Second World War fiction Books

Khyber war 1879 is a fictional adaption of some of historical recounts from history, it is a complete fictional work and follows a British army colonel James, who finds love, spirituality,loss and a war when he comes to British India to take the charge...

The Lavender Farm was Gabe's idea. He recalled the lavender fields from his childhood in his native Italy, before he had immigrated to America with his parents. "Oh, the fragrance on a morning mist-heaven come to earth," he had said. "I can't even...

Ezra Evans is sixteen years old and, like most girls in 1936, she dreams of marrying her high school crush, Brad Abbott, living happily in his home as his wife, and eventually becoming a mother.But when her father, one of the most affluent men in the...

Amahli, a tall raven-haired mixed-race beauty, copes with Jack's B-17 bomber vanishing in a suspicious 1944 crash over the North Sea. Abandoned, pregnant, and in agony, she vows to never love again. Having defied her mother's warnings about Americans,...

Jerusha Springer has spent months making the most beautiful quilt anyone in Apple Creek, Ohio has ever seen, and she knows it is going to take first prize at the Quilt Fair in Dalton. The prize money will be her ticket out of the Amish way of...

From the author of the bestselling U-boat series, comes the second novel in a fabulous new series about the war at sea. For the Allies, the war is at a crisis. It is time to risk all, or lose all.It is time for Lieutenant Nick Hamilton to prove...

A SPY ABOVE THE CLOUDS - BOOK 2 OF THE "AMERICAN SPY SISTERS" NOVELS INSPIRED BY THE BRAVE U.S. WOMEN SECRET AGENTS WHO FOUGHT THE NAZIS IN WW II.For the first time in her pampered life, the headstrong American, Constance Vivier-Clarke, has been...

In 1942 a German U-Boat campaign in the Western Atlantic (Operation Drumbeat) came close to severing the vital artery of war supplies between America and Great Britain. Unprepared and ill-equipped, America struggled to counter this skilled...

Beautiful Invention: A Novel of Hedy Lamarr by Margaret Porter“But I don’t regret anything. I learned a lot.” —Hedy LamarrHollywood Beauty. Brilliant inventor. The incredible true story of a remarkable and misunderstood woman.Hedy...

September 1948. Under the guise of exclusive Savile Row and posh gentlemen's clubs, London's upscale clothier Otis Battersby has managed to conceal his insidious business dealings-until one crisp Saturday morning. In a mad dash for a wicked drop shot,...

When is an infatuation an obsession? What makes a love story? Is it true love or merely the idea of what a relationship should or could be? A Patient Obsession follows the lives of Henry and Patience from their early encounters at the end of World War...

Searching for Sofia is the third book in the Portraits in Blue Series. In Book One: The Sun Rose in Paris, and Book Two: Shattered Dreams we accompany Jack Tomlinsons foray into the world of artists in the early twentieth century, and his experiences in...

A decent man in an indecent time ... When Jack Furey has his 100th birthday celebrations forced upon him, his mind turns to his experience of WWII as a police sergeant in 1942 in Far North Queensland. As Sergeant Furey of the Wangamba Police,...

The Watchmaker is a thrilling action packed adventure which takes place during one of the darkest periods in world history, the Holocaust. Inconceivably, Hitler's henchmen without any compassion or empathy, devised a heinous plan to exterminate...

1941 - A liberated ROSIE the Riveter!The last few years have been hard on everyone in Dixon's Crossing, Arkansas. But for Mae Johnson, things are looking up.* She's managed to graduate high school, despite the rigors of the Depression.* She has a plan to...

From the award-winning author of the Best Military Fiction of 2018."Dead or Alive? London's approach to this question thrusts the reader into their own vision of immortality and an immensely entertaining story of the life/death struggle of a character...

Yet another great read from Garry Willmott. Small Farm Warriors is filled with lives and stories of men who contributed, in a special way, to the Australia we all know today. From the war-torn streets of France to emus in the Outback, from Kokoda to...

Far from home and family, and with the threat of war looming. How can the promise of happiness ever be fulfilled?In 1930s New Zealand, stability and contentment are hard won, especially for a young wife and mother. When Alice Simpson agrees to move to a...

Abigail DeWitt's News of Our Loved Ones is a story of old Europe, of a tumultuous time that shifted borders, loyalties, and family order. But it is also an enduring story of love, secrets, denial, and redemption. Each word she writes is imbued with...

