I am looking for recommendations from the various perspectives, specifically the Russians.
I have enjoyed many fiction and non-fiction book about WWII. I am looking for recommendations from the various perspectives, specifically the Russians.
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https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/25614492-salt-to-the-sea
great book!
Yes! So good…
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7824322-between-shades-of-gray?ac=1&from_search=true
Yes! This was excellent.
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1971304.City_of_Thieves?from_search=true
Not Russian related…however this is the real deal…a memoir of quite possibly the greatest enlisted man ever. Here is an ABSOLUTE must read if you are interested in WWII. I went on a river boat cruise up the Rhine and stumbled upon this guys’s heroic acts. Wow….just wow. You will thank me later! https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/300674.To_Hell_and_Back
It’s funny you asked this question,mi recently read the Nightingale for a book club. I have read numerous books on WWII, fiction and non-fiction. This was the first one from the French perspective. It was interesting.
What really got me interested was the book, All the light we cannot see from two perspectives.
@Erin that, oddly, was the next book chosen in our book club! I liked that better than Nightingale.
@Kathy me too!
@Kathy, @Erin – Kristin Hannah’s book Winter Garden doesn’t start with the Russian WW2 connection but that’s the core and i thought it was excellent —
I found Hunger by Elise Blackwell fascinating. It has stuck with me for years and bonus, it is short. Only 133 pages.
Not Russia but maybe my fav historical fiction book ever- Code Name Verity
Highly recommend THE HOUSE BY THE LAKE. It tells nonfiction story of one house across 100 years of history.
City of Thieves.
A really great historical fiction but amazing accuracy is Ken Folletts Century Trilogy. It sets at the beginning of world war 1 to Obamas election very detailed took me four months to read all books
Check out Sarah waters. British perspective, but her books are amazing.
The Women of the Castle—and Patriots
The Siege by Helen Dunmore
its about Leningrad and tells the story of a family during the siege
one of my best books ever
the situation is entirely told from the russians point of view – not a view we often get
girl from krakow
City of thieves was fantastic
I’m currently reading — and enjoying — When Books Went to War: The Stories That Helped Us Win World War II by Molly Guptill Manning https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/23667791-when-books-went-to-war
The Madonnas of Leningrad. ???
Read Alexander Solzhenitsyn-Russian author….
@Brittany