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Frozen in Time: An Epic Story of Survival and a Modern Quest for Lost Heroes of World War II

Shanghai 1937: Stalingrad on the Yangtze

Death in the Baltic: The World War II Sinking of the Wilhelm Gustloff

Country of Ash: A Jewish Doctor in Poland, 1939-1945

The Girls of Atomic City: The Untold Story of the Women Who Helped Win World War II

Bringing Mulligan Home: The Other Side of the Good War

Those Angry Days: Roosevelt, Lindbergh, and America's Fight Over World War II, 1939-1941

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Katie's Hero
by Cody Young (Goodreads Author)

Katie’s got a guilty secret and she’s hiding out in London. Bombs are falling all around her, but she doesn’t care if she lives or dies.

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The Man From Berlin
by Luke McCallin

Release date: Jul 02, 2013

Yugoslavia, a German officer has been shot and killed. Along with him a young, beautiful filmmaker and photographer—a veritable hero to her people—has…more View Details »

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The Wailing
by M.R. Graham (Goodreads Author)

With Nazi bombs falling from the sky and fires consuming London, reluctant immortal Daniel Leland finds himself in an uncomfortable position. As a hal…more View Details »

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Tatiana and Alexander by Paullina Simons

The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann Shaffer

Fiction Set During WWII

29 books — 12 voters

WW2 - Based Love Stories

10 books — 3 voters

The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle by Haruki Murakami

Japanese Fiction

142 books — 81 voters

The Thirty Year's War by Peter H. Wilson

The Thirty Years War by Cicely Veronica Wedgwood

Wilson's Germanic History List

4 books — 3 voters

Good Night, Mr. Tom by Michelle Magorian

The Light Years by Elizabeth Jane Howard

World War II England

57 books — 38 voters

WWII Historic Fiction

152 books — 14 voters

Popular World War II Books

The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society

In the Garden of Beasts: Love, Terror, and an American Family in Hitler's Berlin

Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption

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“SEPTEMBER 1, 1939 I sit in one of the dives On Fifty-second Street Uncertain and afraid As the clever hopes expire Of a low dishonest decade: Waves of anger and fear Circulate over the bright And darkened lands of the earth, Obsessing our private lives; The unmentionable odour of death Offends the September night. Accurate scholarship can Unearth the whole offence From Luther until now That has driven a culture mad, Find what occurred at Linz, What huge imago made A psychopathic god: I and the public know What all...more SEPTEMBER 1, 1939 I sit in one of the dives On Fifty-second Street Uncertain and afraid As the clever hopes expire Of a low dishonest decade: Waves of anger and fear Circulate over the bright And darkened lands of the earth, Obsessing our private lives; The unmentionable odour of death Offends the September night. Accurate scholarship can Unearth the whole offence From Luther until now That has driven a culture mad, Find what occurred at Linz, What huge imago made A psychopathic god: I and the public know What all schoolchildren learn, Those to whom evil is done Do evil in return. Exiled Thucydides knew All that a speech can say About Democracy, And what dictators do, The elderly rubbish they talk To an apathetic grave; Analysed all in his book, The enlightenment driven away, The habit-forming pain, Mismanagement and grief: We must suffer them all again. Into this neutral air Where blind skyscrapers use Their full height to proclaim The strength of Collective Man, Each language pours its vain Competitive excuse: But who can live for long In an euphoric dream; Out of the mirror they stare, Imperialism's face And the international wrong. Faces along the bar Cling to their average day: The lights must never go out, The music must always play, All the conventions conspire To make this fort assume The furniture of home; Lest we should see where we are, Lost in a haunted wood, Children afraid of the night Who have never been happy or good. The windiest militant trash Important Persons shout Is not so crude as our wish: What mad Nijinsky wrote About Diaghilev Is true of the normal heart; For the error bred in the bone Of each woman and each man Craves what it cannot have, Not universal love But to be loved alone. From the conservative dark Into the ethical life The dense commuters come, Repeating their morning vow; 'I will be true to the wife, I'll concentrate more on my work,' And helpless governors wake To resume their compulsory game: Who can release them now, Who can reach the dead, Who can speak for the dumb? All I have is a voice To undo the folded lie, The romantic lie in the brain Of the sensual man-in-the-street And the lie of Authority Whose buildings grope the sky: There is no such thing as the State And no one exists alone; Hunger allows no choice To the citizen or the police; We must love one another or die. Defenseless under the night Our world in stupor lies; Yet, dotted everywhere, Ironic points of light Flash out wherever the Just Exchange their messages: May I, composed like them Of Eros and of dust, Beleaguered by the same Negation and despair, Show an affirming flame.(less)”
― W.H. Auden, Another Time

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“People say you should give until it hurts. I say you should give until it stops hurting. Know what I mean?”
― Elizabeth Berg, Dream When You're Feeling Blue

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