Historical Fiction Fans specifically on WWII era – what are your favorite books?
Historical Fiction Fans specifically on WWII era – what are your favorite books?
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Historical Fiction Fans specifically on WWII era – what are your favorite books?
From Sand and Ash by Amy Harmon; Sarah’s Key by Tatiana de Rosnay; To my daughter in France by Stephanie and Barbara Keating
The Auschwitz Escape and We were the lucky ones
@Diane I loved the Auschwitz Escape on Audio. The narration was exceptional
Could you please tell me which author wrote the Auschwitz Escape as there are two different books on Amazon with the same name. Thank you
@Karen The author is Joel C Rosenberg. It’s a really good book.
Have you read cold mountain?
@Lauren not yet ! But will!
The Lilac girls
@Diane I have that but haven’t listened yet
Sarah’s Key
Winter of the World
Nightingale
We Were The Lucky Ones
Lilac Girls
Winds of War Herman Wouk
Beneath A Scarlett Sky, Lilac Girls, We Were the Lucky Ones
The railway man by Eric Lomax best book I’ve ever read
@Lauren thanks I’ll look that up!!
Great film, I’ve yet to read the book.
The book is so much better as they always are. It had me crying
Karolinas Twins
Not in a particular order but these are my favorites:
1.Those Who Save Us by Jenna Blum
2. The Nightingale by Kristin Hannah
3. The Butterfly and the Violin by Kristy Cambron and its sequel A Sparrow in Terezin
4. The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas by John Boyne
5. The Book Thief by Markus Zusak
6. Second Hand Smoke by Thane Rosenbaum
7. Lilac Girls by Martha Hall Kelly
8. Sarah’s Key by Tatiana de Rosnay
9. The Storyteller by Jodi Picoult
The Dirty Dozen. (Erwin Nathanson was an American author who wrote the novel The Dirty Dozen, which was adapted into the movie by the same name.)
The Dirty Dozen is one of the best books (written in the real time) and one of the most heart breaking movies ever. Anyone wanting to experience WW2 through a book or a movie, should look at the Dirty Dozen.
The book theif
There are some good YA and even children’s books in this genre. Morris Gleitzman’s “Once” series; The Silver Sword; When Hitler Stole Pink Rabbit; The War that Saved My Life; Number the Stars. These are all brilliant and all about different aspects of the war: an orphaned Jewish boy running from the Nazis; a family of Polish children in the last days of the war looking for their parents; a German Jewish girl whose family flees Berlin in the 1930s to Switzerland and then France and England as her journalist father is targeted by the Nazis; an abused English girl sent to the country to escape the bombing in London; the secret Danish operation to evacuate Danish Jews to Sweden before the Nazis could round them up.
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The Atomic City Girls by Janet Beard and The Storyteller by Jodi Picoult
I’m 3/4 of the way through Beneath a Scarlet Sky, by Mark Sullivan it’s a great read. Also good are
The Nightingale by Kristen Hannah
The Storyteller by Jodi Picoult
The Boy in Striped Pyjamas by John Boyne
The Diary of Anne Frank
Beneath a Scarlet Sky was my last read and I cannot stop recommending it to people. It was so good.
@Maria, You like The Diary of Anne Frank
@Mandi My all time favorite of 2017- It was also the last book I read that year. Could not put the book down.
@Sally, What are you reading
The Chilbury Ladies Choir by Jennifer Ryan & Windmills of war by Diane Moody
The century trilogy by Ken Follett
The Lost Wife
Lilac Girls
The tattooist of auschwitz
The nightingale
We were the Lucky Ones
Winds of War and War and Remberance.
All the Light we Cannot See.
The Paris Architect is a great read!
Nightingale
My faves are The Taster, From Sand to Ash, The Nightingale, Black Out, The Diary of a Young Girl, Winter of the World (book two of the Century Trilogy), Lilac Girls, and the Bronze Horseman
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The Nightingale, The Tattoo Artist, The Lilac Girls, The Book Thief, The Boy in the Stripped Pajamas and many more
The Nightingale & The Book Thief
The True Story of Hansel and Gretel,
Beneath the Scarlet Sky, The Nightingale
Sarah’s Key, On the Corner if Bitter and Sweet, The Guernsey and Potato Peel Society, The Nightingale
Sarah’s Key & The Nightingale
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I’ve only read the one and I loved it. It’s a children’s book called The Silver Sword it’s by Ian Serraillier
The Nightingales
By Nechama Tec: Defiance: The Bielski Partisans
The Century trilogy by Ken Follett
the lilac girls its so good
We Were The Lucky Ones
Badenheim1939. Or any Holocaust books
Fallowing
The Cryptonomicon https://www.amazon.ca/Cryptonomicon-Neal-Stephenson/dp/0060512806/ref=mp_s_a_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1544589134&sr=8-1&pi=AC_SX236_SY340_QL65&keywords=cryptonomicon&dpPl=1&dpID=41K%2Bt2TSopL
The tattooist of Auschwitz
Mila 18. The Pianist
Years ago I read The Zion Covenant series. I loved them then I don’t know if I would now. If I remember correctly it follows a family/ people around Europe. There are Christian themes in it but a good story with historical accuracy.
Loved Dominion by Cj Samson. Really excellent
Tuscan rose by Belinda Alexander. One of my favourite books of all time.
Coming home by Rosamunde Pilcher
lilac girls
Alone in Berlin ?
The Book Thief
Beneath a Scarlet Sky
The Tattooist of Auschwitz
Beneath A Scarlet Sky by Mark Sullivan
The Road Between Us by Nigel Farndale
Alone in Berlin by Hans Fallada
The Sugar Men by Ray Kingfisher
Winter Men by Jesper Bugge (tr K E Semmel)
White Rose, Black Forest by Eoin Dempsey
The Pianist by Wladyslaw Szpilman (memoir but worth reading)
Beneath a Scarlet Sky
We Were the Lucky Ones by Georgia Hunter
I’m reading it now, harrowing read.
@Vanessa yes it is
Band of Brothers by Ambrose
Life after life
Everyone brave is forgiven
We were the lucky ones
I recently finished Wunderland by Jennifer Cody Epstein. It has to be one of the best I have read in a long time.
@Peppy agree!!
All the light we cannot see and Like a river from it’s course by Kelli Stuart
Lilac Girls, Nightingale, All the Light We Cannot See
@Sandy, I by chance, bought All the Light ….in a bookstore at Dulles Airport, departing to Paris. How awesome it was to be reading this book and visiting the towns that it took place in.
@Kathy oh wow what a great trip!
I am David.
The hiding place (not fiction, autobiographical account)