Books like With the Old Breed: At Peleliu and Okinawa
12 books with a reading profile close to With the Old Breed: At Peleliu and Okinawa by Eugene B. Sledge. Deep; a moderate read.
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The Pianist: The Extraordinary Story of One Man's Survival in Warsaw, 1939–45
Also deep · history, memoir
Władysław Szpilman, a Jewish pianist for Polish Radio, provides a first-hand account of the Nazi occupation of Warsaw.
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2
Life of Black Hawk, Ma-ka-tai-me-she-kia-kiak
by Black Hawk
history, memoir
In this 1833 autobiography, Sauk leader Black Hawk recounts his military life and the territorial disputes leading to the Black Hawk War.
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3
Homage to Catalonia
history, memoir
George Orwell recounts his personal involvement in the Spanish Civil War, specifically his time serving within the POUM militia on the Aragon front and in Barcelona.
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4
The Nazi Officer's Wife: How One Jewish Woman Survived the Holocaust
history, memoir
In 1942, Edith Hahn, a Jewish law student from Vienna, escaped deportation by assuming the identity of a Christian woman named Grete Denner.
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I'm Still Here: Black Dignity in a World Made for Whiteness
history, memoir
Austin Channing Brown narrates her life navigating predominantly white religious and corporate organizations, beginning with the story of how her parents chose her name to ensure she would reach the interview stage of e…
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Assata: An Autobiography
history, memoir
Assata Shakur recounts her life as a member of the Black Panther Party and the Black Liberation Army, structured around her 1973 arrest on the New Jersey Turnpike and subsequent imprisonment.
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Infidel
history, memoir
Infidel follows Ayaan Hirsi Ali’s life from her childhood in Somalia, Saudi Arabia, and Kenya to her career as a Dutch parliamentarian.
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The Autobiography of Malcolm X
by Malcolm X
Also deep · history, memoir
The narrative chronicles Malcolm Little’s evolution from a Midwestern childhood marked by white supremacist violence to his street life as a hustler and thief in Harlem.
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9
Wild Swans
by Jung Chang
history, memoir
Jung Chang traces the history of twentieth-century China through the lives of three generations of women: her grandmother, her mother, and herself.
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Unorthodox: The Scandalous Rejection of My Hasidic Roots
history, memoir
Deborah Feldman details her youth within the Satmar Hasidic community in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, a world defined by strict gender roles and the trauma of the Holocaust.
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First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers
by Loung Ung
history, memoir
In 1975, five-year-old Loung Ung lived a comfortable life in Phnom Penh as the daughter of a high-ranking government official.
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Narrative of the life of Frederick Douglass
Also deep · history, memoir
Frederick Douglass recounts his transition from an enslaved child in Maryland to an abolitionist leader in the North.
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