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The Book Thief (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 1268 times as ww2)
avg rating 4.39 — 2,853,402 ratings — published 2005
All the Light We Cannot See (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1240 times as ww2)
avg rating 4.31 — 1,951,988 ratings — published 2014
The Diary of a Young Girl (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 1012 times as ww2)
avg rating 4.20 — 4,152,629 ratings — published 1947
The Nightingale (Hardcover)
by (shelved 991 times as ww2)
avg rating 4.64 — 2,042,184 ratings — published 2015
The Tattooist of Auschwitz (The Tattooist of Auschwitz, #1)
by (shelved 820 times as ww2)
avg rating 4.32 — 1,151,791 ratings — published 2018
Night (Paperback)
by (shelved 766 times as ww2)
avg rating 4.38 — 1,353,559 ratings — published 1956
Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience and Redemption (Hardcover)
by (shelved 652 times as ww2)
avg rating 4.39 — 992,678 ratings — published 2010
The Boy in the Striped Pajamas (Hardcover)
by (shelved 586 times as ww2)
avg rating 4.16 — 956,914 ratings — published 2006
The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society (Paperback)
by (shelved 525 times as ww2)
avg rating 4.19 — 805,702 ratings — published 2008
The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich: A History of Nazi Germany (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 489 times as ww2)
avg rating 4.22 — 147,304 ratings — published 1960
The Alice Network (Paperback)
by (shelved 453 times as ww2)
avg rating 4.32 — 616,660 ratings — published 2017
Lilac Girls (Woolsey-Ferriday, #1)
by (shelved 424 times as ww2)
avg rating 4.29 — 339,629 ratings — published 2016
Salt to the Sea (Hardcover)
by (shelved 420 times as ww2)
avg rating 4.35 — 252,516 ratings — published 2016
Sarah's Key (Hardcover)
by (shelved 411 times as ww2)
avg rating 4.18 — 493,767 ratings — published 2006
Between Shades of Gray (Hardcover)
by (shelved 401 times as ww2)
avg rating 4.37 — 274,234 ratings — published 2011
Band of Brothers: E Company, 506th Regiment, 101st Airborne from Normandy to Hitler's Eagle's Nest (Paperback)
by (shelved 400 times as ww2)
avg rating 4.44 — 138,095 ratings — published 1992
Number the Stars (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 388 times as ww2)
avg rating 4.19 — 616,614 ratings — published 1989
Stalingrad: The Fateful Siege, 1942–1943 (Paperback)
by (shelved 384 times as ww2)
avg rating 4.33 — 40,951 ratings — published 1998
Beneath a Scarlet Sky (Paperback)
by (shelved 382 times as ww2)
avg rating 4.43 — 383,870 ratings — published 2017
Code Name Verity (Code Name Verity, #1)
by (shelved 375 times as ww2)
avg rating 4.00 — 127,586 ratings — published 2012
The Rose Code (Paperback)
by (shelved 372 times as ww2)
avg rating 4.44 — 362,234 ratings — published 2021
Slaughterhouse-Five (Paperback)
by (shelved 341 times as ww2)
avg rating 4.10 — 1,473,969 ratings — published 1969
In the Garden of Beasts: Love, Terror, and an American Family in Hitler's Berlin (Hardcover)
by (shelved 327 times as ww2)
avg rating 3.89 — 218,652 ratings — published 2011
Man's Search for Meaning (Paperback)
by (shelved 315 times as ww2)
avg rating 4.37 — 863,605 ratings — published 1946
The Splendid and the Vile: A Saga of Churchill, Family, and Defiance During the Blitz (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 311 times as ww2)
avg rating 4.30 — 135,798 ratings — published 2020
We Were the Lucky Ones (Hardcover)
by (shelved 308 times as ww2)
avg rating 4.42 — 195,093 ratings — published 2017
The Book of Lost Names (Hardcover)
by (shelved 306 times as ww2)
avg rating 4.43 — 288,758 ratings — published 2020
The Things We Cannot Say (Hardcover)
by (shelved 296 times as ww2)
avg rating 4.54 — 266,402 ratings — published 2019
The Huntress (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 282 times as ww2)
avg rating 4.30 — 209,119 ratings — published 2019
The Hiding Place: The Triumphant True Story of Corrie Ten Boom (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 282 times as ww2)
avg rating 4.48 — 354,065 ratings — published 1971
Catch-22 (Paperback)
by (shelved 280 times as ww2)
avg rating 3.99 — 883,106 ratings — published 1961
Schindler’s List (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 277 times as ww2)
avg rating 4.34 — 165,378 ratings — published 1982
The Complete Maus (Paperback)
