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Books like Ordinary Men
A chilling, methodical examination of how terrifyingly easy it is for average people to commit unspeakable atrocities. These 12 books are the closest matches in mood, pace and themes, with what each one shares with Ordinary Men.
- bleak
- sobering
- dread-soaked
- haunting
- oppressive
- 01
The Nazi Doctors
Robert Jay Lifton · 1986
A chilling, methodical descent into the psychological mechanisms that allowed healers to become mass murderers.
- 02
They Thought They Were Free
Milton Mayer · 1955
A chilling, penetrating look into the minds of ordinary people who became complicit in one of history's darkest regimes.
- 03
Eichmann in Jerusalem
Hannah Arendt · 1963
A chilling, intellectually rigorous dissection of how ordinary bureaucracy facilitates unimaginable atrocities.
- 04
The Third Reich at war
Richard J. Evans · 2008
A sweeping, harrowing descent into the daily realities and terrifying climax of a nation rushing headlong toward self-destruction.
- 05
The Third Reich in power, 1933-1939
Richard J Evans · 2005
A monumental, dread-inducing masterclass in historical synthesis that meticulously charts a modern society's descent into totalitarian darkness.
- 06
Kommandant in Auschwitz
Rudolph Hoss · 1959
A chillingly detached, bureaucratic descent into the mind of a mass murderer that exposes the terrifying banality of evil.
- 07
The Lucifer effect
Zimbardo, Philip
A chilling, meticulously researched descent into the dark side of human nature that will make you question what you are truly capable of.
- 08
The Origins of Totalitarianism
Hannah Arendt · 2003
A chilling, intellectually monumental dissection of how societies surrender to absolute darkness.
- 09
Bloodlands
Timothy Snyder
A harrowing, meticulously researched descent into the darkest geography of the twentieth century, demanding witness to unimaginable human suffering.
- 10
Into that darkness
Gitta Sereny · 1974
A chilling, methodical descent into the mind of a monster who believed himself to be an ordinary man.
- 11
From the ashes of Sobibor
Thomas Toivi Blatt · 1997
A harrowing, deeply personal testament to survival and resistance in the darkest chapters of human history.
- 12
Schindler's list
Trinity Press International
A harrowing yet deeply moving exploration of how profound moral courage can emerge from the most unlikely of places amidst unimaginable darkness.
