Most Read This Week In World War II

The global conflict that took place between 1939 and 1945, although related conflicts began earlier. World War II is also known as the Second World War. It involved the majority of the world's nations, eventually forming two opposing military alliances: the Allies and the Axis.

It was the most widespread war in history, and directly involved more than 100 million people from over 30 countries.

This category includes non-fiction books as well as historical novels that are set during World War II. ...more

Most Read This Week Tagged "World War II"

The Bomber Mafia: A Dream, a Temptation, and the Longest Night of the Second World War

The Teacher of Nomad Land: A World War II Story

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Stay Away from Gretchen: Eine unmögliche Liebe

The Escape Artist: The Man Who Broke Out of Auschwitz to Warn the World

The Distant Daughter (The Secrets of Trelenna House #1)

The Harvest Festival Murders (The Homefront Sleuths Cozy Mystery Series Book 6)

The Secret Detective Agency (The Secret Detective Agency, #1)

The Art Spy: The Extraordinary Untold Tale of WWII Resistance Hero Rose Valland

When We Flew Away: A Novel of Anne Frank Before the Diary

Dear Miss Lake (The Emmy Lake Chronicles, #4)

The Devil Reached Toward the Sky: An Oral History of the Making and Unleashing of the Atomic Bomb

Book and Dagger: How Scholars and Librarians Became the Unlikely Spies of World War II

The Last Secret Agent: My Life as a Spy Behind Nazi Lines

The Paris Daughter (The Lost Daughters, #5)

Lily's Promise: How I Survived Auschwitz and Found the Strength to Live

The Watchmaker's Daughter: The True Story of World War II Heroine Corrie ten Boom

How to Share an Egg: A True Story of Hunger, Love, and Plenty

Prisoners of the Castle: An Epic Story of Survival and Escape from Colditz, the Nazis' Fortress Prison

Long Way Home: A Poignant Novel of Courage and Compassion in the Shadow of WWII

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“ It is easy to sanctify policies or identities by the deaths of victims. It is less appealing, but morally more urgent, to understand the actions of the perpetrators. The moral danger, after all, is never that one might become a victim but that one might be a perpetrator or a bystander. ”
― Timothy Snyder, Bloodlands: Europe Between Hitler and Stalin

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“ SEPTEMBER 1, 1939 I sit in one of the dives On Fifty-second Street Uncertain and afraid As the clever hopes expire Of a low dishonest decade: Waves of anger and fear Circulate over the bright And darkened lands of the earth, Obsessing our private lives; The unmentionable odour of death Offends the September night. Accurate scholarship can Unearth the whole offence From Luther until now That has driven a culture mad, Find what occurred at Linz, What huge imago made A psychopathic god: I and th SEPTEMBER 1, 1939 I sit in one of the dives On Fifty-second Street Uncertain and afraid As the clever hopes expire Of a low dishonest decade: Waves of anger and fear Circulate over the bright And darkened lands of the earth, Obsessing our private lives; The unmentionable odour of death Offends the September night. Accurate scholarship can Unearth the whole offence From Luther until now That has driven a culture mad, Find what occurred at Linz, What huge imago made A psychopathic god: I and the public know What all schoolchildren learn, Those to whom evil is done Do evil in return. Exiled Thucydides knew All that a speech can say About Democracy, And what dictators do, The elderly rubbish they talk To an apathetic grave; Analysed all in his book, The enlightenment driven away, The habit-forming pain, Mismanagement and grief: We must suffer them all again. Into this neutral air Where blind skyscrapers use Their full height to proclaim The strength of Collective Man, Each language pours its vain Competitive excuse: But who can live for long In an euphoric dream; Out of the mirror they stare, Imperialism's face And the international wrong. Faces along the bar Cling to their average day: The lights must never go out, The music must always play, All the conventions conspire To make this fort assume The furniture of home; Lest we should see where we are, Lost in a haunted wood, Children afraid of the night Who have never been happy or good. The windiest militant trash Important Persons shout Is not so crude as our wish: What mad Nijinsky wrote About Diaghilev Is true of the normal heart; For the error bred in the bone Of each woman and each man Craves what it cannot have, Not universal love But to be loved alone. From the conservative dark Into the ethical life The dense commuters come, Repeating their morning vow; 'I will be true to the wife, I'll concentrate more on my work,' And helpless governors wake To resume their compulsory game: Who can release them now, Who can reach the dead, Who can speak for the dumb? All I have is a voice To undo the folded lie, The romantic lie in the brain Of the sensual man-in-the-street And the lie of Authority Whose buildings grope the sky: There is no such thing as the State And no one exists alone; Hunger allows no choice To the citizen or the police; We must love one another or die. Defenseless under the night Our world in stupor lies; Yet, dotted everywhere, Ironic points of light Flash out wherever the Just Exchange their messages: May I, composed like them Of Eros and of dust, Beleaguered by the same Negation and despair, Show an affirming flame. ...more ”
― W.H. Auden, Another Time

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