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- Rebecca Hussey
- 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.”
Feb 16, 2021 · World War II: A New History (420 pages): Though this book focuses on the war’s military and strategic history, it also examines the political, economic, ideological and cultural factors that...
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.
- Orrin Grey
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.
From biographies to bird's-eye views, memoirs to timeless reportage, here is a selection of the best non-fiction books ever written about the Second World War. To call the Second World War merely a war is almost a misnomer; it was never just one war, but so many wars in one.
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