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Screen adaptation

Alone in Berlin

Hans Fallada

After their son dies in the war, a Berlin couple resist Hitler through anonymous postcards. Also published in English as Every Man Dies Alone.

Historical fiction
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Brothers

Bernice Rubens

Generations of a Jewish family confront persecution, migration and the demands of survival.

Historical fiction
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Life and Fate

Vasily Grossman

Wartime lives around Stalingrad expose the human pressures of Nazism and Stalinism.

Historical fiction
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Red Army

Ralph Peters

Soviet soldiers experience an imagined NATO war on the German battlefield.

War fiction
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Red Storm Rising

Tom Clancy

A Soviet–NATO war spreads across European and North Atlantic fronts.

War fiction
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Seven Days to Petrograd

Tom Hyman

A secret mission aboard Lenin’s train could change the course of history.

Historical thriller
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The Kindly Ones

Jonathan Littell

An SS officer moves through occupied Soviet territories, Stalingrad, the institutions of extermination and the collapse of Nazi Germany.

Historical fiction
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The Sealed Train

Michael Pearson

Lenin’s wartime return from Swiss exile becomes a revolutionary political gamble.

History
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