WW2
Sachiko
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Endō Shūsaku is enjoying a renaissance among readers worldwide. His best-known novel, Silence, was adapted into a feature film by acclaimed director ...Read Review
Women of Steel: The Feisty Factory Sisters Who Helped Win the War
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If you are looking for an exemplary piece of oral history, here it is. Women of Steel is based on interviews with twenty ...Read Review
Natalya (Flight of the Night Witches)
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Natalya Volkov is a Russian pilot for the all-female 588th Night Bomber Regiment during the Second World War. When the bombers were close ...Read Review
Night of the Bayonets: The Texel Uprising and Hitler’s Revenge, April-May 1945
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The title reads like a thriller, and at times so does the book, but this is nonetheless a serious and well-researched piece of ...Read Review
The Girl from the Hermitage
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Gartland’s novel, an ambitious family saga spanning two generations, is set in Leningrad, later St. Petersburg, from 1941 to the first glimmers of ...Read Review
Prisoner from Penang
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Clare Flynn’s short, chatty new historical romance is set in Malaysia during the World War II years, and it’s a pleasant ...Read Review
Paris Never Leaves You
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Ten years after Paris was liberated, Charlotte Foret lives in New York with her daughter, Vivi, now fourteen, and works at a prestigious ...Read Review
Secret Casualties of World War Two: Uncovering the Civilian Deaths from Friendly Fire
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For most of WW2 a rain of steel fell upon Britain’s cities, principally London. Most of it came not from German bombs ...Read Review
Rosie: Stronger than Steel
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The author of this picture book for children tackles a difficult subject: Tractors made by factories in the United States and then shipped ...Read Review
The Paris Children: A Novel of World War 2
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Madeleine Levy, the granddaughter of Alfred Dreyfus, is the plucky heroine of the fast-paced The Paris Children by Gloria Goldreich. When the Nazis ...Read Review
