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World War II Historical Fiction
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The Only Woman in the Room
by Marie Benedict
A beautiful woman escapes her Austrian arms-dealer husband to become Hollywood legend Hedy Lamarr while hiding a secret double life as a Jewish scientist and sharing vital information about the Third Reich.
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The Secret Guests
by 1945- Black, Benjamin
The secret World War II relocation of the princesses Elizabeth and Margaret to an old estate in Ireland becomes subject to the devastations of the Blitz, the resentments of grieving townspeople and suspicions about the girls’ true identities.
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The Tuscan Child
by Rhys Bowen
Joanna Langley embarks on a healing journey to Tuscany to learn about her British-bomber-pilot father's hidden past.
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The Dressmaker's War
by Mary Chamberlain
Brought to Paris by an Austrian aristocrat who disappears when World War II breaks out, Ada, a talented dressmaker, survives by working for Nazi wives and is forced to endure the consequences of her choices years later.
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The Tenth Muse
by Catherine Chung
Determined to conquer the Riemann hypothesis in the face of cultural discrimination against women intellectuals, a genius mathematician uncovers a mysterious theorem's unexpected World War II link to her family.
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The Last Train to London
by Meg Waite Clayton
A tale inspired by the Kindertransports of World War II finds a Jewish teen’s life shattered by the Nazi takeover before he joins a member of the Dutch resistance in a life-risking effort to escape Germany.
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The Daughter's Tale
by 1959- Correa, Armando Lucas
A tale of love and redemption based on the 1944 Oradour-sur-Glane massacre follows an octogenarian's receipt of a cache of letters, written by her mother during World War II, that uncover decades of secrets.
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Wunderland
by Jennifer Cody Epstein
"East Village, 1989 Things had never been easy between Ava Fisher and her estranged mother Ilse. Who was Ava's father? Where had Ilse been during the war? Why had she left her only child in a German orphanage during the war's final months? But now a trove of unsent letters addressed to someone from Ilse's past have arrived from Germany. Berlin, 1933 As the Nazi party tightens its grip on the city, Ilse and Renate find their friendship under siege--and Ilse's increasing involvement in the Hitler Youth movement leaves them on opposing sides of the gathering storm. Then the Nuremburg Laws force Renate to confront a long-buried past, and a catastrophic betrayal is set in motion.
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Under Occupation
by Alan Furst
After the Nazi victory over Poland in 1939, thousands of Poles were sent to Germany as slave laborers. From inside enemy territory, they found ways to get valuable information to resistance fighters in France. Paul Ricard, a French writer of detective novels, is drawn in to working in the resistance, as a spy against the Reich, and is charged with getting the information from the Polish prisoners to the Allied forces. Alongside him in the fight against Germany are an émigré girl and a mysterious Turkish woman who is in the contract espionage business.
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The Fifth Column
by 1952- Gross, Andrew
Losing everything after a catastrophic bar fight, a man in 1941 New York uncovers a secret Nazi spy ring planning an attack on the city, in a work of suspense inspired by the true story of the Duquense Spy Ring.
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The Winemaker's Wife
by Kristin Harmel
Champagne, 1940: As the danger from invading Germans mounts, champagne house owner Michel turns his back on his marriage to Inès to begin hiding munitions for the Résistance. For Céline, the half-Jewish wife of Chauveau’s chef de cave, the risk is even greater. When Céline recklessly follows her heart in one desperate bid for happiness, and Inès makes a dangerous mistake with a Nazi collaborator, they risk the lives of those they love—and the champagne house that ties them together.
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The Long Flight Home
by Alan Hlad
September, 1940. Enemy fighter planes blacken the sky around the Epping Forest home of Susan Shepherd and her grandfather, Bertie. The two raise homing pigeons, and Susan's favorite is Duchess. Hatched from an egg that Susan incubated in a bowl under her grandfather's desk lamp, Duchess shares a special bond with Susan. A Maine crop-duster pilot, Ollie Evans travels to Britain to join the Royal Air Force. In the National Pigeon Service, Susan is involved in an assignment code-named Source Columba, to air-drop hundreds of homing pigeons in German-occupied France, hopefully to convey crucial information on German troop movements. Friendship between Ollie and Susan deepens, but when Ollie's plane is downed behind enemy lines both know the chance of reunion is remote.
