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Suite Française by Irène NémirovskyNight Soldiers by Alan FurstAll the Light We Cannot See by Anthony DoerrThe French Baker's War by Michael WhatlingMarcel's Letters by Carolyn Porter
Domestic France in WWII
96 books — 50 voters
The Penguin Book of Witches by Katherine HoweThe Penguin Book of the Undead by Scott G. BruceThe Penguin Book of Ghost Stories by Michael NewtonThe Penguin Book of Mermaids by Cristina BacchilegaThe Penguin Book of English Folktales by Neil Philip
The Penguin Book of…
153 books — 19 voters

A Town Like Alice by Nevil ShuteA Deadly Coincidence by Keith FinneyThe Glovemaker’s War by Katherine WilliamsRequiem for a Wren by Nevil ShuteWhite Rose, Black Forest by Eoin Dempsey
Second World War Love and Romance
40 books — 14 voters
There was a garden in Nuremberg by Navina Michal ClemersonOur Daughters' Last Hope by Elaine StockSeparated Together by Kenneth P. PriceVan Gogh and Love by Nienke BosThe Story Keeper by Fred Feldman
Amsterdam Publishers
190 books — 12 voters

Zo was onze oorlog by Pieter SerrienVan onze jongens geen nieuws by Karel StrobbeTranen over Mortsel by Pieter SerrienHet Achterhuis by Anne FrankVoor Vlaanderen, Volk En Führer by Aline Sax
Tweede Wereldoorlog
21 books — 9 voters
Box 1663 by Alex SorelUnhinge the Universe by Aleksandr VoinovWingmen by Ensan CaseLovers in Arms by Osiris BrackhausThe Charioteer by Mary Renault
Best M/M Fiction Taking Place in World War II
15 books — 7 voters

To All the Living by Monica FeltonGreen Hands by Barbara WhittonPlenty Under the Counter by Kathleen HewittSword of Bone by Anthony RhodesPaid Be Safe by Margaret Morrison
Imperial War Museum classic reprints
16 books — 2 voters
From Versailles to Maastricht by David ArmstrongIn Search of Detente by S.R. AshtonGermany and the Approach of War in 1914 by Volker R. BerghahnFrance And Decolonisation 1900-1960 by Raymond F. BettsBritain and Decolonisation by John Darwin
The Making of the Twentieth Century series
17 books — 1 voter

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