Recommendations Please - World War 2 Fiction

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Vistaverde · 31/07/2017 12:10

Looking for some inspiration as to my next one to read. So far I have read and enjoyed:-

Charlotte Gray
Resistance
Suite Francais
The Nighingale
Everyone Brave is Forgiven
Mussolini's Island

Thank you

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annandale · 02/08/2017 21:34

Ooh, do you like the counterfactual books? I thought Fatherland was really amazing and I liced CJ Sansom's one as well.

Iactuallylovebingbunny · 02/08/2017 21:19

Goodnight sweetheart by Annie groves. Not exactly Shakespeare but a good little read none the less!

TheCountessofFitzdotterel · 02/08/2017 21:09

Eliza Graham is very good.

joeyhanmum · 02/08/2017 21:09

Thanks for the reminder about RF Deldefield, wormulonian, enjoyed those years ago. Also second All The Light We Cannot See - a brilliant book.
Also:
The Book Thief
A God In Ruins and Life After Life - these will stay with you long after you've finished them
The Bronze Horseman
Empire of the Sun
Good Night Mister Tom and Back Home
Captain Correli's Mandolin
Enigma
The Eagle Has Landed

Enjoy!

RMC123 · 02/08/2017 21:02

If you don't mind a children's book Goodnight Mr Tom is amazing

annandale · 02/08/2017 20:43

The Pursuit of Love though only the last few chapters are about the war. I still think it has one of the most telling descriptions of Dunkirk though (one paragraph).

Atonement
When Hitler Stole Pink Rabbit
A Town like Alice

Wormulonian · 02/08/2017 20:36

The Slaves of Solitude by Patrick Hamilton is about a spinster , Enid Roach who moves out of London during the Blitz to a commuter town to live in a guest house with an American army base nearby. Sad and funny

The Nightwatch - Sarah Waters

The Century Trilogy - Ken Follett - the 3 books cover 1st and 2nd world wars and the fall of the Berlin Wall

The Dreaming Suburb and the Avenue at War by RF Delderfield follows the residents of an Avenue in an outer London suburb (Shirley) from just after the first war through the second.

RMC123 · 01/08/2017 20:12

The Cazalet Chronicles by Elizabeth Jane Howard. The four initial books follow an extended family from 1938 right through to the end of the war. I love them. There is a Fifth book but it is set on 1956. Was written much later. Still work a read but not up to the same standard.
Also All the light we can not see, and a wonderful Ben Elton one about two brothers which the exact name of I can't remember but it might be Two Brothers!

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