Books about the World War II era

1.
Maybe You Will Survive: A Holocaust Memoir
Maybe You Will Survive: A Holocaust Memoir 4.45 avg rating — 1,550 ratings
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Schindler’s List
Schindler’s List 4.34 avg rating — 164,326 ratings
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The Diary of a Young Girl
The Diary of a Young Girl 4.20 avg rating — 4,073,149 ratings
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The English Patient
The English Patient 3.86 avg rating — 137,382 ratings
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The Complete Maus
The Complete Maus 4.58 avg rating — 245,663 ratings
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Night
Night 4.38 avg rating — 1,334,213 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
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Hiding Abigail. The Girl with the Yellow Star. : An absolutely beautiful and heartbreaking WW2 historical novel
Hiding Abigail. The Girl with the Yellow Star. : An absolutely beautiful and heartbreaking WW2 historical novel 3.92 avg rating — 105 ratings
9.
Between Shades of Gray
Between Shades of Gray 4.37 avg rating — 268,406 ratings
10.
Twenty and Ten
Twenty and Ten 4.17 avg rating — 5,761 ratings
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I Am David
I Am David
by: Anne Holm
3.96 avg rating — 12,416 ratings
12.
The Book Thief
The Book Thief 4.39 avg rating — 2,802,195 ratings
13.
The Storyteller
The Storyteller 4.30 avg rating — 264,380 ratings
14.
The Winged Watchman
The Winged Watchman 4.28 avg rating — 2,995 ratings
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The Boy on the Wooden Box
The Boy on the Wooden Box 4.38 avg rating — 29,040 ratings
15.
The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society
The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society 4.19 avg rating — 793,969 ratings
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Breaking Stalin's Nose
Breaking Stalin's Nose 3.84 avg rating — 9,945 ratings
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Farewell to Manzanar: A True Story of Japanese American Experience During and After the World War II Internment
Farewell to Manzanar: A True Story of Japanese American Experience During and After the World War II Internment 3.71 avg rating — 19,530 ratings
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The Diplomat's Daughter
The Diplomat's Daughter 3.88 avg rating — 3,638 ratings
20.
Year of Impossible Goodbyes
Year of Impossible Goodbyes 3.90 avg rating — 2,648 ratings
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The Endless Steppe: Growing Up in Siberia
The Endless Steppe: Growing Up in Siberia 4.04 avg rating — 7,107 ratings
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The Nightingale
The Nightingale 4.64 avg rating — 1,894,658 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 — 311,641 ratings
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All the Light We Cannot See
All the Light We Cannot See 4.31 avg rating — 1,904,602 ratings
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Blackout (All Clear, #1)
Blackout (All Clear, #1) 3.85 avg rating — 26,993 ratings
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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
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Border Crossings: Coming of Age in the Czech Resistance
Border Crossings: Coming of Age in the Czech Resistance 4.04 avg rating — 70 ratings
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Through Innocent Eyes: The Chosen Girls of the Hitler Youth
Through Innocent Eyes: The Chosen Girls of the Hitler Youth 4.38 avg rating — 45 ratings
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New York Station
New York Station 3.63 avg rating — 170 ratings
25.
Un día de invierno
Un día de invierno 4.10 avg rating — 220 ratings
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The Pharmacist of Auschwitz: The Untold Story
The Pharmacist of Auschwitz: The Untold Story 3.98 avg rating — 5,038 ratings
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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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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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In the Shadow of Alabama
In the Shadow of Alabama 4.04 avg rating — 731 ratings
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Germania (Oppenheimer #1)
Germania (Oppenheimer #1) 3.83 avg rating — 1,243 ratings
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Separated Together: The Incredible True WWII Story of Soulmates Stranded an Ocean Apart
Separated Together: The Incredible True WWII Story of Soulmates Stranded an Ocean Apart 4.48 avg rating — 387 ratings
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Days of Steel Rain: The Epic Story of a WWII Vengeance Ship in the Year of the Kamikaze
Days of Steel Rain: The Epic Story of a WWII Vengeance Ship in the Year of the Kamikaze 4.44 avg rating — 239 ratings
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Pathway to the Western World: Growing Up in Korea During Turbulent Times
Pathway to the Western World: Growing Up in Korea During Turbulent Times it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 4 ratings
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A Presumption of Death (Lord Peter Wimsey/Harriet Vane, #2)
A Presumption of Death (Lord Peter Wimsey/Harriet Vane, #2) 4.03 avg rating — 6,420 ratings
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Lamb Of Legacy
Lamb Of Legacy 4.53 avg rating — 17 ratings
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Until We Find Home
Until We Find Home 4.10 avg rating — 1,034 ratings
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Under the Light of the Italian Moon
Under the Light of the Italian Moon 4.33 avg rating — 4,261 ratings
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Watching Darkness Fall: FDR, His Ambassadors, and the Rise of Adolf Hitler
Watching Darkness Fall: FDR, His Ambassadors, and the Rise of Adolf Hitler 4.31 avg rating — 405 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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Barefoot Gen, Volume One: A Cartoon Story of Hiroshima
Barefoot Gen, Volume One: A Cartoon Story of Hiroshima 4.27 avg rating — 8,472 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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The German Girl
The German Girl 3.81 avg rating — 38,102 ratings
46.
The Story Keeper
The Story Keeper 4.32 avg rating — 127 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
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Number the Stars
Number the Stars 4.19 avg rating — 608,417 ratings
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Trinity: A Graphic History of the First Atomic Bomb
Trinity: A Graphic History of the First Atomic Bomb 4.14 avg rating — 3,437 ratings
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Yoko's Diary
Yoko's Diary
by: Paul Ham
3.94 avg rating — 353 ratings
51.
