World War II Fiction & Non-fiction

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The Diary of a Young Girl
The Diary of a Young Girl 4.20 avg rating β€” 4,072,737 ratings
2.
The Book Thief
The Book Thief 4.39 avg rating β€” 2,801,971 ratings
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Night
Night 4.38 avg rating β€” 1,334,095 ratings
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The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society
The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society 4.19 avg rating β€” 793,920 ratings
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Schindler’s List
Schindler’s List 4.34 avg rating β€” 164,324 ratings
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Band of Brothers: E Company, 506th Regiment, 101st Airborne from Normandy to Hitler's Eagle's Nest
Band of Brothers: E Company, 506th Regiment, 101st Airborne from Normandy to Hitler's Eagle's Nest 4.44 avg rating β€” 136,003 ratings
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Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience and Redemption
Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience and Redemption 4.39 avg rating β€” 989,136 ratings
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Sarah's Key
Sarah's Key 4.18 avg rating β€” 489,760 ratings
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Suite Française
Suite Française 3.86 avg rating — 77,015 ratings
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Catch-22
Catch-22 3.99 avg rating β€” 873,288 ratings
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Slaughterhouse-Five
Slaughterhouse-Five 4.10 avg rating β€” 1,451,201 ratings
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Cold Victory: A Novel of the Berlin Airlift (Bridge to Tomorrow Book 3)
Cold Victory: A Novel of the Berlin Airlift (Bridge to Tomorrow Book 3) 4.91 avg rating β€” 32 ratings
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A Bridge Too Far
A Bridge Too Far 4.27 avg rating β€” 21,302 ratings
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The English Patient
The English Patient 3.86 avg rating β€” 137,373 ratings
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The Longest Day: June 6, 1944
The Longest Day: June 6, 1944 4.34 avg rating β€” 25,783 ratings
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Atonement
Atonement 3.95 avg rating β€” 551,938 ratings
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The Reader
The Reader 3.78 avg rating β€” 226,209 ratings
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The Boy in the Striped Pajamas
The Boy in the Striped Pajamas 4.16 avg rating β€” 933,469 ratings
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Number the Stars
Number the Stars 4.19 avg rating β€” 608,367 ratings
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Hiroshima
Hiroshima 4.04 avg rating β€” 86,432 ratings
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The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich: A History of Nazi Germany
The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich: A History of Nazi Germany 4.22 avg rating β€” 144,568 ratings
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The Lost Wife
The Lost Wife 4.25 avg rating β€” 63,299 ratings
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Lisette's List
Lisette's List 3.81 avg rating β€” 6,271 ratings
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In the Garden of Beasts: Love, Terror, and an American Family in Hitler's Berlin
In the Garden of Beasts: Love, Terror, and an American Family in Hitler's Berlin 3.89 avg rating β€” 215,175 ratings
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With the Old Breed: At Peleliu and Okinawa
With the Old Breed: At Peleliu and Okinawa 4.49 avg rating β€” 45,833 ratings
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Sophie's Choice
Sophie's Choice 4.17 avg rating β€” 93,604 ratings
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Patton: A Genius for War
Patton: A Genius for War 4.25 avg rating β€” 4,271 ratings
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Captain Corelli's Mandolin
Captain Corelli's Mandolin 4.03 avg rating β€” 91,608 ratings
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Those Who Save Us
Those Who Save Us 4.11 avg rating β€” 102,912 ratings
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The Hiding Place: The Triumphant True Story of Corrie Ten Boom
The Hiding Place: The Triumphant True Story of Corrie Ten Boom 4.47 avg rating β€” 348,483 ratings
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The Thin Red Line
The Thin Red Line really liked it 4.00 avg rating β€” 14,270 ratings
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Black Hawk Down: A Story of Modern War
Black Hawk Down: A Story of Modern War 4.30 avg rating β€” 67,941 ratings
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The Pianist: The Extraordinary Story of One Man's Survival in Warsaw, 1939–45
The Pianist: The Extraordinary Story of One Man's Survival in Warsaw, 1939–45 4.25 avg rating β€” 79,655 ratings
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Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet
Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet 4.05 avg rating β€” 311,626 ratings
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The Last Battle: The Classic History of the Battle for Berlin
The Last Battle: The Classic History of the Battle for Berlin 4.25 avg rating β€” 7,005 ratings
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Berlin Diary: The Journal of a Foreign Correspondent 1934-1941
