WW2
The Harbour
A young American journalist is in Hong Kong primarily to write a society gossip book about the Soong sisters, three…
The Minotaur’s Head
Fans of the wonderful Polish crime writer Marek Krajewski will be thrilled at this, his latest story in translation, featuring…
Into Dust and Fire
In the spring of 1941, before Pearl Harbor, before American committed itself to involvement in World War II, a cadre…
The Far Side of the Sky
Author Daniel Kalla, an ER physician in Vancouver, B.C., drew upon his own family’s heritage to write this novel of…
The Hard Way: Surviving Shamshuipo POW Camp
Major V.S. Ebbage was taken prisoner with his Royal Army Ordinance Corps when the Japanese captured Hong Kong in 1941.…
Mission to Paris
While this novel opens dramatically with a murder in Bulgaria, its settings change rapidly, and finally the protagonist appears on…
Clair de Lune
What was life like for a 25-year-old female junior college professor in Missouri in 1941? America has not entered the…
Jasmine Nights
In 1942, Saba Tarcan, a determined and talented young singer from Cardiff, joins ENSA, the Entertainments National Service Association, much…
The Penny Bangle
This is the third novel of a trilogy, and the first I’ve read. In 1942, Cassie Taylor is sick of…
Prague Winter: A Personal Story of Remembrance and War, 1937-1948
Madeleine Albright has written a book that mixes family memoir with Czech/European history, heavy on the history. Albright’s father, Josef…
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