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Looking for recommendations for fictional ww2 books. Have read The Nightingale.

Looking for recommendations for fictional ww2 books. Have read The Nightingale.

Philana #recommend #fiction

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Johanne

Winds of War and War and Rememberance

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Rachel

I came here to say that!

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Sallie

I agree. Outstanding!

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Anne

me too!

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Brandon

100 percent agree!

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Beth

Women in the Castle, The Lilac Girls,

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Karl

Salt to the Sea

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Lori

All the Light We Cannot See

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PhilanaQuestion author

I have this book but have not started it yet.

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Ellen

@Philana it’s a good book!

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Jennifer

Right now I’m reading Those Who Saved Us. Not finished but so far so good.

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Barbara

One of those stories that stays with you forever-One of my favorite books

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Kristi

All The Light We Cannot See, The Book Thief

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Torri

https://www.amazon.com/Sarahs-Key-Tatiana-Rosnay/dp/0312370849/ref=mp_s_a_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1529843302&sr=8-1&pi=AC_SX236_SY340_FMwebp_QL65&keywords=sarah%27s+key&dpPl=1&dpID=51tMFGRJ45L

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Melissa

Sarah’s Key by Tatian de Rosnay

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Carmen

The Nightingale

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Cindi

Jackdaws

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Lacey

Code Name Verity

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Tolly

And also Rose Under Fire

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Sally

Code Name Verity was wonderful!

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Anne

The Women In The Castle

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Hollie

The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society

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Maureen

Loved this book!

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Ellen

I loved this book and have read it for 3 different book groups. Has anyone seen the movie?

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Cathy

The Madonnas of Leningrad

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Julie

LOVED this book!

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Ellen

Fantastic book! Read it for a book club selection and since that time have suggested it many times for a good book to read!

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Ann

Lilac Girls

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Stephanie

I second this!

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Maureen

A great book!

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Leslie

This has been sitting in my Kindle for awhile, I must read it.

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Pat

It’s been sitting in my Kindle also. So was the secrets of a charmed life which I just finally read and it was a great book! Setting takes place during the London blitz

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Ellen

I loved this book! Definitely some disturbing WWII subject matter but loved how the story came together. Did the audiobook and had great narrators!

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Ryan

The Invisible Bridge

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Joe

W.E.B.Griffeth has series of good ones

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Jackie

https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B00CQZ6EKW/ref=sxts_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1529843509&sr=1&pi=AC_SX236_SY340_FMwebp_QL65

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Jean

My two favorite authors about ww2 fiction are Diney Costeloe and Claire Lorrimer. They are awesome.

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Donna

I’m reading The Throwaway Children right now,I really like it
Are her other books as good?

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Jean

yes, I enjoy all of Diney Costeloe’s books, some I like to reread. one I just finished is The Lost Soldier, it was a sequel to Death’s Dark Vale, printed in 2009, if was really good to.

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Lisa

Lilac Girls by Martha Hall Kelly

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Jane

http://www.pulitzer.org/winners/anthony-doerr

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Joyce

The Librarian of Auschwitz was fantastic!!

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Kim

Skeletons at the Feast, Night, The True Story of Hansel and Gretel

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Megan

Lilac Girls, Salt to the Sea, and All the Light We Cannot See

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Carolyn

Goodnight from London and Fire from Below –both great books

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Rachel

The Boy in the Striped Pajamas

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Katie

We Were the Lucky Ones, The Anna Network, Winds of War by Herman Wouk

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Leslie

Loved We were the lucky ones

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Shaina

The Women in the Castle by Jessica Shattuck

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Harrison

Mila 18 is one my favorites. It is older but Leon Uris is a great story teller.

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Andee

Loved Exodus!

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Jamie

One of my favorites.

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Alexandra

All the light you cannot see by Anthony doer and the lost vintage by Ann Mah

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Frances

Novels by Alan furst and David downing – also the chillbury ladies choir,the Alice network- and the novels of Jennifer Robson – and the Maggie hope series by Susan Elia MacNeal

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Kristy

The Book Thief

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Susan

All the light we cannot see.

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Bobbie

Winds of War and War and Remembrance.

