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Download our collection of PDF books on World War II for free and immerse yourself in the stories, analyses, and lessons of this critical period in world history. Start or deepen your study of World War II.
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Listen to Nina Bawden's classic World War 2 story of children evacuated from London to Wales. Carrie and her younger brother Nick are evacuated to Wales to spend the war years with the dour...
- Carrie’s War by Nina Bawden
- Fireweed by Jill Paton Walsh
- Number The Stars by Lois Lowry
- Hero on A Bicycle by Shirley Hughes
- The Silver Sword by Ian Serraillier
- When Hitler Stole Pink Rabbit by Judith Kerr
- The Diary of A Young Girl by Anne Frank
A perfect novel for middle grade readers, and a timeless mystery. Carrie and her younger brother Nick are evacuated to Wales during World War Two, and become entangled in the long-running feud between fiery Mr. Evans and his estranged sister Mrs. Gotobed. Along the way we meet some of children’s literature most memorable characters, including Alber...
A poetic and shocking novel about two teenagers, Bill and Julie, surviving by themselves during the London Blitz, Fireweedis by turns breathtaking and heartbreaking. Bill is poor, and angry; Julie is posh, and determined not to be evacuated to Canada (a decision that ultimately saves her life). Author Jill Paton Walsh sets these two characters down...
Away from the home front, there’s much to read and learn about the experiences of children in the occupied countries – and the moral choices they had to make as they went about their daily lives. Here, in Nazi-controlled Denmark, ten year old Annemarie becomes involved in the effort to rescue Denmark’s Jews from the Holocaust – by helping to ferry ...
The late, great children’s author and illustrator Shirley Hughes’ first novel, Hero on a Bicycle, was published when she was in her 80s. It’s the story of an Anglo-Italian family trying to survive in the last days of the Nazi-occupied Italy. A teenage boy, Paolo, embarks on a series of nocturnal bike rides through the Tuscan countryside, torn betwe...
Elsewhere in Europe, refugees were already on the move, fleeing their homelands, looking for salvation in a handful of neutral nations. Inspired by a photograph of a child refugee in a UNESCO report, Ian Serraillier (a teacher, a Quaker, and a conscientious objector during World War Two), wrote The Silver Sword, the story of Ruth, Edek and Bronia, ...
Another refugee tale; except this one is autobiography. British children’s author Judith Kerr, who created The Tiger Who Came To Tea and Mog, looks back on her childhood escape from Nazi Germany. The story begins in 1933, when Judith’s father disappears on the eve of Hitler’s victory in the Reichstag elections. Judith and her mother and brother are...
Inevitably, everything that has been written for children about the Second World War leads us to this book: it’s the key text – one of the most important books of the twentieth century – written by a Jewish girl who did not live to see her sixteenth birthday. The family lived in hiding for more than two years in Nazi-occupied Amsterdam; then they w...
One by one, adversaries went down—infantrymen, a machine-gun nest, and— The missile came in with a whistling sound—a shoulder-launched anti-tank shell. He propelled himself free just as the Sherman blew apart in a huge fireball. The explosion launched him forward toward the German line.
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From classic favourites to more recent titles, these books for children take a variety of different approaches to representing the events of World War II. Read our list of children's books about the Holocaust. See our list of books on World War I. See books about WWII for teens.
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Try introducing your class to some of the best WW2 books that focus on diverse stories, including Noor Inayat Khan by Sufiya Ahmed, or Now or Never: A Dunkirk Story by Bali Rai. Investigate something unfamiliar such as the Edelweiss Pirates in Germany.
