Books set in World War II

1.
The Diary of a Young Girl
The Diary of a Young Girl 4.20 avg rating — 4,073,577 ratings
2.
Number the Stars
Number the Stars 4.19 avg rating — 608,442 ratings
3.
All the Light We Cannot See
All the Light We Cannot See 4.31 avg rating — 1,904,852 ratings
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A Town Like Alice
A Town Like Alice 4.15 avg rating — 60,769 ratings
5.
The Book Thief
The Book Thief 4.39 avg rating — 2,802,493 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 — 989,247 ratings
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Schindler’s List
Schindler’s List 4.34 avg rating — 164,326 ratings
8.
The Bridge Over the River Kwai
The Bridge Over the River Kwai 3.94 avg rating — 10,407 ratings
9.
Summer of My German Soldier (Summer of My German Soldier, #1)
Summer of My German Soldier (Summer of My German Soldier, #1) 3.70 avg rating — 17,691 ratings
10.
Suite Française
Suite Française 3.86 avg rating — 77,022 ratings
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Eternal
Eternal 4.29 avg rating — 43,056 ratings
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Night
Night 4.38 avg rating — 1,334,307 ratings
13.
White Chrysanthemum
White Chrysanthemum 4.41 avg rating — 25,006 ratings
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Carrie's War
Carrie's War 3.92 avg rating — 9,057 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 — 794,012 ratings
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The Boat Girls
The Boat Girls 4.21 avg rating — 1,082 ratings
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Purge
Purge 3.91 avg rating — 20,154 ratings
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Return To The Reich: A Holocaust Refugee's Secret Mission to Defeat the Nazis
Return To The Reich: A Holocaust Refugee's Secret Mission to Defeat the Nazis 4.35 avg rating — 827 ratings
19.
Up Front
Up Front 4.45 avg rating — 1,556 ratings
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Edelweiss
Edelweiss
by: Swindells
4.39 avg rating — 1,453 ratings
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The Nazis Next Door: How America Became a Safe Haven for Hitler's Men
The Nazis Next Door: How America Became a Safe Haven for Hitler's Men 4.08 avg rating — 1,824 ratings
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The Only Woman in the Room
The Only Woman in the Room 3.87 avg rating — 102,865 ratings
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The Perfect Horse: the Daring U.S. Mission to Rescue the Priceless Stallions Kidnapped by the Nazis
The Perfect Horse: the Daring U.S. Mission to Rescue the Priceless Stallions Kidnapped by the Nazis 4.08 avg rating — 7,796 ratings
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Resistance Women
Resistance Women 4.07 avg rating — 19,674 ratings
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Shadows on the Sea
Shadows on the Sea 3.88 avg rating — 919 ratings
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I Have Lived A Thousand Years: Growing Up In The Holocaust
I Have Lived A Thousand Years: Growing Up In The Holocaust 4.19 avg rating — 23,341 ratings
25.
Tales of the South Pacific
Tales of the South Pacific 4.04 avg rating — 16,438 ratings
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Spitfire Girl
Spitfire Girl 4.22 avg rating — 723 ratings
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Prague Winter: A Personal Story of Remembrance and War, 1937-1948
Prague Winter: A Personal Story of Remembrance and War, 1937-1948 4.03 avg rating — 8,267 ratings
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Maus I: A Survivor's Tale: My Father Bleeds History (Maus, #1)
Maus I: A Survivor's Tale: My Father Bleeds History (Maus, #1) 4.39 avg rating — 365,622 ratings
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The Teahouse of the August Moon
The Teahouse of the August Moon 3.82 avg rating — 170 ratings
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Requiem for a Wren
Requiem for a Wren 4.07 avg rating — 2,546 ratings
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My Father's House (Rome Escape Line Trilogy, #1)
My Father's House (Rome Escape Line Trilogy, #1) 4.01 avg rating — 9,956 ratings
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My Forty Years as a Diplomat by Feng-Shan Ho
My Forty Years as a Diplomat by Feng-Shan Ho 2.40 avg rating — 5 ratings
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The Journal of Ben Uchida: Citizen 13559 Mirror Lake Internment Camp, California, 1942
The Journal of Ben Uchida: Citizen 13559 Mirror Lake Internment Camp, California, 1942 3.76 avg rating — 889 ratings
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Maus II: A Survivor's Tale: And Here My Troubles Began (Maus, #2)
Maus II: A Survivor's Tale: And Here My Troubles Began (Maus, #2) 4.42 avg rating — 156,039 ratings
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What Happened to the Corbetts
What Happened to the Corbetts 4.02 avg rating — 1,028 ratings
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The Sea Gate
The Sea Gate 4.04 avg rating — 6,071 ratings
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Saving Freud: The Rescuers Who Brought Him to Freedom
Saving Freud: The Rescuers Who Brought Him to Freedom 4.02 avg rating — 325 ratings
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Elwood: The Story of a Catholic World War II Hero
Elwood: The Story of a Catholic World War II Hero 3.40 avg rating — 5 ratings
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The Gustav Sonata
The Gustav Sonata 3.88 avg rating — 12,247 ratings
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Sophie Scholl and the White Rose
Sophie Scholl and the White Rose 4.19 avg rating — 1,644 ratings
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All the Frequent Troubles of Our Days: The True Story of the American Woman at the Heart of the German Resistance to Hitler
All the Frequent Troubles of Our Days: The True Story of the American Woman at the Heart of the German Resistance to Hitler 4.32 avg rating — 5,197 ratings
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Left for Dead: A Young Man's Search for Justice for the USS Indianapolis
Left for Dead: A Young Man's Search for Justice for the USS Indianapolis 3.91 avg rating — 2,048 ratings
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Blitzcat
Blitzcat 3.94 avg rating — 1,311 ratings
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The World War II Trilogy: From Here to Eternity, The Thin Red Line, and Whistle
The World War II Trilogy: From Here to Eternity, The Thin Red Line, and Whistle 4.30 avg rating — 122 ratings
44.
