Book Reviews
- Ruth Andreas-Friedrich: Berlin Diaries
Berlin Underground, 1938-1945; Battleground Berlin
- David Attenborough: Life on Air
Memoirs of a Broadcaster
- Zahiruddin Babur: The Baburnama
Memoirs of Babur, Prince and Emperor
- Paul Feyerabend: Killing Time*
- a controversial philosopher of science looks back at his life
- Robert Graves: Goodbye to All That
- an autobiography at thirty: from public school to the Great War
- Sebastian Haffner: Defying Hitler
- a German's story, 1914 to 1933
- Judith Keene: The Last Mile to Huesca
An Australian Nurse in the Spanish Civil War
- Primo Levi: The Periodic Table**
- stories of a chemist working with elements
- Monika Maron: Pavel's Letters
- discovering grandparents lost to the Holocaust
- George Orwell: Homage to Catalonia
- a volunteer's first-hand account of the Spanish civil war
- Jules Siegel, Christine Wexler: Lineland
Mortality and Mercy on the Internet's Pynchon-L@Waste.Org Discussion List
- Wole Soyinka: Aké*
- an enchanting childhood in a West Nigerian town
- Laurens van der Post: The Admiral's Baby
- a British officer in Java, 1945 to 1947
- Samuel Hideo Yamashita: Leaves from an Autumn of Emergencies*
Selections from the Wartime Diaries of Ordinary Japanese
- Béla Zsolt: Nine Suitcases*
- a novel of the Holocaust in Hungary
See also:
biography
Unreviewed but highly recommended: Nelson Mandela's Long Walk to Freedom (Amazon).