World War II history & novels

1.
The Diary of a Young Girl
The Diary of a Young Girl 4.20 avg rating — 4,073,853 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 — 144,601 ratings
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Savaged Lands
Savaged Lands 4.08 avg rating — 3,688 ratings
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Outlander (Outlander, #1)
Outlander (Outlander, #1) 4.26 avg rating — 1,132,114 ratings
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The Last Secret of The Soul: One boy. One Holocaust. One Survivor.
The Last Secret of The Soul: One boy. One Holocaust. One Survivor. 4.43 avg rating — 21 ratings
6.
Anne Frank : The Biography
Anne Frank : The Biography 4.34 avg rating — 25,515 ratings
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The Second World War: A Complete History
The Second World War: A Complete History 4.26 avg rating — 1,892 ratings
7.
The Reader
The Reader 3.78 avg rating — 226,259 ratings
9.
Number the Stars
Number the Stars 4.19 avg rating — 608,483 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 — 160 ratings
11.
All the Light We Cannot See
All the Light We Cannot See 4.31 avg rating — 1,905,031 ratings
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Hitler, a Study in Tyranny
Hitler, a Study in Tyranny 4.13 avg rating — 1,633 ratings
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Pearl Harbor
Pearl Harbor 4.05 avg rating — 2,053 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 — 45,851 ratings
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The Nightingale
The Nightingale 4.64 avg rating — 1,895,890 ratings
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The Coming of the Third Reich (The History of the Third Reich, #1)
The Coming of the Third Reich (The History of the Third Reich, #1) 4.30 avg rating — 11,564 ratings
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The Longest Day: June 6, 1944
The Longest Day: June 6, 1944 4.34 avg rating — 25,786 ratings
18.
The Third Reich in Power
The Third Reich in Power 4.35 avg rating — 7,088 ratings
19.
War and Remembrance (The Henry Family, #2)
War and Remembrance (The Henry Family, #2) 4.43 avg rating — 38,940 ratings
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The Second World War
The Second World War 4.48 avg rating — 1,716 ratings
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Triumph and Tragedy (The Second World War, #6)
Triumph and Tragedy (The Second World War, #6) 4.45 avg rating — 2,273 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 — 989,290 ratings
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Night
Night 4.38 avg rating — 1,334,397 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 — 24,391 ratings
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Goodbye, Darkness: A Memoir of the Pacific War
Goodbye, Darkness: A Memoir of the Pacific War 4.19 avg rating — 6,387 ratings
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December 1941: 31 Days That Changed America and Saved the World
December 1941: 31 Days That Changed America and Saved the World 3.74 avg rating — 695 ratings
27.
Salt to the Sea
Salt to the Sea 4.35 avg rating — 244,856 ratings
28.
Summer of my German Soldier
Summer of my German Soldier 3.70 avg rating — 17,691 ratings
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My Secret War: The World War II Diary of Madeline Beck, Long Island, New York 1941
My Secret War: The World War II Diary of Madeline Beck, Long Island, New York 1941 really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 4,437 ratings
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A Small Town Near Auschwitz: Ordinary Nazis and the Holocaust
A Small Town Near Auschwitz: Ordinary Nazis and the Holocaust 3.75 avg rating — 134 ratings
31.
Fireweed
Fireweed 3.79 avg rating — 468 ratings
31.
Stalingrad: The Loneliest Death
Stalingrad: The Loneliest Death 4.37 avg rating — 35 ratings
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Debunking Holocaust Denial Theories
Debunking Holocaust Denial Theories 4.11 avg rating — 149 ratings
31.
Un día de invierno
Un día de invierno 4.10 avg rating — 220 ratings
31.
