Second World War fiction Books

Set in Paris shortly after World War II, L’Amérique recounts the fortitude of one Parisian family in a nation humiliated by defeat and torn by recriminations.  It is above all the story of Jeanot, a boy raised by disparate...

<p>The truths of the past are often the hardest to face.</p><p>When Grace Stewart's fiancé Stephen leaves Halifax in 1937 to pursue his dream of becoming an archaeologist in Greece, neither of them expect that war will soon engulf the...

This is a fine World War 2-era historical novel (based on Allan Cole's family experiences) set in Florida, on the "Home Front". Nazi submarine attacks off the coast are but the start of the problems for local residents. But human will...

From USA Today Bestselling author, Kathryn Gauci, comes a thrilling and emotional story of bravery and self-sacrifice, heartbreak and revenge, set in one of the most dangerous and difficult of WWII escape routes. "A beautiful dark-haired woman...

1939. Small town, Western Australia. As the world slides into war, Dorothy and Mick's marriage slides into deeper and deeper trouble. Even the welcome arrival of a child can't save the situation and eventually, with no options left, Dorothy takes her...

Amidst the secluded valleys of Bavaria, 1940, lies a covert Nazi stronghold, the womb to the sinister Project Sea Eagle. Here, in hidden chambers beneath the earth, Nazi scientists toil over an innovative menace: a fleet of aqua-planes intended to...

Professor Claus Eisenstadt, a refugee from Nazi Germany, and a brilliant mathematician, disappears from Columbia University one day. After the police have given up the search, mathematics graduate student Judy Carter, compelled to solve puzzling...

They faced up to the challenges of war – but can they deal with the troubles of peace?Canadian, Jim Armstrong, married in haste during the second world war, after a one-night stand. When his wife and their small son join him in Canada it’s...

Falstaff the Incorrigible, mercenary pilot, and scoundrel with an evil temper. It is the eve of War in Europe, but Falstaff has unfinished business with a princess, the Japanese Army and loot still to find in the east. His eye for the ladies and the...

Tierra Texas is a town like any other small American town in 1944 -- caught up in the war, boys in the military, men and friends gone to the city to work in the airplane factories, everyone wishing it was over and life would go back to what it was before...

In book two of In Hitler's House, Willy Weber and Carlotta Krause descend into the depths of the espionage game as World War II rages around them. Working at once against Hitler and often at odds with one another, each fears getting an order to...

Following the fall of Singapore in 1942, a group of SOE operatives landed at a secluded jetty below the garrison on a mission to retrieve a codebook that would ultimately see the defeat of the Japanese in the Pacific.  No one could know of the...

Inspired by true events, this uplifting and emotional story spans generations and continents. A powerful love story set against a background of war. The Netherlands and Canada were not only allies but friends in World War ll. This novel delves into the...