Books like I sommersi e i salvati by Primo Levi

In 18th‑century Liguria, young Cosimo di Rondò escapes punishment by climbing a tree and never returning to the ground, creating a floating court visited by historical figures, including Napoleon, and courting the spirited Viola.

On the stage, a rehearsal is in progress when actors and director are interrupted by six mysterious figures who demand to be put into a play.

Rudolf Hoess was the notorious Commandant of Auschwitz. Imprisoned and awaiting execution after the war, Hoess wrote a long memoir, a self-serving account of his life and approaches to management. The amoral sensibility Hoess displayed regarding all that went on in the charnel factory where the industrialization of death was practiced--where probably 3 million people were literally worked to death, shot or quickly gassed--is still almost beyond belief today. Here, noted writer Jürg Amann has distilled Hoess' memoir into an illuminating new work. The Commandant is a book Hoess would certainly not have approved--a chilling insight into Hitler's Final Solution and the nature of evil itself through the prism of the Nazis' totalitarian system, one Hoess and so many others felt no requirement to question. Ian Buruma's afterword sets this frightening excerpt within a broader moral and historical context.--From publisher description.