NIGHTLY READING THREAD: Welcome to Edition #70 of #GMGReads. Every night through this weird time, I'm tweeting out a list of my five favorite books around a general theme—and a link to an indie bookstore where you can order them online....
I recently finished Nguyễn Phan Quế Mai's (@nguyen_p_quemai) THE MOUNTAINS SING, a Vietnamese perspective on that war, and it has me thinking about the human cost of war—which seems an appropriate theme for Memorial Day weekend.... politics-prose.com/book/978161620…
1) I was gifted SAVAGE CONTINENT, by Keith Lowe (@KeithLoweAuthor), a number of years ago and remember being just stunned by its exposition of Europe's rebuilding after World War II and the horrific conditions across the continent: biblio.com/book/savage-co…
2) Anne Applebaum (@anneapplebaum) is surely one of the most important historians of our time, and her chronicle RED FAMINE exposes the true, stunning cost of Stalin's war of extermination in Ukraine: politics-prose.com/book/978080417…
3) Kurt Vonnegut's novel SLAUGHTERHOUSE FIVE is based on his own experiences amid the horror of the fire-bombing of Dresden: politics-prose.com/book/978044018…
4) Harrison Salisbury's THE 900 DAYS traces the brutal, long, human toll of the siege of Leningrad: politics-prose.com/book/978030681…
5) It's much less well-known than Anne Frank's, but ZLATA'S DIARY, the first-person memory of 11-year-old Zlata Filipovic as the Bosnian War breaks out all around her: politics-prose.com/book/978014303…
Those are tonight's #GMGReads! What are you reading this Memorial Day weekend?! Share! #avidreadersunite
