World War II

Dream When You’re Feeling Blue  by Elizabeth Berg
After sending their men off to fight in the war, sisters Kitty and Louise Heaney join their flirtatious younger sister, Tish, in writing letters to servicemen overseas.

Skeletons at the Feast by Chris Bohjalian
Based on a real-life World War II diary, this novel chronicles the last days of the Nazi regime through the eyes of an unlikely threesome. Anna, an 18-year-old Prussian aristocrat, along with her mother and younger brother, is making a desperate attempt to journey west across the Reich out of the path of the advancing Red Army. Uri, an escaped Jew, is ironically the group's guardian as they travel through Germany.

The Wedding Officer by Anthony Capella
Sent to occupied Naples in 1943 to dissuade Allied officers from marrying their Italian girlfriends, British officer James Gould suffers from a limited menu of fried Spam fritters and warmed-up rations, until a beautiful country girl joins the officers' staff as a cook.

Lambrusco by Ellen Cooney
The author of "A Private Hotel for Gentle Ladies" has written a captivating, wonderfully funny novel. Set in 1943 Italy, the country and its people are wracked by war, but there are some things for which even war is no match--friendship, food, love, and the Lambrusco that feeds the soul.

Tallgrass by Sandra Dallas
Her life turned upside-down when a Japanese internment camp is opened in their small Colorado town, Rennie witnesses the way her community places suspicion on the newcomers when a young girl is murdered, an event that prompts Rennie's own perspective change and the discovery of dangerous secrets.

The Welsh Girl by Peter Ho Davies
At the height of World War II, a forbidden romance blossoms between seventeen-year-old Esther Evans, the daughter of a Welsh shepherd, and Karsten Simmering, a troubled young German POW, who questions what he has been fighting for.

The Spies of Warsaw by Alan Furst
Set in Warsaw, Selsia, and Paris, Furst's stunning, action-packed new thriller combines espionage with deadly romance, all happening during the rearing threat of Hitler's gathering war against Europe.

The Keeper’s Son by Homer Hickam (1st of Josh Thurlow novels)
Separating himself from his family of lighthouse keepers in order to work for the Coast Guard, World War II Outer Banks resident Josh Thurlow searches for his brother, lost at sea twenty years earlier, in the wake of invading U-boats.

Up in Honey’s Room by Elmore Leonard
German-born Walter Schoen, now living in Detroit, is a dead ringer for Heinrich Himmler. Along comes Carl Webster, the hot kid of the Marshal's Service, looking for a German officer who escaped from a POW camp in Oklahoma. All Carl wants is to get his man without getting shot.

Consequences by Penelope Lively
A love story that connects the lives of three generations, Lorna and Matt who experience heartache during World War II, their daughter Molly, and their granddaughter Ruth, who begins a journey that takes her back to 1941.

Suite Francaise by Irene Nemirovsky
A story of life in France under the Nazi occupation includes two parts--"Storm in June," set amid the chaotic 1940 exodus from Paris, and "Dolce," set in a German-occupied village rife with resentment, resistance, and collaboration.

Killing Rommel by Steven Pressfield
Hitler's legions have swept across Europe, leaving Churchill and the English isolated. In North Africa, Rommel and his Panzers have routed the British Eighth Army and stand poised to overrun Egypt, Suez, and the oil fields of the Middle East.

White Flag Down by Joel N. Ross
An unlikely alliance between an American pilot who is shot down over Switzerland, a Russian officer sent to Bern to aid a Nazi-Soviet truce, and a Swiss journalist will forever alter the outcome of World War II.

The Rising Tide by Jeff Shaara (1st in the Second World War series)
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 events of World War II in brilliant detail.