Second World War fiction Books

A MILITARY THRILLER BY BEN H. ENGLISHThe time is the eve of the First Gulf War. The place is an abandoned World War II emergency landing strip for heavy bombers, nestled amid the near countless miles upon miles of wide openness in West Texas. Here...

High Octane World War II Action! Second in the Dekker's Demons Series.TWO MILLION DOLLARS IN A BOOBY-TRAPPED SUITCASE - IN THE MIDDLE OF AN ARMED GERMAN CAMP...The French Resistance needs it, and Josh Dekker and his deadly crew has to get it. And, as if...

American service men in England during World War II called American Red Cross girls "Doughnut Dollies." It was a warm and affectionate term designed to show the soldiers' appreciation for the morale-building efforts of the American Red Cross. The Red...

It's early 1944 and Richmond, Virginia is a devil's paradise. Ration scams and police corruption are rampant while the inflated black market commands top dollar.Detective Sergeant Bennie Sherwood, fresh off a soul-scarring tour of duty with the Marines,...

Captive Down Under is the story of Rosario Roccafiorita, a lieutenant in the Italian army during WWII who was captured in North Africa at the beginning of 1941 and sent to Australia as a prisoner of war.After September 1943, when Italy surrenders to the...

From the frozen steppe of Moscow to the searing sands of Kuwait, The Infidel and the Ghost of Moscow takes readers on a journey of love, loyalty, and danger.In 1938 Moscow, young diplomat Mark Russell struggles to survive the bitter winter at the U.S...

"A unique story about women in WWII that succeeds in making historical events feel personal." -Kirkus https://www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews/melissa-clark-bacon/through-her-lens/ "Through Her Lens not only presents an engaging story...

"Blood of the Emperors" is an exhilarating mix of history, mystery, and romance. It is a captivating blend of a contemporary adventure story and well researched historical fact.For Dan Marsh, his business partner Elizabeth Garvey and his...

Sie ist Polin. Er ist Deutscher. Erbitterte Feinde auch nach dem Krieg.Richard ist ein Wehrmachtdeserteur und versteckt sich auf einem Bauernhof in Polen.Er dachte, er sei in Sicherheit, sobald der Krieg vorbei ist...... doch er hat sich geirrt.Denn...

SAD EYES: 1939 TO 1951 is the story of a blossoming woman, Mary Ellen Murphy, from Waterloo, Iowa. She finds herself stationed at Hickman Hospital in early December 1941, and she's halfway through her honeymoon when the Japanese bomb the fleet in the...

It is an emotional history of Ukraine with a very well researched and vivid historical background that gives the reader the opportunity to understand not only the characters and their drama, but the entire drama of the country/countries in which they...

A last chance to escape. A journey fraught with danger. Based on true events.Vienna, 1938. Newlywed Lilly is looking forward to the future with her husband until the Nazi annexation of Austria throws everything into uncertainty. Suddenly, their Jewish...

A country at war. Men ón the march. Doodlebugs. Air raids and ration books. Spivs and saboteurs. Boy buglers and village cenotaphs. City cinemas and the Tuppenny rush. Ronald Colman, Errol Flynn. Tommy Handley. Colonel Chinstrap. Mister Luvejoy at the...

1941, SuffolkWith her in-laws in desperate need of help, Marnie is forced to return to Suffolk, leaving her precious daughter Annie behind in Cornwall.But Lowestoft is a very different town to the one she left. Ravaged by war, and a mere twenty miles...

Author Valerie Baxter explores the life-and-death existence of partisans fighting in the French Resistance during World War II.Nicole du Bois, a young Anglo/French woman, sets out for France as a patriot to help the ever-decreasing Resistance.Her old...

When Lieutenant Dorothea Oliver signed up to serve her country during WWII, she had no clue of the terror she would face while providing frontline medical care as a member of the Army Nurse Corps.Ollie and her fellow nurses, who called themselves the...

This epic graphic novel from acclaimed comic's writer and artist Wayne Vansant collects his incredible mini-series that depicts the early days of the United States in the Second World War. Days of Darkness covers the darkest days of World War II,...

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Two marines, James Robert “Buddy” Patton and Alvin Jerome “A.J” Mack are thrust into a test of survival during the chaos of combat during World War II. They are forced to trust each other through one heated night of fighting in...

This fast-moving historical novel begins with the discovery of discarded books outlining the activities of a Captain Brian Manning, U.S. Army, who has recently been appointed military attaché for the American Embassy in Berlin, Germany, in the...

