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To mark the 80th anniversary of the start of WW2, we look at some of the most gripping books written by female authors about the world's deadliest conflict.
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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.
- A Life in Secrets: Vera Atkins and the Missing Agents of WWII. by Sarah Helm.
- The Nazi Officer's Wife: How One Jewish Woman Survived the Holocaust by Edith Hahn Beer.
- The Hiding Place: The Triumphant True Story of Corrie Ten Boom by Corrie ten Boom.
- We Band of Angels: The Untold Story of the American Women Trapped on Bataan by Elizabeth M. Norman (Goodreads Author)
- The Light of Days: The Untold Story of the Women Resistance Fighters in Hitler’s Ghettos by Judy Batalion. At the bottom of a box of documents in the British Museum were dusty notebooks written in Yiddish.
- The Correspondents: Six Women Writers on the Front Lines of World War II by Judith Mackrell. In late August 1939 reporter Clare Hollingworth was on assignment near the German-Polish frontier.
- A Woman of No Importance: The Untold Story of the American Spy Who Helped Win World War II by Sonia Purnell. Sonia Purnell’s story of Virginia Hall, the American socialite who spied for the Allies, is as enjoyable for its novelistic elan as it is for Hall’s daring feats behind enemy lines.
- The Comfort Women: Sexual Violence and Postcolonial Memory in Korea and Japan by C. Sarah Soh. Beginning in 1931 with its attack on Manchuria, the Imperial Japanese Army and Navy broadcast its power throughout Asia with a brutality borne from the racist notion other Asians were not the equal of the Japanese.
This collection of wide-ranging essays, both from women who served in WWII and from historians who have studied them, is a great place to start. It sorts out WACS from WAVES, covers cryptographers and nurses, considers racism and the political rebound of women in the military.
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From the twentieth century onward, women took on an extraordinary range of roles in intelligence, defying the conventions of their time. Across both world wars, far from being a small part of covert operations, women ran spy networks and escape lines, parachuted behind enemy lines, and interrogated prisoners.
- Helen Fry
