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World War 2 Books
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The Book Thief (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 599 times as world-war-2)
avg rating 4.39 — 2,905,338 ratings — published 2005
All the Light We Cannot See (Hardcover)
by (shelved 476 times as world-war-2)
avg rating 4.31 — 2,000,432 ratings — published 2014
The Diary of a Young Girl (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 448 times as world-war-2)
avg rating 4.20 — 4,227,173 ratings — published 1947
Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience and Redemption (Hardcover)
by (shelved 392 times as world-war-2)
avg rating 4.39 — 1,003,152 ratings — published 2010
The Nightingale (Hardcover)
by (shelved 378 times as world-war-2)
avg rating 4.65 — 2,182,856 ratings — published 2015
Night (Paperback)
by (shelved 333 times as world-war-2)
avg rating 4.38 — 1,374,772 ratings — published 1956
The Boy in the Striped Pajamas (Hardcover)
by (shelved 298 times as world-war-2)
avg rating 4.16 — 977,446 ratings — published 2006
The Tattooist of Auschwitz (The Tattooist of Auschwitz, #1)
by (shelved 263 times as world-war-2)
avg rating 4.32 — 1,181,519 ratings — published 2018
The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society (Paperback)
by (shelved 260 times as world-war-2)
avg rating 4.19 — 816,826 ratings — published 2008
Band of Brothers: E Company, 506th Regiment, 101st Airborne from Normandy to Hitler's Eagle's Nest (Paperback)
by (shelved 236 times as world-war-2)
avg rating 4.44 — 140,005 ratings — published 1992
Number the Stars (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 225 times as world-war-2)
avg rating 4.20 — 625,425 ratings — published 1989
The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich: A History of Nazi Germany (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 200 times as world-war-2)
avg rating 4.23 — 149,360 ratings — published 1960
Salt to the Sea (Hardcover)
by (shelved 190 times as world-war-2)
avg rating 4.35 — 259,413 ratings — published 2016
Sarah's Key (Hardcover)
by (shelved 181 times as world-war-2)
avg rating 4.18 — 497,042 ratings — published 2006
In the Garden of Beasts: Love, Terror, and an American Family in Hitler's Berlin (Hardcover)
by (shelved 177 times as world-war-2)
avg rating 3.90 — 221,811 ratings — published 2011
Stalingrad: The Fateful Siege, 1942–1943 (Paperback)
by (shelved 176 times as world-war-2)
avg rating 4.33 — 41,814 ratings — published 1998
Between Shades of Gray (Hardcover)
by (shelved 175 times as world-war-2)
avg rating 4.37 — 279,719 ratings — published 2011
The Hiding Place: The Triumphant True Story of Corrie Ten Boom (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 166 times as world-war-2)
avg rating 4.48 — 359,838 ratings — published 1971
Lilac Girls (Woolsey-Ferriday, #1)
by (shelved 165 times as world-war-2)
avg rating 4.29 — 345,662 ratings — published 2016
Slaughterhouse-Five (Paperback)
by (shelved 164 times as world-war-2)
avg rating 4.10 — 1,493,985 ratings — published 1969
The Alice Network (Paperback)
by (shelved 164 times as world-war-2)
avg rating 4.32 — 641,108 ratings — published 2017
Code Name Verity (Code Name Verity, #1)
by (shelved 156 times as world-war-2)
avg rating 4.00 — 129,029 ratings — published 2012
The Splendid and the Vile: A Saga of Churchill, Family, and Defiance During the Blitz (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 148 times as world-war-2)
avg rating 4.30 — 139,138 ratings — published 2020
Catch-22 (Paperback)
by (shelved 145 times as world-war-2)
avg rating 3.99 — 891,185 ratings — published 1961
An Army at Dawn: The War in North Africa, 1942-1943 (World War II Liberation Trilogy, #1)
by (shelved 141 times as world-war-2)
avg rating 4.30 — 23,148 ratings — published 2002
The Rose Code (Paperback)
by (shelved 132 times as world-war-2)
avg rating 4.44 — 380,113 ratings — published 2021
D-Day, June 6, 1944: The Battle for the Normandy Beaches (Paperback)
by (shelved 129 times as world-war-2)
avg rating 4.31 — 31,650 ratings — published 1994
With the Old Breed: At Peleliu and Okinawa (Paperback)
