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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Sweet Victory: How the Berlin Airlift Divided East and West
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The War for Middle-earth: J.R.R. Tolkien and C.S. Lewis Confront the Gathering Storm, 1933–1945
Crash of the Heavens: The Remarkable Story of Hannah Senesh and the Only Military Mission to Rescue Europe's Jews During World War II
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The Hitler Years: Holocaust 1933-1945
Defenders of the Reich: The Luftwaffe’s War against America’s Bombers
The Rose Code
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Strangers in Time
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The Women of Arlington Hall
The Christmas Clue
Family of Spies
The Paris Daughter
Last Twilight in Paris
The Paris Library
The Sunflower House
The Hidden Girl
The Warsaw Orphan
The Director
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YA Holocaust & WWII Novels
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Amazing WWII fiction (some with romance)
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Best Non-fiction War Books
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Best Modern Day Military Accounts
441 books — 592 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
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The Tattooist of Auschwitz (The Tattooist of Auschwitz, #1)
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Winston S. Churchill
Now at this very moment I knew that the United States was in the war, up to the neck and in to the death. So we had won after all! ... How long the war would last or in what fashion it would end no man could tell, nor did I at this moment care ... We should not be wiped out. Our history would not come to an end ... Hitler's fate was sealed. Mussolini's fate was sealed. As for the Japanese, they would be ground to a powder. All the rest was merely the proper application of overwhelming force. ...more
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Patrick O'Donnell
When you go home Tell them of us, and say For your tomorrow, We gave our today.
Patrick O'Donnell, Into the Rising Sun: In Their Own Words, World War II's Pacific Veterans Reveal the Heart of Combat

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