Ww1/ww2 fiction book recommendations

[Bluezoo123]

Wonder if anyone can help with any recommendations on ww1/ww2 fiction books? Especially if there's any newly released books.

Do you mean written during or set during?

Annas war
When hitler stole pink rabbit

All the light we cannot see. Based on real events during the II war but a fictional story. incredible book.

The choice... Its non fiction... But more than many other books it got under my skin... Some bits haunt me... Other parts are so full of hope and are inspirational..

The nightingale by Kristen Hannah

Best. Book.Ever.

I’m a tough cookie and I was sobbing reading this.

All the light I cannot see is very good too

Set in ww1/2 is for a man if that makes any difference. Thanks for suggestions so far - I will have a look.

Pat Barker's Regeneration trilogy. WW1. Amazing books by an amazing writer.

Just finished The Aftermath by Rhidian Brook.

I suppose it's not strictly a war story as it's set in the rebuilding of Germany in 1946 - after the war.

It is a fascinating time that not many people in the U.K. know about.

@Balaur

Pat Barker's Regeneration trilogy. WW1. Amazing books by an amazing writer.

Another vote for these. There's another looser trilogy by Pat Barker also set in WW1: Life Class, Toby's Room and Noonday. A character in these books is based on a real person in Vera Brittain's Testament of Youth which is a classic WW1 memoir. Another is 'Goodbye to All That' by Robert Graves. I'd recommend both.

Oh, back to fiction, Sarah Waters The Nightwatch is set in WW2.

I’m reading The Fall of Giants by Ken Follett. It’s set in ww1 and is part of a trilogy, very good so far.

I've just finished V2 the latest Robert Harris book which was really good

Catch 22

The Book Thief

Birdsong by Sebastian Faulks. Outstanding.

I’d recommend The Heat of the Day by Elizabeth Bowen.
She’s a wonderful writer and she lived in London during the war so it’s really authentic.

The order of the day by Eric Vuillard. It’s very short and very affecting - ww2 and an interesting slice of history about the German companies who used forced labour / collaborated (the utter twats who dressed Captain Tom in Hugo Boss for his photo shoot clearly need to read it)

The End of the Affair. Graham Greene. WW2
Journey's End. R.C.Sherriff. WW1

Another vote for the Regeneration trilogy.
I'm currently reading Munich by Robert Harris and really enjoying it. I'm looking forward to V2 when it comes out in paperback. Fatherland (Robert Harris again) is a good alternative history.

It’s perhaps not the kind of thing you’re looking for but I’ve just finished Captain Tom’s autobiography and it was an incredible read. I love him even more now, he really is an incredible man.

For Whom the Bell Tolls is good too.

The Siege by Helen Dunmore. It's about the siege of Leningrad during the winter of 1941. Very very good.

Came on to suggest The Book Thief.

The Alice Network is a brilliant read.

Thank you so much everyone - you have given me lots to look at and I'm sure to pick a corker out of the suggestions. Do any of the books have a love story element to them which would appeal to a male reader?

I also recommend both Pat Barker's trilogies; Regeneration and Life Class. Life Class bit more from a home front perspective but also on the western front.

Also Susan Hill's Strange Meeting

    We That Were Young by Irene  Rathbone

     Not So Quiet by Helen Zenner Smith

all set in World War I

And non fiction The Beauty and the Sorrow by Peter Englund - a collection of extracts of diaries and letters written by various people during World War I