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The Whispers of War
by 1986- Kelly, Julia
Three friends struggle between their loyalties to England and each other when one of them is threatened with internment by the British government for her German heritage during World War II. By the award-winning author of The Light Over London.
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The Dutch Wife
by Ellen Keith
Weaves together the stories of three people who share a dark secret and who are forced to endure two of the most oppressive regimes in modern history, that of the Nazis and Argentina's Dirty War
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The Wartime Sisters
by Lynda Cohen Loigman
Reunited after an estrangement at the beginning of World War II, two Brooklyn sisters, one an officer's wife, the other a widow and factory laborer, are shattered by the revelations of a mysterious figure from the past.
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Dragonfly
by 1938- Meacham, Leila
Teamed together to infiltrate Nazi ranks in occupied Paris, five idealistic American spies from diverse backgrounds begin questioning who they can trust when one of their number is killed. By the best-selling author of Roses.
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The Lost Wife
by Alyson Richman
Two young lovers in pre-war Prague are torn apart by the Nazi invasion only to meet up again decades later in New York City for another chance at romance in this novel from the author of the The Last Van Gogh.
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The Things We Cannot Say
by Kelly Rimmer
1942. Europe remains in the relentless grip of war. Just beyond the tents of the Russian refugee camp she calls home, Alina Dziak speaks her wedding vows to Tomasz. It's a decision that will alter her destiny-- and it's a lie that will remain buried until the next century. Little by little, injustice by brutal injustice, the Nazi occupation takes hold in Poland, and Alina's tiny rural village, its families, are divided by fear and hate. As the fabric of their lives is slowly picked apart, Tomasz disappears.
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The German Midwife
by Mandy Robotham
Germany, 1944. A prisoner in the labor camps, Anke Hoff is doing what she can to keep her pregnant campmates and their newborns alive. But when Anke's work is noticed, she is chosen for a task far more dangerous than she could ever have imagined. Eva Braun is pregnant with the Führer's child, and Anke is assigned as her midwife. Before long, Anke is faced with an impossible choice. Does she serve the Reich she loathes and keep the baby alive? Or does she sacrifice an innocent child for the good of a broken world?
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The Spies of Shilling Lane
by Jennifer Ryan
Dethroned as the self-appointed queen of her village when her husband divorces her, Mrs. Braithwaite travels to London at the height of the blitz in search of her missing daughter, an effort that is complicated by a difficult secret.
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The Flight Girls
by Noelle Salazar
A novel looks at the Women Airforce Service Pilots (WASP) program and the heroic role women played in training military pilots who were being deployed to fight during World War II.
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A Boy in Winter
by Rachel Seiffert
In a small Ukrainian town that is overrun by the SS in 1941, the lives of its residents—including Ephraim, a Jew under the threat of deportation who awaits word of his missing sons; Yasia, who has come in search of her lover only to confront new and harsh truths about those closest to her; and a young boy determined to survive—become intertwined.
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The Words I Never Wrote
by Jane Thynne
Impulsively purchasing an antique typewriter that once belonged to a celebrated journalist, a photographer in present-day New York discovers an unpublished novel in the case, igniting a transatlantic journey to uncover the writer's family secrets.
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For Love and Country
by Candace Waters
Fleeing her wedding and her privileged lifestyle, Lottie Palmer runs away and joins the Navy WAVES program and becomes a top airplane mechanic where she impresses a handsome instructor after both are assigned to Pearl Harbor.
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The French War Bride
by Robin Wells
A 91-year-old widow is visited at her home by her husband's ex-fiancée, seeking answers about their love triangle during the Nazi occupation of France. By the best-selling author of The Wedding Tree.
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