Best World War 2 Fiction Novels - April 2024

The Tuscan Secret: An absolutely gripping, emotional, World War 2 historical novel

Il Mulino. An old crumbling mill, by a winding river, nestled in the Tuscan mountains. An empty home that holds memories of homemade pasta and Nonna’s stories by the fire, and later: the Nazi invasion, and a family torn apart by a heartbreaking betrayal.Anna is distraught when her beloved mother, Ines, passes away. She inherits a box of papers, handwritten in Italian and yellowed with age, and a tantalising promise that the truth about what happened during the war lies within.The diaries lead Anna to the small village of Rofelle, where she slowly starts to heal as she explores sun-kissed oli... [Read More]

• ASIN: 1786819597
• ASIN: 1786819597
• ISBN: 1786819597
• Manufacturer: Bookouture

Of Windmills and War

The rumblings of war in distant countries mattered little to Danny McClain. Growing up in Chicago, his world revolved around after-school jobs, a rescued beagle, his pen pal in Holland, and the Cubs’ chance to go to the World Series. Then, in December of 1941, during his first year at Northwestern University, news of the attack on Pearl Harbor hit much too close to home. After a series of unexpected events over the next couple of years, Danny found himself in the co-pilot seat of a B-17, stationed with the 390th Bomb Group in Framlingham, England. Anya Versteeg had been just a teenager when ... [Read More]

• ASIN: 061572647X
• ASIN: 061572647X
• ISBN: 061572647X
• Manufacturer: Old Barn Trace Books

The Forgotten 500: The Untold Story of the Men Who Risked All for the Greatest Rescue Mission of World War II: The Untold Story of the Men Who Risked All ... the GreatestRescue Mission of World War II

• ASIN: B001UID8DM
• ASIN: B001UID8DM
• Manufacturer: Dutton Caliber

In Farleigh Field: A Novel of World War II

“Instantly absorbing, suspenseful, romantic, and stylish—like binge-watching a great British drama on Masterpiece Theater.” —Lee Child, New York Times bestselling authorWinner of the Agatha Award for Best Historical Novel, the Macavity Award for Best Historical Novel, and the Left Coast Crime Award for Best Historical Mystery.World War II comes to Farleigh Place, the ancestral home of Lord Westerham and his five daughters, when a soldier with a failed parachute falls to his death on the estate. After his uniform and possessions raise suspicions, MI5 operative and family friend Ben Cres... [Read More]

• ASIN: 1503941353
• ASIN: 1503941353
• ISBN: 1503941353
• Brand: LAKE UNION
• Manufacturer: Lake Union Publishing

Surviving The Forest: A WW2 Historical Novel, Based on a True Story of a Jewish Holocaust Survivor

Five shots on Saturday morning changed their fate …She was a beautiful and happy young woman who lived a fairytale life. Shurka, her beloved husband and their two small children lived in a pretty house in a village in Poland, surrounded by a little garden with lilies. This was their life and nothing could harm it, or so they thought…WWII broke out and though the happy family thought the Germans would never reach their idyllic village, they quickly understood they were wrong and their happiness came to a brutal end. The family had to flee their house and find shelter in a neighboring Ghetto... [Read More]

• ASIN: B07NDYGQ45
• ASIN: B07NDYGQ45

When I Was Yours: Absolutely heartbreaking World War 2 historical fiction

We stand in the back of the hall as the children troop in. Big ones, little ones. Straggly hair, cropped hair, curls… the adults surge forward to choose and soon there is just one child left, a little girl sitting on the floor. She is thin as a string bean and her sleeve is ragged and damp – like she’s been chewing it.1939. War has broken out – hundreds of children are evacuated to the countryside to keep them safe from the bombs raining down on the cities. Wrenched from her family in the East End and sent more than a hundred miles away, seven-year-old Pearl Posner must adapt to a new ... [Read More]

• ASIN: 178681949X
• ASIN: 178681949X
• ISBN: 178681949X
• Manufacturer: Bookouture

Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two

"Readers who choose the book for the attraction of Navajo code talking and the heat of battle will come away with more than they ever expected to find."—Booklist, starred review Throughout World War II, in the conflict fought against Japan, Navajo code talkers were a crucial part of the U.S. effort, sending messages back and forth in an unbreakable code that used their native language. They braved some of the heaviest fighting of the war, and with their code, they saved countless American lives. Yet their story remained classified for more than twenty years. But now Joseph Bruchac brings the... [Read More]

• ASIN: B00S75RYE0
• ASIN: B00S75RYE0
• Manufacturer: Speak

Final Mission: Zion: The Pale Horse Saga

In 1938, as the Third Reich is just beginning its reign of terror, hundreds of Jewish orphans are hidden away in Austria, in the midst of their underground escape to Palestine. The only man who knows their location is killed, leaving the children with precious little time to survive. The dead man leaves a single set of instructions: Find U.S. Department of War agent Neil Reuter—he will save the children. Reuter, who is part-Native American, is a wreck, grieving the murder of his wife and unborn son. Realizing this mission goes beyond his grief, he accepts, hurtling himself toward the menace ... [Read More]

• ASIN: 1981681000
• ASIN: 1981681000
• ISBN: 1981681000
• Manufacturer: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform

Born Survivors: Three Young Mothers and Their Extraordinary Story of Courage, Defiance, and Hope

The Nazis murdered their husbands but concentration camp prisoners Priska, Rachel, and Anka would not let evil take their unborn children too—a remarkable true story that will appeal to readers of The Lost and The Nazi Officer’s Wife, Born Survivors celebrates three mothers who defied death to give their children life.Eastern Europe, 1944: Three women believe they are pregnant, but are torn from their husbands before they can be certain. Rachel is sent to Auschwitz, unaware that her husband has been shot. Priska and her husband travel there together, but are immediately separated. Also at ... [Read More]

• ASIN: B00NVLNZ8Y
• ASIN: B00NVLNZ8Y
• Manufacturer: Harper

White Rose, Black Forest

An Amazon Charts bestseller.In the shadows of World War II, trust becomes the greatest risk of all for two strangers.December 1943. In the years before the rise of Hitler, the Gerber family’s summer cottage was filled with laughter. Now, as deep drifts of snow blanket the Black Forest, German dissenter Franka Gerber is alone and hopeless. Fervor and brutality have swept through her homeland, taking away both her father and her brother and leaving her with no reason to live.That is, until she discovers an unconscious airman lying in the snow wearing a Luftwaffe uniform, his parachute flapping... [Read More]

• ASIN: 1503954064
• ASIN: 1503954064
• ISBN: 9781503954069
• Manufacturer: Lake Union Publishing

Ghost Soldiers: The Epic Account of World War II's Greatest Rescue Mission

• ASIN: B000FBJCJ4
• ASIN: B000FBJCJ4
• Manufacturer: Anchor

No Less Than Victory: A Novel of World War II

After the success at Normandy, the Allied commanders are confident that the war in Europe will soon be over. But in December 1944, in the Ardennes Forest, the Germans launch a ruthless counteroffensive that begins the Battle of the Bulge. The Führer will spare nothing to preserve his twisted vision of a “Thousand Year Reich,” but stout American resistance defeats the German thrust. No Less Than Victory is a riveting account presented through the eyes of Eisenhower, Patton, and the soldiers who struggled face-to-face with their enemy, as well as from the vantage point of Germany’s old so... [Read More]

• ASIN: 0440423392
• ASIN: 0440423392
• ISBN: 0440423392
• Manufacturer: Ballantine Books

The War Planners Series: Books 1-3: The War Planners, The War Stage, and Pawns of the Pacific

From former US Navy pilot Andrew Watts comes a series made for fans of Tom Clancy and Vince Flynn. Now a USA Today Bestseller."As a huge fan of Tom Clancy, this was close.""Frighteningly real."From a secretive jungle-covered island in the Pacific, to the sands of the Middle East. From the smog-filled alleyways of China, to the passageways of a US Navy destroyer. The War Planners series follows different members of the military and intelligence community as they uncover a Chinese plot to begin a world war, and attack America.-----------------------------Book 1: The War PlannersA CIA agent and a... [Read More]