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Kathleen

The Alice Network

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Gwen

“All the light we cannot see” 🙂

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Sue

Skeletons at the Feast, Women of the Castle, The Postmistress, Fall of Giants.

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Sallie

From Here to Eternity is one of my all time favorites.

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Mary

Life After Life by Kate Atkinson. The audio version is fantastic!

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Margaret

All The Light We Cannot See
Codename Verity
Atonement
The Book Thief
The Reader
The Librarian of Auschwitz
The Zookeeper’s Wife
Guernsey Literary & Potato Peel Society

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Margaret

The English Patient

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Susan

Life after life by Kate Atkinson

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Pam

Gone To Soldiers by Marge Piercy.

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Joni

“The Storyteller” Jodi Picoult.

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Rosemary

The Masie Dobbs series by Jacqueline Winspear.

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Macon

All the Light we Cannot See

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Jennifer

All the Light We Cannot See

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Lucie

The Winds of War was my favorite!

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Jean

Reading The Girl With No Name right now and it’s very good!! (By Diney Costeloe)

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Kathy

You may not have heard of The Girl in the Blue Beret by Bobbie Ann Mason, a writer from my state of Kentucky. Of course, Herman Wouk is the gold standard, but that is hard going!

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Frances

Another- coming home and the shell seekers by rosamunde pilcher

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Lee

Love Pilcher for its feminine perspective in a good story.

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Missy

Women in the castle

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Dominic

Thief of Auschwitz
Boy in the Striped Pajamas
All the Light We Cannot See
Beneath a Scarlet Sky (true story)
The Book Thief
The One Man

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Lorie

Sarah’s Key

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Macon

The Book Thief

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Carol

All the Light We Cannot See, Life After Life, Lilac Girls, The Women in the Castle. Suite Francaise, Coming Home, The Book Thief. In my opinion, The Women in the Castle has been overlooked; it was an extraordinary book—one of the most impactful I’ve read recently.

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Miranda

I liked “Goodnight From London”.

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Lanelle

BENEATH A SCARLET SKY.

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Lorie

In Enemy Hands by Wilma Counts.

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Elise

We were the lucky ones is based on a true story. Lilac girls is also a great read.

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Marilyn

Lilac Girls
Also The Storyteller by Jodi Piccoult

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Estherjane
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Melissa

The Taster

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Ellen

Haven’t heard of it before but added it to my TBR list!

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Melissa

Check out The Taster by V.S. Alexander
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/35355159

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Josephine

Last Train to Istanbul

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Libby

‘Men at War’ series by W. E. B. Griffin, about the OSS during WWII. As a series it is, of course, best read in sequence. The first book is ‘The Last Heroes’. I’m a huge Griffin fan.

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Cara

The Boy in the Striped Pajamas, and then there is another one by the same author.

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Sue

John Boynes, The Boy at the Top of the Mountain

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Cara

@Sue– thank you! I was mesmerized by it!

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Karen

Guernsey Literary Potato Pie Society is a great read. It’s about civilian life on an island occupied by Nazis. Also, A Hero for France by Alan Furst is about the French resistance movement during the war

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Darlene

“The Fire by Night” by Messineo

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Ellen

Added it to my TBR list. Sounds good!

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Hollie

For YA The War That Saved My Life was brilliant.

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Dawn

The Zookeeper’s Wife, The Girl with No Name, To Find a Mountain, The Summer Before the War, Daughters of the Night Sky, We Were the Lucky Ones, Anna and the Swallow Man and there’s probably more that I can’t remember 😊

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Barbara

Zookeeper’s Wife isn’t fiction

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Dawn

@Barbara – so? It’s still a good read.

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Leslie

Nightingale wasn’t fiction either, nor the Zoo keepers wife, and many others. The are historical fiction, because they are based on true stories and the author tries to investigate as much as possible, but of course has to write dialogue that they may have said, because the author wasn’t there. All still great books.

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Barbara

True – it is a good read. But she asked for fiction.

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Barbara

@Leslie Agreed. Just responding to her request for fiction.

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Pat

Historical Fiction is still fiction. The setting may be based on a real time period/events in history but the story is still fiction

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Megan

A Separate Peace was an interesting view of how teens viewed the war with fascination, fear, and envy. City of Thieves by David Benioff is a great story of survival. Maus is a graphic novel of one mans survival of the Holocaust. Even if you have never tried graphic novels, TRY this!

