WW2
A Call to Colors
Gobbell’s novel is a surprising mix of traditional World War II sea combat and a view of wartime California’s railway…
The Secret
In 1944, when Jaime Gray is killed in an air raid, life is turned upside down for his wife, Ailsa,…
Lachlan’s War
Usually I am allergic to novels like this, in which the story is told in the present tense. The technique…
The Green Glass Sea
In 1943, Dewey Kerrigan, nearly eleven, finds herself on a train headed toward New Mexico to join her father, a…
The Book Thief
Editors' choice
1939, Nazi Germany. Liesel Meminger, the daughter of a communist, is the eponymous Book Thief, and her story is told…
The Officer’s Daughter
Editors' choice
Sixteen-year-old Marta always wanted to be a soldier like her father, an officer in the Polish army. Instead she has…
The Alibi Club
It is the summer of 1940 in Paris, and the Germans are beginning their invasion. Sally King, an American model…
Ghost Sea
Editors' choice
“He loved the sea, he loved a boat, he loved a woman, Some would say he loved wrongly or too…
The Eye of the Storm
The Normandy landings are a recent memory in June 1944, and everything has changed irrevocably. Near the front line is…
The Rising Tide
Editors' choice
After an introduction, which whisks the reader through the events leading up World War II and into the early years…
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