by (shelved 128 times as world-war-2)
avg rating 4.50 — 48,391 ratings — published 1981
Beneath a Scarlet Sky (Paperback)
by (shelved 124 times as world-war-2)
avg rating 4.43 — 393,661 ratings — published 2017
Man's Search for Meaning (Paperback)
by (shelved 121 times as world-war-2)
avg rating 4.37 — 893,490 ratings — published 1946
The War That Saved My Life (The War That Saved My Life, #1)
by (shelved 120 times as world-war-2)
avg rating 4.49 — 116,779 ratings — published 2015
Schindler’s List (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 117 times as world-war-2)
avg rating 4.34 — 166,239 ratings — published 1982
The Day of Battle: The War in Sicily and Italy, 1943-1944 (World War II Liberation Trilogy, #2)
by (shelved 117 times as world-war-2)
avg rating 4.36 — 16,067 ratings — published 2007
The Book of Lost Names (Hardcover)
by (shelved 116 times as world-war-2)
avg rating 4.44 — 305,136 ratings — published 2020
The Longest Day: June 6, 1944 (Paperback)
by (shelved 115 times as world-war-2)
avg rating 4.34 — 26,315 ratings — published 1959
We Were the Lucky Ones (Hardcover)
by (shelved 115 times as world-war-2)
avg rating 4.42 — 200,332 ratings — published 2017
Maus I: A Survivor's Tale: My Father Bleeds History (Maus, #1)
by (shelved 114 times as world-war-2)
avg rating 4.39 — 378,036 ratings — published 1986
The Rape of Nanking: The Forgotten Holocaust of World War II (Paperback)
by (shelved 112 times as world-war-2)
avg rating 4.26 — 54,855 ratings — published 1997
Ghost Soldiers: The Epic Account of World War II's Greatest Rescue Mission (Paperback)
by (shelved 109 times as world-war-2)
avg rating 4.26 — 39,965 ratings — published 2001
Hiroshima (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 109 times as world-war-2)
avg rating 4.05 — 90,514 ratings — published 1946
The Fall of Berlin 1945 (Paperback)
by (shelved 108 times as world-war-2)
avg rating 4.30 — 18,638 ratings — published 2002
The Huntress (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 107 times as world-war-2)
avg rating 4.30 — 216,896 ratings — published 2019
The Monuments Men: Allied Heroes, Nazi Thieves, and the Greatest Treasure Hunt in History (Hardcover)
by (shelved 107 times as world-war-2)
avg rating 3.81 — 52,583 ratings — published 2009
City of Thieves (Hardcover)
by (shelved 107 times as world-war-2)
avg rating 4.30 — 169,352 ratings — published 2008
Citizen Soldiers: The US Army from the Normandy Beaches to the Bulge to the Surrender of Germany (Paperback)
by (shelved 107 times as world-war-2)
avg rating 4.25 — 24,878 ratings — published 1997
The Zookeeper's Wife: A War Story (Paperback)
by (shelved 105 times as world-war-2)
avg rating 3.49 — 92,127 ratings — published 2007
Atonement (Paperback)
by (shelved 103 times as world-war-2)
avg rating 3.95 — 567,196 ratings — published 2001
The Guns at Last Light: The War in Western Europe, 1944-1945 (World War II Liberation Trilogy, #3)
by (shelved 103 times as world-war-2)
avg rating 4.48 — 11,019 ratings — published 2013
The Complete Maus (Paperback)
by (shelved 102 times as world-war-2)
avg rating 4.58 — 257,303 ratings — published 1980
Inferno: The World at War, 1939-1945 (Hardcover)
by (shelved 99 times as world-war-2)
avg rating 4.36 — 11,252 ratings — published 2011
“TO ALL THE
ambulance drivers
firewatchers
air-raid wardens
nurses
canteen workers
airplane spotters
rescue workers
mathematicians
vicars
vergers
shopgirls
chorus girls
librarians
debutantes
spinsters
fishermen
retired sailors
servants
evacuees
Shakespearean actors
and mystery novelists
WHO WON THE WAR.”
― All Clear
ambulance drivers
firewatchers
air-raid wardens
nurses
canteen workers
airplane spotters
rescue workers
mathematicians
vicars
vergers
shopgirls
chorus girls
librarians
debutantes
spinsters
fishermen
retired sailors
servants
evacuees
Shakespearean actors
and mystery novelists
WHO WON THE WAR.”
― All Clear
“She raised her head and saw a squadron of fighter planes. She stretched her hand high as if she could grab hold and climb away from what she had done, from who she was.”
― A Memory Between Us
― A Memory Between Us