Bonhoeffer: Pastor, Martyr, Prophet, Spy
Bonhoeffer: Pastor, Martyr, Prophet, Spy 4.22 avg rating — 80,462 ratings
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Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo
Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo 4.20 avg rating — 2,242 ratings
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Down Stepney Way
Down Stepney Way 4.37 avg rating — 696 ratings
48.
Cryptonomicon
Cryptonomicon 4.23 avg rating — 115,705 ratings
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Peach Blossom Spring
Peach Blossom Spring 4.18 avg rating — 19,429 ratings
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The Ciano Diaries 1939-1943: The Complete, Unabridged Diaries of Count Galeazzo Ciano, Italian Minister of Foreign Affairs, 1936-1943
The Ciano Diaries 1939-1943: The Complete, Unabridged Diaries of Count Galeazzo Ciano, Italian Minister of Foreign Affairs, 1936-1943 4.33 avg rating — 221 ratings
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The German Girl
The German Girl 3.81 avg rating — 38,106 ratings
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PT 109: JFK's Night of Destiny
PT 109: JFK's Night of Destiny 4.04 avg rating — 838 ratings
54.
We'll Meet Again
We'll Meet Again 3.97 avg rating — 677 ratings
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Our Man in Tokyo: An American Ambassador and the Countdown to Pearl Harbor
Our Man in Tokyo: An American Ambassador and the Countdown to Pearl Harbor 4.37 avg rating — 671 ratings
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Ernie's War: The Best of Ernie Pyle's World War II Dispatches
Ernie's War: The Best of Ernie Pyle's World War II Dispatches 4.46 avg rating — 270 ratings
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The Diary Keepers: World War II in the Netherlands, as Written by the People Who Lived Through It
The Diary Keepers: World War II in the Netherlands, as Written by the People Who Lived Through It 4.33 avg rating — 593 ratings
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We Remember the Holocaust
We Remember the Holocaust 4.17 avg rating — 439 ratings
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Grey Lady
Grey Lady 4.28 avg rating — 18 ratings
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Don't You Know There's a War On?: The American Home Front 1941-1945 (Nation Books)
Don't You Know There's a War On?: The American Home Front 1941-1945 (Nation Books) 3.83 avg rating — 65 ratings
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Love and Luck--A Young Woman's Journey from Berlin to Shanghai to San Francisco
Love and Luck--A Young Woman's Journey from Berlin to Shanghai to San Francisco 4.50 avg rating — 10 ratings
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The Case of Alan Turing: The Extraordinary and Tragic Story of the Legendary Codebreaker
The Case of Alan Turing: The Extraordinary and Tragic Story of the Legendary Codebreaker 3.46 avg rating — 275 ratings
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Backstreet Child (Tanner Trilogy #3)
Backstreet Child (Tanner Trilogy #3) 4.41 avg rating — 357 ratings
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Mischling
Mischling 3.83 avg rating — 15,993 ratings
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Conner Street's War
Conner Street's War 4.01 avg rating — 187 ratings
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The Constant Soldier
The Constant Soldier 4.25 avg rating — 809 ratings
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Skinny Lizzie
Skinny Lizzie 3.71 avg rating — 42 ratings
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Flame in the Night: A Novel of World War II France
Flame in the Night: A Novel of World War II France 3.76 avg rating — 51 ratings
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The Paris Architect
The Paris Architect 4.05 avg rating — 63,201 ratings
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Daughters of War (Daughters of War, #1)
Daughters of War (Daughters of War, #1) 4.09 avg rating — 5,724 ratings
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Testament
Testament 3.88 avg rating — 308 ratings
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The Shipyard Girls (Shipyard Girls, #1)
The Shipyard Girls (Shipyard Girls, #1) 4.46 avg rating — 1,577 ratings
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Amazir
Amazir 3.68 avg rating — 106 ratings
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Charlotte Gray
Charlotte Gray 3.83 avg rating — 12,637 ratings
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The Stable Boy of Auschwitz
The Stable Boy of Auschwitz 4.53 avg rating — 7,822 ratings
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A Horse in My Kit Bag
A Horse in My Kit Bag 4.50 avg rating — 6 ratings
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People Like Us
People Like Us 4.29 avg rating — 18,864 ratings