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Anne

Maus is great!

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Diane

The Guernsey Literary Potato Peel Pie Society

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Jennifer

Loved that one!

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Lisa

All the Light We Cannot See

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Lisa

The Book Thief, Once We We’re Brothers, Sarah’s Key, Life After Life, All the Light We Cannot See, The Storyteller.

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Melissa

All the Light We Cannot See

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Christine

Stones in the River

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Megan

The Hiding Place, Night, and My Grandfather would have Shot Me are all memoirs, but I can’t go with out saying them. The Hiding Place is about a Christian family who hides Jews. Night is a famous account of Auschwitz. My Grandfather Would Have Shot Me is written by a biracial woman who was adopted and finds out as an adult her grandfather was one of the most powerful and brutal Nazis.

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Leslie

Night is an awesome book.

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Sue

The Lost Wife by Alyson Richman is beautifully written.

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Kaye

“We Were The Lucky Ones” is great. Also, “Secrets of a Charmed Life”

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Denise

Just started we were the lucky ones.

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Elaine

All the Light We Cannot See, by Anthony Doerr

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Kaye

@Elaine yes!

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Pat

The secrets of a charmed life was a great book!

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Pat

@Kaye did you read any of Susan Meisser’s other books? Just discovered her and wondering if they are
good

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Kaye

@Pat I’ve read “A Fall Of Marigolds” which I loved! “Stars Over Sunset Boulevard” would be great for someone who loves “Gone With The Wind”. “A Bridge Across Oceans” was great too.

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Pat

Got A Bridge last night. Will work my way through her other books!

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Brenda

The Stolen Marriage by Diane Chamberlain.

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Heidi

Salt to the Sea

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Kaye

Reading it now! Good!

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Caitlyn

Lilac girls

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Bethany

The Alice Network (a bit graphic at parts, but so good. I’m just like to warn people in case they are sensitive)

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Caitlyn

The Alice network is also a good one!

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Berta

Hotel on the corner of bitter and sweet

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Jamie

Thanks Berta 🙂

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Sharon

All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr, The Alice Network by Kate Quinn, The Girl with No Name by Diney Costelof, The Hotel at the Corner of Bitter and Sweet by @Jamie.

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Barbara

The Book Thief

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Kelly

Salt to the Sea by Ruta Sepetys and Between Shades of Gray by Ruth Sepetys.

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Anne

White Rose Black Forest – Eion Dempsey

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Amy

Sarah’s Key

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Kim

The Nazi Officer’s Wife and just finished Beneath a Scarlet Sky

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Jody

Loved Beneath a Scarlet Sky.

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Tanya

Salt to Sea

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Pam

Lilac Girls,

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Pam

there are so many others, THe Book Thief, Sarah’s Key, All the light we Cannot see. the story teller. There is one by Chris Bohjalian that takes place in Italy, I forget the name.

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Jaime

@Pam Is it Skeletons at the Feast?

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Pam

No that’s not it

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Jaime

Skeletons at the Feast is a great WWII book by Bohjalian, though!

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Pam

Good to know

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Pam

A light in the ruins

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Pam

winter garden

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Kathy

Catch 22

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Karen

Herman Wouk: Winds of War & War and Rememberance

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Caitlin

Orphan’s Tale (Pam Jenoff)

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Kyra

Beneath A Scarlet Sky, All The Light We Cannot See, The Lost Vintage, White Rose Black Forest, Sarah’s Key, The Girl From The Train, The Nazi Officers Wife, Once We Were Brothers, Goodnight From London

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Kyra

I’m reading Eagle & Crane right now. Its interesting because it is set during WWII but covers the side of the Japanese interment camps in the US. It comes out on Tuesday.

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Linda

Skeletons at the Feast & on sale for Kindle! Highly recommend.

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June

One of my favorite Chris Bojalian books!

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Elizabeth

Those Who Save Us is haunting and excellent. The Storyteller by Jodi Picoult

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Judith

I loved Those Who Saved us!

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Jordan

Century trilogy by Ken Follet. 3 books, follows families from all sides of war. Book one is fall of giants and is set in WW1, book 2 is WW2 and book 3 is the Cold War.

