I’m looking for a good WWII book. I’ve read The Nightingale, Bronze Horseman, Lilac Girls, Alice Network. Help. I’m at the bookstore right now!!!
I’m looking for a good WWII book. I’ve read The Nightingale, Bronze Horseman, Lilac Girls, Alice Network. Help. I’m at the bookstore right now!!!
Salt to the Sea, All the Light We Cannot See
I read both of those too ?
How about The Room on Rue Amelie or The Paris Architect?
Beneath a Scarlet Sky.
I second Beneath a Scarlet Sky! It was fantastic!
King Rat
Night by Ellie Wiesel
Unbroken
Once we Were Brothers
@Wendy Fabulous book, as were his next 2, Karolina’s Twins- also WWII-and Saving Sophie.
@Susan I heard that. Can’t wait to read them.
@Wendy His 4th book, The Trust, was good also, but I didn’t like it as much as the others. I heard they were going to make a movie of Once We Were Brothers
@Susan ?
The Paris Architect
I’m about to start The Ragged Edge of the Night. I heard it was amazing. One of the best recent books on the subject. By Olivia Hawker
Skeletons at the Feast, Atonement
Sarah’s key !
The Plum Tree!
The pearl thief
We were the lucky ones
From Sand and Ash by Amy Harmon is fabulous
Have you read any Gunther Grass?
Secrets of a charmed life
The Chilbury’s Ladies Choir, The women in the Castle, Charlotte Gray
The Butterfly & the Violin by Kristy Cambron
All the Light we Cannot See
The Tuscan Child by Rhys Bowen?
The Only Woman in the Room
The Paris architect
While You Sleep by Stephanie Merritt
The Tattooist of Auschwitz
Book by Heather Morris
Secrets of a Charmed Life by Susan Meissner.
The Boy in the Striped Pajamas, The Hotel On The Corner if Butter and Sweet, Night, Sarah’s Key, The Zookeepers Wife and The Orphan Tale
Beneath A Scarlet Sky.
@Mandi loved it
Ask for a biography or memoir of someone who lived through those times..
Charlotte Grey by Sebastian Faulk
The Book Thief was also great!!!
We Were The Lucky Ones just finished it and loved it!
The Last Telegram by Liz Trenow, Finding Rebecca by Eoin Dempsey, White Rose Black Forest by the same author, All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doer, or The Baker’s Secret.
Mny Ken Follett books.
The storyteller, the lavender keeper
Really enjoyed Everyone Brave Be Forgiven by Chris Cleave
We were the lucky ones
Tattooist of Auschwitz. It’s a about the Holocaust, but it’s a true story.
To my daughter in France by Stephanie and Barbara Keating
We Were the Lucky Ones!
Three Day Road
Once and then.
( what did you think of the bronze horseman btw- my favourite book of all time!)
Oh my goodness!!! This is the book that got me started on WWII. It’s my favorite too!
@Jennifer it’s really something else huh? I read WW2 books before then but this was that little bit different.
Yes it is. I recommend it to everyone!!!
@Jennifer
Me too! So glad someone else has heard of it and feels the same! Shuraaaaa!
Anzac girls but it’s a ww1 book great read… Book thief ww2 …beautidul story.
Sarah’s key is excellent. So is once we were brothers.
Skeletons at the Feast by Chris Bohjalian
All the light we cannot see
Below is a great WW1..
I love this book! I read it at Christmas and still think about it all of the time ?
Thanks everyone. I got Sarah’s Key. I would have gotten more of these recommendations but the book store was out of many of these.
@Jennifer that is a good one!
The Boy In The Stripped Pajamas I am almost finshed and is quite good! The Book of Aron was also interesting!
Night by Ellie Wiesl
Anne Frank’s Diary: The Graphic Adaptation
Beneath the Scarlet Sky. It’s a true story and it was so good. I just finished it.
I’ve been wanting to get this one. Books a million didn’t have it. I may have to get it on Kindle
@Jennifer That’s where I got it.
I agree. Amazing story. I just finished The Lost Letter( excellent) Also Sarah’s Key ( read it twice)
City Of Women and All the light We cannot See were very good
Beneath the Scarlett Sky, The Taster, From Sand To Ash
Well, you probably aren’t at the bookstore anymore but I just finished Pam Jenoffs new novel called The Lost Girls of Paris and it was awesome! Along the same lines as Alice Netowrk and Lilac Girls
Unbroken!!!
Sarah’s Key
The tattooist of auschwitz
All the Light we can not See
Life after life is an interesting play on time around WW2
All the light we cannot see by Anthony Doerr
All great books
The Book Thief by Markus Zusak
Just so everyone knows. I will read all these books!!Thank you all very much for the recommendations
@Jennifer, your welcome
You have alot of great ones ahead of you!!!
The Silent Hours and Jacob‘s Colours are both excellent
Those Who Saved Us was excellent
‘We were the lucky ones’!! You won’t be sorry xx
The War Horse. Technically WWI but great book.
The sweet potato wipe society. I think that’s the name
The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society….at least I think that’s what you mean. Autocorrect is so touchy!
@Katie that’s it!! I knew that didn’t look right. Thank you ?
Beneath a Scarlet Sky
@Sheri that was such an amazing book
I am reading All the light we cannot see and it is brilliant.
The Guernsey Literary And sweet potatoe pie society
the boys who challenged Hitler
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Book Thief (all time favorite), The true story of Hansel and Gretel (also one of my favorites), Salt to the Sea, From Sand and Ash, Girl in the Blue Coat, The Storyteller, City of Thieves
I read it on the cruise we met. Extraordinary. Going to be a movie.
@Sheri hope it’s as good as the book
The girl with no name
Suite Francaise
The Lost Wife, The Tattooist of Auschwitz