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.

Yes to love element. Some gay and some heterosexual.

Operation Heartbreak (Duff Cooper) or Little Boy Lost (Marghanita Laski) about a father's search for his son after WW2.

The Last Year of the War is another good one

Allan Massie's Bordeaux series about a policeman in Vichy France is gripping; four books, if I remember rightly - I galloped through them.
Also, Village of Secrets by Caroline Moorehead.

Just in case you might consider something humorous (maybe quite black humour), set in WWII, The Sword of Honour Trilogy by Evelyn Waugh.

Operation Mincemeat - is actually non-fiction but the idea and plan is so totally obscure it should be fiction.

Life and Fate by Vasilly Grossman. Russian journalist who was embedded with the Russian troops. Was at Stalingrad. Fabulous book.

The diaries of Victor Klemperer - a German Jew who kept a diary throughout WW2, is mind boggling

Something lighter would be the David Downing detective novels set in Berlin during WW2

Agreed about Birdsong and would add Parades End as a great novel.

I've recently read the Nightingale but preferred the Alice Network so much more.

Another vote for all the light we cannot see

Birdsong by Sebastian Faulks. Set in the trenches of WW1. There is a love story.

Fabulous.

I learnt so much reading this.

A Town Like Alice and Captain Corelli's Mandolin

@tobee

Just in case you might consider something humorous (maybe quite black humour), set in WWII, The Sword of Honour Trilogy by Evelyn Waugh.

This. It’s absolutely brilliant and dark and funny and lays open the sort of futility and waste.

On the other hand, We Must Be Brave broke my heart like nothing else I could ever imagine. So so so sad.

Another vote for Birdsong by Sebastian Faulks. I think it ticks all your boxes except being written recently.

Thank you so much everybody. I think I am going to go with Birdsong.

Edward Marston's Home Front Detective series