Books like The Fate of a Man
At a river crossing in the first spring after the war, a soldier tells a stranger how he lost everything, his family, his home and years in German camps, and the small boy now beside him.
Explore books like this on the map12 books for readers of The Fate of a Man
The Moon Is Down
An invading army takes a small coastal mining town in an unnamed northern country almost without a shot, and its colonel tries to run it peacefully through the town's mayor.
Dragon Seed
Ling Tan, a farmer in a village outside Nanking, and his family see the Japanese army arrive in 1937 and have to decide how to live, and resist, under occupation.
The Train Was on Time
In 1943 Andreas, a young German soldier on a troop train heading back to the Eastern Front, is certain he will die within days, and counts down the time.
And Where Were You, Adam?
Linked episodes of the German retreat from Romania and Hungary in 1944, following a soldier, Feinhals, among men who no longer believe in anything.
One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich
From reveille to lights out, one day in the life of Ivan Denisovich Shukhov, a peasant soldier serving ten years in a Soviet labour camp in the Kazakh steppe.
Lilac Girls
Three women's lives converge on the Ravensbrück concentration camp: Caroline Ferriday, a New York socialite volunteering at the French consulate; Kasia Kuzmerick, a Polish teenager sent there for her part in the resistance; and Herta Oberheuser, a young German doctor who takes a post there.
The Siege
In Leningrad in the autumn of 1941, as the German army closes its ring around the city, Anna Levin, a young artist, keeps her widowed father and her small brother alive through the first winter of the siege.
Chronicle in Stone
A boy grows up in Gjirokastër, a city of stone in southern Albania, during the Second World War, as Italians, Greeks and Germans take turns occupying it.
Hadji Murád
An Avar commander who has fought for the rebel imam Shamil defects to the Russians in 1851 to save his family, and finds himself trusted by neither side.
And Quiet Flows the Don
Grigory Melekhov, a young Cossack in a village on the Don, falls for his married neighbour Aksinia before the First World War and the Revolution tear his world apart.
To Live
Fugui, the spoiled son of a landlord, gambles away the family fortune before the revolution, and lives on through civil war, the Great Leap Forward and the Cultural Revolution, telling his story to a young collector of folk songs.
Flagman Thiel
Thiel, a devout railway signalman in the pine forests outside Berlin, remarries after his first wife dies, and the coarse new wife's treatment of his small son begins to work on his mind.