For war/history enthusiasts.
- Elie Wiesel, Night and
- Anne Frank, The Diary of a Young Girl – two personal accounts of the Jewish experience of World War II
Art Spiegelman, Maus – this is a graphic novel, but it’s based on the experiences of the author’s father during World War II. Art Spiegelman won the Pulitzer Prize for Maus, being the first graphic novelist to do so.
Anna Funder, Stasiland – A study of living in a state controlled by the secret service where every neighbour could be an informer. If you’ve seen the movie The Lives of Others this book will be especially interesting (and vice versa). It’s interesting anyway.- Robert Mason, Chickenhawk – Robert Mason flew helicopters in the Vietnam War.
- Anthony Swofford, Jarhead – a soldier’s account of the 1991 Gulf War, and inspiration for the movie of the same name starring Jake Gyllenhaal.
War Is… soldiers, survivors, and storytellers talk about war (edited by Marc Aronson and Patty Campbell) - As the catalogue says, “An anthology of fiction, speeches, poems, and essays about war.”- Nawuth Keat with Martha E Kendall, Alive in the Killing Fields: surviving the Khmer Rouge genocide.
- Wilfred Owen: Poems (selected by Jon Stallworthy) - Wilfred Owen was killed in action in World War 1. One of his most famous poems is ‘Anthem for Doomed Youth’.
James R. Arnold, Saddam Hussein’s Iraq – “Traces the rise and fall of Iraq’s Saddam Hussein and describes life under his poorly planned economic programs, greed, and ruthless brutality.” (catalogue)
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