96 books
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Second World War Books
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The Diary of a Young Girl (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 65 times as second-world-war)
avg rating 4.20 — 4,171,452 ratings — published 1947
The Book Thief (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 57 times as second-world-war)
avg rating 4.39 — 2,865,353 ratings — published 2005
Stalingrad: The Fateful Siege, 1942–1943 (Paperback)
by (shelved 40 times as second-world-war)
avg rating 4.33 — 41,145 ratings — published 1998
All the Light We Cannot See (Hardcover)
by (shelved 39 times as second-world-war)
avg rating 4.31 — 1,962,793 ratings — published 2014
The Boy in the Striped Pajamas (Hardcover)
by (shelved 31 times as second-world-war)
avg rating 4.16 — 961,601 ratings — published 2006
Night (Paperback)
by (shelved 27 times as second-world-war)
avg rating 4.38 — 1,358,562 ratings — published 1956
Atonement (Paperback)
by (shelved 26 times as second-world-war)
avg rating 3.95 — 561,994 ratings — published 2001
The Fall of Berlin 1945 (Paperback)
by (shelved 25 times as second-world-war)
avg rating 4.30 — 18,393 ratings — published 2002
The Tattooist of Auschwitz (The Tattooist of Auschwitz, #1)
by (shelved 23 times as second-world-war)
avg rating 4.32 — 1,158,313 ratings — published 2018
The Nightingale (Hardcover)
by (shelved 23 times as second-world-war)
avg rating 4.65 — 2,069,040 ratings — published 2015
The Second World War (Hardcover)
by (shelved 22 times as second-world-war)
avg rating 4.40 — 10,760 ratings — published 2012
Band of Brothers: E Company, 506th Regiment, 101st Airborne from Normandy to Hitler's Eagle's Nest (Paperback)
by (shelved 22 times as second-world-war)
avg rating 4.44 — 138,509 ratings — published 1992
The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society (Paperback)
by (shelved 21 times as second-world-war)
avg rating 4.19 — 808,101 ratings — published 2008
Catch-22 (Paperback)
by (shelved 20 times as second-world-war)
avg rating 3.99 — 884,844 ratings — published 1961
Sarah's Key (Hardcover)
by (shelved 20 times as second-world-war)
avg rating 4.18 — 494,327 ratings — published 2006
Ordinary Men: Reserve Police Battalion 101 and the Final Solution in Poland (Paperback)
by (shelved 19 times as second-world-war)
avg rating 4.11 — 23,316 ratings — published 1992
Man's Search for Meaning (Paperback)
by (shelved 18 times as second-world-war)
avg rating 4.37 — 870,306 ratings — published 1946
Every Man Dies Alone (Hardcover)
by (shelved 17 times as second-world-war)
avg rating 4.27 — 36,616 ratings — published 1947
Slaughterhouse-Five (Paperback)
by (shelved 17 times as second-world-war)
avg rating 4.10 — 1,478,435 ratings — published 1969
With the Old Breed: At Peleliu and Okinawa (Paperback)
by (shelved 17 times as second-world-war)
avg rating 4.49 — 47,478 ratings — published 1981
D-Day: The Battle for Normandy (Hardcover)
by (shelved 17 times as second-world-war)
avg rating 4.18 — 12,236 ratings — published 2009
The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich: A History of Nazi Germany (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 17 times as second-world-war)
avg rating 4.22 — 147,819 ratings — published 1960
Survival in Auschwitz (Paperback)
by (shelved 16 times as second-world-war)
avg rating 4.35 — 86,261 ratings — published 1947
Inferno: The World at War, 1939-1945 (Hardcover)
by (shelved 16 times as second-world-war)
avg rating 4.36 — 11,092 ratings — published 2011
Code Name Verity (Code Name Verity, #1)
by (shelved 16 times as second-world-war)
avg rating 4.00 — 127,967 ratings — published 2012
Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience and Redemption (Hardcover)
by (shelved 16 times as second-world-war)
avg rating 4.39 — 995,283 ratings — published 2010
The Forgotten Soldier (Paperback)
by (shelved 16 times as second-world-war)
avg rating 4.39 — 12,072 ratings — published 1967
War's Unwomanly Face (Hardcover)
by (shelved 15 times as second-world-war)
avg rating 4.51 — 38,855 ratings — published 1983
