Histories

A very small sample of works that might shed light on our era. Click on image for detailed record.

The File: A Personal History
by Timothy Garton Ash
reprint edition, Atlantic Books, 2009

Man is Wolf to Man: Surviving the Gulag
by Janusz Bardach and Kathleen Gleeson
University of California Press, 1999

Unit 731 Cover-up: The Operation Paperclip of the East
by Haddie Beckham and Merja Pyykkönen
January 2021, Pacific Atrocities Education

Stasiland: Stories from behind the Berlin Wall
by Anna Funder
reprint edition, Harper Perennial, 2011

Nationalism and Communism in Romania: The Rise and Fall of Ceausescu’s Personal Dictatorship
by Trond Gilberg
reprint edition, Routledge, 2020

“Promise Me You’ll Shoot Yourself”: The Mass Suicide of Ordinary Germans in 1945
by Florian Huber
Little, Brown Spark, 2020

Wall Street, the Nazis, and the Crimes of the Deep State
by David A. Hughes
June 2024, Skyhorse

Operation Paperclip: The Secret Intelligence Program That Brought Nazi Scientists to America
by Annie Jacobsen
Little, Brown and Co., 2014

Harmful and Undesirable: Book Censorship in Nazi Germany
by Guenter Lewy
Oxford University Press, 2016

They Thought They Were Free: The Germans, 1933-1945
by Milton Mayer
Reprint edition, University of Chicago Press, 2017

Nuremberg: Infamy on Trial
by Joseph E. Persico
Penguin Books, 1994

Fear in Chile: Lives under Pinochet
by Patricia Politzer
reprint edition, New Press, 2001