Blackout and All Clear by Connie Willis. They are a fiction duology set in WW2 London during the Blitz. Absolutely fantastic.
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Anthony Doerr’s All the Light We Cannot See was written to be a nuanced depiction of World War II through the eyes of a young French girl and a young German boy. I found it to be a gripping story.
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The Painted Bird by Jerzy Kosinski
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Thin Red Line by James Jones (War in the Pacific), Run Silent Run Deep and Dust Upon the Sea by Edward Beach (fiction by a WW2 submarine commander). Cruel Sea by Monsarrat (Destoryer in the Atlantic), Good Shepherd by Forester (also about Destroyer in the Atlantic).
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Stones from the River by Ursula Hegi
The English Patient by Michael Ondaatje
For WW1, read the first paragraph of his “Covenant with Death” and it is instantly enaging.
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My top 5 ww2 novel recommendations:
1. The Nightingale and Winter Garden by Kristin Hannah.
2. Between shades of Grey by Ruta Sepetys
3. All the light we can’t see by Anthony Doerr
4. The book thief by Markus Zusak
5. Schindler’s Ark by Thomas Keneally
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Blackout and All Clear by Connie Willis. They are a fiction duology set in WW2 London during the Blitz. Absolutely fantastic.
Anthony Doerr’s All the Light We Cannot See was written to be a nuanced depiction of World War II through the eyes of a young French girl and a young German boy. I found it to be a gripping story.
The Painted Bird by Jerzy Kosinski
Thin Red Line by James Jones (War in the Pacific), Run Silent Run Deep and Dust Upon the Sea by Edward Beach (fiction by a WW2 submarine commander). Cruel Sea by Monsarrat (Destoryer in the Atlantic), Good Shepherd by Forester (also about Destroyer in the Atlantic).
Stones from the River by Ursula Hegi
The English Patient by Michael Ondaatje
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Harris_(novelist) has several in this category. It has the added bonus he was in the Royal Air Force during the war.
For WW1, read the first paragraph of his “Covenant with Death” and it is instantly enaging.
My top 5 ww2 novel recommendations:
1. The Nightingale and Winter Garden by Kristin Hannah.
2. Between shades of Grey by Ruta Sepetys
3. All the light we can’t see by Anthony Doerr
4. The book thief by Markus Zusak
5. Schindler’s Ark by Thomas Keneally
The Caine Mutiny by Herman Wouk
HMS Ulysses by Alastair MacLean
From Here to Eternity by James Jones
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