Roland Bergeys (1954) is een gevierd (theater)auteur en gastheer met vele talenten.'De verdwijning van Anna Verduyn' is de derde druk en werd in een nieuw jasje gestoken.Het boek beschrijft het relaas van zijn moeder tijdens de Tweede Wereldoorlog én van...

Felicia Hodaks's vital botanical skills are the only thing keeping her away from the gas chambers.Against the backdrop of Auschwitz-Birkenau's ever-present brutality, Felicia tends to the plants needed for one of the Reich's most ambitious...

In "A Life Stolen," Elsa Kristiansen, a brilliant young physicist and a committed pacifist, finds herself torn from her moral foundations and thrust into a world of danger and deception during the height of World War II. As she embarks on a perilous...

The Biddeford Spies is a fast-paced, thought-provoking World War II story with many twists.German SS Agent Guenther Engel is assigned to Covert Operations, helping train Gestapo agents for espionage work in America. Behind bulletproof glass, technicians...

It is 1929 and 18-year-old Kathleen, from a prosperous middle-class London home, travels with her friend Alice to Devon for a holiday. While there she meets Jim Wilcox, a tenant farmer, and Robert Neville, heir to Alston Manor, the landlord. While Jim...

Argentina, 1951. For most people, World War Two has been over for six years, but it's still a brutal reality for Leni Mayer, brought to Buenos Aires by a Nazi who took her captive in 1940 and never let her go. Lonely and despairing, she longs for a...

THE HARMLESS NECESSARY CAT: A World War II Family Saga in Allied-Occupied IranTehran, 1941. The world is ablaze, but in neutral Iran, life carries on-until British and Russian tanks roll in.Though much has been written about World War II, little is known...

"Bombs away!" Usually, that means a mission is halfway over. For one man, it's just the beginning. The Bombardier is the story of Captain Rosen of the U.S. Army Air Forces. He is shot down over Nazi Germany in 1943, the country he had...

The war was entering its final phase and the Allied net was closing ever more tightly round the remnants of the Reich. Now the hunter became the hunted and, as each man was forced to admit to himself that the end was inevitable, it was equally inevitable...

In 1963, North Carolina poet Henry Beam published a collection of poems, claiming they had been saved from a Nazi death camp. The controversy over authorship that followed cost Henry his teaching position and forced him...

The novel, Mister Roberts, was an instant hit after being published in 1946 and was quickly adapted for the stage and screen. The title character, a Lieutenant Junior Grade naval officer, defends his crew against the petty tyranny of the ship's...

Art's aspirations are upended following the infamous attack on Pearl Harbor. Branded as the enemy within his own country, Art is ripped away from his life in West Seattle, forced to confront the harsh reality of internment camps. In a quest to prove his...

Early in 1945, as the Allies pounded toward the German heartland, the German army methodically destroyed all the bridges across the Rhine to delay the Allied advance. But the demolition effort at Remagen failed, making that bridge the most important one...

An American Naval Tragedy !So shocking was the defeat of American naval forces by the Japanese in Savo Sound, that the American public could not accept the true story until ten years afterward.On Guadalcanal, Marines were moving up the rugged Tenaru...

The iconic First Lady, Jackie lived her life in a fishbowl yet she was shrouded in mystery. She was the epitome of style, poise, grace, and femininity, but her lifelong silence in front of the media has left many unanswered questions.In this juicy yet...

Successful father-and-son business partners Maurice and Norman Messer know a good product when they see it. That product is the Holocaust--and they market it enthusiastically. Maurice is a survivor with a self-inflated personal history. Norman enjoys...

Spring, 1945. The war in Europe is nearing its end when Army medic Richard Dare returns home to Maine. Life in his back-woods hometown has carried on much the same as it always has, from the sermons of his minister father to the teasing flirtations of...

Arthur Campbell, one of several colored guides at a hunting club in north Mississippi in the 1930s, a prescient, expert outdoorsman though barely literate, enters the employ of a prominent Memphis family until the late 1950s, profoundly impacting them...

Captured or Killed? Only the War knows.Will Shaw and his friends are typical college students, enjoying dances and parties without much care for life beyond.When Thomas, a handsome Naval officer and newly arrived student, nearly stumbles into Will and...

Commander Valentina SmirnovaIn an era when women had no voice or vote and were frowned upon outside of the kitchen, Valentina Smirnova flew her Polikarpov I-16 fighter plane fighting against Franco's Fascists, Mussolini's Fascists and Hitler's Nazis in...