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NUMBER 1
An incredible true survival story from the Holocaust told as a first person account. Deported from his rural village as a 15 year old boy, Wiesel survives the horrors of Auschwitz-Birkenau, Buna and Buchenwald. His mother, father and little sister did not.
NUMBER 2
The Spy and the Traitor (Ben Macintyre)
The story of one of the most important spies of the Cold War era, KGB Colonel Oleg Gordievsky who spied for MI6. The book highlights the incredible impact his information had on preventing a nuclear incident and bringing an end to the Cold War.
NUMBER 3
The desperate story of the 16 survivors who spent ten weeks in frigid conditions after their plane crashes in the Andes. With no available food sources in the icy terrain, their desperation drives them to eat the flesh of their dead companions.