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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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AuldHeathen · 02/09/2017 14:47

Another children's book but very good. Carrie's War by Nina Bawden. I don't know if any of her other books are st in ww2.

AuldHeathen · 02/09/2017 15:00

The Glass Room and The Girl who fell from the Sky, and its sequel. All by same author. Have forgotten author. Rubbish memory for names these days but whilst looking in vain for that, l found another. The Italian Chapel by Philip Paris.

MazDazzle · 02/09/2017 15:01

The German English Girl
Random Acts of Heroic Love
Once, Then, Now, After - a set of books
Maus (autiobiographical graphic novel)

AuldHeathen · 02/09/2017 15:05

Has anyone said Umberto Eco yet? I think of him with Eli Wiesel but not sure why except l think both survived Ausschwitz and wrote books.

hackmum · 02/09/2017 20:45

Night watch by Sarah Waters
A god in ruins by Kate Atkinson
Alone in Berlin by Hans Fallada
Their finest hour and a half by Lissa Evans

All excellent but completely different.

ThursdayLastWeek · 02/09/2017 20:54

Auld I love Carries War, thank you for reminding me of it!

I have just bought the audio version of the first Cazalet Chronicke thanks to this thread Smile

ThursdayLastWeek · 02/09/2017 20:56

Oh god yes and Maus.

I did a module at uni on Holocaust Fiction which featured a lot of these and was incredibly moving.

MadamWillYouTalk · 02/09/2017 21:03

The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society - not sure if this quite fits what you're looking for as it's set very soon post-war, but many of the conversations deal with events that happened during the war.

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