Year 9 Passionate Historians

Scholarship and Fiction

The Kaisers Germany
  • Frank Dikkoter, How to Be a Dictator: The Cult of Personality in the Twentieth Century – 2019
  • Richard Overy, The Dictators – 2004
  • Daniel Kalder, Dictator Literature: A History of Bad Books by Terrible People – 2019
  • Christopher Clark, Kaiser Wilhelm II: A Life in Power
The First World War
  • Erich Maria Remarque, All Quiet on the Western Front (FICTION)
  • Sebastian Faulks, Birdsong – 1983 (FICTION)
  • Christopher Clark, Sleepwalkers: How Europe went to war – 2014
  • William Mulligan, The Origins of the First World War – 2010
Weimar Germany and the Inter War Years
  • Eric D. Weitz, Weimar Germany Promise and Tragedy, Weimar Centennial Edition
  • Paul Bookbinder, Weimar Germany: The Republic of the Reasonable
Anti-Semitism and The Holocaust
  • The Diary of Anne Frank
  • Markus Zusak, The Book Thief – 2005 (FICTION)
  • Judy Batalion, The Light of Days: The Untold Story of Women Resistance Fighters in Hitler's Ghettos – 2021
  • Art Spiegelman, The Complete Maus – 2013
  • Dorit Oliver-Wolfe, From Yellow Star to Pop Star: How one young girl survived the Holocaust
WW2
  • Sinclair McKay, The Secret Life of Bletchley Park: The History of the Wartime Codebreaking Centre by the Men and Women Who Were There – 2011
  • Peter Sikora , The Polish 'Few': Polish Airmen in the Battle of Britain – 2018
  • Dr Gareth Moore, The Alan Turing Codebreakers Puzzle Book – 2018
  • Gillian Mawson, Britain’s Wartime Evacuees – 2021

TV & Film

  • 1917 – film about WWI.
  • The Dictator’s Playbook – TV mini series about dictatorships.
  • The Zoo Keeper’s Wife – film about Nazi occupied Poland.
  • The Imitation Game – film about code-breaker Alan Turing.
  • A Call to Spy – film about resistance and espionage during WWII about segregation and discrimination.

Podcasts

The Dan Snow Edition!

  1. The Boy who Survived Auschwitzhttps://player.fm/series/dan-snows-history-hit-106527/the-boy-who-survived-Auschwitz
  2. The Child Soldiers of WW1https://player.fm/series/dan-snows-history-hit-106527/the-child-soldiers-of-wwi
  3. The 1914 Christmas Trucehttps://player.fm/series/dan-snows-history-hit-106527/the-1914-christmas-truce-part-1-RNabi8Ga7ixpm2Sz