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Books like The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich
The best books like The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich are Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind, Guns, Germs, and Steel, and Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption. The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich by William L. Shirer is about totalitarianism, world war ii, nazi germany. If that's what drew you in, here are 12 books that share its DNA — each summarized on Superbook, and ready to chat with in the app.
- Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
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Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
Yuval Noah Harari · History
Sapiens traces the full arc of human history from the emergence of Homo sapiens in Africa roughly 70,000 years ago to the present.
A kindred history read.
Read the summary → - Guns, Germs, and Steel
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Jared Diamond · Science
Guns, Germs, and Steel is Jared Diamond's attempt to answer a question posed to him by a Papua New Guinean politician named Yali: why did Europeans end up with so much cargo — wealth, technology, power — while other peoples had comparatively little?
A kindred history read.
Read the summary → - Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption
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Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption
Laura Hillenbrand · Biography
Unbroken follows Louis Zamperini from his juvenile delinquency in Depression-era California to the 1936 Berlin Olympics, where he ran the 5,000 meters at nineteen and briefly caught Hitler's attention.
A kindred history read.
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- The Devil in the White City
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Erik Larson · History
The Devil in the White City tells two stories that unfolded simultaneously in Chicago in 1893.
A kindred history read.
Read the summary → - The Righteous Mind: Why Good People Are Divided by Politics and Religion
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The Righteous Mind: Why Good People Are Divided by Politics and Religion
Jonathan Haidt · Psychology
The Righteous Mind is Jonathan Haidt's argument that moral reasoning is not the source of our moral judgments — it's the press secretary for them.
A kindred history read.
Read the summary → - 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.
Shares totalitarianism and world war ii with The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich.
Read the summary → - Agent Zigzag: A True Story of Nazi Espionage, Love, and Betrayal
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Agent Zigzag: A True Story of Nazi Espionage, Love, and Betrayal
Ben Macintyre · History
Eddie Chapman was a safecracker, con man, and professional criminal who became Britain's most remarkable double agent during World War II.
Both dig into world war ii.
Read the summary → - Gulag: A History
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Anne Applebaum · History
Anne Applebaum's Gulag is the first comprehensive English-language history of the Soviet forced labor camp system, drawing on KGB archives opened briefly after 1991, survivor memoirs, and interviews with former prisoners and guards.
Both dig into totalitarianism.
Read the summary → - Iron Curtain: The Crushing of Eastern Europe 1944–1956
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Iron Curtain: The Crushing of Eastern Europe 1944–1956
Anne Applebaum · History
Iron Curtain is Anne Applebaum's account of how the Soviet Union destroyed civil society and imposed communist rule across Eastern Europe between 1944 and 1956.
Both dig into totalitarianism.
Read the summary → - Lost in Shangri-La
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Mitchell Zuckoff · History
Lost in Shangri-La tells the story of a 1945 military plane crash in the Baliem Valley of New Guinea — a hidden highland region so remote and unknown to the outside world that the press called it Shangri-La.
Both dig into world war ii.
Read the summary → - Natural Born Heroes
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Christopher McDougall · History
Natural Born Heroes is Christopher McDougall's follow-up to Born to Run, and it attempts something equally ambitious: to argue that heroism is a trainable physical and psychological skill, and that the human body contains natural capacities for endurance, power, and resilience that modern life has systematically atrophied.
Both dig into world war ii.
Read the summary → - Operation Mincemeat: How a Dead Man and a Bizarre Plan Fooled the Nazis and Assured an Allied Victory
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Ben Macintyre · History
In 1943, British intelligence planted a dead man on a Spanish beach carrying fabricated documents designed to convince the Germans that the Allied invasion of southern Europe would target Greece and Sardinia rather than Sicily.
Both dig into world war ii.
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Books like The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich: quick answers
What are the best books like The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich?
The best books like The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich by William L. Shirer are Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind by Yuval Noah Harari, Guns, Germs, and Steel by Jared Diamond, Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption by Laura Hillenbrand, The Devil in the White City by Erik Larson, The Righteous Mind: Why Good People Are Divided by Politics and Religion by Jonathan Haidt, plus 7 more below. Each was chosen for themes it shares with The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich, such as totalitarianism, world war ii, nazi germany.
What should I read after The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich?
A natural next read after The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich is Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind by Yuval Noah Harari. A kindred history read. Other strong choices are Guns, Germs, and Steel by Jared Diamond, Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption by Laura Hillenbrand, The Devil in the White City by Erik Larson.
What books are similar to The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich by William L. Shirer?
The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich centers on totalitarianism, world war ii, nazi germany. Books with a similar feel include Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind by Yuval Noah Harari, Guns, Germs, and Steel by Jared Diamond, Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption by Laura Hillenbrand, The Devil in the White City by Erik Larson, The Righteous Mind: Why Good People Are Divided by Politics and Religion by Jonathan Haidt, Bloodlands: Europe Between Hitler and Stalin by Timothy Snyder — all free to read and chat with on Superbook.
