WW2

The Western Coast

By Paula Fox - Published 2001

Genres:

Saga

The Western Coast is a picaresque narrative in which place is the theme. In this gritty urban reality, everyone is flawed. Seventeen-year-old Annie ...Read Review

The Clouds Above

By Andrew Greig - Published 2001

Genres:

Saga

This extremely affecting novel follows Len, an RAF Sergeant pilot, his friend Tad, a Polish pilot serving in the RAF, Stella, a WAAF ...Read Review

Death is in the Air

By Kate Kingsbury - Published 2001

Genres:

Mystery/Crime

Fans of the short and sweet murder mystery will no doubt enjoy this light and fluffy novel, the second in the Manor House ...Read Review

Austerlitz

By W.G. Sebald - Published 2001

Genres:

EpicLiterary

While this review was being written, W. G. Sebald’s obituaries appeared, describing the author’s death in a car accident, possibly from ...Read Review

Sophie and the Rising Sun

By Augusta Trobaugh - Published 2001

Genres:

InspirationalRomance

In 1939, Mr. Oto arrives in Salty Creek, Georgia, by accident. Taken off the bus because he is ill, he is nursed back to ...Read Review

The Tortoises

By Veza Canetti - Published 2001

Genres:

Biographical FictionLiterary

The Tortoises (trans. from the German by Ian Mitchell) focuses on a tense waiting period endured by a Viennese Jewish couple. In late 1938, ...Read Review

One Man’s Justice

By Akira Yoshimura - Published 2001

Genres:

Thriller

During World War II, Takuya was an officer in Japan’s Imperial Army. Now, he is a fugitive, accused of a war crime ...Read Review

The Pearl Harbor Murders

By Max Allan Collins - Published 2001

Genres:

Mystery/Crime

Collins’ thrilling new mystery is spellbinding. World-famous author Edgar Rice Burroughs is too busy basking in the warm Hawaiian sun to pay much ...Read Review

The Day We Had Hitler Home

By Rodney Hall - Published 2001

Genres:

Literary

At the end of World War I, 17-year-old Audrey McNeil joins the rest of her small Australian town to welcome home the returning ...Read Review

For Such a Time

By Elyse Larson - Published 2001

Genres:

InspirationalMystery/CrimeRomance

Elyse Larson skillfully combines inspiration, romance and suspense in the first novel of the Women of Valor series. Cousins, living across continents, join ...Read Review