Books about World War II

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Catch-22

por Joseph Heller

40,016 membros

526 críticas

4.1

8 Members: jain, aulsmith, sturlington, thecoroner, alex68, Bretzky1, gypsysmom, ahef1963
Explicações: sturlington: American occupation of Italy

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The Diary of a Young Girl

por Anne Frank

28,342 membros

514 críticas

4.1

9 Members: starfishian, aulsmith, merrystar, sturlington, thecoroner, alex68, gypsysmom, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda
Explicações: sturlington: German occupation of Holland

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The Book Thief

por Markus Zusak

44,867 membros

2,126 críticas

½ 4.4

7 Members: dara85, jain, KimarieBee, starfishian, sturlington, gypsysmom, ahef1963

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Night

por Elie Wiesel

27,593 membros

573 críticas

½ 4.3

6 Members: jain, Dilara86, alex68, Bretzky1, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

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Slaughterhouse-Five

por Kurt Vonnegut

44,018 membros

705 críticas

4.1

6 Members: aulsmith, sturlington, gypsysmom, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda, Ryan42,Bretzky1
Explicações: sturlington: Fire bombing of Dresden

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Suite Française

por Irène Némirovsky

9,915 membros

344 críticas

4

6 Members: starfishian, thecoroner, Dilara86, alex68, gypsysmom, ManWithAnAgenda

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The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay

por Michael Chabon

18,798 membros

414 críticas

4.2

5 Members: jain, aulsmith, sturlington, gypsysmom, ahef1963
Explicações: aulsmith: Also escaping the Holocaust
sturlington: American military stationed in Antarctica

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Atonement

por Ian McEwan

26,498 membros

628 críticas

3.9

5 Members: starfishian, sturlington, thecoroner, alex68, gypsysmom
Explicações: sturlington: Dunkirk

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Captain Corelli's Mandolin

por Louis De Bernières

8,002 membros

156 críticas

3.9

5 Members: KimarieBee, starfishian, thecoroner, alex68, gypsysmom

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Life After Life

por Kate Atkinson

8,254 membros

589 críticas

4

4 Members: starfishian, sturlington, gypsysmom, kara.shamy
Explicações: sturlington: Hitler and the Blitz

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84, Charing Cross Road

por Helene Hanff

5,850 membros

348 críticas

4.2

4 Members: rayski, merrystar, gypsysmom, ahef1963

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The Night Watch

por Sarah Waters

4,392 membros

153 críticas

½ 3.7

4 Members: starfishian, aulsmith, gypsysmom, kara.shamy
Explicações: aulsmith: The London blitz

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The Chosen

por Chaim Potok

6,602 membros

93 críticas

4.1

4 Members: jain, sturlington, alex68, ahef1963

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Farthing

por Jo Walton

1,584 membros

114 críticas

3.9

4 Members: jain, sturlington, gypsysmom, PedroCurtoSimoes,aulsmith
Explicações: aulsmith : Takes place after an alternate wwii
sturlington: Alternate history; England makes peace with Germany

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The Naked and the Dead

por Norman Mailer

4,142 membros

46 críticas

3.9

4 Members: aulsmith, thecoroner, alex68, ManWithAnAgenda
Explicações: aulsmith: American soldiers in the Pacific theater. I personally found reading this intolerable, but YMMV

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Schindler's Ark

por Thomas Keneally

8,189 membros

97 críticas

4.2

3 Members: suitable1, thecoroner, gypsysmom

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Lost in Shangri-La: A True Story of Survival, Adventure, and the Most Incredible Rescue Mission of World War II

por Mitchell Zuckoff

1,715 membros

94 críticas

3.8

2 Members: dara85, kara.shamy

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The Tin Drum

por Günter Grass

7,595 membros

93 críticas

4

3 Members: thecoroner, alex68, gypsysmom

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The Narrow Road to the Deep North

por Richard Flanagan

3,126 membros

146 críticas

4

3 Members: rayski, gypsysmom, kara.shamy

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The Hiding Place

por Corrie ten Boom

10,149 membros

144 críticas

½ 4.4

3 Members: dara85, aulsmith, ahef1963
Explicações: aulsmith: Righteous gentiles in The Netherlands

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History

por Elsa Morante

1,382 membros

28 críticas

4.2

2 Members: thecoroner, alex68

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Number the Stars

por Lois Lowry

18,598 membros

644 críticas

4.1

3 Members: inge87, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

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The English Patient

por Michael Ondaatje

11,559 membros

174 críticas

3.9

3 Members: jain, merrystar, sturlington
Explicações: sturlington: North Africa and Italy

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Empire of the Sun

por J. G. Ballard

3,736 membros

70 críticas

4

3 Members: thecoroner, alex68, Ryan42

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Code Name Verity

por Elizabeth Wein

4,819 membros

387 críticas

½ 4.3

2 Members: jain, inge87

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Sophie's Choice

por William Styron

6,003 membros

87 críticas

4.1

3 Members: starfishian, sturlington, thecoroner
Explicações: sturlington: Holocaust

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The Nightingale

por Kristin Hannah

9,814 membros

465 críticas

½ 4.3

3 Members: dara85, sturlington, gypsysmom

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Life and Fate

por Vasily Grossman

3,427 membros

89 críticas

½ 4.4

2 Members: thecoroner, alex68

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Maus I: A Survivor's Tale: My Father Bleeds History

por Art Spiegelman

10,659 membros

255 críticas

½ 4.4

3 Members: jain, inge87, ManWithAnAgenda

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Maus II: A Survivor's Tale: And Here My Troubles Began

