Recommend good factual book?

[nikki-red]

'Stuart: A life Backwards' by Alexander Masters is a really good book.

[mikem8634]

The Drowned and the Saved

by Primo Levi

 

This book, published months after Italian writer Primo Levi's suicide in 1987, is a small but powerful look at Auschwitz, the hell where Levi was imprisoned during World War II. The book was his third on the subject, following Survival in Auschwitz (1947) and The Reawakening (1963). Removed from the experience by time and age, Levi chose to serve more as an observer of the camp than the passionate young man of his previous work. He writes of "useless violence" inflicted by the guards on prisoners and then concludes the book with a discussion of the Germans who have written to him about their complicity in the event. In all, he tries to make sense of something that--as he knew--made no sense at all.

http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6176.The_Drowned_and_the_Saved

[taxman]

The Birds of the Western Palearctic (full title Handbook of the Birds of Europe, the Middle East, and North Africa: The Birds of the Western Palearctic; often referred to by the initials BWP) is a nine-volume ornithological handbook covering the birds of the western portion of the Palearctic zoogeographical region.

 

Enjoy!

[Guest]

Why Evolution is True by Jerry Coyne. A brilliant book.

 

Failing that, try Trick or Treatment by Simon Singh.

I mentioned that one when he asked the same question last week...

[Itrytoplease]

I flew for the Fuhrer:

A Story of a German Airman (CASSELL MILITARY PAPERBACKS)[Paperback] WW11 from another angle.

his motto was LLLL - live life and learn it's lessons - If I remember correctly, long time since I read it,

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The Drowned and the Saved

by Primo Levi

 

This book, published months after Italian writer Primo Levi's suicide in 1987, is a small but powerful look at Auschwitz, the hell where Levi was imprisoned during World War II. The book was his third on the subject, following Survival in Auschwitz (1947) and The Reawakening (1963). Removed from the experience by time and age, Levi chose to serve more as an observer of the camp than the passionate young man of his previous work. He writes of "useless violence" inflicted by the guards on prisoners and then concludes the book with a discussion of the Germans who have written to him about their complicity in the event. In all, he tries to make sense of something that--as he knew--made no sense at all.

http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6176.The_Drowned_and_the_Saved

 

Thanks. Checked this out. Buying.

[SpikeMac]

I mentioned that one when he asked the same question last week...

 

I got it for Christmas. Haven't enjoyed a book so much in ages.

[Itrytoplease]

If you fancy a novel based on fact, among the millions out there try any of the ""Dick Francis" books most are based on fact, or WW11 again "Sven Hassel" WW11 from the other side, though a little further from the actual events (I think)

[*_ash_*]

Which bit?

The circumstances of his death.

 

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I would recommend Prof. Brian Cox - Quantum theory. A great read.

[skinz]

I, Claudius by Robert Graves. It's written in the form of an autobiography. Read it years ago and just picked it back off the shelf recently. Excellent read.