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WWII and the Underground Resistance Historical Fiction
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Lana's War
by Anita Abriel F ABR
Mourning a brutal double loss, Russian countess’s daughter Lana is recruited into the resistance on the French Riviera and goes undercover to gain access to the Gestapo leader who killed her husband.
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The Paris Architect
by Charles Belfoure F BEL
A Parisian architect is paid handsomely to devise secret hiding spaces for Jews in his Nazi-occupied country but struggles with risking his life for a cause he is ambivalent towards, until a personal failure brings home their suffering.
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Mistress of the Ritz
by Melanie Benjamin F BEN
The director of the luxurious Hotel Ritz in occupied Paris and his courageous American wife, Blanche Auzello, risk their marriage and lives to support the French Resistance during World War II. By the best-selling author of The Aviator's Wife.
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Resistance Women
by Jennifer Chiaverini F CHI
Resisting the power grabs of an increasingly formidable Nazi Party in 1930s Berlin, the courageous American wife of a German intellectual and her circle of women friends engage in a clandestine battle to sabotage Hitler's regime.
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Chateau of secrets : a novel
by Melanie Dobson F DOB
A young noblewoman hides French resistance fighters in tunnels beneath her home while Germans occupy her house. Seventy years later, her granddaughter visits the family's abandoned chateau and uncovers shocking secrets from the past.
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All the Light We Cannot See
by Anthony Doerr F DOE
A blind French girl on the run from the German occupation and a German orphan-turned-Resistance tracker struggle with their respective beliefs after meeting on the Brittany coast.
#1 New York Times best-seller and winner of the Pulitzer Prize.
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Under Occupation
by Alan Furst F FUR
A historical novel based on the true stories of Polish prisoners in Nazi Germany finds a young member of the French resistance in occupied Paris navigating increasingly dangerous assignments and the machinations of an enigmatic spy.
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The Book of Lost Names
by Kristin Harmel F HAR
The best-selling author of The Winemaker’s Wife draws on true events in the story of a Polish graduate student in World War II who uses her forgery talents to help hundreds of Jewish children flee the Nazis.
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Liberation
by Imogen Kealey F KEA
Drawn into the underground Resistance in occupied France, special-ops spy Nancy Wake quickly rises to the top of the Nazi’s most-wanted list, only to find her husband arrested for the acts she has committed.
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Lilac Girls
by Martha Hall Kelly F KEL
The lives of three women converge at the Ravensbrück concentration camp as one resolves to help from her post at the French consulate, one becomes a courier in the Polish resistance, and one takes a German government medical position.
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Code Name Hélène
by Ariel Lawhon F LAW
A novel based on the life of spy Nancy Wake follows a woman who kills a Nazi and becomes one of the most decorated women in World War II.
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Cilka's Journey
by Heather Morris F MOR
A novel based on a true story follows a Russian woman who is forced by a concentration-camp commandant to become his lover and is subsequently sent to Siberia after being found guilty of collaborating with the enemy.
By the #1 best-selling author of The Tattooist of Auschwitz.
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The Huntress
by Kate Quinn F HUN
Stranded behind enemy lines, brave bomber pilot Nina Markova becomes the prey of a lethal Nazi murderess known as the Huntress and joins forces with a Nazi hunter and British war correspondent to find her before she finds them.
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The Baker's Secret
by Stephen P Kiernan F KIE
A baker's apprentice in Normandy endures shame and anger as her kind mentor is targeted and arrested for his Jewish heritage, a violation that compels the young woman to engage in discreet resistance activities, baking contraband loaves of bread for the hungry using surplus ingredients taken from occupying forces.
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The Ventriloquists
by E. R. Ramzipoor F RAM
A tale based on true events finds a misfit journalist, a forger and a street urchin joining a band of resistance fighters who risk their lives to publish a satiric newspaper mocking the Nazis.
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The Things We Cannot Say
by Kelly Rimmer F RIM
Told in alternating voices from the present day and Nazi-occupied Poland, a follow-up to Before I Let You Go follows a woman's urgent search for answers to a family mystery involving her grandparents' wartime experiences.
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The Black Swan of Paris
by Karen Robards F ROB
A celebrated singer in World War II occupied France joins the Resistance to save her estranged family from being killed in a German prison.
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A Thread of Grace
by Mary Doria Russell F RUS
In September 1943, fourteen-year-old Claudette Blum and her father flee across the Alps into Italy with thousands of other Jewish refugees seeking safety, only to find an open battleground among the Nazis, the Allied forces, resistance fighters, Jews in hiding, and ordinary Italians struggling to survive the harsh realities of World War II.
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Beneath a Scarlet Sky
by Mark T Sullivan F SUL
A teenage boy in 1940s Italy becomes part of an underground railroad that helps Jews escape through the Alps but is forced by his parents to enlist as a German soldier for his own protection, where he becomes a spy for the Allies.
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Code Name Verity
by Elizabeth Wein YA F WEI
In 1943, a British fighter plane crashes in Nazi-occupied France and the survivor tells a tale of friendship, war, espionage and great courage as she relates what she must do to survive while keeping secret all that she can.
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