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Until the Final Hour: Hitler's Last Secretary
Traudl Junge - 2002
An important and fascinating firsthand account of life with Hitler from 1942 until his death in the Berlin bunker in 1945, by the young woman who was his last secretary.
Autobiography of a Geisha
Sayo Masuda - 1957
Remarkable for its wit and frankness, the book is a moving record of a woman's survival on the margins of Japanese society -- in the words of the translator, "the superbly told tale of a woman whom fortune never favored yet never defeated."