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Marilyn

Loved this series! I learned so much.

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Kathy

Excellent. Not great literature, but really involving. Great characters.

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Alice

All the Light We Cannot See

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Lisa

All the Light We
Cannot See

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Mary

Alan Furst’s Night Soldiers series is very good

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Breanna

Code Name Verity

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Maureen

Gone to Soldiers by Marge Piercy or anything else by Marge Piercy

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Katie

Ruta Sepetys, Code Name Verity by Elizabeth Wein

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Susan

Last of the Just, Book Thief, Sophie’s Choice, Catch 22, Night Trilogy

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Kristina

War brides, A Pledge of silence

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Sara

All the thing by Elizabeth Wein-especially Code Name Verity

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Elaine

Stones From a River by Ursula Hegi

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Susan

Gone to Soldiers.

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/862109.Gone_to_Soldiers

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Leslie

I loved this book. Read it a long time ago. Wanted to pick for my bookclub and reread it a few years ago but copies are scarce. Highly recommend too!

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Susan

@Leslie one of my history professors let me borrow a copy way back in college. I loved it! And it is difficult to find a copy. Hers was dog eared and well loved.

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Jaime

The Night Watch by Sarah Waters

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Ginny

Sarah’s Key

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Dean

Black flag Greg Ike’s. The unlikely spy Daniel Silvia or my favorite the Key to Rebecca by ken follett

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Allison

The Invisible Bridge

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Judy

Beneath a scarlet sky is true story but reads so well. I loved it.

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Dean

Greg Iles

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Katy

All the Light we Cannot See

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Stephanie

All the Light We Cannot See, Lilac Girls, In My Hands

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Rhana

All the light you cannot see.

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Ginny

The Winds of War and it’s sequel War and Rembrance

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Mary

Loved The Paris Wife.

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Mary

The Lilac Girls.

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Adrien

Night by Elie Wiesel

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Diane

Anything by Daniel Silva

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Beth

The Women in the Castle by Jessica Shattuck

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Harriet

The Alice Network

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Colleen

All the Light You Cannot See.

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Nathalie

We were the lucky ones

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Andrea

All the Light we cannot see. The Book Thief. For a different perspective, Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet and if you’re a Kristen Hannah fan her Winter Garden.

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Natalie

City of Thieves by David Benioff. Written by one of the writers of HBO’s Game of Thrones. A Jew and a Russian Cossack are sent to find a dozen eggs for a wedding cake during the siege of Lenningrad. Not your average WWII story.

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Anne

Great book!

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Carol

Beneath The Scarlet Sky

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Cassidy

Skeletons at the Feast by Chris Bohjalian.

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Joseph

We Were the Lucky Ones

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Kathy

The Warsaw Ghetto by John Hershey. Also his Hiroshima.

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Julie

Winter Garden Kristen Hannah

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Dana

The German Girl

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Pat

Did you like it?

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Richelle

Good one, I did not get emotional in it, however it taught me about a piece of history I knew very little about. The end pages and pictures ripped my heart out.

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Joseph

Mila 18 by Leon Uris

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Merrill

The Lost Wife by Alyson Richmond

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Elizabeth

Herman Wouk’s Winds of War & the sequel War and Remembrance.

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Mandy

My stack is growing!

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Leslie

Me too!

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Joseph

Anything by Bodie and Brock Thoene

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Megan

I just started The Paris Architect

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Marty

Great book!!

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Joseph

The Tattooist of Auschwitz

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Rebekah

Lilac Girls by Martha Hall Kelly; The Storyteller by Jodi Picoult; All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr

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Molly

The second book in the Century Series by Ken Follett.

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Kathleen

THE INVISIBLE BRIDGE. A HELMET FOR MY PILLOW. Any of Alan Fuerst’s novels.

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Joseph

The German Girl

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Joseph

My Mother’s Secret

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Samantha

The Book Thief

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Joseph

The Lost Letter

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Kathy

Sarah’s key

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Cathy

Women in the Castle

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Chris

All The Light We Cannot See, The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society, Lilac Girls.

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Frances

The Alice Network

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Sandi

QBVII by Leon Uris.

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Karen

The Last Convertible

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Chris

Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet

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Susan

Unbroken, and Jeff Shaara’s trilogy.