por Art Spiegelman

7,325 membros

139 críticas

½ 4.5

3 Members: jain, inge87, ManWithAnAgenda

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The Third Reich at War

por Richard J. Evans

1,315 membros

28 críticas

½ 4.3

2 Members: Bretzky1, Ryan42

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Briar Rose

por Jane Yolen

2,843 membros

105 críticas

4

3 Members: jain, aulsmith, merrystar
Explicações: aulsmith: The holocaust

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No Ordinary Time: Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt: The Home Front in World War II

por Doris Kearns Goodwin

3,223 membros

40 críticas

½ 4.3

2 Members: kara.shamy, Ryan42

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The Second World War {complete}

por Winston S. Churchill

1,477 membros

9 críticas

½ 4.3

2 Members: aulsmith, thecoroner

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Ordinary Men: Reserve Police Battalion 101 and the Final Solution in Poland

por Christopher R. Browning

2,336 membros

35 críticas

4.1

2 Members: jain, ManWithAnAgenda

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Memoirs of the Second World War

por Winston S. Churchill

839 membros

10 críticas

4.2

2 Members: alex68, Bretzky1

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Group Portrait With Lady

por Heinrich Böll

1,322 membros

18 críticas

3.9

2 Members: thecoroner, alex68

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Johnny the Partisan

por Beppe Fenoglio

349 membros

5 críticas

4

2 Members: thecoroner, alex68

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King Rat

por James Clavell

2,847 membros

43 críticas

4

2 Members: KimarieBee, gypsysmom

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Anne Frank Remembered: The Story of the Woman Who Helped to Hide the Frank Family

por Miep Gies

1,495 membros

30 críticas

½ 4.3

2 Members: dara85, kara.shamy

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Toda a luz que não podemos ver

por Anthony Doerr

18,722 membros

884 críticas

½ 4.3

2 Members: KimarieBee, gypsysmom

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Gravity's Rainbow

por Thomas Pynchon

10,755 membros

142 críticas

4.1

2 Members: thecoroner, alex68

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Hitler's Empire: How the Nazis Ruled Europe

por Mark Mazower

673 membros

13 críticas

4.1

2 Members: aulsmith, Ryan42
Explicações: aulsmith: A look at the political administration of Germany's occupied territories.

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The Final Solution. A Story of Detection

por Michael Chabon

3,700 membros

154 críticas

½ 3.4

2 Members: aulsmith, sturlington
Explicações: sturlington: Jewish refugees to England

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Those Who Save Us

por Jenna Blum

3,073 membros

166 críticas

4

2 Members: dara85, starfishian

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Dominion

por C. J. Sansom

1,059 membros

53 críticas

½ 3.6

2 Members: sturlington, kara.shamy
Explicações: sturlington: Alternate history after a shortened version of the war

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The End of the Affair

por Graham Greene

6,523 membros

171 críticas

3.9

2 Members: merrystar, ManWithAnAgenda

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Snow Falling on Cedars

por David Guterson

12,925 membros

190 críticas

3.8

2 Members: starfishian, sturlington
Explicações: sturlington: Internment of Japanese Americans

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If This Is a Man

por Primo Levi

6,070 membros

98 críticas

½ 4.3

2 Members: thecoroner, alex68

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Men and Not Men

por Elio Vittorini

379 membros

7 críticas

½ 3.7

2 Members: thecoroner, alex68

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The War That Saved My Life

por Kimberly Brubaker Bradley

3,059 membros

359 críticas

½ 4.6

2 Members: jain, merrystar

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Black Rain

por Masuji Ibuse

870 membros

26 críticas

4

2 Members: thecoroner, alex68

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The Zookeeper's Wife

por Diane Ackermann

4,802 membros

197 críticas

½ 3.5

2 Members: starfishian, gypsysmom

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The Sergeant in the Snow

por Mario Rigoni Stern

335 membros

17 críticas

4.2

2 Members: thecoroner, alex68

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This Way for the Gas, Ladies and Gentlemen

por Tadeusz Borowski

1,590 membros

35 críticas

4.2

Member: starfishian

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Crete: The Battle and the Resistance

por Antony Beevor

567 membros

14 críticas

½ 3.6

Member: wolfepack

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Strange Defeat: A Statement of Evidence Written in 1940

por Marc Bloch

460 membros

5 críticas

3.8

Member: Dilara86

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Erzähl es niemandem!: Die Liebesgeschichte meiner Eltern

por Lillian Crott Berthung

36 membros

3 críticas

3.9

Member: inge87

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The Boy in the Striped Pajamas

por John Boyne

14,976 membros

853 críticas

4

2 Members: dara85, gypsysmom

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Cinco quartos da laranja

por Joanne Harris

3,952 membros

82 críticas

3.8

2 Members: starfishian, gypsysmom

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Hiroshima (Expanded edition)

por John Hersey

1,968 membros

37 críticas

4.1

2 Members: aulsmith, thecoroner
Explicações: aulsmith: The immediate aftermath of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima

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The Lost Garden

por Helen Humphreys

566 membros

41 críticas

3.9

2 Members: starfishian, gypsysmom

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The Rose Code

por Kate Quinn

1,989 membros

97 críticas

½ 4.3

2 Members: merrystar, gypsysmom

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Lilac Girls

por Martha Hall Kelly

3,695 membros

183 críticas

4

2 Members: dara85, gypsysmom

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The Man in the High Castle

por Philip K. Dick

13,806 membros

357 críticas

½ 3.7

3 Members: sturlington, gypsysmom, ManWithAnAgenda,aulsmith
Explicações: sturlington: Alternate history; US occupation by Japanese and Germans, who won the war

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