WWII
Never Closer
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Oxford, 1940: teenaged Alice’s first job is in a laboratory where mould is deliberately grown in a motley collection of bedpans, pie-dishes, and ...Read Review
Shattered Jade: A Novel of Saipan
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It’s June 1944, and Japanese and American forces have been engaged in monstrously costly battles across thousands of square miles of ocean and ...Read Review
Kate’s War
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At twenty, Kate Murphy is preparing to leave her sheltered family life and move into a flat with a school friend. She envisions ...Read Review
The Secrets We Keep: A Homefront Mystery
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This fifth book is a fine continuation of Milliron’s series about PI Betty Ahern and the other women who discover new careers ...Read Review
Heroes: A Novel of Pearl Harbor
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Frank and Stanley are the best of friends, living an idyllic life in Hawaii, where their fathers are stationed at the Pearl Harbor ...Read Review
Rising Tide (Daniel Nichols Spy Thrillers)
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Daniel Nichols was a pre-WW2 internationalist who becomes very patriotic; a pacifist who takes up arms; and a morally scrupulous son of the ...Read Review
The Wartime Book Club
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Kate Thompson has set her novel in the Channel Islands, bringing vividly to life the experiences of Jersey residents between 1940 and 1945, when the ...Read Review
Code Name Kingfisher
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Amsterdam, 1942. A boy crawls into a concealed compartment behind a kitchen cupboard. There, he waits, alone in the dark. In the present day, ...Read Review
The Foxhole Victory Tour
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Did you ever wonder what life was like for women USO performers who provided entertainment for front-line troops during World War II? This ...Read Review
Dream a Little Dream
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The formulation of stories within the historical fiction genre is often accompanied by some anticipation as the tale develops along unusual paths. Sadly, ...Read Review
