What is the name of THE best World War II fiction book you have ever read?
What is the name of THE best World War II fiction book you have ever read?
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What is the name of THE best World War II fiction book you have ever read?
I enjoyed a Town like Alice.
Rena’s Promise !!!!
That’s a tough one…there are so many! The Lost Wife is one of them.
The Nightingale by Kristin Hannah. Also loved The Story Teller by Jodi Picoult.
Goodnight Mister Tom by Michelle Magorian
This might be good for me because for some reason any book around that time I have not likeed
The Reader
The Diary of Anne Frank, and The Lilac Girls
Anne Frank is a true story
Yes it is
Ok then, I’ll change it to Beneath the Scarlet Sky
That’s a true story too isn’t it?
@Tiffany not fully
@Beth I haven’t read it yet, I just picked it up from the library and it’s next!!
Beneath the Scarlet Sky was great!
So many but top 2 are Those Who Save Us by Jenna Blum and The Nightingale by Kristin Hannah
The Lilac Girls, All the Light We Cannot See and The German Girl
Night
Was Night fictional?
No. It’s an autobiography by a concentration camp survivor
Orphans tale
So many…… The Tattooist of Auschwitz, All the Light We cannot see, Sarah’s Key, The boy in the striped pajamas, Night, The Book Thief and The Nightingale. All fantastic reads!!!?
Two parter by Herman Wouk. The Winds of War and War And Remembrance.
My favorite books ever!
‘Once We We’re Brothers’. By far the best I’ve ever read.
Amazing book. I loved Karolina’s Twins by the same author as well.
In My Enemy’s House by Carol Matas
Beneath the Scarlett Sky
The war that saved my life, the book thief
ALONG WATERS OF SUNSHINE AND SHADOW by Ava Miles!
The Book Thief
Winds of War and the sequel War and Remembrance Volumes 1&2….BEST BOOKS EVER!!!
They are my favorite books of all time!
They are big books too!! They will keep you busy for a while!
BTW, I buy a lot of books and sell them back to the bookstore or give them away. I will keep these FOREVER…I even sold the Nightingale back(which I LoVED!) if that tells you anything!!
Sarah’s Key – only started in WWII but wonderful nevertheless!
Commenting so I can have some of these recs too!
Winter of the World… second book in Ken Folletts Century Trilogy. It’s hands down the most remarkable book I’ve read set during WWII. And I have read a LOT
The Room on Rue Amélie
The Nightingale and Book Thief
Beneath the Scarlet Sky and The Storyteller
All the Light we Cannot See
upstairs room, yellow star
Beneath a Scarlet Sky!!!
It’s 90% true, and the main character is still alive, living in Italy! The story is INCREDIBLE!!
2nd- The Book Thief
beneath a scarlet sky was amazing! def read it
I love both of these books.
The Nightingale
Beneath a Scarlet Sky, Book Thief, Alice Network, Nightingale.
Slaughterhouse 5. If you can get past the absurd, it is a heartbreaking
anti war chronicle of PTSD.
Book Thief, Lilac Girls, All the Light We Cannot See
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Winds of War
Salt to Sea by Ruta Septys
Lilac Girls and Beneath the Scarlet Sky
The Winds Of War by Herman Wouk and the sequel, War and Remembrance.
Great books!
Alone in Berlin by Hans Fallada. Bit different, told from the perspective of an ordinary German person.
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I enjoyed Sven Hassels books about an SS prisoner tank crew in the East.
The story teller, life after life & the boy in the striped pyjamas
The Nightingale, the Storyteller, Sarah’s Key
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Good Night Mt Tom (I think its called)
The Plot Against America Philip Roth. It’s a what if Germany won the war book. Scary stuff and a real page turner
French architect
All the light we cannot see, the storyteller, the nightingale, the tattooist on Auschwitz
MAUS by Art Spiegelman for Graphic Novel
Salt to the Sea by Ruta Sepetys
Schindler’s List
Wow thank you!
Hidden Gold
Three Day Road
Following
The Nightingale
The Darkest Hour
I advise against the Book Thief: full of clichés, boring, predictable…
I recommend The Kindly Ones or the trilogie Berlin Noir of Philip Kerr
Beneath A Scarlet Sky, The Road Between Us, Winter Men, Slaughterhouse 5, Alone in Berlin, All The Light We Cannot See. I disliked The Nightingale as there are much better books on the subject. Book Thief is good but aimed at youngsters, as is Boy In Striped Pyjamas. Tattooist of Auschwitz is a lovely story but badly written.
The Kommandant’s Mistress by Alexandria Szeman makes you think, not easy to read but you get the hang of her changing the person who’s telling the story quite randomly.
The Persimmon Tree by Bryce Courteney. The war in the pacific.
The Winds of War by Herman Wouk.
All the Light We Cannot See, Lilac Girls
All the light we cannot see
Beneath A Scarlet Sky
All the Light We Cannot See & The Nightengale
Mischling by Affinity Konar https://www.amazon.com/Mischling-Affinity-Konar/dp/0316308099/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1532786863&sr=8-1&keywords=Mischling
Michael morpogo. All of them. Boy in striped pjs
The Book Thief