WW2
Transcending Darkness
“If you sit in a dark hole in the ground listening to the world crashing around you, you never stop…
Gingersnap
In the mid-1940s, Jayna lives in small town America with her 18-year-old brother Rob, a navy cook. The two talk…
All the Light There Was
Maral Pegorian, 14, lives with her immigrant family in the tight-knit Parisian Armenian community when the Nazis march into the…
A Girl Like You
A Girl Like You is a coming-of-age story set during WWII. Fifteen-year-old Satomi has a white father and a Japanese…
The End of the Point
If the author’s intent was to write a literary novel with its skim-the-surface type of nuances, she succeeded. She presents…
The Love-Charm of Bombs: Restless Lives in the Second World War
In The Love-Charm of Bombs, Lara Feigel describes the lives of five writers in and following the Second World War,…
Jambusters: The Story of the Women’s Institute in the Second World War
This has been a fascinating read. Not only does it cover the contributions made by members of the National Federation…
Garden of Stones
In 1978 San Francisco, Patty Takeda is awakened from a nightmare by the ringing of the doorbell. Her mother, Lucy,…
Warpaint
During World War II a War Advisory Artists Committee (WAAC) was put in place to ensure the survival of British…
The Girls in Blue
When her London home is destroyed in a bombing raid, Miranda Beddoes has no choice but to take refuge at…
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