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Linda

The Book Thief.

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Jennifer

The Caine Mutiny was a good one

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Barbara

Once we were brothers by R. Balson. An amazing book about the start of the war in Poland. Written as a flashback. As good as if not better than the nightingale.

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Teresa

Will have to look for this. Thanks!

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Maggie

Lilac Girls

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Nina

Beneath the scarlet sky – so good!

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Teresa

I have this loaded, started a bit of it then for some reason sunk my teeth into something else. I’ll have to return to it now. Always like to hear about books I NEED to read. Thanks!!

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Taylor

The Zookeeper’s Wife was one I didn’t come across until later and I loved it.

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Judy

All the Light We Cannot See – Doerr sp? on author’s name? Very good!

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Deborah

The Book Thief

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StuJenn

Lilac girls

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Julie

Winds of War by Herman Wouk

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Denise

Beneath the Scarlet Sky

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Francesca

I read The Taster a few months ago and it was brilliant! It’s about a different perspective told by a food taster for Hitler

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Tina

The Winter Garden, Alice Network; All the Light We Can Not See; From Ash and Sand; Salt to the Sea; each set in a different place

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Sally

Herman Wouk!

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Deb

Stones From the River, Skeletons at the Feast.

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Jamie

Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet

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Werdet

Interesting..

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Chris

All the Light We Cannot See

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Karen

The Alice Network

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Paul

Lilac girls, book thief, all the light we cannot see

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Carol

Code name Verity, about Women’s role as spies.

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Sylvia

Lilac Girls

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Leslie

We were the lucky ones. Just read it, it’s really good.

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April

Girl in Hyacinth Blue

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Harry

“All the light we can not see” Anthony Doerr

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Paul

The taster, radium girls, women in the castle

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Lynn

Radium Girls is non-fiction, but fantastic.

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Paul

@Lynn i didn’t see the fiction part but it’s excellent.

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Lynn

@Paul I thought the post specified fiction. My bad.

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Paul

@Lynn you’re right.

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Chrissy

The Invisible Bridge. It follows the life of a young Hungarian architect student studying in Paris until anti-Jewish laws started. Its long but Orringer weaves a great story

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Katherine

It’s great

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Lisa

Camomile Lawn book and film

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Tom

“Miracle at St. Anna” by James McBride.

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Katie

Sarah’s Key

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Janis

An oldie, but great: Winds of War.

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Nancy

Sarah’s Key, Paris Architect, Salt to the Sea

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Linda

Jackdaws…Ken Follet

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PhilanaQuestion author

I’ve read this. It was great!

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Ann

The Girl in the Blue Coat

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Angie

Code Name Verity

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Tom

And if you like historical fiction that leans more toward the history and less toward the fiction, all of Jeff Shaara’s WWII books — “The Rising Tide,” “The Steel Wave,” “No Less than Victory,” and “The Final Storm” — are fantastic.

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Laura

@Billie

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Sherrie

This one

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PhilanaQuestion author

I’ve read this and really enjoyed it.

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Kimberly

Between Shades of Gray, Lilac Girls, Suite Francaise, The Alice Network

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Grace

The Alice Network

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Jeanie

Ruta Sepetys’ Beyween Shades of Gray or Salt to the Sea.

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Sally

Beneath a Scarlet Sky
Unbroken
Winds of War
War and Rememberance
Diary of Ann Frank
Woman in Gold
Suite Francaise
There are so many great stories about this period.

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Phyllis

Unbroken is so good!

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Judy

Lilac Girls. Alice Network.
MacArthur’s Spies
Unbroken
They Were Expendable
Night
Book Thief
Zookeeper’s Wife
A Town Called Alice

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Dana

On a side note, has anyone watched the French TV series, The Village? It’s supposed to be a series about a small village under Nazi occupation during WWII.

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Judy

No

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Valerie

Loved Beneath the Scarlet Sky by Mark Sullivan…very well written and a compelling story.

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Amy

No but i heard it is good!

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Debbie

Lilac Girls

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Mary

From Sand and Ash
Read this in my book club!

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Kelly

The Bronze Horseman

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Ruth

The True Story of Hansel and Gretel.

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Sue

Well, Outlander at least begins in WW2 . . .

