World War II Literature

1.
The Book Thief
The Book Thief 4.39 avg rating β€” 2,802,182 ratings
2.
The Diary of a Young Girl
The Diary of a Young Girl 4.20 avg rating β€” 4,073,119 ratings
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Night
Night 4.38 avg rating β€” 1,334,208 ratings
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The Last Boat
The Last Boat 4.40 avg rating β€” 91 ratings
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Schindler’s List
Schindler’s List 4.34 avg rating β€” 164,326 ratings
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Catch-22
Catch-22 3.99 avg rating β€” 873,329 ratings
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Against The Tide
Against The Tide 3.97 avg rating β€” 180 ratings
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Slaughterhouse-Five
Slaughterhouse-Five 4.10 avg rating β€” 1,451,284 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€” 136,012 ratings
10.
All the Light We Cannot See
All the Light We Cannot See 4.31 avg rating β€” 1,904,589 ratings
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Storm of Steel
Storm of Steel 4.15 avg rating β€” 20,486 ratings
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Suite Française
Suite Française 3.86 avg rating — 77,017 ratings
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Pegasus Bridge: June 6, 1944
Pegasus Bridge: June 6, 1944 4.15 avg rating β€” 10,973 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€” 48,563 ratings
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Hiroshima
Hiroshima 4.04 avg rating β€” 86,440 ratings
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The Soldier's Wife
The Soldier's Wife 3.90 avg rating β€” 15,209 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 β€” 365,581 ratings
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The Longest Day: June 6, 1944
The Longest Day: June 6, 1944 4.34 avg rating β€” 25,784 ratings
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The Guns of August
The Guns of August 4.18 avg rating β€” 82,599 ratings
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In Harm's Way: The Sinking of the USS Indianapolis and the Extraordinary Story of Its Survivors
In Harm's Way: The Sinking of the USS Indianapolis and the Extraordinary Story of Its Survivors 4.33 avg rating β€” 23,190 ratings
21.
A Bridge Too Far
A Bridge Too Far 4.27 avg rating β€” 21,303 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€” 989,194 ratings
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The Plum Tree
The Plum Tree 4.14 avg rating β€” 24,331 ratings
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The Reader
The Reader 3.78 avg rating β€” 226,230 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€” 6,315 ratings
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Crabwalk
Crabwalk 3.47 avg rating β€” 4,041 ratings
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The English Patient
The English Patient 3.86 avg rating β€” 137,382 ratings
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HHhH
HHhH 4.07 avg rating β€” 27,467 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€” 31,441 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€” 67,945 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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The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics
The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 4.39 avg rating β€” 352,770 ratings
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1939 - The War That Had Many Fathers: The Long Run-Up to the Second World War
1939 - The War That Had Many Fathers: The Long Run-Up to the Second World War 4.57 avg rating β€” 301 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€” 46,528 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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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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Diamonds For The Wolf (Jack Renouf #3)
Diamonds For The Wolf (Jack Renouf #3) 4.39 avg rating β€” 28 ratings
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Honesty in World War 2
Honesty in World War 2 4.57 avg rating β€” 46 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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City of Thieves
City of Thieves 4.30 avg rating β€” 162,005 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€” 58,925 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
43.
Why the Allies Won
Why the Allies Won 4.19 avg rating β€” 2,230 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€” 348,510 ratings
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At Dawn We Slept: The Untold Story of Pearl Harbor
At Dawn We Slept: The Untold Story of Pearl Harbor 4.21 avg rating β€” 3,692 ratings
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Company Commander: The Classic Infantry Memoir of World War II
Company Commander: The Classic Infantry Memoir of World War II 4.24 avg rating β€” 4,921 ratings
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Churchill, Hitler, and "The Unnecessary War": How Britain Lost Its Empire and the West Lost the World
Churchill, Hitler, and "The Unnecessary War": How Britain Lost Its Empire and the West Lost the World 4.19 avg rating β€” 1,968 ratings
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Churchill's Secret War: The British Empire and the Ravaging of India During World War II
Churchill's Secret War: The British Empire and the Ravaging of India During World War II 4.18 avg rating β€” 961 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€” 5,926 ratings
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When Books Went to War: The Stories that Helped Us Win World War II
When Books Went to War: The Stories that Helped Us Win World War II 3.92 avg rating β€” 8,412 ratings
51.
