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World War Books
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The Book Thief (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 95 times as world-war)
avg rating 4.39 — 2,926,859 ratings — published 2005
All the Light We Cannot See (Hardcover)
by (shelved 77 times as world-war)
avg rating 4.31 — 2,021,564 ratings — published 2014
The Nightingale (Hardcover)
by (shelved 67 times as world-war)
avg rating 4.65 — 2,241,563 ratings — published 2015
The Diary of a Young Girl (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 57 times as world-war)
avg rating 4.20 — 4,256,104 ratings — published 1947
The Tattooist of Auschwitz (The Tattooist of Auschwitz, #1)
by (shelved 45 times as world-war)
avg rating 4.32 — 1,192,788 ratings — published 2018
Night (Paperback)
by (shelved 42 times as world-war)
avg rating 4.38 — 1,383,718 ratings — published 1956
All Quiet on the Western Front (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 41 times as world-war)
avg rating 4.12 — 529,617 ratings — published 1928
The Alice Network (Paperback)
by (shelved 35 times as world-war)
avg rating 4.32 — 652,125 ratings — published 2017
The Boy in the Striped Pajamas (Hardcover)
by (shelved 35 times as world-war)
avg rating 4.16 — 985,585 ratings — published 2006
Between Shades of Gray (Hardcover)
by (shelved 33 times as world-war)
avg rating 4.36 — 282,146 ratings — published 2011
Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience and Redemption (Hardcover)
by (shelved 32 times as world-war)
avg rating 4.39 — 1,007,499 ratings — published 2010
Salt to the Sea (Hardcover)
by (shelved 31 times as world-war)
avg rating 4.35 — 262,823 ratings — published 2016
The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society (Paperback)
by (shelved 30 times as world-war)
avg rating 4.19 — 821,134 ratings — published 2008
Code Name Verity (Code Name Verity, #1)
by (shelved 27 times as world-war)
avg rating 4.00 — 129,562 ratings — published 2012
Man's Search for Meaning (Paperback)
by (shelved 24 times as world-war)
avg rating 4.37 — 906,692 ratings — published 1946
The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich: A History of Nazi Germany (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 23 times as world-war)
avg rating 4.23 — 150,630 ratings — published 1960
Slaughterhouse-Five (Paperback)
by (shelved 20 times as world-war)
avg rating 4.10 — 1,503,391 ratings — published 1969
A Farewell to Arms (Paperback)
by (shelved 20 times as world-war)
avg rating 3.82 — 360,169 ratings — published 1929
Catch-22 (Paperback)
by (shelved 19 times as world-war)
avg rating 3.99 — 895,087 ratings — published 1961
Number the Stars (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 19 times as world-war)
avg rating 4.20 — 628,902 ratings — published 1989
The Guns of August (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 19 times as world-war)
avg rating 4.18 — 86,121 ratings — published 1962
Beneath a Scarlet Sky (Paperback)
by (shelved 18 times as world-war)
avg rating 4.44 — 399,053 ratings — published 2017
Lilac Girls (Woolsey-Ferriday, #1)
by (shelved 18 times as world-war)
avg rating 4.29 — 348,459 ratings — published 2016
Atonement (Paperback)
by (shelved 18 times as world-war)
avg rating 3.95 — 570,527 ratings — published 2001
City of Thieves (Hardcover)
by (shelved 18 times as world-war)
avg rating 4.30 — 171,285 ratings — published 2008
The Rose Code (Paperback)
by (shelved 17 times as world-war)
avg rating 4.44 — 388,708 ratings — published 2021
Fall of Giants (The Century Trilogy, #1)
by (shelved 17 times as world-war)
avg rating 4.33 — 351,412 ratings — published 2005
The Paris Library (Hardcover)
by (shelved 16 times as world-war)
avg rating 4.06 — 149,419 ratings — published 2021
Schindler’s List (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 16 times as world-war)
avg rating 4.34 — 166,730 ratings — published 1982
The Things We Cannot Say (Hardcover)
by (shelved 15 times as world-war)
avg rating 4.54 — 288,381 ratings — published 2019
The Book of Lost Names (Hardcover)
by (shelved 15 times as world-war)
avg rating 4.44 — 313,061 ratings — published 2020
Hiroshima (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as world-war)
avg rating 4.06 — 91,314 ratings — published 1946
The Rape of Nanking: The Forgotten Holocaust of World War II (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as world-war)
avg rating 4.25 — 55,845 ratings — published 1997
Maus I: A Survivor's Tale: My Father Bleeds History (Maus, #1)
by (shelved 13 times as world-war)
avg rating 4.39 — 380,639 ratings — published 1986
The Last Bookshop in London (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as world-war)