Berlin Diary: The Journal of a Foreign Correspondent 1934-1941 4.34 avg rating β€” 6,316 ratings
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Enemy at the Gates: The Battle for Stalingrad
Enemy at the Gates: The Battle for Stalingrad 4.23 avg rating β€” 14,176 ratings
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The Collector of Burned Books
The Collector of Burned Books 4.45 avg rating β€” 293 ratings
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The Forgotten Soldier
The Forgotten Soldier
by: Guy Sajer
4.39 avg rating β€” 11,837 ratings
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The Bronze Horseman (The Bronze Horseman, #1)
The Bronze Horseman (The Bronze Horseman, #1) 4.29 avg rating β€” 92,479 ratings
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City of Thieves
City of Thieves 4.30 avg rating β€” 161,995 ratings
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Storm of Steel
Storm of Steel 4.15 avg rating β€” 20,484 ratings
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The Zookeeper's Wife
The Zookeeper's Wife 3.49 avg rating β€” 90,811 ratings
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The Guns at Last Light: The War in Western Europe, 1944-1945 (World War II Liberation Trilogy, #3)
The Guns at Last Light: The War in Western Europe, 1944-1945 (World War II Liberation Trilogy, #3) 4.48 avg rating β€” 10,566 ratings
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The Girls of Atomic City: The Untold Story of the Women Who Helped Win World War II
The Girls of Atomic City: The Untold Story of the Women Who Helped Win World War II 3.73 avg rating β€” 31,440 ratings
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The Diplomat's Wife (The Kommandant's Girl, #2)
The Diplomat's Wife (The Kommandant's Girl, #2) 3.98 avg rating β€” 19,273 ratings
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Why the Allies Won
Why the Allies Won 4.19 avg rating β€” 2,230 ratings
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The Winds of War (The Henry Family, #1)
The Winds of War (The Henry Family, #1) 4.38 avg rating β€” 58,922 ratings
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Nadya's War
Nadya's War 3.64 avg rating β€” 39 ratings
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An Army at Dawn: The War in North Africa, 1942-1943 (World War II Liberation Trilogy, #1)
An Army at Dawn: The War in North Africa, 1942-1943 (World War II Liberation Trilogy, #1) 4.29 avg rating β€” 22,175 ratings
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Citizen Soldiers: The US Army from the Normandy Beaches to the Bulge to the Surrender of Germany
Citizen Soldiers: The US Army from the Normandy Beaches to the Bulge to the Surrender of Germany 4.24 avg rating β€” 24,324 ratings
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Lost in Shangri-la: A True Story of Survival, Adventure, and the Most Incredible Rescue Mission of World War II
Lost in Shangri-la: A True Story of Survival, Adventure, and the Most Incredible Rescue Mission of World War II 3.87 avg rating β€” 46,525 ratings
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The Nazi Officer's Wife: How One Jewish Woman Survived the Holocaust
The Nazi Officer's Wife: How One Jewish Woman Survived the Holocaust 4.17 avg rating β€” 48,560 ratings
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Killing the Rising Sun: How America Vanquished World War II Japan
Killing the Rising Sun: How America Vanquished World War II Japan 4.35 avg rating β€” 21,283 ratings
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The Kommandant's Girl (The Kommandant's Girl, #1)
The Kommandant's Girl (The Kommandant's Girl, #1) 4.02 avg rating β€” 30,861 ratings
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The Nightingale
The Nightingale 4.64 avg rating β€” 1,893,855 ratings
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The Pacific
The Pacific 4.14 avg rating β€” 14,202 ratings
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The Train to Crystal City: FDR's Secret Prisoner Exchange Program and America's Only Family Internment Camp During World War II
The Train to Crystal City: FDR's Secret Prisoner Exchange Program and America's Only Family Internment Camp During World War II 4.08 avg rating β€” 2,433 ratings
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Escape From Davao: The Forgotten Story of the Most Daring Prison Break of the Pacific War
Escape From Davao: The Forgotten Story of the Most Daring Prison Break of the Pacific War 4.23 avg rating β€” 1,268 ratings
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Life and Fate
Life and Fate 4.45 avg rating β€” 14,755 ratings
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The Rape of Nanking: The Forgotten Holocaust of World War II
The Rape of Nanking: The Forgotten Holocaust of World War II 4.24 avg rating β€” 50,729 ratings
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The Longest Winter: The Battle of the Bulge and the Epic Story of World War II's Most Decorated Platoon
The Longest Winter: The Battle of the Bulge and the Epic Story of World War II's Most Decorated Platoon 4.18 avg rating β€” 8,303 ratings
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The Naked and the Dead
The Naked and the Dead 3.94 avg rating β€” 26,162 ratings
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The Postmistress
The Postmistress 3.36 avg rating β€” 45,251 ratings
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Memoirs of a Geisha
Memoirs of a Geisha 4.16 avg rating β€” 2,082,475 ratings
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Medallions
