What nonfiction book are you currently reading?

Alongside my stack of Weber that I'm re-reading again, there is:

"The Last Veteran - Harry Patch and the Legacy of War"
 
Rather appropriately following on the heels of Xue's book about anger and having just been commenting in the "No Speak English ..." thread {http://www.martialtalk.com/forum/showthread.php?t=96231}:

"The Man Who Broke Into Auschwitz" by Denis Avey

The foreword is by Sir Martin Gilbert {Churchill's biographer} and he has this to say which I find particularly resonant:

"This is a most important book, and a timely reminder of the dangers that face any society once intolerance and racism take hold"

I haven't finished yet but, considering that it is not deliberately written, as fiction is, to draw emotion from the reader, this book moves me between pity, horror and rage in various measures {and I am not afraid to admit to the occasional tear along the way too}.

Do NOT forget that this is what we can become if we let ourselves walk down that road that equates "the other" with "the lesser".
 
Confessions of a Prairie Beyotch (<<Spelled correctly) by Allison Arngrim (the EVIL Nellie Oleson)
Hilarious
 
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Heat: An Amateur's Adventures as Kitchen Slave, Line Cook, Pasta-Maker, and Apprentice to a Dante-Quoting Butcher in Tuscany. by Bill Buford.

Really good read so far.
 
"The Man in the White Suit" i.e. the Stig's biography. Pretty good I have to say.
 
Theodore Rex by Edmund Morris, great continuation of the three part series, the first book "The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt" was excellent as well.
 

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