The Second World War, waged from 1939-45, has inspired countless novels through the years. Some were written during the war, others in the immediate years after, and still others are being published today. Try these enthralling reads.
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Description: Trapped in Berlin in the darkest days of 1945, British journalist John Russell, his girlfriend, and his son struggle to survive as the Third Reich collapses around them.
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Description: In Paris American motion picture producer Frederic Stahl is drawn into a clandestine world of foreign correspondents, exiled Spanish republicans, and spies of every sort. As a celebrity from neutral America — who can travel across the continent freely — Stahl could be very useful indeed.
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Description: A thriller on the breaking of a secret German radio code during World War II. The protagonists are two British cryptographers, a man and a woman, and their work becomes a race to crack the code in time to save a convoy of U.S. ships from being sunk by U-boats.
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Description: Adolf Hitler orders a group of German commandos to either kidnap or kill Winston Churchill and a young IRA assassin joins the plan.
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Description: Adam Nowak, an American, is dropped into occupied Poland by British Intelligence to work as an assassin and resistance fighter against the Nazis.
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Description: In the summer of 1942, Anne Calloway sets off to serve in the Army Nurse Corps on the Pacific island of Bora-Bora. She is drawn to a mysterious soldier named Westry, and their friendship soon blossoms.
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Description: Recreates the remarkable activities and courage of Oskar Schindler, a Catholic German industrialist who gambled everything to save as many Jews as possible from the Nazi death camps.
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Description: Takes the reader from a manor house in England in 1935, to the retreat to Dunkirk in 1941, to a London hospital soon after where the maimed, broken, and dying soldiers are shipped from the evacuation, to a reunion of the Tallis clan in 1999.
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Description: In mid-December 1944, the Germans launch a desperate and ruthless counteroffensive in the Ardennes Forest. As American commanders respond to the stunning challenge, the German spear is finally blunted.
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Description: As Nazi forces close in, American-born Loralei Kepler, daughter of a missionary family, flees Brussels ahead of the Blitzkrieg. But is anywhere safe from Adolf Hitler’s evil grasp?
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Description: About the marine corps and the men from the towns, farms, whistle stops-the tough kids and the mama’s boys, the liars and lovers, goldbrickers and heroes-the men who made the corps.
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Description: For the Soviets, war hero and sharpshooter Tat̓yana Levchenko offers a chance to gather information about President Roosevelt’s plans. Then Tat̓yana vanishes. Did she defect? Was she silenced–and if so, by whom?
