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Books like The Redbreast

The Redbreast by Jo Nesbø is about wartime betrayal, memory and guilt, norwegian collaboration. If that's what drew you in, here are 6 books that share its DNA — each summarized on Superbook, and ready to chat with in the app.

  1. The Spy and the Traitor: The Greatest Espionage Story of the Cold War
    The Spy and the Traitor: The Greatest Espionage Story of the Cold War

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    The Spy and the Traitor: The Greatest Espionage Story of the Cold War

    Ben Macintyre · History

    Ben Macintyre tells the story of Oleg Gordievsky, a KGB officer who became the most important British spy of the Cold War.

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  2. Bloodlands: Europe Between Hitler and Stalin
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    Bloodlands: Europe Between Hitler and Stalin

    Timothy Snyder · History

    Bloodlands is Timothy Snyder's account of the territories between Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union — principally Poland, Ukraine, Belarus, and the Baltic states — where the two regimes' violence overlapped between 1933 and 1945.

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  3. The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich
    The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich

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    The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich

    William L. Shirer · History

    The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich is William Shirer's comprehensive account of Nazi Germany from the early career of Adolf Hitler through the defeat of the Reich in 1945.

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  4. Dead Wake: The Last Crossing of the Lusitania
    Dead Wake: The Last Crossing of the Lusitania

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    Dead Wake: The Last Crossing of the Lusitania

    Erik Larson · History

    Dead Wake tells the story of the sinking of the RMS Lusitania on May 7, 1915, when a German U-boat torpedoed the British ocean liner off the coast of Ireland, killing 1,198 of the 1,959 people aboard, including 128 Americans.

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  5. All Quiet on the Western Front
    All Quiet on the Western Front

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    All Quiet on the Western Front

    Erich Maria Remarque · History

    All Quiet on the Western Front follows Paul Bäumer, a young German soldier who enlists with his classmates during the First World War after being swept up in patriotic speeches.

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  6. A Time to Kill
    A Time to Kill

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    A Time to Kill

    John Grisham · Thriller

    In Clanton, Mississippi, two white men rape and nearly kill ten-year-old Tonya Hailey.

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