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Jesus Freaks: Martyrs: Stories of Those Who Stood for Jesus: The Ultimate Jesus Freaks
dc Talk
Bethany House, 2005
old world meets new
I bought this for my husband because other people had recommened it. He can't put it down. He's new to the Christian world, but this book pulled him in. He reads it whenever he gets a free chance, and has enjoyed learning more about amazing people and the history of ...
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The Whisperers: Private Life in Stalin's Russia
Orlando Figes
Metropolitan Books, 2007
Dangerous whispers
"The Whisperers" by Orlando Figes is an outstanding piece of scholarship painting a harrowing picture of the results which Stalinist terror had on its victims and on the society it created. The book combines facts of historical developments at various significant ...
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The Years of Extermination: Nazi Germany and the Jews, 1939-1945
Saul Friedlander
Harper Perennial, 2008
Astonishing history of our darkest hour
First of all set aside a long time to read this. The author devotes a great deal of detail into establishing his theories and then proves them one by one. First of all he destroys the myth that either the German people or anyone in the occupied countries did not know ...
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The Forsaken: An American Tragedy in Stalin's Russia
Tim Tzouliadis
Penguin Press HC, The, 2008
Disturbing stuff
I saw a review of this book in the Economist a few weeks ago, and it reminded me of a brief newspaper article I read in about 1996. It talked of thousands of US POWs who had disappeared after WW2, apparently kidnapped by the Russians. At the time I thought that was ...
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Human Smoke: The Beginnings of World War II, the End of Civilization
Nicholson Baker
Simon & Schuster, 2008
Human Smoke is a chronicle of how the world self-destructed in the inferno of World War II
Human Smoke is the most unusual book on World War II which I have read. The reason is the format. Award winning American pacifist author Nicholson Baker has told the grisly story by using a Wikepdia approach to his narrative structure. In succinct paragraphs he tells ...
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I Have Lived A Thousand Years: Growing Up In The Holocaust
Livia Bitton-Jackson
Simon Pulse, 1999
Shocking
This book is so powerful. I have read many stories of Holocaust survivors, but few if any have presented such a vivid view of the horrors the Jews faced. Some parts were disturbing, but they describe true history, so they are definitely important to read. If you're ...
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Nazi Germany and the Jews: Volume 1: The Years of Persecution 1933-1939
Saul Friedlander
Harper Perennial, 1998
Great Work from A Great Historian
I've taken several seminars at UCLA with Saul Friedlander, and to say that he is an objective and very insightful historian is an understatement. This book is terrific and deserves all the critical praise that it has received. Even if you are just curious about the ...
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The Deniers: The World Renowned Scientists Who Stood Up Against Global Warming Hysteria, Political ...
Lawrence Solomon
Richard Vigilante Books, 2008
Man made global warming fails the scientific test
This book is written by a Canadian Environmental Activist who wanted to know why leading scientists kept denying man-made global warming so he interview a number of them for his column. In every case, they have good solid reasons why the IPCC ignores the lack of ...
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Yellow Star
Jennifer Roy
Marshall Cavendish, 2006
Yellow Star
Yellow Star is excellent. The book is written in first person, from the authors interviews of her aunt who was one of the only children who survived the Lodzer Ghetto. I was deeply moved by her writing, not only as an avid reader, but as a person who lost an ...
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Safely Home
Randy Alcorn
Tyndale House Publishers, 2003
Randy Alcorn has become one of my favorite authors of Christian Fiction!
I can't imagine this book failing to put a burden,on the hearts of all who read it,at least for prayer, for all the Christians who are being persecuted(often in horrifying ways)around the world.
I also couldn't help thinking maybe such persecution here, is exactly ...
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Ghettostadt: Lódz and the Making of a Nazi City
Gordon J. Horwitz
Belknap Press, 2008
GHETTOSTADT: LODZ AND THE MAKING OF A NAZI CITY
A unique and highly descriptive volume on the ghetto in Lodz. This book gives both the Jewish and German perspectives of the creation of the ghetto, and goes into excellent detail of the Nazi intentions in regard to the city and region itself. The setup and ...
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The Murder of Nikolai Vavilov: The Story of Stalin's Persecution of One of the Great Scientists of the ...
Peter Pringle
Simon & Schuster, 2008
The world's most famous and important unknown scientist.
Until Peter Pringle's brilliant new book, only a few specialists in the west knew anything about Nikolai Vavilov. Yet every visit to every grocery store, to every farm market, to every harvested plant and animal in the world owed a huge debt to a person who, ...
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This Way for the Gas, Ladies and Gentlemen (Penguin Classics)
Tadeusz Borowski
Penguin Classics, 1992
A remembrance of things past
Imre Kertesz, a concentration camp survivor and winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature often asks in his work: is there life after Auschwitz? Can one live with the ineffable guilt that accompanies survival against all odds? For Borowski the answer appears to be no. ...
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The Diary of a Young Girl: The Definitive Edition
Anne Frank
Bantam, 1997
A bright soul in a dark time
I have finally, at the age of 33, gotten around to reading Anne Frank's diary. There is little point in adding another glowing review. Everything has been said. But after reading some of the negative reviews, I feel compelled to respond. It seems there are two ...
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The Unknown Black Book: The Holocaust in the German-Occupied Soviet Territories
Indiana University Press, 2007
Weeping in Babylon
It's a rare reader who'll be able to get through The Unknown Black Book without having to walk away from it several times. The tragedies it documents are just too horrible to bear except in small doses. Both text and photographs stun the imagination and freeze the ...
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