WWII
The Name on the Wall
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First, despite the publisher’s subtitle, this book is not a novel. Maybe it’s “creative nonfiction.” Hervé Le Tellier says: “True, I ...Read Review
Skylark
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In her newest novel, Paula McLain takes us once more to Paris, this time the troubled Paris of the 1660s and the 1940s. ...Read Review
The Teacher Evacuees
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The Teacher Evacuees is a warm, quietly gripping wartime novel that brings a familiar chapter of Second World War history into sharp, humane ...Read Review
Daughter of Genoa
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Historian Devereaux’s intensive research gives us a glimpse into the lives of Italian Jews in occupied Genoa. The action begins in April 1944 ...Read Review
Anna at War
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Anna Schlesinger is twelve years old in 1938 when she is reluctantly sent by her loving parents on the Kindertransport from Germany to England ...Read Review
The Winter Warriors
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The “Winter War” of 1939-40—pitting the Goliath of the Soviet Union against the David of tiny, peace-loving Finland—receives its most dramatic ...Read Review
The Matchbox Girl
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Whatever happened to Asperger’s Syndrome? Short answer: once a separate diagnosis, it was recently merged into Autism Spectrum Disorder. Why? A much ...Read Review
Island of Ghosts and Dreams
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This powerfully evocative novel personifies Greek resistance to German invaders in WWII on the island of Crete. Maria, a villager whose whole world ...Read Review
The Bloomsbury Murder (Blitz Detective)
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London, 1941: this is the tenth novel in Hollow’s Blitz Detective series, in which Detective Inspector Jago investigates the murder of a Canadian ...Read Review
Steel Machines
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Steel Machines is a novella set in Prague in 1945. Eight-year-old Otto and his parents are hiding in the attic of their own home, ...Read Review
