World War

A global war involving all or many of the nations of the world. Usually refers to World War One or World War Two. ...more

The Book Thief
All the Light We Cannot See
The Nightingale
The Diary of a Young Girl
The Tattooist of Auschwitz (The Tattooist of Auschwitz, #1)
All Quiet on the Western Front
Night
The Alice Network
Between Shades of Gray
The Boy in the Striped Pajamas
Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience and Redemption
Salt to the Sea
The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society
Code Name Verity (Code Name Verity, #1)
Man's Search for Meaning
Band of Brothers by Stephen E. AmbroseBlack Hawk Down by Mark BowdenUnbroken by Laura HillenbrandWe Were Soldiers Once... and Young by Harold G. MooreLone Survivor by Marcus Luttrell
Best Non-fiction War Books
2,123 books — 2,356 voters
The Rose Code by Kate QuinnLast One Home by Shari J. RyanRadar Girls by Sara  AckermanA Peculiar Combination by Ashley WeaverThe Elephant of Belfast by S. Kirk Walsh
WW2 Era Fiction published in 2021
61 books — 82 voters

Cold Victory by Helena P. SchraderThe Book Thief by Markus ZusakThe Soldier's Wife by Margaret LeroyThe Lost Wife by Alyson RichmanSkeletons at the Feast by Chris Bohjalian
The best WWII Fiction
58 books — 49 voters
The Book Thief by Markus ZusakCode Name Verity by Elizabeth WeinBetween Shades of Gray by Ruta SepetysSalt to the Sea by Ruta SepetysRose Under Fire by Elizabeth Wein
YA Fiction set in the 1940s
209 books — 158 voters

Anthony Burgess
As for the new world war that's waiting in the womb of time, a healthily developed foetus, who can say what will spark it, how destructive it will be? We've already played at this war in film and fiction, indicating that there's a part of us that desperately wants it. What nonsense writers and filmmakers talk when they say that their terrible visions are meant as a warning. [...] It's sheer wish fulfillment. War... is a culture pattern. It's a legitimate mode of cultural transmission.... ...more
Anthony Burgess, 1985

Abhijit Naskar
Jews were never the focus of World War 2, it was about the invaders being invaded. Lo and behold, Nazis are the villain, though England, Belgium, France, Spain and Portugal caused far worse damage!
Abhijit Naskar, World War Human: 100 New Earthling Sonnets

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