WW2
Bitter Eden
This work is based on the author’s experience of being captured in the North African campaign and landing in an…
Tatiana and Alexander: A Love Story
Eighteen-year-old Tatiana has escaped from the Soviet Union, but the fate of her husband, Alexander, is unknown. Alexander, born in…
Cold Snap
Set in the aftermath of World War II Britain, Cold Snap is an evocative, moody, almost depressing novel about living…
War and Music: A Medley of Love
Ty Hale, a young soldier from New Mexico, is left by his unit in a grain field in Normandy after…
The Flowers of Edo
Editors' choice
Lieutenant Ken Kobayashi, one of the noblest fictional characters, narrates this heroic World War II adventure, which moves between America…
Clara and Merritt
Seattle of the 1930s and 1940s is the setting of the coming-of-age love story of Clara Hamilton and Merritt Driscoll,…
A War of Her Own
Bea Meade is a woman of her times in Orange, Texas, 1943 and has never worked outside the home. Her…
Days of Smoke
Part of historical fiction’s job is to use the arsenal of imagination in order to elicit sympathy from us readers…
Once; Then; and Now
Editors' choice
A trilogy told from a child’s viewpoint about the Holocaust and the Nazi domination. With Felix, a 14-year-old Polish Jewish…
Forbidden Places
Originally published in 1995 in the UK, Forbidden Places is another exhilarating, addictive read from England’s prolific doyenne of commercial…
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