I love ww1 and 2 fiction can anyone give me any good reads tia
I love ww1 and 2 fiction can anyone give me any good reads tia
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I love ww1 and 2 fiction can anyone give me any good reads tia
All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque.
The boy in the striped pajamas
City of Women, i forget the authors name though
The guernsey literary and potato peel pie society. It’s set after the war but it’s a real good read.
I agree. One of my faves.
Both really good reads.
The alice network
Nightingale by Kristin Hannah
The nightingale by kristen hannah
The Girl You Left Behind, Jojo Moyes
‘The Zookeeper’s Wife’ by Diane Ackerman
‘The Nazi and the Psychiatrist’
by Jack El-Hai
‘Lilac Girls’ by Martha Hall Kelly
‘Madeline’s War’ by Peter Watson
‘All The Light We Cannot See’ by Anthony Doerr
‘The Plum Tree’ by Ellen Marie Wiseman
The Book Thief
Beneath a scarlet sky
The Reader by Bernhard Schlink
The Bronze Horseman trilogy
All the Light We Cannot See
Sarah’s Key
I appreciated Sarah’s Key… I can’t say I liked it though.
“The Tuscan Child” and “In Farleigh Field.” Both set in WWII and both by Rhys Bowen.
Nightingale, Alice Network
The Chilbury Women’s Choir
Those Who Save Us
The Lilac Girls
Fire by Night by Teresa Messineo is amazing
Mutti’s War
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/11286.Carrion_Comfort?ac=1&from_search=true
War Brides by Helen Bryan was a decent read.
Everything is Illuminated by Jonathan Safran Foer has flashbacks to WWII and is also a movie. This is also my exception where the movie is better than the book.
The Silence of Trees by Valya Dudycz Lupescu
just fiction? i’m a WWII nut-especially d-day stuff, and i love ” band of brothers”, which is non-fiction. the HBO series, from that book, is AMAZING. i also love “the caine mutiny.”
sorry-i guess you wouldn’t have asked for fiction, if you wanted to read something else! lol you still might really like “band of brothers”.
I do like memoirs like evacuees can find loads it’s business struggling find names for fiction
The Maisie Dobbs series by Jacqueline Winspear
Excellent. And as the series goes on they just get better and better. (Good to read these in order.)
The Enemy Below and The September girls
The Book Thief
the librarian of auschwitz
My dear,I wanted to tell you,by Louise something.
The Lost Wife
Lilac Girls
Sarah’s Key by Tatiana de Rosnay
The storyteller by Jodi piccoult, I will never forget that book , it is impactful and one of my all time favourite novels
The orphan train I think it’s called , I’ve heard good things about that book
Do you like alternate history? If you do, Harry Turtledove has some excellent WW stories
Winter Garden by Kristen Hannah
A Hobbit, A Wardrobe and A Great War is a fantastic look how WW1 influenced both Tolkien and Lewis in their writing of their famous works. Fabulous. Gave me far more respect for both, as survivors of a horrific experience and gave more power to the works that they’ve gifted the world with.
pam jenoff has good ones
Love and Glory, about the first WW2 WAACS
I have 3 that I enjoyed that took place in WW2 or had flashbacks:
The Heart of a Gypsy by Roberta Kagan
On Either Side by John Halfhide
What Happened in Vienna, Jack? By Daniel Kemp
The first two where so dramatic and I was crying by the end. All where good in different ways.
any of Jack Higgins’ spacially his Eagles’ e.g Flight of Eagles and The Eagle Has Landed
Enigma and Fatherland, both by Robert Harris
Clare Harvey books worth a read
Oh the night said by her
Legion of the Damned series by Sven Hassel.
The Book Thief by Markus Zusak…
Salt to the Sea by Ruta Sepetys
The Alice Network by Kate Quin – brilliant
This is not a book, but have you seen The Man in the High Castle? I only saw season 1, but it was incredible! I highly recommend it.
This novel, Sarah’s Key, was very good. The Boy in the Striped Pajamas was, also, an excellent read.
http://www.paperbackswap.com/Sarahs-Key-Tatiana-De-Rosnay/book/0312370849/
The Winds of War