The Air Corps officers who believed precision bombing could win a war humanely, and Curtis LeMay burning Tokyo instead.
Spiegelman's father in Auschwitz, Jews as mice and Nazis as cats; the only comic with a Pulitzer.
John Hersey follows six survivors through the day of the bomb; the New Yorker gave it a whole issue.
A boy in Hiroshima on 6 August 1945, drawn by a survivor; the manga on the bomb.
Fourteen million killed between Hitler and Stalin in Poland, Ukraine and Belarus; Snyder's map of the killing.
Shirer, who was there, on Germany from 1933 to 1945 in 1,200 pages.
Viktor Frankl in Auschwitz and the psychology he built from it; those with a why can bear any how.
A lie by a 13-year-old in 1935 and Dunkirk; McEwan's best.
Death narrates a girl stealing books in Nazi Germany.
A 15-year-old and a tram conductor in 1958 Heidelberg, and her trial years later.
A man learns he came to Wales on the Kindertransport and follows the trail back; Sebald with photographs.
Yossarian wants out of the war but only the sane ask, and asking proves you are sane; Heller's loop.
Elie Wiesel at fifteen in Auschwitz and Buchenwald; a hundred pages that changed how the Holocaust is written.
Billy Pilgrim comes unstuck in time between Dresden and Tralfamadore; so it goes.
V-2 rockets, a lieutenant whose erections predict strikes and the end of the war; Pynchon's monster.
Anne Frank in the Amsterdam annex from 1942 to 1944.
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