One-way Ticket from Westerbork
One-way Ticket from Westerbork 4.21 avg rating — 24 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 — 5,200 ratings
56.
When Hitler Stole Pink Rabbit / Bombs on Aunt Dainty
When Hitler Stole Pink Rabbit / Bombs on Aunt Dainty 4.15 avg rating — 533 ratings
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Colors of Confinement: Rare Kodachrome Photographs of Japanese American Incarceration in World War II
Colors of Confinement: Rare Kodachrome Photographs of Japanese American Incarceration in World War II 4.29 avg rating — 85 ratings
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War Dog
War Dog 4.29 avg rating — 2,046 ratings
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Secrets of a Charmed Life
Secrets of a Charmed Life 4.24 avg rating — 67,208 ratings
56.
Hidden in Berlin: A Holocaust Memoir
Hidden in Berlin: A Holocaust Memoir 4.33 avg rating — 763 ratings
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Heroes Of Tobruk
Heroes Of Tobruk 3.72 avg rating — 40 ratings
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Bette (Women of Ivy Manor, #2)
Bette (Women of Ivy Manor, #2)
by: Lyn Cote
3.96 avg rating — 270 ratings
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Heart Songs: A Holocaust Memoir (Holocaust Survivor True Stories WWII #4)
Heart Songs: A Holocaust Memoir (Holocaust Survivor True Stories WWII #4) 4.28 avg rating — 137 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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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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The Song of the Jade Lily
The Song of the Jade Lily 4.16 avg rating — 9,314 ratings
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Wolf: A Story of Hate
Wolf: A Story of Hate 4.56 avg rating — 205 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 Reader
The Reader 3.78 avg rating — 226,231 ratings
69.
The Bungalow
The Bungalow
by: Sarah Jio
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 14,438 ratings
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Save my Children. An Astonishing Tale of Survival and its Unlikely Hero
Save my Children. An Astonishing Tale of Survival and its Unlikely Hero 4.63 avg rating — 681 ratings
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Telling Lies
Telling Lies 3.70 avg rating — 33 ratings
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Ash Garden
Ash Garden 3.33 avg rating — 771 ratings
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Island in the East
Island in the East 4.33 avg rating — 1,913 ratings
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Living Among the Dead: My Grandmother's Holocaust Survival Story of Love and Strength
Living Among the Dead: My Grandmother's Holocaust Survival Story of Love and Strength 4.29 avg rating — 306 ratings
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Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow
Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 4.09 avg rating — 6,121 ratings
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Judy: A Dog In A Million
Judy: A Dog In A Million 4.36 avg rating — 1,198 ratings
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Daughter of Moloka'i (Moloka'i, #2)
Daughter of Moloka'i (Moloka'i, #2) 4.13 avg rating — 19,257 ratings
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Remembering Ravensbrück. Holocaust to Healing
Remembering Ravensbrück. Holocaust to Healing 4.32 avg rating — 320 ratings
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The Little Ships: The Heroic Rescue at Dunkirk in World War II
The Little Ships: The Heroic Rescue at Dunkirk in World War II 4.11 avg rating — 277 ratings
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Salt to the Sea
Salt to the Sea 4.35 avg rating — 244,784 ratings
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Jacob's Oath
Jacob's Oath 3.86 avg rating — 946 ratings
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My Lvov: Holocaust Memoir of a Twelve-Year-Old Girl
My Lvov: Holocaust Memoir of a Twelve-Year-Old Girl 4.21 avg rating — 244 ratings
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The Unbreakable Code
The Unbreakable Code 4.02 avg rating — 221 ratings
84.
Chateau of Secrets
Chateau of Secrets 4.15 avg rating — 3,732 ratings
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Hidden in the Shadows (Untold WW2 Stories)
Hidden in the Shadows (Untold WW2 Stories) 4.23 avg rating — 1,076 ratings
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Homefront
Homefront really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 303 ratings
87.
A Town Like Alice
A Town Like Alice 4.15 avg rating — 60,762 ratings
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Secrets She Kept
Secrets She Kept 4.31 avg rating — 3,928 ratings
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The Knife-Edge Path
The Knife-Edge Path 3.75 avg rating — 281 ratings
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No Pretty Pictures: A Child of War
No Pretty Pictures: A Child of War 3.93 avg rating — 1,828 ratings
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White Coolies: A Graphic Record of Survival in World War Two
White Coolies: A Graphic Record of Survival in World War Two 4.34 avg rating — 189 ratings
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Saving Amelie
Saving Amelie 4.27 avg rating — 3,483 ratings
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The Knife-Edge Path
The Knife-Edge Path 3.75 avg rating — 281 ratings
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The Emperor's Sea Eagle
The Emperor's Sea Eagle
by: Abe Zenji
3.63 avg rating — 19 ratings
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On Distant Shores (Wings of the Nightingale, #2)
On Distant Shores (Wings of the Nightingale, #2) 4.34 avg rating — 2,240 ratings
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Il Grido di Protesta: Memorie dell’Olocausto (Volti dell'Olocausto) (Italian Edition)
Il Grido di Protesta: Memorie dell’Olocausto (Volti dell'Olocausto) (Italian Edition) 4.51 avg rating — 3,729 ratings
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Like Birds In Black and White
Like Birds In Black and White 4.33 avg rating — 658 ratings
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Murder at Dusk: How US soldier and smiling psychopath Eddie Leonski terrorised wartime Melbourne
Murder at Dusk: How US soldier and smiling psychopath Eddie Leonski terrorised wartime Melbourne 3.89 avg rating — 62 ratings
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The Piano Teacher
The Piano Teacher 3.36 avg rating — 23,662 ratings
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