World War II

The global conflict that took place between 1939 and 1945, although related conflicts began earlier. World War II is also known as the Second World War. It involved the majority of the world's nations, eventually forming two opposing military alliances: the Allies and the Axis.

It was the most widespread war in history, and directly involved more than 100 million people from over 30 countries.

This category includes non-fiction books as well as historical novels that are set during World War II.
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Under the Same Stars
The Dressmakers of London
Maya & Natasha
Midnight on the Scottish Shore
The Pianist's Wife
Paris Undercover
Secret Servants of the Crown: The Forgotten Women of British Intelligence
Max in the Land of Lies (Operation Kinderspion, #2)
The Battle of Manila: Poisoned Victory in the Pacific War
The Girls of the Glimmer Factory
Hold Strong
Ace, Marvel, Spy
How to Share an Egg: A True Story of Hunger, Love, and Plenty
Dear Miss Perkins: A Story of Frances Perkins's Efforts to Aid Refugees from Nazi Germany
The Ghosts of Rome (Rome Escape Line, #2)
The Rose Code
The Book of Lost Names
Hold Strong
The Little Liar
The Berlin Sisters
The Girl Behind the Gates
The Booklover's Library
Code Name Hélène
Only the Beautiful
The Pianist's Wife
The Paris Daughter
The Paris Library
The Sunflower House
The Hidden Girl
Slaughterhouse-Five, or the Children's Crusade: A Graphic Novel Adaptation
All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria RemarqueCatch-22 by Joseph HellerThe Things They Carried by Tim O'BrienSlaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.The Book Thief by Markus Zusak
Best War Novels
1,655 books — 1,374 voters

The Book Thief by Markus ZusakAll the Light We Cannot See by Anthony DoerrThe Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann ShafferThe Winds of War by Herman WoukThe Boy in the Striped Pajamas by John Boyne
Best 1940s Historical Fiction
376 books — 418 voters
Lone Survivor by Marcus LuttrellBand of Brothers by Stephen E. AmbroseGeneration Kill by Evan WrightThe Things They Carried by Tim O'BrienWe Were Soldiers Once... and Young by Harold G. Moore
Best Modern Day Military Accounts
429 books — 583 voters

The Book Thief by Markus ZusakThe Diary of a Young Girl by Anne FrankNight by Elie WieselThe Boy in the Striped Pajamas by John BoyneNumber the Stars by Lois Lowry
Well-Written Holocaust Books
868 books — 2,856 voters

All the Light We Cannot See
The Book Thief
The Nightingale
The Diary of a Young Girl
Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience and Redemption
Night
The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society
The Tattooist of Auschwitz (The Tattooist of Auschwitz, #1)
Lilac Girls (Lilac Girls, #1)

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Timothy Snyder
It is easy to sanctify policies or identities by the deaths of victims. It is less appealing, but morally more urgent, to understand the actions of the perpetrators. The moral danger, after all, is never that one might become a victim but that one might be a perpetrator or a bystander.
Timothy Snyder, Bloodlands: Europe Between Hitler and Stalin

Joseph Heller
Morale was deteriorating and it was all Yossarian's fault. The country was in peril; he was jeopardizing his traditional rights of freedom and independence by daring to exercise them. ...more
Joseph Heller, Catch-22

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