WWII
The Berlin Airlift: The World’s Largest Ever Air Supply Operation (Images of Aviation)
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This book is worth having for the illustrations alone. The 1940’s were the golden age for black and white photojournalism and The Berlin ...Read Review
The Day the Sun Fell
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On August 6, 1945, fourteen-year-old Bun Hashizume started her day in Hiroshima under a serene, blue sky. She walked along the road on her way ...Read Review
Louder Than Words (The Heroes Quartet)
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Eldina Sternik is a kind and bright girl. At age twelve, she cares for her younger sisters, reads voraciously, helps her mother with ...Read Review
Hunger Winter
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In this debut novel for middle-grade students, Rob Currie has crafted the remarkable story of a young Dutch boy who finds his life ...Read Review
The Words I Never Wrote
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In her latest venture into historical fiction, author Jane Thynne turns her attention to two socialite sisters on opposite sides in World War ...Read Review
A Woman’s War
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Simon Block was behind the TV drama Home Fires, and his novel Keep the Home Fires Burning (2018) was reviewed in HNR 86. These introduced ...Read Review
In the Shadow of the Storm
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In this novel set in the 1930s, Anna is a German-Russian woman doing her best to make a happy life and home for ...Read Review
Blame the Dead
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When the army assigns military police Lieutenant Eddie Harkins to investigate a surgeon’s murder at a field hospital outside Palermo, Sicily, in ...Read Review
People Like Us
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At one level this is a timeless story of star-crossed lovers. A young couple defy the conventions of the adult world and are ...Read Review
Ambulance Girls Under Fire
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January 1942, freezing blacked-out mid-Blitz London where under leaden skies and German bombs, amongst the debris and the ruins, conflict reigns between Britain and “...Read Review