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Nov 15, 2021 · Recommended: I recommend Daughters of War (#1 in a Trilogy) for fans of fast-paced and well-written WW11 historical fiction, for readers who love a story of siblings and complicated family drama, and for book clubs. Although the story has a satisfactory ending some details hint at what could be next in the trilogy.
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The Woman with the Blue Star is based on true stories of Jewish people in Poland living in city sewers during the war to avoid being sent to concentration camps. In Krakow, Poland, two women from very different backgrounds, one living in a sewer and the other who discovers her horrific situation, forge a friendship in extraordinary circumstances an...
Beneath the Scarlet Skyauthor Mark Sullivan returns with another epic World War 2 story, based on the true story of the Martel family, a Ukrainian family who ended up in Montana after a long and harrowing journey to escape Stalin and Hitler’s brutal regimes. Using his interviews with sons Bob and Walter Martel (now in their eighties), a trip retrac...
Kidnapped and raised in the eastern European wilds, a young girl is left abandoned after her captor dies in 1941. When she stumbles across a group of Jewish refugees running from the Nazis, she is astounded and dismayed to learn about their plight. Relying on her familiarity with the surrounding wilderness to help the fleeing individuals, she teach...
Set in Hawaii following the attack on Pearl Harbor, Radar Girlshighlights the important role the real Women’s Air Raid Defense (WARD) played during World War 2. A top-secret program, WARD employed women (for the first time in a war zone) to monitor unknown planes flying in the Pacific and to guide pilots onto the completely dark airstrips in Hawaii...
Told in a dual timeline format, The Bookseller’s Secret focuses on real-life author Nancy Mitford, of the infamous Mitford sisters, and a fictional, long-missing wartime manuscript that she allegedly penned in the middle of the London Blitz while working at the Heywood Hill bookshop. The Bookseller’s Secretbrings to life the legendary author during...
Debut author Kaia Alderson’s book is inspired by the true story of the women of the 6888thCentral Postal Directory Battalion (the Six Triple Eight), the only all-Black battalion of the Women’s Army Corps during World War 2. Tasked with crossing the Atlantic to ensure U.S. servicemen received word from their families during the war, these brave wome...
Based loosely on actual events, The Riviera House is told in a dual timeline format; the World War 2 setting follows Eliane, an art cataloger at the Louvre, and the present-day setting stars Remy who inherits a house on the French Riviera and discovers a list of stolen art from during the war. When Hitler began systematically stealing art from Fren...
The Stolen Lady also addresses the art saved by the French during World War 2 with a particular focus on the Mona Lisa. Set in Florence in 1479 and during World War 2 in France, the book follows two women separated by centuries who hide the famous painting with unintended results. In 1479, Leonardo da Vinci paints his now-iconic masterpiece, and a ...
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- Courage, My Love by Kristin Beck. This book highlights times when ordinary women do extraordinary things. It’s 1943, and widowed Lucia, trying to raise her son in German-occupied Rome, does her best to ignore escalating tensions until it becomes impossible.
- Daughters of the Night Sky by Aimie K. Runyan. A troop of female pilots becomes the enemy’s worst nightmare. Katya has always wanted to fly — even though she’s a girl — and must prove herself over and over.
- The Library of Legends by Janie Chang. Students embark on a perilous journey to safeguard both human lives and a priceless library. When Japanese forces invade China, university student Lian must flee to the interior of China with her classmates and professors, taking with them an ancient library of Chinese legends.
- The Invisible Woman by Erika Robuck. World War II’s most improbable spy was born to high society, but was more interested in adventure than fashion or debutante balls.
Flying Angels is a slight departure from Steel’s modern contemporary fiction novels, as the bestselling author delves into the wartime years with a glimpse at a segment of the war bravely fought by women.
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The best books on Women and War. recommended by Gayle Lemmon. When war comes, women pick up the pieces, providing for families and taking up jobs previously done by men. Increasingly, women are to be found on the frontlines of combat too, as the author and journalist explains. Interview by Eve Gerber.
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