Armageddon: The Battle for Germany, 1944-1945 (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as second-world-war)
avg rating 4.28 — 7,443 ratings — published 2004
A Bridge Too Far (Hardcover)
by (shelved 14 times as second-world-war)
avg rating 4.28 — 21,469 ratings — published 1974
The Longest Day: June 6, 1944 (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as second-world-war)
avg rating 4.34 — 26,134 ratings — published 1959
Salt to the Sea (Hardcover)
by (shelved 13 times as second-world-war)
avg rating 4.35 — 254,026 ratings — published 2016
In the Garden of Beasts: Love, Terror, and an American Family in Hitler's Berlin (Hardcover)
by (shelved 13 times as second-world-war)
avg rating 3.90 — 219,333 ratings — published 2011
The Coming of the Third Reich (The History of the Third Reich, #1)
by (shelved 13 times as second-world-war)
avg rating 4.31 — 12,306 ratings — published 2003
Ardennes 1944: The Battle of the Bulge (Hardcover)
by (shelved 12 times as second-world-war)
avg rating 4.12 — 5,001 ratings — published 2015
The Complete Maus (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as second-world-war)
avg rating 4.58 — 252,918 ratings — published 1980
Bloodlands: Europe Between Hitler and Stalin (Hardcover)
by (shelved 12 times as second-world-war)
avg rating 4.39 — 19,654 ratings — published 2010
Corelli’s Mandolin (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as second-world-war)
avg rating 4.03 — 92,657 ratings — published 1994
The Gathering Storm (The Second World War, #1)
by (shelved 12 times as second-world-war)
avg rating 4.39 — 7,653 ratings — published 1948
The Third Reich in Power (The History of the Third Reich, #2)
by (shelved 12 times as second-world-war)
avg rating 4.36 — 7,430 ratings — published 2005
Overlord: D-Day and the Battle for Normandy (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as second-world-war)
avg rating 4.17 — 5,937 ratings — published 1984
Why the Allies Won (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as second-world-war)
avg rating 4.19 — 2,305 ratings — published 1995
Schindler’s List (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as second-world-war)
avg rating 4.34 — 165,555 ratings — published 1982
The Paris Library (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as second-world-war)
avg rating 4.06 — 145,196 ratings — published 2021
The Splendid and the Vile: A Saga of Churchill, Family, and Defiance During the Blitz (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 11 times as second-world-war)
avg rating 4.30 — 136,489 ratings — published 2020
Ivan's War: Life and Death in the Red Army, 1939-1945 (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as second-world-war)
avg rating 4.07 — 3,975 ratings — published 2005
The Guns at Last Light: The War in Western Europe, 1944-1945 (World War II Liberation Trilogy, #3)
by (shelved 11 times as second-world-war)
avg rating 4.48 — 10,826 ratings — published 2013
An Army at Dawn: The War in North Africa, 1942-1943 (World War II Liberation Trilogy, #1)
by (shelved 11 times as second-world-war)
avg rating 4.30 — 22,777 ratings — published 2002
Pacific Crucible: War at Sea in the Pacific, 1941-1942 (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as second-world-war)
avg rating 4.61 — 10,125 ratings — published 2011
The Wages of Destruction: The Making and Breaking of the Nazi Economy (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as second-world-war)
avg rating 4.54 — 3,073 ratings — published 2007
“It’s easier to dream of a future where we are not in a war.”
― The Doctor's Daughter
― The Doctor's Daughter
“If we wish to understand the role of China in today's global society, we would do well to remind ourselves of the tragic, titanic struggle which that country waged in the 1930s and 1940s not just for its own national dignity and survival, but for the victory of all the Allies, west and east, against some of the darkest forces that history has ever produced.”
― China's War with Japan, 1937-1945: The Struggle for Survival
― China's War with Japan, 1937-1945: The Struggle for Survival












