I would like some book suggestions, I love World War II era, nonfiction and fiction.
I would like some book suggestions, I love World War II era, nonfiction and fiction.
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I would like some book suggestions, I love World War II era, nonfiction and fiction.
This was a good one & it’s a unique take on WWII. My online book club reads books from other countries & this one is the book we read rom Poland. https://www.aworldadventurebybook.com/reading-list/all-but-my-life
Does A discovery of witches count? It deals with time travel and is historical fiction
Memoirs of a Warsaw Ghetto fighter
Book by Simcha Rotem
In my TBR
It’s about Churchill during WWII
The tattooist of Auschwitz by Heather Morris
The Maisie Dobbs series by Jacqueline Winspear. The series starts in the years leading up to the Great War in England, and follows Maisie through her education, her service in France as a nurse, and her hanging out her shingle as a psychologist and investigator. In the most recent book, Dunkirk was part of the story. Some of the best historical mysteries I’ve ever read!
I will check it out, thanks.
Life after life by kate Atkinson
The Book theif
One of my favorites, already read this a few times.
@Whitney I absolutely loved it!!!! X
The Guernsey literary and potato peel pie society
Once we were brothers, karolina’s twins
That is my favourite genre.
The Book Thief by Markus Zusak
Read it a few times, one of my favorites.
Spanish Civil War and WW2 in one novel! https://www.amazon.com/Someone-Watch-Over-Fran-Connor-ebook/dp/B00XV2MW2I
WW2 Dunkirk with a love story entwined. https://www.amazon.com/Dash-Dunkirk-Inspired-True-Events-ebook/dp/B0741XHVDP
Tell Me Who I Am by Julia Navarro.
QB VII by Leon Uris.
The Nightingale by Kristen Hannah.
Just finished The Nightingale this week, great book.
Non fiction: all the books by Anthony Beevor. Very precise, detailed, yet absolutely not boring.
Alone in Berlin by Hans Fallada, Mrs Miniver by Jan Struther. The Dollmaker of Krakow for a different take.
Fiction, Europe
I must get around to reading this!
Non-fiction, Pacific, Japan
Search on Pintrest. They have a ton of book lists.
The Chase(a must read), The Nightingale.
Just finished the Nightingale this week, great book.
In The Garden of Beasts
Invasion 1950
At Dawn we slept
Oh, that’s one if my favorite topics! I have so many! The Last Ring Home by Minter Dial, All the Gallant Men by Donald Stratton, The Perfect Horse by Elizabeth Letts, A Higher Call by Adam Makos are just a few.
All the Light We Cannot See
Do you read in English only? There are great books in other languages as well. I can suggest stuff in French and German
English only
Lilac Girls, Ken Follett’s Century trilogy, The Alice Network, The Nightingale
Finished the Nightingale this week, great book.
@Maha I loved the Century Trilogy
@Sonya Also highly recommend his Kingsbridge trilogy if you like historical fiction.
@Maha It looks amazing- on my to read list.
@Sonya ?
All the ligh we cannot see
We were Brothers.
Nightingale
My recommendation as well!
Finished it this week, great book!
The book thief
Read it a few times, one of my favorites.
Fiction, from a French/British writer.
I love this book, read it a few times.
@Sandrine too sad. Read it once.
Nightingale
Read it this week, great book.
The Tatooist of Auschwitz
Briar Rose by Jane Yolen, I will Plant You a Lilac Tree, I have Lived a Thousand Years
I read I Will Plant You a Lilac Tree, loved it.
Just read I Have Lived A Thousand Years. Very good but sad, of course.
Sophie’s Choice
Between Shades of Gray and Salt To the Sea by Rits Septys.
Loved Between Shades of Gray. Salt To The Sea on TBR list
Same here! Between Shades of Gray was so hard (emotionally) to read, but so worthwhile.
Ghost Soldiers by Hampton Sides.
Grab biographies of all your favorite generals or world leaders!
The Hiding Place, Corrie Ten Boom.
Undefeated by Bill Sloan.
Hansi, the Girl who loved the swastika.
I read The Hiding Place, I will check out the others.
You should try the Kate Morton books. They are amazing. They take place in past and present maybe not a lot of war but the past takes place during world war 1 or 2. Look into them.
The Secret Keeper ( the part in the past) is set during WW II and includes a bombing scene. Loved it.
@Germaine one of my favorites.
Check out Pam Jenoff. Also:
-Defiance by Nechama Tec
-Auschwitz, A Doctor’s Eyewitness Account by Dr. Miklos Nyiszli
-Alan Turing: The Enigma by Andrew Hodges
The Dutch Wife
Following
The Librarian of Auschwitz
The Sunflower by Simon Wiesenthal
The Summer of My German Soldier by Bette Green
When the War Is Over
Between Shades of Grey by Rita Sepetys
The Nightengale
The Tuscan Child
All the Light We Cannot See
Lilac Girls
Just started this one.
Two novels you might only be able to find on ebay, both by Jack D Hunter: The Expendible Spy and The Iron Cross.
Blackout and All Clear by Connie Willis
Ooh, a Connie Willis I haven’t read!
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Boy in the striped pajama? Sad though.
Read it. My son is reading it now.
Before we were yours is another book I own but ha e not read yet but was told it was very good. Its recommended if you liked the Nightingale.
Loved it.
All the light we cannot see
The Book Thief.
Monuments Men
Chuck Yeager’s autobiography is incredible. Not quite that time period as it goes on for a lot after, but very much about that generation.
Wanderlust by Danielle Steele.
I recommend three for you: “The Girl In The Blue Coat”, by Monica Hesse; “The One Man”, by Andrew Gross, and, one that I REALLY enjoyed, “Code Name Verity”, by Elizabeth Wein. Hope you find something you enjoy!
WW II non-fiction:
Man’s Search for Meaning by Viktor Frankl.
Night by Elie Wiesel.
Man’s search for meaning is a classic, a beautiful book.
The Book Thief by Markus Zusak
The War that Saved My Life
‘Her Privates, We’ is a book about WWII soldiers in the trenches.but I forget who wrote it just off the top of my head. If you are into Holocaust books the best I’ve ever read was ‘Dollhouse’ by Anonymous. It is about the concentration camp brothels written by one of the survivors.
Jackdaws by Ken Follett.
@Whitney highly recommend City of Thieves – its set in Leningrad during the Second World War – simply told and so so moving. I read about it in a book by Tim Ferriss and have given it to all my reader friends – everyone has loved it .
The tattooist of Auschwitz
The pharmacist of Auschwitz
Auschwitz escape
A Lucky Child : A Memoir of Surviving Auschwitz as a Young Boy
Mr. Churchill’s Secretary by Susan Elia MacNeal