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24 books recommended for fans of Joseph Stalin by David Downing, tied together by themes of People & Places, Europe, Juvenile Nonfiction, and Historical.

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Irena Sendler Bringing Life to Children of the Holocaust — Susan Brophy Down

Irena Sendler Bringing Life to Children of the Holocaust

Susan Brophy Down

Themes: People & Places • Europe • Juvenile Nonfiction

Who was Anne Frank? — Ann Abramson

Who was Anne Frank?

Themes: People & Places • Europe • Juvenile Nonfiction

Florence Nightingale The Courageous Life of the Legendary Nurse — Catherine Reef

Florence Nightingale The Courageous Life of the Legendary Nurse

Themes: People & Places • Europe • Juvenile Nonfiction

Meet Christopher Columbus — James T. de Kay

Meet Christopher Columbus

James T. De Kay

Themes: People & Places • Europe • Juvenile Nonfiction

Brave Volodymyr The Story of Volodymyr Zelensky and the Fight for Ukraine — Linda Elovitz Marshall

Brave Volodymyr The Story of Volodymyr Zelensky and the Fight for Ukraine

Linda Elovitz Marshall

Themes: People & Places • Europe • Juvenile Nonfiction

The Streetcar to Life — Tea Ranno

The Streetcar to Life

Themes: People & Places • Europe • Juvenile Nonfiction

Who Was Queen Victoria? — Jim Gigliotti

Who Was Queen Victoria?

Themes: People & Places • Europe • Juvenile Nonfiction

The Boys Who Challenged Hitler Knud Pedersen and the Churchill Club — Phillip Hoose

The Boys Who Challenged Hitler Knud Pedersen and the Churchill Club

Themes: People & Places • Europe • Juvenile Nonfiction

Isabella of Castile — Shirin Yim Bridges

Isabella of Castile

Shirin Yim Bridges

Themes: People & Places • Europe • Juvenile Nonfiction

The Raucous Royals Test Your Royal Wits : Crack Codes, Solve Mysteries, and Deduce which Royal Rumors are True — Carlyn Beccia

The Raucous Royals Test Your Royal Wits : Crack Codes, Solve Mysteries, and Deduce which Royal Rumors are True

Themes: People & Places • Europe • Juvenile Nonfiction

The Boy on the Wooden Box How the Impossible Became Possible . . . on Schindler’s List — Leon Leyson

The Boy on the Wooden Box How the Impossible Became Possible . . . on Schindler’s List

Themes: People & Places • Europe • Juvenile Nonfiction

Hugh O’Flaherty His Wartime Adventures — Alison Walsh

Hugh O’Flaherty His Wartime Adventures

Themes: People & Places • Europe • Juvenile Nonfiction

Follow the Dream The Story of Christopher Columbus — Peter Sis

Follow the Dream The Story of Christopher Columbus — Peter Sis

Themes: People & Places • Europe • Juvenile Nonfiction

Mary, Queen of Scots — Elizabeth Douglas

Mary, Queen of Scots

Elizabeth Douglas

Themes: People & Places • Europe • Juvenile Nonfiction

The Boy Who Followed His Father Into Auschwitz A True Story Retold for Young Readers — Jeremy Dronfield

The Boy Who Followed His Father Into Auschwitz A True Story Retold for Young Readers

Jeremy Dronfield

Themes: People & Places • Europe • Juvenile Nonfiction

Guts & Glory: World War II — Ben Thompson

Guts & Glory: World War II

Themes: People & Places • Europe • Juvenile Nonfiction

Florence Nightingale — Sally Hewitt

Florence Nightingale

Themes: People & Places • Europe • Juvenile Nonfiction

Bartali’s Bicycle: the True Story of Gino Bartali, Italy’s Secret Hero — Megan Hoyt

Bartali’s Bicycle: the True Story of Gino Bartali, Italy’s Secret Hero

Themes: People & Places • Europe • Juvenile Nonfiction

Adventures in Time: Nelson, Hero of the Seas — Dominic Sandbrook

Adventures in Time: Nelson, Hero of the Seas

Dominic Sandbrook

Themes: People & Places • Europe • Juvenile Nonfiction

Who Was Joan of Arc? — Pam Pollack

Who Was Joan of Arc?

Themes: People & Places • Europe • Juvenile Nonfiction

We Will Not be Silent The White Rose Student Resistance Movement that Defied Adolf Hitler — Russell Freedman

We Will Not be Silent The White Rose Student Resistance Movement that Defied Adolf Hitler

Russell Freedman

Themes: People & Places • Europe • Juvenile Nonfiction

Surviving the Hindenburg — Larry Verstraete

Surviving the Hindenburg

Larry Verstraete

Themes: People & Places • Europe • Juvenile Nonfiction

The Journey Back Sequel to the Newbery Honor Book the Upstairs Room — Johanna Reiss

The Journey Back Sequel to the Newbery Honor Book the Upstairs Room

Themes: People & Places • Europe • Juvenile Nonfiction

Little Guides to Great Lives: Marie Curie — Isabel Thomas

Little Guides to Great Lives: Marie Curie

Themes: People & Places • Europe • Juvenile Nonfiction

A curated shelf of 24 read-alikes for Joseph Stalin by David Downing — spanning People & Places, Europe, Juvenile Nonfiction and featuring authors such as Susan Brophy Down, Ann Abramson, Catherine Reef, James T. De Kay, and others.

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