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1. medium.com › traveling-through-history › why-youWhy You Need To Read About World War II - Medium

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   Feb 16, 2021 · Normandy Invasion. World War II was the greatest, most expansive, most costly war in human history. A truly global war, it lasted from 1939 to 1945 and saw the vast majority of countries in...

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3. crimereads.com › why-is-world-war-ii-such-aWhy Is World War II Such A Popular Subject For Historical ...

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   Aug 5, 2022 · THE TUSCAN CHILD has sold close to a million copies worldwide and The Venice Sketchbook is on its way to repeating that success. So clearly people are interested in WWII. In the past few years there have been many successful novels about the war—I’ll give you some suggestions at the end of this.

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4. explorethearchive.com › books-about-world-war-220 Gripping, Must-Read Books About World War II

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   Jun 11, 2024 · From the memoirs of Holocaust survivors to the cockpits of fighter planes above the Pacific, these 20 books will show you new aspects of the Second World War, some of them brutal, and some inspiring, but all of them gripping.

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5. bookriot.com › world-war-ii-books100 Must-Read World War II Books - BOOK RIOT

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   • Fiction. All the Light We cannot See by Anthony Doerr. “[All the Light We Cannot See is] about a blind French girl and a German boy whose paths collide in occupied France as both try to survive the devastation of World War II.”
   • Children’s/Young Adult. Between Shades of Gray by Ruta Sepetys. “Lina is just like any other fifteen-year-old Lithuanian girl in 1941. She paints, she draws, she gets crushes on boys.
   • Straight-Up History. Americans In Paris: Life and Death Under Nazi Occupation 1940-1944 by Charles Glass. “When the German army marched into Paris on June 14, 1940, approximately 5,000 Americans remained in Paris.
   • Biography, Autobiography, Memoir. All But My Life: A Memoir by Gerda Weissmann Klein. “All But My Life is the unforgettable story of Gerda Weissmann Klein’s six-year ordeal as a victim of Nazi cruelty.”

6. thegreatestbooks.org › the-greatest › world-war-iiThe Greatest Nonfiction Books of All Time on World War Ii

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   From the Holocaust to the Pacific theater, from the home front to the battlefields, "World War II" books offer readers a deep understanding of one of the most significant and devastating events in human history.

7. www.readthistwice.com › lists › best-world-war-2-booksBest World War 2 Books - Read This Twice

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   Dive into history with the top World War 2 books, aggregating insights from respected sources to bring you the most recommended reads on this pivotal era. Recommendations from 58 articles , Barack Obama, Bill Gates, Richard Branson and 57 others .

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   What did the Book Society do during WW2?

   • Throughout the second world war, the Book Society varied its lists between books that offered some insight on the strangeness of contemporary life and works of fiction – especially historical fiction – that took readers’ minds off it.

   Book clubs and the Blitz: how WWII Britons kept calm and got reading

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   What books were a fail-safe during WW2?

   • The other fail-safes in the second world war were the classics. As books already in print became scarce, the Book Society reissued new editions of Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice, and Tolstoy’s War and Peace and Anna Karenina. These were books that Walpole said he believed he could sit down with even through an air raid.

   Book clubs and the Blitz: how WWII Britons kept calm and got reading

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   Why is WWII so important?

   • Another important reason for telling these stories is that WWII was the last war for which we had a clear sense of good versus evil. Men joined up willingly knowing that if they did not stop evil it would swallow the world. Every war since has been clouded in shades of gray and questions as to whether we were doing the right thing.

   Why Is World War II Such A Popular Subject For Historical Fiction Right

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   Does Libby read World War II books?

   • This post on World War II books is sponsored by Libby. The one-tap reading app from OverDrive. Meet Libby. The one-tap reading app from OverDrive. By downloading Libby to your smartphone, you can access thousands of eBooks and audiobooks from your library for free anytime and anywhere.

   100 Must-Read World War II Books - BOOK RIOT

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   What challenges did booksellers face during WW2?

   • Publishers and booksellers faced huge challenges during the second world war, including paper shortages, problems in distribution, a vanishing workforce, and bomb damage to offices and warehouses. But there were more readers – and from a wider social class – at the end of it.

   Book clubs and the Blitz: how WWII Britons kept calm and got reading

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   Are people interested in WWII?

   • THE TUSCAN CHILD has sold close to a million copies worldwide and The Venice Sketchbook is on its way to repeating that success. So clearly people are interested in WWII. In the past few years there have been many successful novels about the war—I’ll give you some suggestions at the end of this.

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9. theconversation.com › book-clubs-and-the-blitz-howBook clubs and the Blitz: how WWII Britons kept calm and got ...

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   Apr 9, 2020 · Publishers and booksellers faced huge challenges during the second world war, including paper shortages, problems in distribution, a vanishing workforce, and bomb damage to offices and warehouses.