• ASIN: B06XV1N4DP
• ASIN: B06XV1N4DP
• Manufacturer: Point Whiskey Publishing

The Rising Tide: A Novel of World War II

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • “This is Jeff Shaara at his best, giving us another superb [and] historically grounded novel of one of the most dramatic struggles of World War II.”—George McGovernUtilizing the voices of the conflict’s most heroic figures, some immortal and some unknown, Jeff Shaara tells the story of America’s pivotal role in World War II: fighting to hold back the Japanese conquest of the Pacific while standing side-by-side with her British ally, the last hope for turning the tide of the war against Germany. As British and American forces strike into the soft underbe... [Read More]

• ASIN: 0345461371
• ASIN: 0345461371
• ISBN: 0345461371
• Brand: Shaara, Jeff
• Manufacturer: Ballantine Books

We Were the Lucky Ones: A Novel

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERInspired by the incredible true story of one Jewish family separated at the start of World War II, determined to survive—and to reunite—We Were the Lucky Ones is a tribute to the triumph of hope and love against all odds.    “Love in the face of global adversity? It couldn't be more timely.” —Glamour   It is the spring of 1939 and three generations of the Kurc family are doing their best to live normal lives, even as the shadow of war grows closer. The talk around the family Seder table is of new babies and budding romance, not of the increasing hardships... [Read More]

• ASIN: B01FRSZAUO
• ASIN: B01FRSZAUO
• Manufacturer: Penguin Books

No Less Than Victory : A Novel of World War II

The conclusion to Shaara's World War II trilogy vividly portrays the European war's last act, from the Battle of the Bulge to Germany's unconditional surrender--told through the viewpoints of the men at the top. Available

• UPC: 15227306
• Rating: 4.0

The Steel Wave : A Novel of World War II

The second volume in "New York Times"-bestselling author Shaara's acclaimed World War II trilogy takes readers to the most famous chapter in the war--D-Day and the battle for Normandy. Available in a tall Premium

• UPC: 10711183
• Rating: 3.563

The Steel Wave : A Novel of World War II

The second volume in "New York Times"-bestselling author Shaara's acclaimed World War II trilogy takes readers to the most famous chapter in the war--D-Day and the battle for

• UPC: 10742887
• Rating: 3.647

No Less Than Victory : A Novel of World War II

The magisterial conclusion to Shaara's World War II trilogy vividly portrays the European war's last act, from the Battle of the Bulge to Germany's unconditional surrender--told through the viewpoints of the men at the top,

• UPC: 12610772
• Rating: 4.308

The Rising Tide : A Novel of World War II

A master of the historical novel, Shaara begins an ambitious trilogy about the conflict that defined the 20th century. With painstaking historical detail and all-inclusive points of view, Shaara portrays the momentous and increasingly dramatic

• UPC: 5621188
• Rating: 3.667

The Time Machine and The War of the Worlds : Two Novels in One Volume

9780449300435

• UPC: 25673625
• Rating: 3.667

The Beardless Warriors : A Novel of World War II

Long out of print, Matheson' acclaimed novel of World War II was inspired by his term of duty in the war. "The Beardless Warriors" are a squad of teenage infantrymen fighting their way across Germany

• UPC: 25678099
• Rating: 4.0

The Soldier's Girl : A Gripping, Heart-Breaking World War 2 Historical Novel

France 1944 and the streets are filled with swastikas. The story of a brave English girl behind enemy lines, a German soldier, and a terrible sacrifice ... When young English nurse Sibyl Lake is recruited

• UPC: 865263238

The Paris Secret : An epic and heartbreaking love story set in World War Two

The last time Valerie was in Paris, she was three years old, running from the Nazis, away from the only home she had ever known. Now as a young woman all alone in the world,

• UPC: 466756050
• Rating: 4.5

Our Last Goodbye: An absolutely gripping and emotional World War 2 historical novel (Paperback)

Our Last Goodbye: An absolutely gripping and emotional World War 2 historical

• UPC: 780041273