World War II

The global conflict that took place between 1939 and 1945, although related conflicts began earlier. World War II is also known as the Second World War. It involved the majority of the world's nations, eventually forming two opposing military alliances: the Allies and the Axis.

It was the most widespread war in history, and directly involved more than 100 million people from over 30 countries.

This category includes non-fiction books as well as historical novels that are set during World War II.
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The Gods Will Sing Our Song
Twelve Days and Twelfth Night
The Silent Women
A Librarian's War: The Man Who Fought World War II with Books and Brought the Joy of Reading to Millions
Operation Sparrow: The Incredible True Story of the Spies Who Tricked Hitler and Won the War
53 Days: How Hitler Dismantled a Democracy
Stealing Hitler's Rocket: The Incredible Mission to Smuggle a V-2 Rocket Out of Nazi-Occupied Europe to Britain
No Light but the Stars
Hiroshima, 8:15: The Lost Memoir
Empire of Ashes: Truman, Hirohito, and the Descent into Total War
Ortiz’s War: The Allies' Secret Weapon Against the Nazis in France
The Postmistress of Puddlington
They Shall Not See The Dawn: The Manhunt for the Third Reich's Most Wanted
The Rose Code
Keeper of Lost Children
Our Noble Selves
Strangers in Time
The Sunflower House
The Paris Daughter
The Rose Arbor
Family of Spies
The Hidden Girl
No Light but the Stars
The Paris Library
The Warsaw Orphan
The Bomber Mafia: A Dream, a Temptation, and the Longest Night of the Second World War
The Barman of the Ritz
Where the Sky Begins
All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria RemarqueCatch-22 by Joseph HellerThe Things They Carried by Tim O'BrienSlaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.The Book Thief by Markus Zusak
Best War Novels
1,721 books — 1,472 voters
The Book Thief by Markus ZusakThe Diary of a Young Girl by Anne FrankNight by Elie WieselThe Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann ShafferCatch-22 by Joseph Heller
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701 books — 613 voters

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World War II Fiction & Non-fiction
827 books — 445 voters

The Book Thief by Markus ZusakThe Boy in the Striped Pajamas by John BoyneNumber the Stars by Lois LowryBetween Shades of Gray by Ruta SepetysOperation Einstein by Mark A. Cooper
YA Holocaust & WWII Novels
499 books — 793 voters

All the Light We Cannot See
The Book Thief
The Nightingale
The Diary of a Young Girl
Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience and Redemption
Night
The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society
The Tattooist of Auschwitz (The Tattooist of Auschwitz, #1)
The Alice Network

Mark   Ellis
“ Merlin stood up. For once, late as it was, he was pleased to see the Assistant Commissioner because he had been trying unsuccessfully to get hold of him all day. “May I introduce Detective Bernard Goldberg of the New York Police Department.” Merlin held out a hand to the stocky young man now standing on the AC’s right. Detective Goldberg was an inch or two shorter than Merlin, with a closely cropped head of dark-brown hair and the crumpled face of a man who might have walked into a wall. ”
― Mark Ellis, The French Spy

Joseph Heller
“ Morale was deteriorating and it was all Yossarian's fault. The country was in peril; he was jeopardizing his traditional rights of freedom and independence by daring to exercise them. ...more ”
― Joseph Heller, Catch-22

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