WWII
Paris Requiem
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Paris, 1940. The Germans have occupied the city. First-person narrator, Eddie Giral, is an intelligent, sensitive police inspector who describes his situation as “a ...Read Review
My Father’s House (The Rome Escape Line Trilogy, 1)
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A black Daimler races through the war-torn streets of Rome for a hospital on a dark December night—sleet and rain, car swerving, ...Read Review
Flight to Freedom
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Lieutenant Commander Terry Cook is skipper of the USS Tanager, an obsolescent minesweeper in the wrong place at the wrong time. The place ...Read Review
Ethel’s Song: Ethel Rosenberg’s Life in Poems
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Biographical FictionChildren/Young Adult
The political morass of the Rosenberg story—the arrest and trial of Ethel Greenglass Rosenberg and her husband, Julius, on charges of treason ...Read Review
The Lost English Girl
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This story is set against the backdrop of World War II and the eventual evacuation of thousands of British children from the cities ...Read Review
Through a Darkening Glass
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In winter 1910, Phineas Greenwich sees a girl floating face-down in the murky water of a kiln in Wolstenholme Park on the outskirts of ...Read Review
Night Angels
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Vienna, 1938. Austria has been annexed by the Germans, and anti-Jewish laws gradually take effect. Chinese Consul General Ho Fengshan and his wife, Grace, ...Read Review
Beneath the Wide Silk Sky
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This young adult book addresses the incarceration of Japanese Americans during World War II from a different angle: what life was like in ...Read Review
The Vienna Writers Circle
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The German annexation of Austria in 1938 plunges its cosmopolitan European capital into the nightmare of authoritarian restrictions and genocide that had already gathered ...Read Review
A Wartime Summer (The Sisters’ War, 1)
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1942, Exeter, England. World War Two is raging. The Luftwaffe has reduced the 21-year-old May Warren’s home to rubble. She has no relations, ...Read Review