diaries + autobiography

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
• Elif Batuman: The Possessed
  Adventures with Russian Books and the People Who Read Them
• Mohamed Choukri: For Bread Alone
  - a bleak childhood and youth in Morocco
• Paul Feyerabend: Killing Time*
  - a controversial philosopher of science looks back at his life
• Jacob Glatstein: The Glatstein Chronicles*
  - an American Yiddish poet visits Poland in 1934
• 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
• Michael Hampson: Last Rites
  The End of the Church of England
• Judith Keene: The Last Mile to Huesca
  An Australian Nurse in the Spanish Civil War
• Aaron Lansky: Outwitting History
  How a Young Man Rescued a Million Books and Saved a Vanishing Civilisation
• Primo Levi: The Periodic Table**
  - stories of a chemist working with elements
• Monika Maron: Pavel's Letters
  - discovering grandparents lost to the Holocaust
• Lady Mary Wortley Montagu: The Turkish Embassy Letters
  - an aristocratic Englishwoman visits Ottoman Turkey
• Irfan Orga: Portrait of a Turkish Family
  - a childhood at the end of the Ottoman empire
• 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
• Jon Swain: River of Time
  - a memoir of Cambodia and Vietnam at war
• Laurens van der Post: The Admiral's Baby
  - a British officer in Java, 1945 to 1947
• Alfred Russel Wallace: Letters from the Malay Archipelago
  - travelling, observing, collecting, theorising, ...
• 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).