WWII
Night Fire
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England, 1943. Sergeant Stan ‘Wakey’ Wake, aged twenty-one, is a bomb aimer in the RAF, based in Lincolnshire. Along with his six fellow crew ...Read Review
The Prodigal of Leningrad
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This novel is set mostly during the Nazis’ horrific siege of Stalingrad with flashbacks to the earliest days of the Bolshevik revolution and ...Read Review
Rust and Bone
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For two hundred years, pockets of German settlers have lived in Ukraine, but when World War II breaks out, their remoteness doesn’t ...Read Review
The Scandinavian War Bride
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Set in pre- and post-WWII Denmark, this story examines family bonds, women’s resilience, and the cost of survival. Kirsten is one of ...Read Review
The Yankee Sphinx: An FDR Novel
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The pivotal years of President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s leadership in World War II as witnessed by Roosevelt’s correspondence secretary in Mark ...Read Review
The Gossip Columnist
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Our narrator, Bella, a journalist at the German newspaper Vossische Zeitung, is assigned as a gossip columnist to attend events, many at embassies ...Read Review
There Was a Time for Such a Word
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In a tiny Italian village in 1942, Davide is the son of an illiterate pig farmer and ardent Fascist. Born with one leg shorter ...Read Review
Annie’s Day
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It’s 2003 in an English village. As elderly Annie prepares for a visit from her family, she’s dismayed by news of another ...Read Review
Nonesuch
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London, 1939. Iris Hawkins is a secretary for stockbrokers Cornellis & Blome, but she’s a would-be financier and the only person at the ...Read Review
The Lions’ Run
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In German-occupied France in 1944, two young people from very different backgrounds bond over a common love of animals. When Lucas, an orphan from ...Read Review
