Second World War fiction Books

Christmas is soon to reach Devon.  The smells of Mrs. McCarthy's baking slowly overrides Professor Keane's tobacco smoke.  However, from the continuing war to a boy who is anything but angelic, the young Joanna Lawrence finds the end...

Dit offensief dat we op het punt staan te beginnen, kan misschien het verstikkende pantser dat ons omringt afzwakken. God verhoede.Anders zal ons prachtige land, het mooiste land ter wereld en tot voor kort helaas het sterkste, de laars van de indringer...

Emotional. Mysterious. Heartbreaking. Ruth was no stranger to heartache, but in her attempt to overcome the past, she conquered unimatinable obstacles, all while swinging high as a part time trapeze artist, strolling as a wing walker, an falling in love...

Before he fully realized the diabolical cruelties of the National Socialist German Worker's Party, Konrad Wengler had committed atrocities against his own people, the Jews, out of fear of both his faith and his heritage. But after he witnesses firsthand...

This offensive that we are about to begin can, perhaps, attenuate the suffocating armor that surrounds us. God forbid.Otherwise, our beautiful country, the most beautiful country in the world and until recently, alas, the strongest, will know the boot of...

There is no doubt Nazi Germany arose from a dark and troublesome political past, but it also spawned a leader whose obsession with Aryan lore and the supremacy of the idealized “Übermensch” ultimately led to an insane and sadistic policy...

A Small Door follows a Jewish family who flee their home in May 1940 when the Nazis invade Belgium. The novel recounts their months long search for safety, and a way out of Europe. Told through the eyes of nineteen year old Rachel and her scientist...

She was prepared to lose her life. She was not prepared to lose her heart. Reporter Jenny Ryan didn't believe in love at first sight. Until it happened to her. An encounter with a sultry nightclub singer led to a secret job at the Office of...

A Suspenseful Tale Sprinkled with Humor and History.  The author, Rose O Hayes, highly schooled in nuclear enigmas, takes the reader through a complex riveting plot full of red herrings and cliffhangers. She weaves historic fiction into the fabric...

Harry Rose is back, and must face The Blitz.It is early 1941, and Harry Rose, recently recovered from the injuries he suffered the previous year in the Battle Of Britain, is posted to a Bristol Beaufighter night fighter unit based in eastern England...

One violin. One curse. One hundred years.Germany, 1871. Hannah's husband, the violin maker, has produced the perfect violin. It will make their fortune. Hannah is told to look after the violin while her husband finds a buyer. She knows she's been...

All Harvey Walters wanted was a simple life of marriage, family and peace. He had the marriage and a son, John that he was devoted to, but he couldn't find peace thanks to his cruel and controlling wife Edith, a woman who has never taken to Harvey's...

In 1942, Hania Stern, a young Jewish girl in Warsaw and her family are caught up in the horrors of the Warsaw Ghetto. Hania survives when so many others do not survive, escaping when others do not escape. But escape is not release. Hers is the story of a...

World War II pilots, Brad Collingsworth and Samantha Cummings battle the German Empire in the air while a love story rages on between them throughout the war. Despite spending three years becoming a nurse, Samantha's dream was to become a pilot. She...

They say first love lasts forever.Intelligent, beautiful, and self-assured, Emma Dickinson has bright dreams for her future-for she's determined to follow in her father's footsteps and become a doctor. When she meets Patrick McCarthy, she immediately...

Where In the World Are You? chronicles the life of Lester McCloud from the time he was a pre-teen through his new life in Canada and his life in the Canadian Air Force during World War II. It also follows his half-sister June's search for the brother she...

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Sixty-two-year-old Clara leads a virtuous life. She spends all her time helping others and she always puts her friends and family first. It's a shame that nobody, including her four siblings and their myriad of children, ever stops to say thank you and...

Adela Framley seems to be a perfect citizen. She's a proud mother, she runs a charity for homes which have been bombed and wants to hold a dinner party in aid of the charity's patron, Gardiner Penrose. But are there dark motives behind her good...

The main character in the book is Gordon William Grey, a young man from Australia who was raised in the bush. It's the 1930s, and his love for flying takes him to Victoria, where he joins the RAAF. Circumstances then take him and a group of RAAF pilots...

<p>Liesel von Schwarzkopf is a spoiled young socialite living in Germany. Pampered and loved by her parents and society, she is just beginning to know love, stepping out into a future that seems so bright, when WWII breaks out. Lost in the midst of...

All This Will Be Lost, published in hardback as The Wind is Not a River, by Brian Payton, is a moving story of survival against the odds and an enduring love . . .

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". . . masterful, evocative, and original." -Georgina Petty, journalist and author of Top Dogs"A wonderful dance in a beautiful hall of mirrors taking the reader through the decades of glamour and war, love and espionage." -Sarah Ingham, PhD, author...

