Recommendations please! Historical fiction—WW1, WW2 and Russian/French revolution
Recommendations please!
Historical fiction—WW1, WW2 and Russian/French revolution
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Recommendations please!
Historical fiction—WW1, WW2 and Russian/French revolution
Beneath a scarlet sky.
i second this I read this book at the beginning of the month. Loved it
Great book!!
The Nightingale by Kristin Hannah
The Book Thief. Sarah’s Key. The Boy in the Striped Pajamas. All the Light We Cannot See. Lilac Girls. The Alice Network.
WW1 – All Quiet on the Western Front. WW2 – The Naked and the Dead.
Shanghai Girls!
The bronze horseman
The Book Thief by Markus Zusak
A Tale of Two Cities, Remembering Rebecca, A Farewell to Arms
Salt to the Sea
THE LAVENDER GARDEN by Lucinda Riley.
The True Story of Hansel and Gretel: A Novel of War and Survival https://www.amazon.com/dp/0142003077/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_i_AS0CCb90KS8FD
Beneath a scarlet sky.
THE BRONZE HORSEMAN by Paullina Simons .
The Last Casualty
A Tale of Two Cities
Ken Folletts’ Century Trilogy
Les Miserables
The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas
Salt to the Sea
Surviving the Fatherland
Five Quarters of the Orange
The Nightingale by Kristine Hannah
Orphan, Monster, Spy/The Librarian of Auschwitz/The Tattooist of Auschwitz/The Zookeepers Wife/The Storyteller
The War Bride
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/16047
The Forgotten Soldier by Guy Sajer is amazing (WWII). Johnny Got His Gun by Dalton Trumbo is a must-read (WWI). All the rest I know and love have been mentioned already. ?
House by the Lake
Series
Anything by Helen Rappaport
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/15790842
This is a stand-alone book. You’re not left with a cliffhanger at the end or anything, so don’t let the “#1” throw you if you’re not looking for a series. ?
Atomic City Girls by Janet Beard
It’s based off the Manhattan Project and is absolutely amazing!
A Long Long Way by Sebastian Barry. WWI from an Irish perspective. Made me sob.
The Nightingale
@Keri The Best Book ever!!
@Karin Yes. I am under a 100 pages left and I am crying…. ???
WWI – Birdsong by Sebastian Faulks.
I came across this and liked it, especially after having reading the likes of The Alice Network and The Nightingale etc. I am trying to remember where it is…..
I liked this one
Winter Garden by Kristin Hannah
A Gentleman in Moscow by Amor Towles
The book thief and the nightingale!!
Both based on WWII, one in Germany and the other in France.
The Century Trilogy by Ken Follett covers from early 1900s to the near modern day. Very good books
The Regeneration Trilogy, Pat Barker
WW I – The Verdun Affair
I started it on audio but I think I would have preferred print
Delivered from Evil a great novelization of ww2
The Secret Wife by Gillian Paul
Read this recently. I really enjoyed it and it’s based on a piece of history that is not widely known. It’s very sad of course but I definitely recommend it.
The Nightingale by Kristin Hannah, The Ragged Edge of Night by Olivia Hawker & Beneath a Scarlet Sky by Mark Sullivan for WWII, and The Secret Wife by Gill Paul for Russian Revolution.
Gone to soldiers – Marge piercy
French Revolution:
Little ~ Edward Carey (does have a magical realism thing going on)
Madame Tussaud ~ Michelle Moran
Peter Fitzsimmons has some great works – Monash, Gallipoli, Tobruk, Kokoda, and others
The daugther of nobility (Russian revultion)
Between the shades of grey (WW2)
For WWII – The Gift of Rain and The Garden of Evening Mists by Tan Twan Eng!
Paullina Simons Bronze Horseman trilogy, Lucinda Riley’s Seven Sisters series, Kristin Hannah’s The Nightingale ??
Ruth Saberton. The Letter.
also The Plum Tree
Slaughter House 5 – WWII
I released The Hidden Legacy last year, a novel with dual storylines in WWI France and modern day midwest America. ?
Symphony for the city of the dead by m.t.anderson I.S about the Russian revolution and Compose Dimitri Shostakovich. Between shades of gray by Ruta Sepetys. Excellent read.
Anything by Pam Jenoff – WWII
Charles Belfoure’s books – WWII
Ronald H. Balson’s books – WWII
Somewhere in France by Jennifer Robson
The Tuscan Child by Rhys Bowen
Letters from Skye by Jessica Brockmole
The Kommandant’s Mistress by Sherri Szeman
Anything by Soraya Lane!!
Kristen Hannah, The Nightingale ❤️
Madame tussaud by michelle Moran (french revolution)
The Women in the Castle by Jessica Shattuck
All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque
War Horse
@Fawn
The Women in the Castle was good.
@Elizabeth yes, I loved it. I found it hard to read at first and hand to break out the dictionary and translator but such a good book!
War Horse was a fantastic read too, a middle grade book but told from the POV of the horse and just captures your heart
@Fawn
War Horse sounds good…thanks for the recommendation.
LOL on the dictionary and translator…I totally forgot about that. ?
War and Peace, The Sword and the Scimitar by David Ball-marvellous read
The Survivors by Kate Furnivall, The Winter Garden by Jane Thyne, Selected to live by Johanna Ruth Dobschiner, The Hidden Children by Jane Marks.
This is slightly on the YA side but one of my absolute favorite books – A Song for Summer by Eva Ibbotson. Wonderful characters and powerful emotion throughout
Following
Reading now: Testament by Kim Sherwood
All the Light We Cannot See and The Nightingale
The Crown’s Game by Evelyn Skye and Enchantée by Gita Trelease
The diary of a young girl by anne frank and sarah’s key not sure who the author is, it’s not about the french russian revolution but it is about russian crime in time of stalin ‘child 44’