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Jill

😂😍😂😍

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Alisha

The Secret keeper Kate Morton

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Laura

Daughters of the Night Sky, Wives of War,

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Alisha

Lillac Girls Martha Hall Kelly

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Susie

From. Sand and Ash

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Cathy

The Plum Tree by Ella Marie Wiseman

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Sara

Code Name Verity

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Ann

Bodie Thoene’s two series Zion Covenant and Zion Chronicles.

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Judie

Mila 18. By Leon Uris

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Gina

Mischling by Konar

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Karen

Life after life by Kate Atkinson

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Kathy

War and Remembrance

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Elyse

All the Light We Cannot See

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Peachy

The Book Thief

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Deborah

The Book Thief, Lilac Girls, The Enigma, All the Light We Cannot See

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Patrice

Lilac girls

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Emily

The Ladies in the Castle also

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Patrice

@Emily i have it and am going to start it today

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Emily

Lilac Girls is also great.

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Emily

Though not non-fiction (love the double negative there), Unbroken is also phenomenal.

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Erin

Once we were brothers by balson

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Anne

Mischling, From Here to Eternity (and the other 2 books in the trilogy)

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Sarah

Number the Stars

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Lynn

The Invisible Bridge by Julie Orringer. Fantastic!

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Mary

All The Light You Cannot See

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Thomas

although it is not fiction you should read about the USS Indianappolis

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Peachy

City of Thieves by David Benioff

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Robin

The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society

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Thomas

Caine Mutiny

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Missy

All the Light We Cannot See. LOVE

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Dina

The Book Thief. Lilac Girls.

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Dan

The One Man

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Christine

Finding Rebecca.

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Laura

Girl in the Blue Coat

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Brian

Philip Kerr’s “Berlin Noir” is about a city police detective during the Nazi takeover. Excellent!

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Karen

All The Light You Cannot See

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Ruth

The Winds of War

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Pam

All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr

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Darlene

The Paris Architect

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Nancy

Resistance by Anita Shreve

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Pam

Also The Book Thief

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Michelle

The Major’s Daughter by JP Francis. It is set in Berlin, NH at a German prison camp. It is a novel based on a true part of WWII and NH history.

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Tom

I’m going to have to look that one up!

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Susie

Beneath a scarlet sky

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Sandra

The Invisible Bridge, by Julie Orringer

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Penny

The Invisible Bridge by Julie Orringer

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Carolyn

For life inside the camps, The One Man.

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Susie
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Denise

Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society!

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Sandra

The Women in the Castle, Jessica Shattuck

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Amy

City of Thieves by David Benioff. One of my favorite books.

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Brianna

Following

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Barbara

All the Light We Cannot See
Anthony Doerr

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Suzi
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Lyndsey
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Suzi
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Suzi
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Suzi
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Suzi
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Suzi
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Susie

Any of these

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Erin

Atomic City Girls
Wives of Los Alamos

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Diane

Read both of those. Very enlightening about what went on in the States during this time period!

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Michelle

Ken Folletts Century trilogy. Book 1, Fall of Giants, is about WWI. Book 2, Winter of the World, is about WWII.
Also Unbroken, its a true story but is SO amazing!

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Jeff

Follett’s Eye of the Needle is a classic.

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Susie
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Susie

Salt to the Sea

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Mark

Two Oldies: Winds of War and War and Remembrance by Herman Wouk.

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Diane

So many books to choose from. I loved the Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Society. All the Light We Cannot See was very good, Sarah’s Key was heart-wrenching but good. The Zookeepers Wife and The Book Thief. Oh my, I could go on and on!

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Regina

Agreed! All great books.

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Nancy

Please do. All my favorutes

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Tanya

The Paris Architect

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Kim

The Cazalet Chronicles which is a series of books about an extended upper class English family. The first book is called The Light Years and starts out just prior to WW2. It’s told from the POV of many different characters. Really good!

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Barbara

Adding to my TBR – thanks!

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Lauren

The book thief

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Donna

The Paris Architect, All The Light We Cannot See, and The Alice Network. They are all sooo good.

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Mary

Salt to Sea and Between Shades of Gray

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Mary

Unbroken!

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Melinda

All the Light We Cannot See, and The Invisible Bridge!

