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Sep 14, 2024 · On this list, I have compiled 20 books that everyone should read to understand the world’s deadliest war better, and these rankings are based on public reception, cultural impact and longevity.
- Sughnen Yongo
- Selling Tales
- Books Will Go on
- What People Were Reading
I’ve been researching the choices and recommendations of the Book Society for the past few years. The club was set up in 1929 and ran until the 1960s, shipping “carefully” selected books out to thousands of readers each month. It was modelled on the success of the American Book-of-the-Month club (which launched in 1926) and aimed to boost book sale...
The Book Society guided readers through the confusion of appeasement and the run-up to the second world war with a marked increase in recommendations of political non-fiction examining contemporary geo-politics. The classic novel of appeasement was Elizabeth Bowen’s The Death of the Heart (Book Society Choice in October 1938) in which a sense of ma...
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. Titles in the first group include comic novels by the likes of E M Delafield and Evelyn Waugh, as well as forgotten...
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.
- Rhys Bowen
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
I've written nonfiction books about John Kennedy’s presidency, Supreme Court Justice Louis D. Brandeis, CBS Founder William S. Paley, Don Larsen’s perfect game in the 1956 World Series between the New York Yankees and the Brooklyn Dodgers, and Pearl Harbor.
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.
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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.
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