WW2
The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas
The story opens in Berlin during World War II and is told through the eyes of nine-year-old Bruno who lives…
The Flight
This is a powerful story of a rarely told episode of World War II. Early in 1945, Ida and her…
Season of the Burning Souls
If most historical fiction is a glass of milk, Season of the Burning Souls is a tiki drink made out…
Lipstick and Lies
Pucci Lewis, a young Women’s Airforce Service Pilot doing home front service during World War II, needs Amelia Earhart’s saddle…
The Kommandant’s Girl
Emma Bau has been married only a few weeks when the Germans smash into Poland. In a short time, her…
The Jade Bracelet
Elsa Meier is a child of China. As the daughter of an American missionary and his wife in the 1930s,…
The Splendor of Silence
India, 1942. American Sam Hawthorne, recovering from a wound received in Burma, turns up in the remote Indian state of…
Another Time and Place
In 1944, Anna Pilgrim falls in love with an American airman, Tom Blake, after a chance meeting in a café.…
Never Say Goodbye
Diana Escott-Stevens, known as Steve, has worked for twelve months preparing agents for missions in France. Then Steve herself applies…
Beyond These Walls – Escaping the Warsaw Ghetto
This is the vivid and compelling autobiography of Janina Bauman, a young Jewish girl (the same age as Anne Frank)…
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Over the last 15 years The Historical Novels Review (the society’s print magazine for our members) has published reviews of some 12,000 historical fiction books. We plan to upload them all and make them searchable here.