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Kayleigh

Winter Garden by Kristin Hannah

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Deborah

All the Light we Cannot See, Lilac Girls, Book Thief

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Kandace

The Alice Project…i just finished it. Great read.

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Sophia

Life After Life

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Sue

Everyone Brave is Forgiven

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Barbara

The Paris Architect.

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Jenn

From Sand and Ash by Amy Harmon

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Lisa

Kate Quinn’s The Alice Network

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Margaret

The Baker’s Secret by Stephen Kiernan, The Room on Rue Amelie by Kristin Harmel

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Helen

The girl you left behind by Jojo Moyes

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Melissa

All the Light we Cannot See was a really good book

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Katrina

War That Saved My Life and War I Finally Won by Kimberly Brubaker Bradley

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Susan

Lilac Girls., The Diary of Anne Frank, The Book Thief, Winter Garden, The Storyteller, Those Who Save Us, The Lost Wife, The Alice Network, Sarah’s Key, The Plum Tree, The Boy in the Striped Pajamas…there are so many good ones.

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Barbara

The Women in the Castle

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Kathy

All the Light we Cannot See – great read

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Marlo

The Light in the Ruins by Chris Bohjalian.

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Liz

All The Light best of the best, Manhattan Beach, Everyone Brave Is Forgiven. These 3 give you France, Germany, London and New York-Perfect trio.

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Terrie

Lilac Girls

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Marilee

Love this book!! Can’t wait for the movie!

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Charles

The Naked and the Dead by Norman Mailer. From Here to Eternity by James Jones, Catch 22 by Joesph Heller.

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Barbara

How did I forget Catch-22?

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Marilee

@Barbara Korean War period.

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Charles

@Marilee no it is not it’s WW2.

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Susan

Lilac Girls

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Lindsay

War Brides

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Paige

Sarah’s Key

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Katharina

Sarah’s Key, The Boy in Striped Pajamas, All the Light We Cannot See

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Kathy

The Book Thief, The Rom on Rue Amalie, From Salt to Sea

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Jill

Manhattan Beach, The Book Thief, The Alice Network and Atomic City Girls.

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Marilee

Yes to Manhattan Beach. We often forget what was going on in the Homefront during WW2. Atomic City girls also illuminates the period.

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Julia

All the Light We Cannot See. EXCELLENT book.

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Julia

Code Name Verity. Really good YA WWII book.

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Peggy

James Jones :From Here to Eternity won the National Book Award 1952 and was named one of the 100 Best Novels of the 20th century by the Modern Library Board in 2008. terrific story based on the writer’s own experiences.

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Jeri

The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society.

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Kerry

The Welsh Girl, Sophie’s Choice

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Gail

I’m currently reading The Women in the Castle by Jessica Shattuck. Another choice All the Light We Cannot See.

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Kathy

Gail Peterson – I just finished The Women in the Castle. What did you think?

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Gail

I’ve only read 1/3 of the book. My book group read it earlier in the year and I just couldn’t get into it so decided to give it another try. Liking it better this time.

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Kathy

@Gail I enjoyed it but it was slow in the beginning. It is very thought provoking.

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Tricia

All The Light We Cannot See <3

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Julia

Suite Francaise is good too

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Ivan

The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society is a historical novel by Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie Barrows – I loved this. I had no idea that Guernsey was occupied by the Nazis – it was a real education.

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Susan

Lilac girls

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Tiffany

Night by Elie Wiesel, The Alice Network by Kate Quinn, Schindler’s List by Thomas Keneally, Unbroken by Laura Hillenbrand and The Book Thief by Markus Zusak are all great reads.

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Alisa

Night is non fiction

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Alisa

So is Unbroken

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Tiffany

Alisa Rosado Swissa…Yes they are but they are still amazing reads, and Philana might enjoy reading them which why I went on and suggested them.😏

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Jeff

Night is a fictionalized memoir. Unbroken is a biography. But they are both more powerful than most novels.

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Katheryn

The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society, I think that is the correct title. It is about the island of Guernsey under Nazi occupation.

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Paul

Love that book. I heard it’s going to be a t.v. show.

