World War 2 fiction...

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Can anyone recommend a good WW2 novel. It's been suggested as a gift for my BIL who's read the Clive Cussler novels and is looking for something similar.

Thanks!

The Cruel Sea. Bit obvious I guess but it kept me utterly gripped.

thanks!

Alone In Berlin isn't bad.

Don't know Clive Cussler though, so no idea if it's similar.

And it's not WW2 but 'Winter In Madrid' by CJ Sansom is good re Spanish Civil War - maybe worth a shot?

Alan Furst is really good .. quite literary, very absorbing WW2 spy fiction.

Also Enigma by Robert Harris is a good read .. not an action novel though.

Oh, and also Berlin Noir by Philip Kerr, which is crime fiction. A trilogy of books set before and after WW2.

Does it definitely have to be fiction? Ben McIntyre has written several WW2 books which read like novels and are very absorbing but are non-fiction eg Agent Zigzag and Operation Mincemeat?

SS-GB by Len Deighton is really good.
A story about what life in Britain could have been like if Germany invaded.

Oh, I have just received a copy of Shingle Street by James Hayward that a friend recommended. Looks like it will be a great read.
I love WWII fiction.

"life and fate" by vassily grossmann is one of the finest war novels in world literature