A Deadly Game of Cat and MouseThe story takes place in Greece where Michael Matrozos has, after many years away, returned for his father's funeral. While there, Michael visits his childhood haunts. He experiences flashbacks about growing up in Greece...

For Herb, World War II is an opportunity for adventure. Shot down behind enemy lines, he comes face-to-face with its horrors. Decades later and haunted by his memories, will he finally confess to his part in it and cleanse his soul?It's the end of the...

In the dimly lit archives deep beneath the Lubyanka Building in Moscow, rows of faded red file cabinets stand as silent sentinels to the dark secrets of the KGB's past. Among the dusty dossiers lies an enigmatic code, a thread that unravels a vast web of...

The Role of the Vatican in WWII explores the intricate and controversial role the Vatican played during one of history's most devastating conflicts. From delicate diplomatic negotiations with both Axis and Allied powers to the moral dilemmas surrounding...

Berlin, 1943. Dans une ville dévastée par les bombardements, Lena Bauer, sage-femme courageuse, continue d'accomplir son devoir malgré les ruines qui l'entourent. Entre explosions et hurlements des sirènes, elle se lance dans une course contre la montre...

Can Christmas festivities brighten even the darkest days of war?Tilly, Maggie, and Katie Kingston's lives changed when the blitz tore through London, putting a sudden end to a peaceful childhood on Longridge Road.With all three sisters determined to do...

It's time to tear down the wall.East Berlin, 1983. For years, Ella Kühn has been stranded alone, separated from her loved ones by the cruel reality of a country divided by the impenetrable Berlin Wall. And she's had enough.Using her unique set of talents...

Promises. Devotion. Deception. Betrayal.It's 1966 in East Berlin, Germany. The Wall is reinforced with cinder blocks, barbed wire, tank traps, and second-generation guard towers to oversee what is known as the death strip. Its function successfully...

The Bone Sculptor by A.S. Mink is a literary novel exploring human resilience, sacrifice, and moral dilemmas during the Nazi occupation of World War II.During World War II, in the charming medieval town of Arnhem in Holland, a loving family strives...

Am 22. Juni 1941 entfesselt sich die Hölle: Drei Millionen deutsche Soldaten stürmen über die sowjetische Grenze.Leutnant Friedrich "Fritz" Thibaut und seine Kameraden strotzen vor Siegesgewissheit, doch der Krieg verschlägt sie nicht nach Moskau,...

Will Livingston and his best friend, Sugarbread, aren't about to let the paucities of war deprive them of the adventures of childhood. The Pinch Hitters chronicles one South Carolina family facing the flight of young adults in their call to wartime duty...

Edition originale non censurée. D'un château l'autre est un roman de Louis-Ferdinand Céline publié en 1957 aux éditions Gallimard. Il dresse un parallèle entre la vie de Céline contemporaine...

Cushing War, Rise of the Resistance is the first in a two book series, Moving Like Fish in the Sea. This World War II tale is based on the forgotten heroics of Walter Mackay Cushing, the intrepid father of guerrilla resistance against the Japanese in the...

Abramof, aged 106, relates the story of his turbulent life to his great-grandson, Daniel, an aspiring writer. Events shared with the reader commence on the morning of the second anniversary of the start of the Ukraine war. A tale of intrigue takes the...

Although taking place during WW2, Spies in Battalions is not a typical spy story. The central character is 82-year-old Elizabeth Little, a war widow of nearly 60 years standing, who, in September 1939, at the outbreak of war, is dismayed by the ensuing...

September 1, 1939, pre-dawn. Germany invades Poland. Gert von Rader, the playboy son of a powerful industrial family and Abwehr officer, lies in wait on a rural road near the border. He's in a race against time. He must convince Aleksander...

During the summer, Brighton is famous for its frivolity-the seaside, entertainment, melted ice creams-however, all fun ends in the autumn. As Brighton University opens its gates for another term, Joanna Lawrence finds herself unexpectedly wedged...

"Beneath the Crimson Horizon" is a powerful World War II novel set in an occupied Italian city. The story follows Elena Ricci, a young nurse working in a makeshift hospital during the war. Unbeknownst to those around her, Elena is secretly involved with...

"I know you never knew your grandfather, but now you can touch what his hands touched and create beauty.... Be like him, dearest Orla; recognize, make, and be beauty in an often ugly world." These words were to have a profound effect upon Orla.The...

Audrey Harper needs more than home and hearth to satisfy her self-worth despite being raised with the idea that a woman’s place is in the home. Working as a music critic for the city newspaper in Baltimore, Maryland, during the Second World War,...

Based on actual people and events, THEY HAVE CONQUERED is a fictional account of an extended Mennonite family living in turn-of-the-century Ukraine. In Part Two, Gerhardt and Maria enter Ellis island before going to work on their immigration...