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Barbara

One I read over and over again……

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Debra

It’s older, but one of my favorites. Winds of War and the sequal War and Remembrance by Herman Wouk are 2 of my favorites. After I read them I went couldn’t get enough of WWII books!

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Barb

The Taster…about the woman who was assigned to taste Hitlers food so they could be sure it wasn’t poisoned! An inside look at the unique life inside Hitlers lairs near the end of WWII. Based on facts.

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Roxanne

Beneath a Scarlet Sky

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Pam

The women in the castle

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Charlotte

Unbroken and Beneath the Scarlet Sky.

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Dan

The winter fortress – non fiction about Norway resistance vs power plant to be used for nukes. Reads like a novel. Very interesting little known history.

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Charlotte

@Dan Thank you for the Non-fiction recommendation.

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Sue

The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann Shaffer. British resistance to German occupation of the island in WWII.

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Charlotte

My Enemy’s Cradle

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Susan

I forgot about that book…read it years ago!

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Thorey

The Book Thief is one of my all time favorites.

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Karen

This is

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Debbie

The Baker’s Secret, All the Light We Cannot See, The Last Telegram, Sarah’s Key

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Laura

The Alice Network

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Sue

Lilac Girls

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Alexander

You should get Nosco Publishing’s Summary of Beneath a Scarlet Sky by Mark Sullivan.

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Lisa

Check out James Renner. His Man From Primrose Lane is fiction, but before that he was all non-fiction about true crime/serial killers. Fascinating.

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Laura

Yes!!

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Cecily

Lilac Girls is next on my list! Hear it’s very well done.

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Cecily

Winter Garden is good.

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Lisa

He’s an excellent investigator, dogged approach, and fascinating writer!

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Marilee

The Tuscan Child by Rhys Bowen moves back and forth between WW2 and the present.

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Mary

Those Who Save Us

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Sharon

The Book Thief and Lilac Girls

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Debbie

The War that Saved my Life, by Kimberly Bruebaker Bradley.

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Alisa

The Eye of the Needle.

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Ginger

I loved this book!

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Judy

with a young Donald Sutherland as the villain in the movie 😱

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Elizabeth

Hidden Figures

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Noreen

All the Light We Cannot See

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Elizabeth

Radium Girls

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Jessica

Winter Garden by Kristin Hannah is a great read but may be between WWII and Cold War. Been a while since I read it!

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Kathy

Once We Were Brothers

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Elizabeth

The Zookeepers Wife

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Kathy

Yellow Star

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Juli

Beneath the Scarlet Sky

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Eliza

Winds of War, War and Remembrance . Superb.

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Gretchen

Here are three books I’ve read recently by Jewish authors who wrote fiction about their own experiences: 1. Suite Francaise by Irene Nemirovsky (sadly she was killed at Auschwitz) 2. Family Lexicon by Natalia Ginzberg (writes about her experience in Italy. Husband killed in concentration camp). 3. Transit by Anna Seghers (takes place in Occupied France)

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Stacey

Lilac Girls. It’s a historical fiction. All The Light We Cannot See is good too.

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Suzanne

Gone to Soldiers.

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Rachel

City of Thieves

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Rachel

Buddha in the Attic (about relocation of Japanese americand during WW11

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Stephen

Read the two volumes by Herman Wouk. One of them is called “War and Remembrance.” I cannot remember the title of the second one, but the main character is Pug Henry, and the books are exceptional blends of fiction and history regarding World War II.

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Ashley

The English Patient

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Richelle

This is my favorite historical fiction time period…so many good ones here. My favorite recent one is Salt to the Sea.

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Rachel

Code Talkers

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Erin

Beneath a Scarlet Sky or the Nightingale

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Giovanna

You Are My Sunshine and War Brides can’t remember the author’s name of these books but they were both very good

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Kathleen

https://www.nyjournalofbooks.com/book-review/horse

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Shauna

Winds of War

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Theresa

The Storyteller

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Kathryn

All the Light We Cannot See

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Kathi

Beneath a Scarlet Sky by Mark Sullivan. My favorite book I read last year

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Abbie

All The Light We Cannot See and Salt to the Sea

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Toni

I haven’t read it yet, but I hear good things about Chris Cleave’s Everyone Brave is Forgiven. (Which might be about WW1…) but I love his writing so it will definitely be in my future.