Cork Wars: Intrigue and Industry in World War II
Cork Wars: Intrigue and Industry in World War II 3.98 avg rating — 62 ratings
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Standing Up Against Hate: How Black Women in the Army Helped Change the Course of WWII
Standing Up Against Hate: How Black Women in the Army Helped Change the Course of WWII 4.24 avg rating — 114 ratings
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Two Flags over Iwo Jima: Solving the Mystery of the U.S. Marine Corps' Proudest Moment
Two Flags over Iwo Jima: Solving the Mystery of the U.S. Marine Corps' Proudest Moment 3.81 avg rating — 53 ratings
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Operation Cicero
Operation Cicero 3.92 avg rating — 62 ratings
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Renia's Diary: A Holocaust Journal
Renia's Diary: A Holocaust Journal 3.49 avg rating — 2,516 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 — 10,573 ratings
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Hunger Winter: A World War II Novel
Hunger Winter: A World War II Novel 4.04 avg rating — 516 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
43.
The Distant Hours
The Distant Hours 3.89 avg rating — 83,471 ratings
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Shot Down: The True Story of Pilot Howard Snyder and the Crew of the B-17 Susan Ruth
Shot Down: The True Story of Pilot Howard Snyder and the Crew of the B-17 Susan Ruth 4.21 avg rating — 8,568 ratings
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The Day of Battle: The War in Sicily and Italy, 1943-1944 (World War II Liberation Trilogy, #2)
The Day of Battle: The War in Sicily and Italy, 1943-1944 (World War II Liberation Trilogy, #2) 4.36 avg rating — 15,515 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
43.
The Last Secret Agent
The Last Secret Agent 4.45 avg rating — 2,051 ratings
48.
A Guardiã dos Segredos do Amor
A Guardiã dos Segredos do Amor 4.16 avg rating — 171,054 ratings
48.
Between Shades of Gray
Between Shades of Gray 4.37 avg rating — 268,463 ratings
48.
Mila 18
Mila 18
by: Leon Uris
4.32 avg rating — 26,365 ratings
48.
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 — 365,637 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 — 22,181 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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Nella Last's War: The Second World War Diaries of Housewife, 49
Nella Last's War: The Second World War Diaries of Housewife, 49 4.15 avg rating — 1,832 ratings
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Nancy Wake
Nancy Wake 4.26 avg rating — 3,569 ratings
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The Latter Days At Colditz
The Latter Days At Colditz
by: P.R. Reid
4.17 avg rating — 249 ratings
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BLOOD IN ZION: How the Jewish Guerrillas Drove the British Out of Palestine
BLOOD IN ZION: How the Jewish Guerrillas Drove the British Out of Palestine 4.08 avg rating — 40 ratings
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Welcome to Molly's World · 1944: Growing Up in World War Two America
Welcome to Molly's World · 1944: Growing Up in World War Two America 4.24 avg rating — 410 ratings
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Milena: The Tragic Story of Kafka's Great Love
Milena: The Tragic Story of Kafka's Great Love 4.04 avg rating — 398 ratings
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The Battle of Okinawa: The Blood and the Bomb
The Battle of Okinawa: The Blood and the Bomb 4.33 avg rating — 705 ratings
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Crabwalk
Crabwalk 3.47 avg rating — 4,041 ratings
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A Boy at War: A Novel of Pearl Harbor (Adam Pelko, #1)
A Boy at War: A Novel of Pearl Harbor (Adam Pelko, #1) 3.81 avg rating — 2,032 ratings
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Hitler and Stalin: Parallel Lives
Hitler and Stalin: Parallel Lives 4.18 avg rating — 2,733 ratings
62.
A força da idade
A força da idade 4.18 avg rating — 2,021 ratings
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Between the Dances: World War II Women Tell Their Stories
Between the Dances: World War II Women Tell Their Stories 3.60 avg rating — 10 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 — 66,127 ratings
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The Blood Never Dried: A People's History of the British Empire
The Blood Never Dried: A People's History of the British Empire 4.26 avg rating — 737 ratings
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War Dog
War Dog 4.29 avg rating — 2,047 ratings
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Heroes Of Tobruk
Heroes Of Tobruk 3.72 avg rating — 40 ratings
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The Thin Red Line
The Thin Red Line really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 14,271 ratings
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Pattern of Shadows (Mary, #1)
Pattern of Shadows (Mary, #1) 4.13 avg rating — 230 ratings
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Diary of the Dark Years, 1940-1944: Collaboration, Resistance, and Daily Life in Occupied Paris
Diary of the Dark Years, 1940-1944: Collaboration, Resistance, and Daily Life in Occupied Paris 4.05 avg rating — 124 ratings
72.