avg rating 4.14 — 101,607 ratings — published 2021
The War That Saved My Life (The War That Saved My Life, #1)
by (shelved 12 times as world-war)
avg rating 4.49 — 118,150 ratings — published 2015
The Sleepwalkers: How Europe Went to War in 1914 (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 12 times as world-war)
avg rating 4.24 — 14,498 ratings — published 2012
Stalingrad: The Fateful Siege, 1942–1943 (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as world-war)
avg rating 4.33 — 42,198 ratings — published 1998
Survival in Auschwitz (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as world-war)
avg rating 4.35 — 88,559 ratings — published 1947
Lovely War (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as world-war)
avg rating 4.22 — 71,035 ratings — published 2019
The First World War (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as world-war)
avg rating 4.04 — 16,037 ratings — published 1999
The Second World War (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as world-war)
avg rating 4.40 — 11,050 ratings — published 2012
Sarah's Key (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as world-war)
avg rating 4.18 — 498,596 ratings — published 2006
The Diamond Eye (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as world-war)
avg rating 4.29 — 216,362 ratings — published 2022
War's Unwomanly Face (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as world-war)
avg rating 4.51 — 40,132 ratings — published 1983
The Huntress (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 10 times as world-war)
avg rating 4.30 — 220,648 ratings — published 2019
Bloodlands: Europe Between Hitler and Stalin (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as world-war)
avg rating 4.39 — 20,256 ratings — published 2010
The Complete Maus (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as world-war)
avg rating 4.58 — 259,617 ratings — published 1980
Inferno: The World at War, 1939-1945 (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as world-war)
avg rating 4.36 — 11,324 ratings — published 2011
Winter of the World (The Century Trilogy #2)
by (shelved 10 times as world-war)
avg rating 4.39 — 180,271 ratings — published 2012
“Dear readers, a long time ago the writer F. Scott Fitzgerald had written about writers not being people exactly, but a whole lot of people trying to be one.
I would like to take his philosophy further by stating that in fact these different people who live inside a writer's mind lead to believe it or not dearest readers - sometimes to pure ecstasy and sometimes to serious fights akin to a World War. Not to forget the innumerable dilemmas, catch 22 situations.
While one day the writer could wake up to a feeling of perfect harmony with Frank Sinatra's songs playing in the background of his mind, some other morning he wakes up with a feeling of mental catastrophe.
One afternoon the democratic type gets into a confrontation with the communist type. And one fine evening the timid, mild and gentle type gets into a tussle with the downright belligerent and war mongering type.
So my dear readers understand the situation before hand about my writings. You will definitely find me unpredictable.
But then I am after all a writer. And a writer should also not be predictable.”
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I would like to take his philosophy further by stating that in fact these different people who live inside a writer's mind lead to believe it or not dearest readers - sometimes to pure ecstasy and sometimes to serious fights akin to a World War. Not to forget the innumerable dilemmas, catch 22 situations.
While one day the writer could wake up to a feeling of perfect harmony with Frank Sinatra's songs playing in the background of his mind, some other morning he wakes up with a feeling of mental catastrophe.
One afternoon the democratic type gets into a confrontation with the communist type. And one fine evening the timid, mild and gentle type gets into a tussle with the downright belligerent and war mongering type.
So my dear readers understand the situation before hand about my writings. You will definitely find me unpredictable.
But then I am after all a writer. And a writer should also not be predictable.”
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“If but a fraction of the active torment or dull misery of the war combatants could have been transferred, not by the clumsy interpretation of picture, written or spoken word, but by some mind current affecting another human’s sensation, lighting up in another mind the unassailable and uncommunicable direct apprehension of pain, then the war would have come to an end in less weeks than it endured years.”
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