A man learns he came to Wales on the Kindertransport and follows the trail back; Sebald with photographs.
Zweig's memoir of Vienna before 1914 and Europe after, finished the day before his suicide.
Orwell fights in the Spanish Civil War, is shot through the throat and sees the revolution betrayed.
Anne Frank in the Amsterdam annex from 1942 to 1944.
Elie Wiesel at fifteen in Auschwitz and Buchenwald; a hundred pages that changed how the Holocaust is written.
Tolstoy's epic of Russia in the Napoleonic age (1869).
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