Patton: A Genius for War
Patton: A Genius for War 4.25 avg rating β€” 4,271 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€” 4,731 ratings
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Retribution: The Battle for Japan, 1944-45
Retribution: The Battle for Japan, 1944-45 4.28 avg rating β€” 5,079 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 Tumbler: A 16-year-old Boy's Live Chronicle of Auschwitz, Belsen, Hanover, Hildesheim, Wolgsberg and Wustegiersdorf Nazi Death Camps
The Tumbler: A 16-year-old Boy's Live Chronicle of Auschwitz, Belsen, Hanover, Hildesheim, Wolgsberg and Wustegiersdorf Nazi Death Camps really liked it 4.00 avg rating β€” 11 ratings
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Letters from Home
Letters from Home 3.93 avg rating β€” 5,051 ratings
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Mother Night
Mother Night 4.23 avg rating β€” 102,422 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€” 7,006 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€” 10,569 ratings
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Summer of my German Soldier
Summer of my German Soldier 3.70 avg rating β€” 17,689 ratings
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Number the Stars
Number the Stars 4.19 avg rating β€” 608,415 ratings
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Skeletons at the Feast
Skeletons at the Feast really liked it 4.00 avg rating β€” 26,800 ratings
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The Rising Sun: The Decline & Fall of the Japanese Empire, 1936-45
The Rising Sun: The Decline & Fall of the Japanese Empire, 1936-45 4.30 avg rating β€” 5,936 ratings
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Flyboys: A True Story of Courage
Flyboys: A True Story of Courage 4.20 avg rating β€” 22,796 ratings
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Legacy of Ashes: The History of the CIA
Legacy of Ashes: The History of the CIA 3.95 avg rating β€” 14,508 ratings
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Medallions
Medallions 4.04 avg rating β€” 6,147 ratings
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Blitzed: Drugs in the Third Reich
Blitzed: Drugs in the Third Reich 4.05 avg rating β€” 30,223 ratings
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Masters of the Air: America's Bomber Boys Who Fought the Air War Against Nazi Germany
Masters of the Air: America's Bomber Boys Who Fought the Air War Against Nazi Germany 4.21 avg rating β€” 9,584 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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Into the Unknown
Into the Unknown 4.18 avg rating β€” 207 ratings
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A Thread of Grace
A Thread of Grace 4.02 avg rating β€” 14,979 ratings
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The Painted Bird
The Painted Bird 3.90 avg rating β€” 27,861 ratings
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The Orphans of Dachau
The Orphans of Dachau 4.59 avg rating β€” 96 ratings
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Armageddon: The Battle for Germany, 1944-1945
Armageddon: The Battle for Germany, 1944-1945 4.28 avg rating β€” 7,362 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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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€” 79,658 ratings
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The Welsh Girl
The Welsh Girl 3.45 avg rating β€” 4,749 ratings
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The Tin Drum
The Tin Drum 3.95 avg rating β€” 45,957 ratings
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The Boy in the Striped Pajamas
The Boy in the Striped Pajamas 4.16 avg rating β€” 933,609 ratings
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Decision in Normandy
Decision in Normandy 4.05 avg rating β€” 869 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€” 9,757 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 β€” 156,030 ratings
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The Bedford Boys: One American Town's Ultimate D-Day Sacrifice
The Bedford Boys: One American Town's Ultimate D-Day Sacrifice 4.26 avg rating β€” 4,612 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€” 45,836 ratings
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The Bronze Horseman (The Bronze Horseman, #1)
The Bronze Horseman (The Bronze Horseman, #1) 4.29 avg rating β€” 92,485 ratings
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A Train in Winter (The Resistance #1)
A Train in Winter (The Resistance #1) 3.85 avg rating β€” 8,706 ratings
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Flags of Our Fathers
Flags of Our Fathers 4.22 avg rating β€” 62,882 ratings
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The Last Stand of the Tin Can Sailors: The Extraordinary World War II Story of the U.S. Navy's Finest Hour
The Last Stand of the Tin Can Sailors: The Extraordinary World War II Story of the U.S. Navy's Finest Hour 4.35 avg rating β€” 11,393 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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Uncle Hitler: A Child's Traumatic Journey Through Nazi Hell to the Safety of Britain
Uncle Hitler: A Child's Traumatic Journey Through Nazi Hell to the Safety of Britain 3.25 avg rating β€” 12 ratings
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Adventure, romance and war in the Far East: The Iris Hay-Edie Diary: A historical memoir
Adventure, romance and war in the Far East: The Iris Hay-Edie Diary: A historical memoir 4.28 avg rating β€” 160 ratings
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Guardian Angel
Guardian Angel 4.92 avg rating β€” 13 ratings
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Blitz Writing: Night Shift & It Was Different At The Time
Blitz Writing: Night Shift & It Was Different At The Time 3.68 avg rating β€” 56 ratings
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A Deadly Coincidence (Lipton St Faith #1)
A Deadly Coincidence (Lipton St Faith #1) 3.98 avg rating β€” 356 ratings
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When the Emperor Was Divine
When the Emperor Was Divine 3.81 avg rating β€” 29,658 ratings
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Angel, Archangel
Angel, Archangel
by: Nick Cook
3.60 avg rating β€” 70 ratings
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The German Girl
The German Girl 3.81 avg rating β€” 38,102 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€” 21,288 ratings
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Atonement
Atonement 3.95 avg rating β€” 551,977 ratings
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Resistance
Resistance 3.79 avg rating β€” 9,479 ratings
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