by (shelved 268 times as ww2)
avg rating 4.58 — 251,811 ratings — published 1980
Cilka's Journey (The Tattooist of Auschwitz, #2)
by (shelved 251 times as ww2)
avg rating 4.40 — 214,031 ratings — published 2019
The Fall of Berlin 1945 (Paperback)
by (shelved 250 times as ww2)
avg rating 4.30 — 18,323 ratings — published 2002
The Rape of Nanking: The Forgotten Holocaust of World War II (Paperback)
by (shelved 250 times as ww2)
avg rating 4.25 — 52,955 ratings — published 1997
City of Thieves (Hardcover)
by (shelved 248 times as ww2)
avg rating 4.30 — 165,449 ratings — published 2008
Maus I: A Survivor's Tale: My Father Bleeds History (Maus, #1)
by (shelved 247 times as ww2)
avg rating 4.39 — 372,289 ratings — published 1986
With the Old Breed: At Peleliu and Okinawa (Paperback)
by (shelved 247 times as ww2)
avg rating 4.49 — 47,265 ratings — published 1981
Atonement (Paperback)
by (shelved 244 times as ww2)
avg rating 3.95 — 560,654 ratings — published 2001
Bloodlands: Europe Between Hitler and Stalin (Hardcover)
by (shelved 242 times as ww2)
avg rating 4.39 — 19,538 ratings — published 2010
An Army at Dawn: The War in North Africa, 1942-1943 (World War II Liberation Trilogy, #1)
by (shelved 237 times as ww2)
avg rating 4.30 — 22,687 ratings — published 2002
Hiroshima (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 234 times as ww2)
avg rating 4.05 — 88,688 ratings — published 1946
The Paris Library (Hardcover)
by (shelved 228 times as ww2)
avg rating 4.06 — 144,677 ratings — published 2021
The Diamond Eye (Hardcover)
by (shelved 221 times as ww2)
avg rating 4.29 — 198,660 ratings — published 2022
The Second World War (Hardcover)
by (shelved 208 times as ww2)
avg rating 4.40 — 10,698 ratings — published 2012
Inferno: The World at War, 1939-1945 (Hardcover)
by (shelved 205 times as ww2)
avg rating 4.36 — 11,038 ratings — published 2011
A Woman of No Importance: The Untold Story of the American Spy Who Helped Win World War II (Hardcover)
by (shelved 194 times as ww2)
avg rating 4.15 — 60,446 ratings — published 2019
The War That Saved My Life (The War That Saved My Life, #1)
by (shelved 193 times as ww2)
avg rating 4.49 — 114,403 ratings — published 2015
The Librarian of Auschwitz (Hardcover)
by (shelved 189 times as ww2)
avg rating 4.15 — 63,601 ratings — published 2012
“In the years that followed, William would become obsessed with the question of what went wrong. He analyzed thousands of pages of Pearl Harbor documents and wrote a three-volume report that boiled down to this: MAGIC had strongly indicated an attack on December 7, but the decrypts had gotten bottled up through a series of farcical missteps in the dissemination stage of the process, and U.S. leaders weren't alerted to the danger in time to take action. It was nuanced: The crucial MAGIC decrypts had been slow to arrive in Pearl Harbor partly because the military hadn't given the Pearl Harbor commanders a Purple machine of their own, a direct tap into the MAGIC fire hose. This decision had been made out of a reasonable desire to limit the distribution of Purple machines in order to minimize the chances of the Japanese learning about the MAGIC secret.
It was a prime example of the brutal choices that codebreakers must live with. Do you take risks to keep a secret that may save hundreds of thousands of future lives, or do you expose the secret to save a small number of lives right now? William once referred to this broad dilemma as "cryptologic schizophrenia,”
― The Woman Who Smashed Codes: A True Story of Love, Spies, and the Unlikely Heroine who Outwitted America's Enemies
It was a prime example of the brutal choices that codebreakers must live with. Do you take risks to keep a secret that may save hundreds of thousands of future lives, or do you expose the secret to save a small number of lives right now? William once referred to this broad dilemma as "cryptologic schizophrenia,”
― The Woman Who Smashed Codes: A True Story of Love, Spies, and the Unlikely Heroine who Outwitted America's Enemies
“Ernie got it,' I said afterwards. 'His experience taught him that you've got to fight for what's right. It gets you into a lot of trouble but he came to the same conclusion as me.' People think it could never happen here. Don't you believe it; it doesn't take much.”
― The Man Who Broke Into Auschwitz: A True Story of World War II
― The Man Who Broke Into Auschwitz: A True Story of World War II
