Second World War fiction Books

The Mediterranean, early 1940s.Lieutenant Harry Gilmour, captain of the S-Class submarine HMS Scourge, has been tasked with patrolling the Mediterranean and supporting operations for the Allied forces. Someone, however, is on his tail: Captain Charles...

Recalled from night fighter trials in Scotland, Squadron Leader Harry Rose resumes command of Excalibur Squadron as the Allies prepare for the liberation of Europe.In the coming fight to wear down the waiting enemy defences, the seaborne landings, and...

SUICIDE MISSION!At great cost to American lives, the U.S. Marines succeeded in establishing a beachhead. In comes Sergeant James Hawk-a tough, young veteran of several suicidal missions-who's assigned to protect a Dutch plantation on an isolated...

When Bruce Duncan, a surgeon who is part of the "greatest generation," returns home after WWII, he strives to hide his internal wounds by building a quiet life of running a small-town medical practice and fly-fishing in the area's treasured waters. But...

PenCraft Award 2019 Winner - Historical Fiction"...flawlessly well-written mystery with a captivating plot that offers a dark perspective on family unity.” –IndieReaderJapanese business magnate Kenji Watanabe, 80, has protected the...

Five-year-old Joey Harrison’s world is turned upside down when he and his seven-year-old sister, Beth, are placed in foster care in 1942. With the war in Europe underway and the attack on Pearl Harbor by Japan, the children’s father joins the...

In diesem bewegenden biografischen Roman erzählt die Bestsellerautorin Marion Kummerow eine inspirierende und herzzerreißende Geschichte über Verrat und Gewissen, Hoffnung und Verzweiflung, sowie Liebe und Hass im Dritten Reich.Noch bevor Q seinen...

Shortlisted, Exeter Novel Prize 2019.How does an innocent French countryside girl become a cold-blooded killer?Seven decades after German troops march into her village, Céleste Roussel is still unable to assuage her guilt. 1943. German soldiers occupy...

It's 1943, and Germany is holding their breath as World War II rages around them. Armies of the Axis Powers are growing ever desperate; the bitter truth that Germany is losing begins to settle over a broken country. Germany needs soldiers. In the wake of...

A dramatic saga with a noir bent set in the Sahara Desert WW2 North Africa -- Libya, Cairo, Algeria, Tunisia.We Can't All Be Heroes Libya, the Fezzan 1942 A German officer collaborates with a French Algerian priest and a Jewish Resistance...

In the long-awaited sequel to Anne Leigh Parrish's An Open Door, Edith Sloan navigates life after leaving her dull, demanding husband, Walter, for Henry, a well-off British peer. The bookstore she owns on Harvard Square, The Turned Page, thrives under...

Grievously wounded in Stalingrad, Wehrmacht officer Franz Maedler returns to Berlin. Haunted by his memories of the men he left behind and the suffering he witnessed (and contributed to) on the Eastern Front, he is conflicted. For years, he has been...

When the world went to war . . . they fought for love. England, 1939: The world is on the brink of war when Elizabeth Mowbray breaks her engagement with a tea planter in India and returns home to the English countryside. Desperate to...

It's the winter of 1945 and Christmas is just around the corner, but Mickey Matthews cannot yet celebrate. A phone call sends him to solve another mystery - a cold case located in California. But when Matthews discovers that two actresses vanished under...

Lt.Hermann was injured; his arm, collarbone and four ribs had been shattered against the dive control bulkhead. He was trying to push himself up to a kneeling position through the pain fogging his head when a massive sonar ping hit the hull and...

Inspired by the true story of an overlooked hero of World War II, Under a Sunburnt Sky is the unforgettable tale of one boy's heroism when faced with evil and the unbreakable bonds of love.When the Nazis invade Poland and round up the Jews to...

In World War II Singapore (1942-1945), many people went through unimaginable suffering. Siew Chin was forced to become a "comfort woman" in a Japanese military brothel. Her husband Tiong was taken away to be massacred. Ah Ding collaborated with the...

"Fasten your seatbelt for an edge-of-your-seat ride for nonstop action as MI6 agent Katrin Nissen navigates the deadly waters of Nazi Germany on the hunt for a missing agent." -M.G. Chapman, author of the Covert Ops seriesA desperate search for a missing...

FATE WAS NOT KIND TO SABAN GRABO AND HIS THREE-MONTHS-PREGNANT WIFE ELISAVETA . . . OR WAS IT?TRAIN Z is a World War II historical fiction novel that follows a young Romani (Gypsy) couple who travel from Sarajevo to a family funeral in German-occupied...

Dead men tell no tales... Or do they? Inside a rusting German U-Boat are millions in gold bars, stolen art, and a secret that could tear NATO apart. 4.5 Stars on 330 Reader Reviews!The KGB, the CIA, Nazi SS hitmen, even the Israeli Mossad - everyone is...

Geordie Stubbs has roamed the world getting into scrapes. He's seen the trenches of World War I, the union wars of America's industrial heartland and the rise of Nazism in Germany, and journeyed through revolutionary French Indochina and Singapore to...

In the closing days of WWII, African-American Marine Willy Harmon is pulled from kitchen duty and thrown into the invasion of a remote Pacific atoll.When the attack fails, Harmon's squad narrowly escapes execution. Hiding in the treacherous jungle, they...

Late Winter, 1943The world is at war with no end in sightAddie Bledsoe and Kate Isaacs, best friends from Iowa, are embroiled in their own private battles. In England, Kate grieves the loss of her pilot husband even as she awaits the birth of their child...

