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A Book Set During World War II Read More Reading Challenge 2018 |
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Queen of the Bremen: The True Story of an American Child Trapped in Germany During World War II
by Marlies Adams Difante
It is 1939 when five-year-old Marlies Adams travels with her family from America to Germany so that her mother can visit her terminally ill father. She has no idea that what is intended to be a three-month stay will turn into a seven-year struggle to stay alive in a living hell. Local author Adams tells a gripping, unimaginable story of survival in a foreign land during World War II.
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Manhattan Beach
by Jennifer Egan
Years after she is placed in the hands of a stranger vital to her family's survival, Anna takes a job at the Brooklyn Naval Yard during the war while meeting with the man who helped them and learning important truths about her father's disappearance. By the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of A Visit from the Goon Squad.
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Billy Boyle: A World War II Mystery
by James R. Benn
Billy Boyle, a young Irish-American, cop from Boston has just made detective - with a little help from his cop relatives and friends - when World War II breaks out. He heads to London to be an investigator. A theft and two murders test Billy's investigative powers, as he comes to grips with the deadly demands of a war he never wanted any part of. To his own surprise - and that of others - Billy proves to be a better detective than any one expected.
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Island of Sweet Pies and Soldiers
by Sara Ackerman
A tale set in World War II Hawaii follows the experiences of a woman struggling to repair her life in the aftermath of her husband's mysterious disappearance, a situation that is complicated by malicious local gossip, her husband's secret activities and growing suspicions that her daughter knows more than she admits. A first novel.
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The Ghost Fields
by Elly Griffiths
The unsettling discovery of a downed WWII plane with the pilot's remains still inside leads forensic archaeologist Ruth Galloway and DCI Nelson to uncover a wealthy family's secrets.
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Code Talker
by Chester Nez
A retired Marine and Navajo Indian describes his experiences as one of 29 top-secret code talkers during World War II and how his life growing up on the Checkerboard Area of the Navajo Reservation prepared him for his service.
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The War Bride's Scrapbook: A Novel in Pictures
by Caroline Preston
A second visual novel by the author of The Scrapbook of Frankie Pratt traces a World War II love story as narrated through an impulsive new bride's array of vintage postcards, newspaper clippings, photographs and other historical memorabilia.
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Lilac Girls
by Martha Hall Kelly
A debut novel inspired by the life of unlikely World War II heroine Caroline Ferriday follows the experiences of a Manhattan debutante, who resolves to help upon learning of the atrocities at the Ravensbruck concentration camp; and a Catholic teen, who is swept up in the Polish resistance movement.
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