  
  
   

• Mein Kampf

  Adolf Hitler

  
  
   

• Searching for Schindler

  Thomas Keneally

  
  
   

• Tommy's War: A First World War Diary 1913-1918

  Thomas Cairns Livingstone

  
  
   

• Slaughterhouse 5, or The Children's Crusade - A Duty-dance with Death

  Kurt Vonnegut

  
  It took Vonnegut more than 20 years to put his Dresden experiences into words. He explained, "there is nothing intelligent to say about a massacre. Everybody is supposed to be dead, to never say anything or want anything ever again." Slaughterhouse Five is a powerful novel incorporating a number of genres. Only those who have fought in wars can say whether it represents the experience well. However, what the novel does do is invite the reader to look at the absurdity of war. Human versus human, hedonist politicians pressing buttons and ordering millions to their deaths all for ideologies many cannot even comprehend. Flicking between the US, 1940's Germany and Tralfamadore, Vonnegut's semi- autobiographical protagonist Billy Pilgrim finds himself very lost. One minute he is being viewed as a specimen in a Tralfamadorian Zoo, the next he is wandering a post-apocalyptic city looking for corpses. Slaughterhouse Five-Or The Children's Crusade A Duty-Dance with Death is a remarkable blend of black humour, irony, the truth and the absurd. The author regards his work a "failure", millions of readers do not. Released the same time bombs were falling on South East Asia, this title caused controversy and awakening. Essential reading for all. So it goes. --Jon Smith
  
   

• Nella Last's War: The Second World War Diaries of 'Housewife 49'

  
  
   

• Soldier's War: The Great War Through Veterans' Eyes

  Richard Van Emden

  
  
   

• Stranger in the House: Women's Stories of Men Returning from the Second World War

  Julie Summers

  
  
   

• I Never Knew That About England

  Christopher Winn

  
  
   

• The World is Flat: The Globalized World in the Twenty-first Century

  Thomas Friedman

  
  
   

• The Complete Maus

  Art Spiegelman

  
  
   

• If This Is a Man / The Truce

  Primo Levi