The Current Popularity of Books about World War II

It’s interesting that novels about World War II continue to attract readers. I like them because the war feels pretty close to me. I was born only three years after the Japanese surrendered . My father enlisted in the Army; he was stationed at an airfield in England and he was assigned to do office work because he could type. He spent the war watching as his buddies – the pilots, navigators, bombardiers, gunners, and other flight personnel – flew off on their missions and all too often they n...