Horrie The War Dog: The Story of Australia's Most Famous Dog
Horrie The War Dog: The Story of Australia's Most Famous Dog 4.21 avg rating — 237 ratings
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Whistle
Whistle 3.87 avg rating — 668 ratings
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Comedy in a Minor Key
Comedy in a Minor Key 3.72 avg rating — 2,060 ratings
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Yoko's Diary
Yoko's Diary
by: Paul Ham
3.94 avg rating — 353 ratings
75.
From Here to Eternity
From Here to Eternity 4.08 avg rating — 17,968 ratings
78.
The Death of the Adversary
The Death of the Adversary 3.63 avg rating — 773 ratings
78.
Ash Garden
Ash Garden 3.33 avg rating — 771 ratings
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Hiroshima
Hiroshima 4.04 avg rating — 86,452 ratings
81.
One Eye Laughing, the Other Weeping: The Diary of Julie Weiss
One Eye Laughing, the Other Weeping: The Diary of Julie Weiss 4.04 avg rating — 3,244 ratings
81.
Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet
Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet 4.05 avg rating — 311,672 ratings
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The Monuments Men: Allied Heroes, Nazi Thieves, and the Greatest Treasure Hunt in History
The Monuments Men: Allied Heroes, Nazi Thieves, and the Greatest Treasure Hunt in History 3.80 avg rating — 51,860 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 — 301 ratings
85.
Early Sunday Morning: the Pearl Harbor Diary of Amber Billows, Hawaii, 1941
Early Sunday Morning: the Pearl Harbor Diary of Amber Billows, Hawaii, 1941 3.85 avg rating — 3,897 ratings
85.
The Making of the Atomic Bomb
The Making of the Atomic Bomb 4.40 avg rating — 23,890 ratings
85.
A God in Ruins (Todd Family #2)
A God in Ruins (Todd Family #2) 3.95 avg rating — 59,189 ratings
85.
The Great Escape
The Great Escape 4.22 avg rating — 10,407 ratings
89.
The Storyteller
The Storyteller 4.30 avg rating — 264,445 ratings
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Tora! Tora! Tora!: Pearl Harbor 1941 (Raid, 26)
Tora! Tora! Tora!: Pearl Harbor 1941 (Raid, 26) 3.90 avg rating — 62 ratings
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The Greatest Battles in History: The Battle of Midway
The Greatest Battles in History: The Battle of Midway 3.83 avg rating — 29 ratings
91.
Requiem for a Wren
Requiem for a Wren 4.07 avg rating — 2,546 ratings
93.
His Finest Hour
His Finest Hour 4.33 avg rating — 12 ratings
93.
Tallgrass
Tallgrass 3.90 avg rating — 12,571 ratings
93.
The Emperor's Sea Eagle
The Emperor's Sea Eagle
by: Abe Zenji
3.63 avg rating — 19 ratings
96.
Resistance: A French Woman's Journal of the War
Resistance: A French Woman's Journal of the War 4.13 avg rating — 1,498 ratings
96.
The Last Telegram
The Last Telegram 4.02 avg rating — 5,112 ratings
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An Awkward Truth: The Bombing of Darwin, February 1942
An Awkward Truth: The Bombing of Darwin, February 1942 4.04 avg rating — 184 ratings
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To Die But Once (Maisie Dobbs, #14)
To Die But Once (Maisie Dobbs, #14) 4.23 avg rating — 18,891 ratings
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White Butterflies
White Butterflies 4.44 avg rating — 150 ratings
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