Books Set In WW2

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What are your favourite books set in WW2?

I liked a few as a child - Carrie's War, the Judith Kerr series and I've read a couple I liked as an adult - Dear Mrs Bird, The Frequency Of Us and The Night Watch.

Looking for recommendations for more. TIA

So I wouldn't say they're my favourite ww2 books ever but among the most important to read..

Set in Burma, The Jacaranda Tree and The Purple Plain by HE Bates. I also like The Singapore Grip by JG Farrell, in the lead up to and aftermath of the fall of Singapore.

Evelyn Waugh’s Sword of Honour trilogy. Probably the best novels to come out of WW2.

Love and War in the Appenines, Eric Newby's memoir, hiding in the mountains having escaped a POW camp. In the course of which, he met his wife.

I second The Machine Gunners, Silver Sword, A Town like Alice and Pastoral, Das Boot, the Cruel Sea (maybe that was WW1)
Also Empire of the Sun, V2 by Robert Harris and Munich (just before WW2).

Also I liked Biggles as pp
Enigma by Robert Harris too.

In addition to some of those already mentioned, The Bird in the Bamboo Cage - Hazel Gaynor (Girl Guides link too, set in China in 1941)

A Woman in Berlin is an important read rather than a favourite.

HMS Ulysses by Alistair McClean. It's set in The Arctic convoys and makes you realise what some of the Navy went through. You can almost feel the bitter cold.

The Cruel Sea is WW2. The Ship, by CS Forrester is very similar, and also excellent. HMS Marlborough Will Enter Harbour is an unfinished novel, by the author who wrote The Cruel Sea, that was published posthumously. Which adds a certain poignancy - he wrote about so many people who died before they could finish their work. I would group these books together with HMS Ulysses and Das Boot. Not so much for the naval theme, as for their atmosphere and humanity.

Catch 22 is weird. Good, but a bit of a Marmite book.

King Rat, by James Clavell, is another excellent novel.

If you want something daft, try 'Allo 'Allo! The Complete War Diaries of René Artois.

Just remembered! Captain Corelli's Mandolin. Beautiful book set in wartime Greece. Don't bother with the terrible film.

The Ration Book series! Starts off with 'A Ration Book Childhood' (it's actually nothing to do with Ration Books!) I love the series, it's just ended after I think, 7 books! Loved it.

Forgot to say, the Author is Jean Fullerton

Who is the author please?