Medallions 4.04 avg rating β€” 6,147 ratings
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Crabwalk
Crabwalk 3.47 avg rating β€” 4,041 ratings
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The Forgotten 500: The Untold Story of the Men Who Risked All For the Greatest Rescue Mission of World War II
The Forgotten 500: The Untold Story of the Men Who Risked All For the Greatest Rescue Mission of World War II 4.09 avg rating β€” 12,935 ratings
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In My Hands: Memories of a Holocaust Rescuer
In My Hands: Memories of a Holocaust Rescuer 4.26 avg rating β€” 15,186 ratings
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Between Shades of Gray
Between Shades of Gray 4.37 avg rating β€” 268,371 ratings
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All the Light We Cannot See
All the Light We Cannot See 4.31 avg rating β€” 1,904,370 ratings
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Pacific Crucible: War at Sea in the Pacific, 1941–1942
Pacific Crucible: War at Sea in the Pacific, 1941–1942 4.61 avg rating β€” 9,754 ratings
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Anne Frank Remembered: The Story of the Woman Who Helped to Hide the Frank Family
Anne Frank Remembered: The Story of the Woman Who Helped to Hide the Frank Family
by: Miep Gies
4.30 avg rating β€” 66,127 ratings
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War and Remembrance (The Henry Family, #2)
War and Remembrance (The Henry Family, #2) 4.43 avg rating β€” 38,936 ratings
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Heroes in Good Company: L Company, 86th Regiment, 10th Mountain Division 1943-1945
Heroes in Good Company: L Company, 86th Regiment, 10th Mountain Division 1943-1945 4.74 avg rating β€” 23 ratings
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From Here to Eternity
From Here to Eternity 4.08 avg rating β€” 17,967 ratings
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King Rat (Asian Saga, #4)
King Rat (Asian Saga, #4) 4.19 avg rating β€” 43,415 ratings
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Helmet for My Pillow: From Parris Island to the Pacific
Helmet for My Pillow: From Parris Island to the Pacific 4.23 avg rating β€” 24,385 ratings
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All But My Life
All But My Life 4.33 avg rating β€” 21,981 ratings
80.
Man's Search for Meaning
Man's Search for Meaning 4.37 avg rating β€” 832,318 ratings
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The Third Reich at War (The History of the Third Reich, #3)
The Third Reich at War (The History of the Third Reich, #3) 4.39 avg rating β€” 5,925 ratings
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The Polish Officer (Night Soldiers, #3)
The Polish Officer (Night Soldiers, #3) 4.07 avg rating β€” 6,456 ratings
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Armageddon: The Battle for Germany, 1944-1945
Armageddon: The Battle for Germany, 1944-1945 4.28 avg rating β€” 7,363 ratings
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Mila 18
Mila 18
by: Leon Uris
4.32 avg rating β€” 26,365 ratings
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The Caine Mutiny
The Caine Mutiny 4.29 avg rating β€” 26,468 ratings
86.
Inside the Third Reich
Inside the Third Reich 4.10 avg rating β€” 14,149 ratings
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A Train in Winter (The Resistance #1)
A Train in Winter (The Resistance #1) 3.85 avg rating β€” 8,705 ratings
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Cold Lonely Courage
Cold Lonely Courage 4.06 avg rating β€” 715 ratings
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The Orphans of Dachau
The Orphans of Dachau 4.59 avg rating β€” 96 ratings
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The Madonnas of Leningrad
The Madonnas of Leningrad 3.78 avg rating β€” 18,559 ratings
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The Second World War
The Second World War 4.39 avg rating β€” 10,406 ratings
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The Second World War
The Second World War 4.11 avg rating β€” 5,019 ratings
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Winter of the World (The Century Trilogy #2)
Winter of the World (The Century Trilogy #2) 4.38 avg rating β€” 172,968 ratings
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Inferno: The World at War, 1939-1945
Inferno: The World at War, 1939-1945 4.35 avg rating β€” 10,719 ratings
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The Good German
The Good German 3.79 avg rating β€” 7,292 ratings
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Neptune's Inferno: The U.S. Navy at Guadalcanal
Neptune's Inferno: The U.S. Navy at Guadalcanal 4.30 avg rating β€” 7,224 ratings
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22 Britannia Road
22 Britannia Road 3.65 avg rating β€” 11,994 ratings
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The Winter Fortress: The Epic Mission to Sabotage Hitler’s Atomic Bomb
The Winter Fortress: The Epic Mission to Sabotage Hitler’s Atomic Bomb 4.24 avg rating β€” 5,907 ratings
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We Band of Angels: The Untold Story of American Nurses Trapped on Bataan by the Japanese
We Band of Angels: The Untold Story of American Nurses Trapped on Bataan by the Japanese 4.28 avg rating β€” 4,729 ratings
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Battle Cry
Battle Cry
by: Leon Uris
4.17 avg rating β€” 10,232 ratings
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