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by Suzanne Cope
Published Apr 2025
Read ReviewsThe gripping, true, and untold history of the Italian anti-fascist resistance during World War II, told through the stories of four spectacularly courageous women fighters.
by Katherine Arden
Published Jan 2025
Read ReviewsDuring the Great War, a combat nurse searches for her brother, believed dead in the trenches despite eerie signs that suggest otherwise, in this hauntingly beautiful historical novel with a speculative twist, from the New York Times bestselling author of The Bear and the Nightingale.
by Marie Benedict
Published Sep 2023
Read ReviewsFrom New York Times bestselling author Marie Benedict comes an explosive novel of history's most notorious sisters, one of whom will have to choose: her country or her family?
by Kristin Harmel
Published May 2022
Read ReviewsThe New York Times bestselling author of the "heart-stopping tale of survival and heroism" (People) The Book of Lost Names returns with an evocative coming-of-age World War II story about a young woman who uses her knowledge of the wilderness to help Jewish refugees escape the Nazis—until a secret from her past threatens everything.
by Alice Hoffman
Published Sep 2020
Read ReviewsIn 1941, during humanity's darkest hour, three unforgettable young women must act with courage and love to survive, from the New York Times bestselling author of The Dovekeepers and The Marriage of Opposites Alice Hoffman.
by Jeanne Mackin
Published Aug 2020
Read ReviewsAn American woman becomes entangled in the intense rivalry between iconic fashion designers Coco Chanel and Elsa Schiaparelli in this vivid novel from the acclaimed author of The Beautiful American.
by Julie Orringer
Published Jun 2020
Read ReviewsThe long-awaited new work from the best-selling author of The Invisible Bridge takes us back to occupied Europe in this gripping historical novel based on the true story of Varian Fry's extraordinary attempt to save the work, and the lives, of Jewish artists fleeing the Holocaust.
by Kristin Harmel
Published Mar 2020
Read ReviewsA moving story set amid the champagne vineyards of northern France during the darkest days of World War II.
by Abigail DeWitt
Published Dec 2019
Read ReviewsSet in France and America, News of Our Loved Ones is a haunting and intimate examination of love and loss, beauty and the cost of survival, witnessed through two generations of one French family, whose lives are all touched by the tragic events surrounding the D-Day bombings in Normandy.
by Romain Gary, Miranda Richmond Mouillot
Published Sep 2019
Read ReviewsRomain Gary's bittersweet final masterpiece, a novel of courage and resistance - never before in English.
by Kate Atkinson
Published Apr 2019
Read ReviewsA dramatic story of WWII espionage, betrayal, and loyalty, by the #1 bestselling author of Life After Life.
by Jane Delury
Published Mar 2019
Read ReviewsA century-spanning portrait of the inhabitants of a French village, revealing the deception, despair, love, and longing beneath the calm surface of ordinary lives.
by Jennifer Egan
Published Jun 2018
Read ReviewsThe long-awaited, daring, and magnificent novel from the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of A Visit from the Goon Squad.
by Jessica Shattuck
Published Jan 2018
Read ReviewsThree women, haunted by the past and the secrets they hold.
by Anthony Doerr
Published Apr 2017
Read ReviewsA stunningly ambitious and beautiful novel about a blind French girl and a German boy whose paths collide in occupied France as both try to survive the devastation of World War II. Winner of the 2014 BookBrowse Award for Fiction.
by Helen Simonson
Published Feb 2017
Read ReviewsThe bestselling author of Major Pettigrew's Last Stand returns with a breathtaking novel of love and war that reaches far beyond the small English town in which it is set.
by Maria Hummel
Published Jan 2015
Read ReviewsThe novel bears witness to the shame and courage of Third Reich families during the devastating final days of the war, as each family member's fateful choice lead the reader deeper into questions of complicity and innocence, to the novel's heartbreaking and unforgettable conclusion.
by Simon Van Booy
Published Jun 2014
Read ReviewsThis gripping, emotional story intertwines the stories of several compelling characters - one by one, through seemingly random acts of selflessness, they discover the vital parts they have played in each other's lives, a realization that shatters the illusion of their separateness.
by David R. Gillham
Published May 2013
Read ReviewsIt is 1943 - the height of the Second World War - and Berlin has essentially become a city of women. In this page-turning novel, David Gillham explores what happens to ordinary people thrust into extraordinary times, and how the choices they make can be the difference between life and death.
by Monique Charlesworth
Published Sep 2005
Read ReviewsEvokes wartime lives and places with astonishing immediacy and in an utterly unforgettable way, from the point of view of a young Jewish girl and a boy who struggles with his place in the Hitler Youth.
by Sebastian Faulks
Published Jul 2000
Read ReviewsSet in England and France during the darkest days of World War II, Charlotte Gray, like Birdsong, depicts a complex love affair that is both shaped and thwarted by war.
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