Devoted mother, foster mother and farmer, May Sheppard, can't stop taking on everyone else's problems.Life is hard eighteen months after VE Day. And then the worst winter of the century sets in. Struggling to cope, May is knocked sideways by a further...

In March 1940 Laura boards a ship and travels through the torpedoed waters of the Mediterranean to chase after Harry whom she has fallen in love with. He was out in Uganda, but has joined up to fight with the King's African Rifles.Will she succeed in her...

Timely and fascinating stories of adventure in the air, accurate in detail and intensely interesting in narration. Originally published in 1911.

June 1939: Hitler betrays Stalin and invades the Soviet Union. The "man of steel" falls apart and is incapable of issuing coherent orders. Appalled, the top generals decide that Stalin's dereliction of duty is tantamount to...

As a young man growing up in early twentieth- century Germany, Arthur Waldmann is introduced to the mysteries of the Jewish Kabbalah by his eccentric grandmother, and dreams of traveling to a Heavenly Academy of ancient sages in a distant galaxy.When he...

"The author vividly captures the harshness of Nazi rule and the bravery of the Allied soldiers dedicated to the liberation of Italy. An intriguing and earnest... war tale." -Kirkus ReviewsAfter he and his buddy survive the bloody landing on the beaches...

מבוסס על סיפור אמיתי ומעורר השראה שלא סופר מעולםבשנה האחרונה למלחמת העולם השנייה, על אדמת הונגריה, התחוללה דרמה אנושית מרטיטה שרק מעטים מכירים.באפריל 1944 פלשו הגרמנים להונגריה, בניסיון נואש למנוע ממנה לערוק לצד בעלות הברית. עד אז, ההונגרים היו בעלי ברית...

A moment they never expected. A Christmastime forever changed.Clara and Lieutenant Joseph Winters are making plans, plans for Christmas and for moving their family to his new assignment: Wheeler Airfield in Oahu, Hawaii. When Joseph's base becomes a...

It is 1936, and at fifty-five years old, Camila Boldsky is lost. As she retires ownership of her factory and frets about her estranged son's emigration to Chile, political tensions in Vienna only grow thicker. But despite being a Jew, Camila feels...

I looked a moment as she walked away, more delicately made than her sister but no weakling.  That feeling of regret returned.  The New Year's dinner, the great dark house with its brilliantly lit dining hall, the moldy relatives, the...

It’s July, 1941, in a dusty Georgia farming town, and talk of war is in the air. Plucky Mae Lee Willis, almost eight, knows there’s more to life than her distracted parents tell her, and she's determined to find out. Her sixteen-year old...

From USA TODAY Bestselling Author, Kathryn Gauci, comes a mesmerising, emotional espionage thriller that no fan of WWII fiction will want to miss.“One never knows where fate will take us. Cairo taught me that. Expect the unexpected. Little did I...

1941, Ζάκυνθος. Ο Παντελής Κοκκίνης ζει με την οικογένειά του την δύσκολη πραγματικότητα της Ιταλικής κατοχής. Όταν γνωρίζει την Βιολέτα Δαλμέδικου, κόρη μιας Εβραϊκής οικογένειας, εντυπωσιάζεται, αλλά η αγάπη τους είναι απαγορευμένη. 1943. Ο Γερμανός...

The KEAK Anthology is a collection of written works by the author with the addition of joint writings with her father, Artemios Korkidis. The book is divided into three sections, short stories, flash fiction, and excerpts from published works taken from...

A snapshot in time holds secrets waiting to be revealed.Berlin, 1938. Samuel Weiss and Max von Hofmannsthal were best friends until the cruel antisemitism of Nazi Germany seeped into Berlin and tore their friendship apart. As Max rises in the ranks...

Anna stopped counting the times she fell. Now she would take a stand...Anna Onisko has grown up under the shadow of her tyrannical stepfather. Now in her teens she is determined to escape him and fulfill her dream of becoming a teacher. But this is...

"Ella Endures takes the reader on a journey back in time to experience the joys and trials of the Greatest Generation. I didn't want to put the book down!"-Laurie Winter, Award-winning Author of the Warriors of the Heart seriesThe strength and...

War thrust them together. Love will tear them apart. Inspired by a true story... When the Nazis invade a sleepy Polish town in 1939, Mirek Kozlowski swears to keep everyone in his orphanage safe at all costs. However, despite his struggles and...

What is truth in a world filled with lies? What is sanity when everyone in charge seems mad? How can good people survive in a system where everyone is compromised and corrupted? These are the questions Friedrich Deich examines in The Sanity Inspectors,...

France, 1944. Agent Kim Maxwell has a new mission. She's investigating the death of Bernard Leblanc, a local SOE leader. It looks like an accident, but Kim knows better . . . Her HQ is the Bistro Le Renard Rouge. The Red Fox. And the chef is...

BRAND NEW from Tracy BainesThe winds of war bring uncertainty but also opportunity...With the outbreak of War, the fishing fleet is confined to port, bringing hardship to the families and businesses of Fishers Wharf.Ruth Evans awaits the safe return of...

A Nazi soldier slams his rifle into her father's head. From her hiding place, Sofie stifles a scream as tears roll down her face. Suddenly she can't take it any more. 'Stop, stop!' she sobs, rushing out and pushing the soldier away. And then freezes, as...

Will a world at war destroy a second chance at love?Estelle Johnson promises to wait for Aubry DeLuca to return from war, but then she receives word of his debilitating injuries. Does she have the strength to stand by him during his hour of need?Aubry...