WW2
Whispers of a New Dawn
This is the third book in Murray Pura’s Snapshots of History series, and the second featuring Jude and Lyyndaya Whetstone,…
The Last Telegram
Editors' choice
In England in 1938, 18-year-old Lily Verner has exciting plans to travel to Switzerland. Then, upon returning home from Vienna,…
Helga’s Diary
Having read only a small amount about Terezin, a ghetto/concentration camp where many Jews spent time during the war, I…
Motherland
“Summer, 1942. Kitty, an army driver stationed in Sussex, meets Ed, a Royal Marine commando, and Larry, a liaison officer…
The Monster’s Lament
London in the spring of 1945, and the country is starting to think about the ending of the Second World…
The Great Deception
A few years after WWII, Shelly and her husband Cole have settled on a farm southwest of Sydney. Knowing little…
A World Between Us
In a story of young loves lost in the Spanish Civil War, Felicity and Nat meet at Mosley’s 1936 Black…
Studio Saint-Ex
This story begins in 1942 and skips ahead to 1967. The heroine, an aspiring fashion designer in Manhattan, is a…
Fascist Voices: An Intimate History of Mussolini’s Italy
The book’s title contains the clue to its unique approach. Duggan has drawn on the reams of correspondence received by…
Hitler’s Angel
The exciting premise of this book is to take two German children who have escaped the Nazis and send them…
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