Read Homage to Catalonia

T. E. Lawrence's own account of the Arab Revolt.

Orwell as a dishwasher and a tramp; poverty from the inside.

Michael Herr's Vietnam, in the language the soldiers used; the best book about that war.

Zweig's memoir of Vienna before 1914 and Europe after, finished the day before his suicide.

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.

Solzhenitsyn's literary investigation of the camps from 227 witnesses; the abridged edition is enough.

Experience the dystopian classic by George Orwell