"Nicole Galland is exceptionally well versed in the fine nuances of storytelling."--St. Petersburg Times"Galland has an exceptional gift."--Neal StephensonThe critically acclaimed author of The Fool's Tale, Nicole Galland now approaches William...

Nazi fighter planes roar overhead as just-married Konrad and Magdalena Butscher exit the Sacred Heart Catholic Church in southern Hungary. To evade the draft, they soon flee to live with family at the Danube River border.Everyone passes through his...

Celeste Bonalee is anything but average. In fact, she's one of a kind – a highly skilled courier pilot with dreams of owning her own hangar. One last delivery is all she needs.There's only one thing stopping her... World War II...

Questo "libretto per un requiem" si articola in sezioni tematiche, che affrontano la guerra in tutti i suoi frangenti: l'arruolamento e la partenza di soldati spesso giovanissimi, l'arrivo al fronte, lo scavo e la difesa delle trincee, gli assalti, le...

Now available in trade paper! International bestselling author Mario Escobar captures the strength of the human spirit and the enduring power of kindness in this moving novel based on the true story of a brave Polish teacher who cared for hundreds of...

It's 1941, near the town of Southampton, Ontario, and five young sisters are reeling from an accident that killed their mother and severely injured their father. With help from their aunt, the sisters strive to keep the family farm operating as World War...

War is hard enough when your dad is missing in action, and even harder when you have to leave everything you know and love. Twelve-year-old Harry is one of three thousand people leaving the coast in Devon during the Second World War as US troops move...

The Wind's Song looks at the hidden spaces between who we are, and who we think we are, what we believe and what we know.When twenty-five-year-old architect Josef's beloved grandfather dies and his girlfriend threatens to leave him, he becomes depressed...

In the early 1930s, Helena and Alex Birken are forced into marriage by her father to salvage the family hotel in Düsseldorf, Germany. A year after the rise of Nazi leadership, their second son, Hektor, is born. Totally unprepared to run a business,...

How does a straight soldier come home from a tour of duty in Iceland with The Works of Oscar Wilde as his cherished souvenir? The answer is the story of Michael Lenihan, an orphan with an eighth-grade education who spent the Great Depression on the bum,...

Come along on an exciting journey to 1930s Kansas City, in the middle of the Great Depression. Lizabeth Braden is determined to help her family by becoming a fashion designer. With limited resources she opens a clothing store. Her troubles begin when the...

A strong debut... the highlight is Eva, a complex and thoughtful woman who finds herself in the midst of a significant moment in history. --Publishers Weekly

In the years leading up to the Battle of Britain in WWII, two competitive college friends at Princeton University in 1935, an American and a German, who fly in the Thomson Trophy air races, the half-Jewish son of a Polish immigrant, and the scion of an...

With the Nazis poised to invade Guernsey in 1939, feisty student Lydia Le Page returns from England on the day the island is devastated by the first bombing of the war on British soil.Trapped on the German occupied island, two men enter Lydia's life:...

Angels in the Fog is a war-time novel of a family's struggle to keep hope and faith alive in a time of great danger. As the story opens, Lucy has joined the army as a nurse and is leaving for Hawaii. Her older brother Chris is already a pilot at...

Through letters with a famous author, one French librarian tells her love story and describes the brutal Nazi occupation of her small coastal village.

In early 1940, Bud joins the United States Navy, his aim, to become a US Submariner. Less than two years later, Japanese forces bomb Pearl Harbour. Those living on the islands of New Guinea lie directly in the path of the oncoming enemy. In Rabaul,...

Fear, drama, suspense... and hope.Amid the ruins and chaos left by the Second World War, a family sets out from a small town in Russia to escape the uncertainty of living under the iron fist of Stalin. Their arduous journey takes them through Poland and...

"A well-researched and beautifully imagined novel....If Jane and the Austen family were not quite like this, they should have been."--Ruth Rendell Dearest Cousin Jane by Jill Pitkeathley, the author of Cassandra and Jane, is an inventive reimagining of...

"One must go back to All Quiet on the Western Front to find another novel as charged as this one!" -- Philadelphia InquirerNATIONAL BESTSELLER They were our husbands, our fathers, our lovers, our sons. They were Americans and Marines. And this is their...

A family epic laced with authenticity, wit and unforgettable characters. Liz O'Reilly has a husband in Vietnam, 4 kids under the age of 12 (and one on the way), and a burgeoning crush on the family priest. An unconventional love story. It's Summer 1967...

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...