Lists of Bests: FrancisFrownsalot's "Books About War, Despots, and Genocide" http://www.listsofbests.com/list/58839 Sun, 15 Nov 2009 01:16:00 GMT en-us 0 50 220 50 0 House of the Spirits http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/327986 <div id="position">1</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/327986"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0394539079.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Isabel Allende</div> Legends of the Fall http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/105814 <div id="position">2</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/105814"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0385285965.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V44914902_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Jim Harrison</div> Farewell My Concubine: Novel, A http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1531 <div id="position">3</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1531"><img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0060976446.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.gif" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Lilian Lee</div> The Last of the Mohicans (Leatherstocking Tale) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3135 <div id="position">4</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3135"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0140390243.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by James Fenimore Cooper</div> The English Patient http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/18890 <div id="position">5</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/18890"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0679745203.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1056464945_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Michael Ondaatje</div> Den of Lions: A Startling Memoir of Survival and Triumph http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3851159 <div id="position">6</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3851159"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51NMKSWAGEL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Terry Anderson</div> In Pharaoh's Army: Memories of the Lost War http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/118741 <div id="position">7</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/118741"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0679760237.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Tobias Wolff</div> Fortunate Son: The Autobiography of Lewis B. Puller, Jr. http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1170259 <div id="position">8</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1170259"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0802136907.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Lewis B. Puller</div> A Diary of the Century: Tales by America's Greatest Diarist http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/283311 <div id="position">9</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/283311"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/1568360800.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Edward Robb Ellis</div> Children of the Flames: Dr. Josef Mengele and the Untold Story of the Twins of Auschwitz http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/464775 <div id="position">10</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/464775"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0140169318.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Lucette Matalon Lagnado</div> Battlefields and Playgrounds (Tauber Institute for the Study of European Jewry Series) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3851194 <div id="position">11</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3851194"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/119W6GFEQ6L._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div> Regeneration http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/14040 <div id="position">12</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/14040"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0452270073.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1132610379_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Pat Barker</div> Children of the Holocaust (Jewish Lives) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1570569 <div id="position">13</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1570569"><img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0810112795.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Arnost Lustig</div> People's History of the United States: 1492 to Present (P.S.) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/59278 <div id="position">14</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/59278"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0060838655.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Howard Zinn</div> Highways to a War http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/794798 <div id="position">15</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/794798"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0140247572.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1056420348_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Christopher J. Koch</div> Last Orders http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/19046 <div id="position">16</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/19046"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0679766626.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1056465009_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Graham Swift</div> Batting Against Castro: Stories http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/378502 <div id="position">17</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/378502"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0679446680.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1056464785_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Jim Shepard</div> Hitler's Willing Executioners: Ordinary Germans and the Holocaust http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/19087 <div id="position">18</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/19087"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0679772685.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Daniel Jonah Goldhagen</div> Napoleon and Josephine: An Improbable Marriage http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1584970 <div id="position">19</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1584970"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0806522615.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Evangeline Bruce</div> The Heart of the Matter http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2336535 <div id="position">20</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2336535"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0099478420.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Graham Greene</div> The End of the Affair: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition) (Penguin Classics Deluxe Editio) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3724 <div id="position">21</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3724"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0142437980.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1083834916_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Graham Greene</div> Gone With the Wind http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/19355 <div id="position">22</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/19355"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/068483068X.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1057192859_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Margaret Mitchell</div> Sophie's Choice (Modern Library) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/583991 <div id="position">23</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/583991"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0679602895.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1056464854_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by William Styron</div> Gravity's Rainbow (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1117767 <div id="position">24</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1117767"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0143039946.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Thomas Pynchon</div> Blood of Others (Twentieth Century Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2757 <div id="position">25</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2757"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0140183337.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Simone de Beauvoir</div> A Good Scent from a Strange Mountain: Stories http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/24133 <div id="position">26</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/24133"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0802137989.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Robert Olen Butler</div> Diary of Anne Frank (Imprint Books) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/503418 <div id="position">27</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/503418"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/058201736X.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Anne Frank</div> The Confessions of Nat Turner http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/18813 <div id="position">28</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/18813"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0679736638.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by William Styron</div> The Tin Drum (Vintage International) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/18691 <div id="position">29</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/18691"><img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/067972575X.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Gunter Grass</div> The Remains of the Day http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/18738 <div id="position">30</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/18738"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0679731725.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1056464898_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Kazuo Ishiguro</div> Season of Blood: A Rwandan Journey http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/127120 <div id="position">31</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/127120"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0140247602.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Fergal Keane</div> Mein Kampf http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2809258 <div id="position">32</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2809258"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/I/01auoP+MIPL.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Adolf Hitler</div> Herzog (Penguin Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3712 <div id="position">33</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3712"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0142437298.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Saul Bellow</div> Hiroshima (Vintage) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/18623 <div id="position">34</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/18623"><img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0679721037.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by John Hersey</div> The Railway Man: A POW's Searing Account of War, Brutality and Forgiveness http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/4885824 <div id="position">35</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/4885824"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51bjWc19FEL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Eric Lomax</div> The Flight: Confessions of an Argentine Dirty Warrior http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3853889 <div id="position">36</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3853889"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/71A2H3B5EKL._SL75_.gif" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Horacio Verbitsky</div> The Private Life of Chairman Mao http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/132729 <div id="position">37</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/132729"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0679764437.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1056464999_.gif" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Li Zhi-Sui</div> Sisters in Arms: Catholic Nuns through Two Millennia http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3853894 <div id="position">38</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3853894"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41CDNQB1EVL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Jo Ann Kay McNamara</div> The Devil Knows How to Ride: The True Story of William Clarke Quantrill and His Confederate Raiders http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1407548 <div id="position">39</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1407548"><img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/030680865X.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Edward E. Leslie</div> Europe: A History http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1513 <div id="position">40</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1513"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0060974680.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Norman Davies</div> Doing Battle: The Making of a Skeptic http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/131385 <div id="position">41</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/131385"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0316290610.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Paul Fussell</div> Fragments: Memories of a Wartime Childhood http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1551406 <div id="position">42</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1551406"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/080521089X.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1057195196_.gif" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Binjamin Wilkomirski</div> The Tenth Circle of Hell: A Memoir of Life in the Death Camps of Bosnia (A New Republic Book) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/418188 <div id="position">43</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/418188"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0465084087.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.gif" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Rezak Hukanovic</div> Broken Country: Mountains and Memory http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1531587 <div id="position">44</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1531587"><img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0805037187.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by C. L. Rawlins</div> Badenheim 1939 http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/919807 <div id="position">45</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/919807"><img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0879237996.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Aron Appelfeld</div> The Painted Bird http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/24076 <div id="position">46</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/24076"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/080213422X.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Jerzy N. Kosinski</div> Sharpshooter: A Novel of the Civil War http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1067136 <div id="position">47</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1067136"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/1572334509.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by David Madden</div> Logavina Street: Life and Death in a Sarajevo Neighborhood http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1123937 <div id="position">48</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1123937"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0836213262.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Barbara Demick</div> Hannibal http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3858327 <div id="position">49</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3858327"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/5160JT0SYGL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Ross Leckie</div> Guided Tours of Hell: Novellas http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/134186 <div id="position">50</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/134186"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/006008085X.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Francine Prose</div>