So I just finished reading “All The Light We Cannot See.” I am very interested in reading more fiction or nonfiction books about the people in Europe during WWII. The book portrayed a unique perspective on the war that I never learned in school. I gave “The Nightingale” a try but couldn’t get through the first chapters. Something about it felt shallow by comparison to the former book. Too squeaky clean? And then I picked up “Gravity’s Rainbow.” After 100 pages, my head hurts, I have no idea what’s going on, and I want to make banana pancakes.
I like a challenging book, but when the author’s intent seems to be to confuse, subvert, and so on to make a larger point about the theme of the novel (something something John Cage), it’s not enjoyable. Learned a bunch of words though.
So what are some ideas for books zoomed in on the people involved in WWII to read next?
by Goose2629
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Such an AMAZING book – I heard some streaming service is doing a movie or mini-series of it.
*The Rape of Europa: The Fate of Europe’s Treasures in the Third Reich and the Second World War* by Lynn H. Nicholas
*The Monuments Men: Allied Heroes, Nazi Thieves, and the Greatest Treasure Hunt in History* by Bret Witter and Robert M. Edsel
*Saving Italy: The Race to Rescue a Nation’s Treasures from the Nazis* by Robert M. Edsel
Related:
*The Master Plan: Himmler’s Scholars and the Holocaust* by Heather Pringle
*The Nazi Hunters: How a Team of Spies and Survivors Captured the World’s Most Notorious Nazi* by Neal Bascomb
*The Right Wrong Man: John Demjanjuk and the Last Great Nazi War Crimes Trial* by Lawrence Douglas
*The Rape of Nanking: The Forgotten Holocaust of WWII* by Iris Chang